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Word: destourian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bourguiba is still Tunisia's most popular man and the particular darling of Tunisian women, who revere him as their emancipator. By giving the doctrinaire radicals of his own Destourian Socialist Party just enough socialism, he has managed to curb most serious political opposition. Some students would like to push Tunisia off its moderate track and further to the left, but they do not worry Bourguiba. "We have been rendered immune against the Red bug," says his Economics Minister, Ahmed ben Salah. "When we see a student turning Communist, we send him to the Soviet Union for a cure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tunisia: The Art of Plain Talk | 9/29/1967 | See Source »

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