Word: habib
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TUNISIA. Volatile President Habib Bourguiba, 55, runs his nation like a one-man show, dismissing opponents, lecturing visitors, and ruling by decree. But he is not the complete master of Tunisia's fate, or of his own. His professions of loyalty to the West have earned him the hatred of the neutralists. Nasser's Radio Cairo beams an unceasing stream of Goebbels-like propaganda into Tunisia...
...Algerian guests. He has allowed them to establish supply depots, training camps, mutual-aid societies everywhere, and in the process the Algerians have infiltrated every branch of Tunisian administration. Bourguiba sees himself as a mediator between the French and the Algerians, but finds no takers. Says harassed Habib Bourguiba of his own land, with more truth than immodesty: "A stray bullet may kill me and the country would be plunged into anarchy...
...Nasser's Arab "brotherhood" or to play against it. Neither choice has paid off well, since Nasser's idea of brotherhood is one in which he alone is Big Brother. After months of trying to hold his own against the cawing Cairo Radio, Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba three weeks ago decided to join the Arab League, a Cairo organization now dominated by Nasser...
...Habib Bourguiba told his Constituent Assembly: "We have the proof that our disagreement with the U.A.R. is more than a simple misunderstanding." In Cairo lives the exiled Salah ben Youssef, who once fought alongside Bourguiba in the battle for Tunisian independence. Ben Youssef, says Bourguiba, has made seven attempts to kill him, has organized a private army in southern Tunisia to snipe at Bourguiba's soldiers. Bourguiba now has evidence, he went on, that Nasser's government was egging on Ben Youssef's conspiracy...
...clear test of strength between pro-Western President Habib Bourguiba and President Nasser of the U.A.R...