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...from non-Arab but strongly Moslem Iran, as well as Tunisia; he also enjoys sympathy from Jordan, Morocco and Kuwait. This month the King plans to visit Turkey's Premier Suleyman Demirel and, in September, Morocco's King Hassan II and possibly Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba...
...nation. We can stay in Yemen for one, two, three, four or even five years." As for Israel, Nasser threatened a "deterrent war" if the country decides to go ahead with the development of an atomic weapon. In the same hot breath, Nasser also attacked Tunisia's Habib Bourguiba for daring to advocate Arab negotiation with Israel...
...Bourguiba has made no secret of his unhappiness with Nasser's efforts at singlehanded domination not only of the League but of most other Arab matters as well. But never before had he been so brutally frank; when shocked delegates gathered at the Prefecture on Casablanca's United Nations Plaza read the memorandum, they refused to publish it. That didn't stop Bourguiba. He happily handed it out to the press back home in Tunis...
What still bothered Bourguiba was Nasser's high-handed use of the Arab League to support his decision last spring to break diplomatic relations with West Germany. Under Nasser's leadership, Bourguiba acidly continued, "the Arabs have never been more divided; never have they slaughtered each other more ferociously than since the day Egypt took it upon itself to unite them." Warming up, he added, "There is not in the Arab world one single regime that Cairo has not attempted to overthrow whenever [that regime] showed signs of insubordination or refused to remain in the Egyptian orbit...
Private Bickering. If Bourguiba's memo was a devastating blast at Nasser, he was not the only critic. At the opening meeting of the Arab League, the conference host himself, Morocco's King Hassan II, repeated Bourguiba's themes but in milder terms. As conference chairman, Nasser weathered the storm with considerable aplomb, pointing out that the conferees would get nowhere if they limited themselves to diatribes. Then he cleared the hall of all but the twelve heads of state so that the Arab leaders could bicker on in privacy...