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...crucial deadline is met as Nicaragua agrees to talk to the contras about a cease- fire. President Daniel Ortega Saavedra tells why in a Time interview. Meanwhile, in the region' s key trouble spots, Nicaragua and El Salvador, life remains hard. -- Gorbachev cautiously denounces Stalin' s crimes. -- Habib Bourguiba, ruler of Tunisia for three decades, is ousted...
...Shortly after sunrise last Saturday, Tunisians flipping on their radios heard startling news. The regime of Habib Bourguiba, ruler of Tunisia since the country gained its independence from France in 1956 and President-for-Life since 1975, had come to an abrupt end. After carrying out a bloodless takeover in the predawn hours, Prime Minister Zine al Abidine ben Ali took to the airwaves at 6:30 to declare that Bourguiba, 84, had been ousted. Citing a constitutional provision allowing the President to be removed if he is incapacitated, the Prime Minister claimed that a team of seven doctors...
...speaking, security forces surrounded the bleached white presidential palace next to the ancient ruins of Carthage. Though there were rumors that Bourguiba had been spirited out of the capital, officials insisted he remained cloistered in the palace. However, two Cabinet ministers were arrested, and some of the President's closest associates, including his powerful niece Saida Sassi and his son Habib Bourguiba Jr., were said to be under house arrest. No violence or resistance to the coup was reported...
...best known to Tunisians as the Interior Minister who led this year's crackdown on Islamic fundamentalists, which resulted in more than 2,000 arrests. In September seven militants were sentenced to death and 69 to jail terms for trying to overthrow Bourguiba's regime. In early October Ben Ali, a former army general, was named Prime Minister in what was regarded as a signal that the tough stance would continue...
Last week Bourguiba ensured that the pressure on dissenters will continue when he abruptly sacked his Prime Minister and replaced him with Interior Minister Zine al Abidine ben Ali, who has led the crackdown on the fundamentalists. "You will not see any steps toward greater pluralism now," / commented one worried Western diplomat. Indeed, Bourguiba has knocked out his opposition so effectively that many fear there is now no credible successor, and that when he dies the radical fundamentalists will leap to fill the political void...