Quesdons Linger in AlgeRV9 T190 i Press Looks Beyond Fundamentalists for Motivation of Assassin 1B am da- Known By Jonathan to be C. Randal ~ under e study g at Bou- t - Wnhmgton I e~d hi ion diaf's reqest was legislation Post men provid- Forewn a Semce for honesty ing criminal punishment and his for fiscal legitimacy as a ALGIERS, hero of Algeria's fraud and creating June war for a special tax on 30-More indepen- than 36 hours dence from those who could not after France to legally justify the the military assassination Of chief crackdown their wealth. of state against Mohammed them. Boudiaf, Algeria's But since The press also warned military-dominated returning of the gov- from a 28- ernment year self-imposed dangers in automatically faced exile, he blaming widespread criti- ques- tioning cized established the fundamentalists today interest for the murder. about groups the identity and motives and spurned The daily Quotidien of Boudiaf's offers of d'Algerie said killer. "national rec- Although onciliation" such accusations "would in permanent from established only cast session polit- since ical parties. the non-fundamentalist' Monday's Muslim assassination, ~ the government's Newspapers ~f the ene- two also referred majority into the camp key to bodies-the High Boudiaf's mies of progress." State repeated Council vows to and pur~sh the National Security corrupt officials Some observers suggested Council-have and their that said we.U-con- noth- ing of nected friends such reasoning was substance for tax at the center of other fraud and than an- nouncing contraband a debate that had paralyzed an official trade. the gov- investigation of Boudiaf's In April, ernment's tw6 top councils: killing Boudlaif with and temporarily arrangements for his backed off some officials arguing funeral the corruption for a stiffen- here issue af- on Wednesday. But the ter the rearrest ing of the state of freest of Gen. emergency, in press Mostefa in the Arab world Belhoucif, force since Feb. 9, has a former that has allowed underlined Defense the Min- lack of adequateurity for banning of the fundamentalist se Boudiafsvisi Is- - stry official lamic Salvation Front _i accused of arrest of its h taking kick- 41~ t trranean, acks on arms , to. po procurement e 4~ in the Me , d Upbal , I' i mid-1980s. leaders and ouster ~~d I , ed' h At the time, of its elected ggest t at informed i s am c officials ~ ir d . amedal ts-who were sources said poised Defense Minister Gen . Others, however, are to win Khaled Nezzar said to be a landslide widely viewed victory as in Alge- , arguing that the regime ria's the real should first power in free the regime parliamentary was , vote , open up and accept when concerned some form of the that the , military case would " government re I national reconciliation seiz vive charges with the ed power of other National Liberation in January corruption Front and in which can- celed the military. , the monopolized power from elections-were 1962 to not the only But in a 1990, the Socialist group recent communique Forces Front with reasons to kill him. , Suggesting bearing Boudiaf's smaller democratic "numerous" mark, the parties and potential High assassins, State Council, even moderate Islamic newspapers the unelected fundamen- said collec- Bou- diaf's tive presidency talists, including campaign hurriedly dissident members for intro- "radical change" and against duced after of the Islamic Salvation corruption the army Front. had forced pres- upset not only the ident Chadli Among practical questions fundamentalists, Bendjedid raised but into retire- , various ment, swore in the press were why vested to punish Boudiafs de- interests the corrupt, that many Algerians "whatever tailed itinerary in believe their social Annaba had been wield position excessive or political hierarchical known for 10 days and and rank." whether the financial influence. A soldier guards entrance to Algiers' al-Alia cemetery, where chief of state Mohammed Boudiaf is to be buried today. security-forces- had-been_penetrated b the a sin ap rently-had ;sa the% ity's I elab- 034 orlaWly T r 42tural 6enter. Although the offic ial Algerian news service, APS, sa who id the man killed Boudiaf was wearing a riot squad trooper's blue uniform, at least one reporter disagreed. A reporter for the daily Le So ir d'Algerie s e saw Boudia Is kill- I I -&u I . er-. 6f me _r ~!Ith'_ hea we ffiort s Ieck'slint'add a IN'Weck- s_ eater and -trou-ser-s". w ~ e ,err r ehind~ the stage, fire IA state, and the at n ditap- pear by the same route. APS first said the assassin was killed, but later the High State Coun- cil said he had been captured. Approved For Release 2000/08/08 CIA-RDP96-00789ROO1001550005-5