Word: bourguiba
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...devilishly clever. Recently, Somali-language transmissions have supported the claims of Somalia to a portion of northeast Kenya, while Swahili broadcasts aimed at Kenya denounce the idea. A U.S. construction firm is building a new transmitter, which will be beamed at Tunisia and aimed at destroying President Habib Bourguiba...
However, Sigmund rightly points out the contradictions in the way the word "socialist" is used by the nationalists. By attaching it to everything from the tepid land reform of Bourguiba in Tunisia to the social revolution of Castro they have turned it into a rather empty epithet...
...last week, in a shouting, gesticulating speech in the vast Casbah Square of Tunis, Bourguiba said it was "surprising" to discover that Algeria has "become a residence for criminals and plotters against the government of Tunisia." He seemed mostly upset by the fact that Algeria has refused to extradite one Boubeker Mustafi, a Tunisian accused of being party to the Christmas assassination plot against Bourguiba (TIME, Jan. 4), for which 13 Tunisians have been condemned to death...
...Bourguiba ridiculed 46-year-old Algerian Premier Ahmed ben Bella as "an inexperienced, excited youth," and "a simple-minded peasant," but conceded that "not all members of the Algerian government were involved." In any case, boasted Bourguiba, "we have enough power and strength to face any adversary. I don't intend to keep up hypocritical relations with any government...
...week's end Bourguiba made his displeasure official by summoning home Tunisia's ambassador to Algeria. But there was no break in diplomatic relations, nor any sign that Tunisia's 10,000-man army was preparing to take on Algeria's 120,000 veteran troops...