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Tunisia is represented in Cairo by Salah ben Youssef, exiled leader of the extremist wing of the Neo-Destour, who hates his fellow Party Leader Habib Bourguiba for accepting "interdependence" with France. Last week France granted Tunisia independence, and next week Tunisia will hold its first election. But in Tunisia's south ern mountains Salah ben Youssef's supporters flared into revived rebellion...
Harwood will represent the conservative Southern view toward the N.A.A.C.P., that it is an extremist group trying to undermine long-established southern traditions. However, Harwood, although an indigenous Southerner, has emphasized that he does not personally agree with this conservative southern attitude and will speak for it merely as an objective observer...
...boycotted the city buses, protesting segregated transportation (TIME, Jan. 16). Last week Montgomery's Mayor W. A. Gayle reacted in a way that showed how much the boycott-95% effective-was hurting. He first announced that he and his fellow members of the City Commission had joined the extremist White Citizens' Council. Then he announced a policy of no surrender on the boycott: "We have pussyfooted around on this boycott long enough and it has come time to be frank and honest. There seems to be a belief on the part of the Negroes that they have...
...full man," says Sheik Farouki, leader of Arab refugees in Jericho. "He is a poet . . . not a man of facts. He wanted to build a new nation by raiding cemeteries and making a people from the bones of history." Says Foreign Minister Sharett: "People call Ben-Gurion an extremist. He is not. He is a radical who advocates all his policies with extremism-even a moderate policy...
...representative of the traditionalist supporters of ex-Sultan Ben Arafa, and 2) Si M'Barek ben Mustapha el Bekkai, 48-year-old idol of Moroccan nationalists, as representative of ex-Sultan Ben Youssef. But French colonists feared the influence of Si Bekkai, whom they regarded as a dangerous extremist. Final solution was to dilute Si Bekkai's influence by adding not one but two more "moderate" members-one a young (38), obscure Berber chieftain called Si Tahar ou Ali Assou Loudyi, the other an old (71), respected jurist and doctor of Koranic law, Si Mohammed Sbihi. The council...