Word: habib
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nine arch conspirators-five of them sentenced to death in absentia by French military courts-lined up self-consciously in a room in Tunis and let photographers take their pictures. They were the leaders of Algeria's National Liberation Front. With Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba offering them physical sanctuary and diplomatic sponsorship before the world, the FLN was trying to assume the robes of respectability. Last fortnight the FLN leaders invited French journalists in for coffee, showed them round their newly expanded headquarters, and announced that three of their members would leave shortly for New York (traveling...
Some American sources admit privately it it possible some arms may fall into rebel hands despite Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba's pledges to the contrary...
...loyal as he is to the West, complained Tunisia's peppery President Habib Bourguiba, is "beginning to verge on downright sentimentality." He was angered by French troops invading Tunisia in hot pursuit of Algerian rebels (some of whom, say the French, make hit-and-run raids into Algeria from Tunisia). Independent Tunisia, snapped Bourguiba, must have guns, "no matter what the price...
...with Khrushchev. Last week NBC was in hot pursuit of its rival's lead. Hardly before the 121-gun salute to its liberator had stopped reverberating in Tunisia, NBC Commentator Chet Huntley had set up his lights and cameras in the tiled office of popular President Habib ("Beloved") Bourguiba. Wearing a dark Western business suit and a TV-blue shirt, greying, rock-jawed Bourguiba doughtily faced seven merciless hours of grilling in the TV glare. For U.S. consumption, Newsman Huntley stretched Outlook's normal half hour to a full 60 minutes, during which he also trekked through...
When France devalued the franc, newly independent Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba saw a chance to make a little money-and a little propaganda. By the end of the year, said Bourguiba last week. Tunisia will abandon the French franc and issue its own currency, thereby freeing itself from a "policy dominated by instability and by the requirements of a war [in Algeria] whose end cannot be seen...