Word: habib
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tunisia a 350-man French army unit, operating in a border area where Algerian rebels have sought refuge, found itself "surrounded" by Tunisian soldiers, and in the ensuing scuffle killed seven of them. In an angry speech to his people, Tunisia's normally moderate and pro-Western Premier Habib Bourguiba cried: "There must be no more French troop movements. We are not at war with France, but we are at war with the remnants of colonialism in Tunisia. We start the battle of evacuation today." At the end of his speech the crowd took up the chant "Evacuation! Evacuation...
...Amin Bey was always May 15, the anniversary of his accession when, amidst the panoply of his royalty, his subjects, his ministers and the full diplomatic corps gathered to do him homage. When last year Tunisia became an independent nation under Premier Habib Bourguiba. the Bey's allowance was cut to a puny $500,000 and the special laws protecting his family were repealed (one cousin was promptly sent to jail for pushing narcotics). Last week a two-line communique from government headquarters announced that May 15 was no longer to be considered a public holiday. Reduced to accepting...
...said Ambassador Richards, he had pledged $120 million on the spot-slightly more than half of it for economic assistance, the rest for "guns, tanks and things of that kind," which will be rushed to the area. Richards' report was followed by a complaint from Tunisian Premier Habib Bourguiba, who had accepted $3,000,000 in Eisenhower Doctrine economic aid, but was nettled by Richards' refusal to grant military aid-thus indicating the U.S. still regards independent Tunisia as a "French sphere of influence...
...Arab leaders who have most to lose from the French-Algerian war met last week in Rabat, Morocco's Sultan Mohamed V, and Tunisia's Habib Bourguiba, each ruler of a country one year old, had much to talk about, but their main occupation was: how to get peace and order established in Algeria, which lies between them. Both Morocco and Tunisia need money, goods and trained men to stabilize their fledgling countries and, though they had fought hard and bitterly for their independence from France, they knew that their best chance of help lay in friendship with...
Chief proponent of the plan is Tunisia's Premier Habib Bourguiba. On his recent visit to Washington Bourguiba reportedly urged President Eisenhower to persuade France to give Algeria complete independence. In return, Arab leaders in Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco would form a Maghreb federation with some kind of link with France. Spain, because of its residual interest in Spanish Morocco, would also be invited to join the grouping, and so would Libya...