Word: arba
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rest & Recuperation. According to the French, Bourguiba not only permits the F.L.N. to raid Algeria from Tunisian bases, but also lets the rebels maintain five hospitals, five arms depots and a network of training camps in such towns as Béja, Gafsa and Souk-el-Arba. All F.L.N. recruits, declare the French, are sent to Tunisia for two months' basic training; currently French intelligence estimates the number of F.L.N. troops in Tunisia at from...
...nationalists in the U.N. Political Committee (see box). He cold-shouldered Morocco and Tunisia as impartial mediators. The FLN levies its own taxes and recruits young men in Morocco's Oudjda province, he pointed out. Tunisia has made barracks available to the Algerians in Tunis and Souk-el-Arba, transports their men and equipment in government military vehicles...