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...time for Christmas, the Tunisian state publishing monopoly has announced that it is putting President Habib Bourguiba's choicest speeches on no fewer than 485 long-playing records costing a mere $ 1 each. So far, the buyers have been Tunisian youth groups, cells of the ruling Neo-Destour Party, trade unions and embassies. When the set is complete (only 320 speeches are available now), Bourguiba fans will be able to hear 450 hours of speechifying on topics ranging from veils and miniskirts to population and polygamy...
...more than a hundred plotters were jailed. They proved to be a handful of dissident army officers and some disgruntled landowners. But the hard core seemed to be supporters of Bourguiba's old foe, the late Salah ben Youssef, who lost a bitter struggle for control of Neo-Destour, Tunisia's only political party, and went into exile in 1955. When Ben Youssef was murdered in West Germany in 1961, his followers back home blamed Bourguiba agents, swore vengeance on Tunisia's boss himself...
...Says Hamouda: "Slim rarely went out, but hundreds of students dropped by to see him. He was a great help to the Algerians and was always preaching unity in the North African struggle." In 1936, at the age of 28, Slim returned to Tunis, with Bourguiba founded the Neo Destour Party, dedicated to liberation from France. He fell in love with a young Tunisian girl, but suddenly broke with her. Explains a friend: "After much thought he decided one can't go to jail and get married at the same time, so he chose jail instead." In April...
Political Career. At war's end, Slim plunged deeper than ever into the struggle for liberation. As political director of Neo Destour. for nine years he traveled tirelessly and worked secretly setting up nationalist movement units all over the country. His black Citroën (license No. 225) was featured on so many French police posters that it became famous throughout Tunisia. The French caught him in 1952, jailed him for two years, released him just in time to assist Bourguiba in the 1954 independence negotiations with French Prime Minister Pierre Mendès-France. He became Bourguiba...
State Over Liberty. Bourguiba exploded. He summoned a meeting of the Neo-Destour Party executive, rammed through a vote to ban L'Action. For voting against Bourguiba's wishes, Mohammed Masmoudi, one of the paper's principal shareholders and once Bourguiba's close confidant, was fired as Tunisian Ambassador to France. (His replacement: Habib Bourguiba...