Word: bourguibaism
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...Tunisia itself neither disputant seemed so reasonable. When France defied Bourguiba's demand for the closing of five French consulates, Tunisian police forcibly shut them down and evicted their staffs. Bourguiba appeared to be adamant in his insistence that France must evacuate not only the dozen or so minor French garrisons scattered throughout Tunisia but also four airstrips and the vast naval complex of Bizerte, which is the French navy's most important Mediterranean base after Toulon...
...efforts to convince the world that Tunisia has been giving aid and comfort to the Algerian rebels, France got an assist from an unexpected source. "We give the insurgents what help we can, short of going to war," admitted Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba last week. "Our position is like that of the U.S. with respect to the Allies during the first years of World War II. We are not belligerents, but we are not neutral either...
...Even if Bourguiba wanted to, it would be physically impossible for Tunisia to seal off its 600-mile border with Algeria. The southern 300 miles of the frontier run through forbidding desert; its northern reaches run through impenetrable woods broken by scrubby hills and low, rocky mountains. So rough is this terrain that even the French have made no serious effort to fortify the frontier itself. Instead, the French army has built the "Morice line," a 150-mile electrified barbed-wire fence along the Bône-Tebessa Railway (see map), which at some points lies as much...
Rest & Recuperation. According to the French, Bourguiba not only permits the F.L.N. to raid Algeria from Tunisian bases, but also lets the rebels maintain five hospitals, five arms depots and a network of training camps in such towns as Béja, Gafsa and Souk-el-Arba. All F.L.N. recruits, declare the French, are sent to Tunisia for two months' basic training; currently French intelligence estimates the number of F.L.N. troops in Tunisia at from...
...joint Franco-Tunisian commission to supervise the border area. Tunisia is unlikely to accept any such proposal. With 70,000 men, the F.L.N.'s army is one of the biggest in the Arab world, far overshadows the 6,200 lightly armed soldiers of the Tunisian army. If Bourguiba now agrees to help France end the traffic across the Tunisian-Algerian frontier, the F.L.N. and its Tunisian sympathizers could, and perhaps would, run him and his government out of office...