Word: habib
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best possible chance of success, Mendès restored to legal status the Neo-Destour Party of nationalists, outlawed since 1938. Several hundred Tunisians, held in isolation or in jail, were amnestied (though not any accused of murder). Travel controls were eased. These improvements followed the suggestions of Habib Bourguiba, exiled Neo-Destour leader, who is now sojourning at a villa not far from Paris and giving friendly advice to the Mendès-France government...
...were not over. He offered cabinet posts to the leaders of Neo-Destour, Tunisia's clandestine but powerful nationalist party. Most of the leaders are in exile or cooped up in French jails, but six hurried to Switzerland to confer. They talked by phone with their exiled leader, Habib Bourguiba, 51, now a "guest" of the French in a villa near Paris. Bourguiba counseled "accept...
...favorite method of conversations à deux-knocking heads together. This time he set up two-man meetings between French officials and Arab representatives of the Neo-Destour (or Tunisian Nationalist) Party. His most useful collaborator was the Arab's No. 1 nationalist, the ascetic-looking, white-haired Habib Bourguiba, 51, exiled leader of the Neo-Destour. In an adroit move Mendès transferred Bourguiba from lonely sequestration on an island off the Brittany coast to a villa 125 miles from Paris...
...North African empire. Morocco has been in turmoil for a year. Until recently, nearby Tunisia was relatively quiet, but last spring nationalists began stirring in Tunisia. The nationalists were dissatisfied with the limited "reforms" offered by Resident General Pierre Voizard; they were enraged by the moving of exiled Habib Bourguiba, the anti-Communist leader of Tunisia's most powerful political group, the Neo-Destour
...Charles Habib Malik, Lebanese Ambassador to the U.S. . . . . . LL.D...