Word: bourguibaism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weeks Bourguiba had dutifully followed his medical instructions by drinking a pint of apple juice a day and taking brisk walks in the Swiss woods (though he passed up the clinic's vegetable dinners in favor of juicy steaks sent in from a nearby hotel). But his hospital room was piled with newspapers and books, alive with the ring of telephones and crowded with visitors. In the clinic's driveway, diplomatic limousines came and went. On his orders, diplomats scurried on a triangular course running from Zurich to Paris to Tunis and back. Early this week Bourguiba...
...stucco building in the hills behind Zurich, Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba was ostensibly taking a "nature cure." Actually, he was hard at work-as an invited friend of both sides-directing the elaborate maneuvers designed to bring an end to the six-year-old Algerian...
French-educated Bourguiba has repeatedy warned the West that it must move swiftly to prevent Communist penetration. The long Algerian war severely strained his instinctive loyalty to the West. Last October there was an edge to Bourguiba's voice as he announced: "We will accept all action, all aid, all intervention. Whether it is under Russian or Chinese pressure, through U.S. intervention, or finally by direct negotiations, any means is good to put an end to the war in Algeria." Peace in Algeria could put an end to the F.L.N.'s flirtation with the Communists, who are eagerly...
Admiring Diplomats. Bourguiba survives through skill in bargaining and agility in seizing small advantages-a technique that admiring French diplomats have dubbed "Bourguibisme." He has already advised the F.L.N. leaders against demanding too much of France or striking vainglorious attitudes. By ignoring De Gaulle's grandiloquent words and accepting his concept of an Algerian Algeria, Bourguiba believes the F.L.N. can take over the political substructure of the state and become its ultimate ruler...
...Paris, Bourguiba will presumably caution De Gaulle to give some sort of recognition to the F.L.N. as a disciplined and worthy opponent-perhaps through a private meeting with the F.L.N.'s Ferhat Abbas, where assurances can be exchanged. What the moment calls for is someone skillful enough to smooth the initial approach between France and the F.L.N. rebels it has fought for six long years. Dapper, quick-witted Habib Bourguiba may be just...