Word: bourguibaism
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...loyal as he is to the West, complained Tunisia's peppery President Habib Bourguiba, is "beginning to verge on downright sentimentality." He was angered by French troops invading Tunisia in hot pursuit of Algerian rebels (some of whom, say the French, make hit-and-run raids into Algeria from Tunisia). Independent Tunisia, snapped Bourguiba, must have guns, "no matter what the price...
...with Khrushchev. Last week NBC was in hot pursuit of its rival's lead. Hardly before the 121-gun salute to its liberator had stopped reverberating in Tunisia, NBC Commentator Chet Huntley had set up his lights and cameras in the tiled office of popular President Habib ("Beloved") Bourguiba. Wearing a dark Western business suit and a TV-blue shirt, greying, rock-jawed Bourguiba doughtily faced seven merciless hours of grilling in the TV glare. For U.S. consumption, Newsman Huntley stretched Outlook's normal half hour to a full 60 minutes, during which he also trekked through...
When France devalued the franc, newly independent Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba saw a chance to make a little money-and a little propaganda. By the end of the year, said Bourguiba last week. Tunisia will abandon the French franc and issue its own currency, thereby freeing itself from a "policy dominated by instability and by the requirements of a war [in Algeria] whose end cannot be seen...
Last week Tunisian ambassadors from all over the world were summarily recalled to Tunis. After meeting with them and with the executive committee of his own ruling Neo-Destour Party, Bourguiba called a special session of the nation's Constituent Assembly. In a hall from which the Bey's old throne had disappeared, the governing body of Tunisia voted unanimously to 1) do away with the monarchy, 2) establish a republic, 3) make Habib Bourguiba its first President. "Because of the affection of the people for me," Bourguiba said cockily, "I could have myself declared...
...family were to leave at once to enter "enforced residence" at a villa in La Manouba. Clucking around, looking to see if his toothpaste had been packed, the ex-Bey of Tunis asked: "Is this the way to treat an old man who sent money and parcels to Mr. Bourguiba's family when he was in jail?" Then he rode off in his limousine, hiding his face from photographers...