Word: bourguibaism
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Thirteen heads of state were invited to last week's Arab League Meeting in Casablanca, but only twelve showed up. The absentee was Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba, who sent his regrets in the form of a 10,000-word memo randum intended to torpedo, if not the whole affair, at least its main personality, Egypt's Abdel Gamal Nasser...
...TUNISIA. With one of the highest per capita aid rates ($15 a year, roughly equal to the average share of U.S. citizens in the aid tab), this dry and dusty country is rapidly being turned into a gigantic orchard. President Bourguiba has pushed the plan to sink most of $397 million in economic aid since 1958 into fruit and vegetable production...
...Still angry about West Germany's recognition last month of Israel, Syria urged joint 'economic sanctions against the Bonn government, raised again the proposal that all members of the Arab League establish relations with East Germany instead. The Syrian delegate even demanded that Tunisia, whose President, Habib Bourguiba, had recommended negotiations instead of war with Israel, be expelled from the Arab League...
...action was taken, of course. Far from approving the air strikes against Israel, most Arab states warned Syria not to do anything to provoke the powerful Israeli army against them. Sanctions against West Germany were shelved, as was recognition of East Germany. Syria's case against Bourguiba met the coldest reception of all. Not even Nasser, whom the Tunisian President had accused of seeking control over all Arabs, was angry enough to consider throwing him out of the League...
...week's end Bourguiba sent off a 2,000-word letter to Nasser proposing a personal meeting. "We are in agreement on the heart of the problem," he wrote confidently. The only divergence was "about the course of action." Few observers expected either a meeting or any action...