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Veiled women shrilled their adulation, and students bore him on their shoulders through the streets when Habib Bourguiba returned from exile to lead Tunisia to independence. They cheered again when he deposed the old Bey of Tunis and had himself proclaimed President of the new republic. But in the last year there has been a change in the smiling, accessible Bourguiba. Since he moved into the President's palace, he has become increasingly autocratic, petulant and impatient of criticism. Ambassadors were instructed to bow three times on withdrawing from his presence-a custom imposed by the Bey whom Bourguiba...
...space left on the Lake Como ferry at Gravedona, Italy, and a little blue Fiat slipped into it. But that left the vacationing Sheik of Kuwait in an awkward fix: his three-car caravan (including one blue Cadillac, one black Cadillac) was only two-thirds afloat. No smalltime bey-decker, His Highness Sir Abdullah as Salim as Sabah quickly offered the ferryboat captain $16 to unload the latecomer and make room for the royal limousine. The Milanese tourist in the Fiat bid $32 to preserve the status quo. The Sheik bid $160. The Italian raised him $160, promised the captain...
Brothers & Arms. Elected President after deposing the old Bey of Tunis last summer, Bourguiba moved into a lavish, state-owned seaside villa in Carthage, told aides to take care of Tunisia's other problems, and turned his own attention to winning peace in Algeria. His immediate purpose is to get arms enough to stop French forces from chasing rebels across his Algerian frontier under the doctrine of "hot pursuit." To get them he has not hesitated to use Communist or Egyptian arms offers to underscore his independence of the French over the Algerian fight...
Last week Tunisian ambassadors from all over the world were summarily recalled to Tunis. After meeting with them and with the executive committee of his own ruling Neo-Destour Party, Bourguiba called a special session of the nation's Constituent Assembly. In a hall from which the Bey's old throne had disappeared, the governing body of Tunisia voted unanimously to 1) do away with the monarchy, 2) establish a republic, 3) make Habib Bourguiba its first President. "Because of the affection of the people for me," Bourguiba said cockily, "I could have myself declared Bey...
...guns saluting the nation's first President reverberated through the city, Interior Minister Taieb Mehiri slipped out of the Assembly Hall, drove over to the Bey's palace, and curtly told the old man that he and his family were to leave at once to enter "enforced residence" at a villa in La Manouba. Clucking around, looking to see if his toothpaste had been packed, the ex-Bey of Tunis asked: "Is this the way to treat an old man who sent money and parcels to Mr. Bourguiba's family when he was in jail?" Then...