JPRS ID: 9357 NEAR EAST/NORTH AFRICA REPORT

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22 October 1980
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CONTENTS
ALGERIA
Ben B~lla's House Arrest Eased
(Jean-Louis Buchet; JEUNE AFRIQUE, 27 Aug 80)........ 1
~ IRAN
_ Iranian Diplomat: Iran Receiving Spare Parts
(REUTER, 30 Sep 80) 3
LEBANON
Former Premier Karami Outlines Views on Lebanese Situation -
(Rashid Karami Interview; AL-WATAN AL-'ARABI,
8-14 Aug 80) 4 ~
SYRIA
Reasons for al-Bitar's Assassination Probed
(AL-~IATAN AL-'ARABI, 25-31 Jul 80) 12
Former Political Leader Calls for Democratic Regime in
Syria
(Akram al-Hawrani Interview; AL-WATAN AL-'ARABI,
1-7 Aug 80) 15
Friendship or Joint Defense Treaty With USSR Considered
(AL-WATAN AL-'ARABI, 5-11 Sep 80) 24
- Briefs
Paris-Based Assassination Team 28
TUNISIA
Government Showing Signs af Growing M~re Liberal
(MARCHES TROPICAUX ET MEDITERRANEENS, 22 Aug 80)..... 29
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N'Uk Uh'N'ICLAL USN: uNLY
ALGERIA
BEN BELLA'S HOUSE ARREST EASED
Paris JEUNE AFRIQUE in French 2i Aug $0 p 45
[Signed by Jean-Louis Buchet]
[Text] Although Ben Bella still cannot take his BMW and travel without
armed escort beyond the 20,000 sq km o� the Governorate where he is under
house arr.est, he will s~on be able to go anywhere inside a territory 100
times large--all of Algeria.
Now 64 years old, Ben Bella will finally be released after 14 years a
prisoner in his own country and house arrest in Msila (250 km southeast
of Algiers) since 5 July 1979. The first thing he must do is go back to
Maghnia, in Oran, in fulfillment of one of his keenest desires, to pray
at the tomb of his mother. He will probably have to wait awhile before
permission is given for him to leave the country. This ~aill enable him, as
he has requested, to go to Mecca.^ Freedom in baby steps...
Sailing with the Wir.d
For more than a year Ben Bella has no longer been the oldest political
prisoner in the world, officially at least. Since then, he has had many
~~isitors in the large villa where he lives with his wife Zohra and two
daughters. Between ten in the morning and six in the afternoon, friends
and followers, veterans of the liberation struggle, or just ordinary citi-
zens coming to exchange a few words with the first president of indepen�-
dent Algeria, crowd in to see him. This "pilgrimage" often seemed to
annoy the authorities and make them uneasy. Police took the names of visi-
tors and frequently asked the reason for their visit. There was no harass-
ment, but a nervous sort of intimidation reflecting the discomfort of
those in power over the Ben Bella "case."
In rare writings coming out of Algeria--an interview with the Iranian
newspaper ETTELA'AT and a long letter published by J. A.--Ben Bella, who
is slender, astonishingly young-looking despite greying temples, and affa-
ble and loquacious, gave the appearance of a man who has read a great deal,
fallowing world affairs closely, and who does not expect ~o play a new role
in his country.
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He is at times troubl.ed, with many ideas brewing, critical of the sing.le
party and the ahsence aF democracy in the Arab Moslem countries. IIe pr