CAMPAIGN OPENED IN BEHALF OF BEN BELLA
Paris
SEPT, 15 ~- The "Provisional Committee for the Liberation of Ben Bella" expressed worry today over the fate of Ben Bella and asked world opinion to lodge protests with the Boumedienne regime which is presumably holding him incommunicado in an unknown place.
"The undersigned, " the committee declared in a press release, "worried over the fate of Ahmed Ben Bella, of whom no news has been. received up to nearly three months dfter his arrest, observes that. in any case it is impossible for him to provide for his defense, and addresses a pressing appeal to international opinion to intervene with the Algerian leaders to get them to authorize his being visited by his own attorneys, to receive visits, and to be examined by his doctor, in one word, that he be granted the elementary rights of a human being,"
Up to now, Boumedienne has refused permission for even Ben Bella's mother to see her son.
Among those signing the appeal were the following: Arthur Adamov, Colette Audry, Denise Barrat, Simone de Beauvoir, Marc Beigbeder, Loleh Bellon, Jacques Berque, Claude Bourdet, Michel Butor, Aimé Césaire, Frangois Chatelet, Alain Guny, Jean-Marie Domenach, Daniel Guérin, Claude Lanzmann, René Leibowitz, Michel Leiris, Jacques Madaule, Louis Martin-Chauffier, Jehan Mayoux, Yves Montand, Maurice Nadeau, Pierre Naville, Marcel Peju, André Pieyre de Mandiargues, Alain Resnais, David Rousset, Claude Roy, Frangoise Sagan, André Salmon, Nathalie Sarraute, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone Signoret, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Andrée Pierre-Vienot, Lucien Goldman, Marcel Prenant. “
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