In Algeria, the revolution continued to consume its childrenand its fathers. Ferhat Abbas, head of the Algerian government-in-exile for years and first President of independent Algeria's Parliament, disappeared from his home near Algiers. As the leading moderate opponent of the socialist regime of President Ahmed ben Bella, Abbas had been under house arrest for eight weeks. But last week his plainclothes guards were gone, and relatives said that the grand old man of Algerian nationalism and his 17-year-old adopted son Hakim had been taken away by police toward "an unknown destination and for an unknown period."
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