Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-12
Gran Throngs
GiVeWeIcOnle
To Ben Bella
oRAN. Algeria, July IL (AP)

lplauding. slogan-shouting Mos
lens gave Deputy Premier
Ahmed Ben Bella a rousing
welcome to Algeria's second
largest city today. =
The dissident leader was ex-
pected to establish himself as a
power in Western Algeria.
Arriving from TIemcen, Mr..
Ben Bella visited army Camps
at the edge Of the city before
coming into town in midafter-
noon. Sidewalks along his
parade route were lined with,
youth and children's groups and
masses of flag-wavipg MoSlem
civilians.
Mr.. Ben Bella waved from
an oper car at a veritable sea
of people on his route through
MoSlem industrial and resi-
Dental districts and borderline
boulevards between Moslem and
European neighborhoods.
Avoids European Section
He did not enter the solidly
European downtown districts,
still being patrolIed by French
security forces.
The leftist Deputy Premier.
who broke with Premier Ben
YousSef Ben Khedda'S mod
crate regime on the eve Of
Algerian independence, was
given a hero's welcome by thou
sands of Moslems yesterday as
he journeyed from the Moroc-
can frontier to T1emcen, rs
miles south Of Oran.
From Oran it was expected
that he would proceed to AL
giers and a possible showdown
with Mr.. Ben Khedda over
leadership of the fledeling AL
gerian nation.
Regime Grows Uneasy
In Algiers, Mr.. Ben Khedda's
regime was reported growing
increasingly uneasy as Mr.. Ben
Bella demonstrated his hold on
the Moslem masses on his jour-
ney through Western Algeria.
But Mr.. Ben Bella struck a
moderate pose.
Addressing a crowd of 1000 !
yesterday In the Sports Stadium
at Tlemcen, Mr.. Ben Bella made |
no direct mention of his rift
with Mr.. Ben Khedda. But he
expressed hope that the new
nation would solve its difficult
ties through the cooperation of
the army, the people and the
government.
Mr.. Ben Bella spoke from a
position Of strength. He has
the support of the 45,0O0-man
national liberation army now
returning from exile in Morocco |
and TuniSia and of q great |
share Of the former Moslem
guerrilla units inside Algeria.
And obviously he is the idol of
Western Algeria's Moslem civil
ians.
Long live Ben Bella" pro-
claimed banners along his route
crowded with Moslem men,
women and children in their
best dress. Yelled women
shrilled their "yu-yu-yu" cry of
Joy and victory and banged
tambourines and castanets.
Moslem men applauded with
their hands high over their
heads.
Mr.. Ben Bella crossed the
Moroccan frontier at an isolated
post on the parched North
African plain. He was flanked
by high officers of the guerrilla
army'S District S, who have
firmly installed pro-Ben Bella
forces in Western Algeria.
Mr.. Ben Bella rode in an
open car to his home town of
Marina, a Moslem community
Of $4,000 about six miles to the |
east, and was received by sew
eral thousand cheering sup
porterS in the town square.
He fingered only 20 minutes
for the hometown adulation,
then sped to Tlemcen, about "a
miles to the east, for an even
bigger reception. Moslem SOL
diers were stationed every few
yards along the twisting noun
tain road to that industrial and
agricultural city of 10000.
Banners and palm -frond
archways were strung across
most Of Tlemcen's streets.
Pictures of Mr.. Ben Bella had
been tackled to every tree along
one boulevard. Local officials
and leading citizens of the
nearly all-MoSlem city received
Mr.. Ben Bella before he spoke
at the Sports Stadium.
Meanwhile, two of Mr.. Ben
Khedda's ministers returned to
Algiers last night from Rabat,
Morocco. where they had met
with Mr. Ben Bella in an un-
successful attempt to bring
. about a reconciliation of the
. two sides. State Minister Rabah
; Bitat and Information Minister
M'hammed Yazid went straight
. from the airport to report to
Mr.. Ben Khedda on the talks.
Mr.. Ben Bella broke with Mr..
Ben Khedda on the announced
> issue Of Mr.. Ben Khedda'S dis
missal of the three top officers
Of the National Liberation
Army for allegedly planning a
military dictatorship for Al
geria. Underlying the rift,
however, is Mr.. Ben Bella's OPP