Word: bourguibaism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was every sign that nobody was more astonished than Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba at what he had touched off. True enough, he had some provocation. After giving Tunisia independence in 1956, and promising to negotiate the future of the great Bizerte naval airbase, France has since refused to budge. Then Bourguiba learned that the French, instead of preparing to leave, were planning to lengthen the airstrip...
...efforts. French colonial officials once barred Brown from Algeria. A Tunisian rebel, released after arrest by the French in 1955, telephoned Brown the moment he was free: "I will be over to see you in a few minutes. I am free, thanks to you." His name: Habib Bourguiba, today President of Tunisia...
...Dean's eighteen leaders, ten--Khrushchev, Tito, Ben Gurion, Nasser, Nehru, Sukarno, Mao Tse-tung, Bourguiba, Nkrumah and Castro--will be familiar to most of her readers, although she adds a good deal of depth and illumination with extensive citation of the statesman's own writings. The others, two of them dead but still influential, less well-known, or at least less obvious selections...
Except for the Communists, Mrs. Dean admires most of the leaders she writes about; she does not share Time magazine's scorn for Nkrumah and Sukarno, for example. But those she likes best (Bourguiba, Ayub Khan, Nyerere and Betancourt) are the non-ideaologues who are more concerned with social and economic achievement than with abstract principles. The necessities of conditions in these emerging nations, Mrs. Dean argues, have imposed certain pragmatic responses which Western democrats may find difficult to accept, yet the West must accept them if it is to learn to live with the underdeveloped world. First, most...
Three times the assembled members of the House and Senate gave President Bourguiba a standing ovation. When he finished his speech, the sound of cheers cut through the wave of applause in a rare tribute from Capitol Hill to the doughty man who had spent eleven years in prison or confinement before carving a nation out of North Africa...