REPORTED STILL ALIVE
“One: of: -Ben Bella's. Lawyers, Lafue-Veron, “learned January 15 through: ‘a telephone call to the former Algerian president's family that the victim of Boumedienne's coup d'etat last -June is. still. alive.
Mme Myriem Ben Bella, a niece of the prisoner, recently received:a.letter from Ben Bella in which he mentioned that his health was good and that he is permitted to have books.
‘This is the second letter known to have been #eceived by anyone from Ben Bella. Last November Ben Bella's mother said she
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had received word.from him. This was the fixst positive indication that he was alive. re oe a - Boumedienne has barred: Ben Bella from receiving visits by his lawyers, his doctors’ or .his- friends. ‘The :-real.-conditions of: -his- imprisonment are. thus: ‘oknown .: ToEg wan ae ef ae id