Word: bourguibaism
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...when Washington announced that President Eisenhower planned to speak to the Assembly (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), other heads of state began to get itchy feet. India's Jawaharlal Nehru, who had originally been minded to stay away, now seemed likely to come. So did Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba. Even Britain's Harold Macmillan was aching to come-despite advice to the contrary from his own Foreign Office. And if Macmillan showed up in New York, so would Canada's Prime Minister John Diefenbaker. Only Charles de Gaulle, who dislikes what he refers to as the "socalled...
Despite Russian efforts to pose as the protectors of African freedom, many African nations themselves were increasingly weary of Lumumba's troublemaking. Liberia's President William Tubman con fessed he was "perplexed and frustrated" by Lumumba's attitude. Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba declared that "there is a limit to how far Tunisia will go along with the Congo," and gave his support to Hammarskjold...
Among the world's fledgling nations, the U.S. has had no better friends than Tunisia and its anti-Communist President Habib Bourguiba. But as the U.S. pondered for two years whether to build a sorely needed dam in Tunisia, Tunisians grumbled that neutralist nations were getting plenty of money...
Tunisians insisted that there was enough water underground which could be tapped by wells to supplement the river supply. DLF officials mulled it over. Finally, when President Eisenhower paid his brief visit to Tunisia last December, Bourguiba told him that a Soviet trade mission had suggested that Russia would be only too willing to help build the dam if the U.S. did not. The DLF sent an expert to make a study. He reported tnat the Tunisians were right: there was enough underground water. Last week DLF announced that it would lend Tunisia $18 million, enough to assure the building...
...which the Koran was revealed to Mohammed, good Moslems must abstain from food and sex according to the most rigorous rules. Strict devotion to Ramadan lays a heavy burden on modern urban living: people became irritable and ineffectual on the job. Tunisia's up-to-date President Habib Bourguiba recently clamped down on the all-night nightclubs where celebrants make up for daylight denials, and boldly persuaded considerable numbers of his urban coreligionists to break their Ramadan fast this year and get on with their normal daily work (TIME, Feb. 22). Last week Cairo's Sheik Hassan Mamoun...