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...patient nation. We can stay in Yemen for one, two, three, four or even five years." As for Israel, Nasser threatened a "deterrent war" if the country decides to go ahead with the development of an atomic weapon. In the same hot breath, Nasser also attacked Tunisia's Habib Bourguiba for daring to advocate Arab negotiation with Israel...
Remarkably, most new anthems have managed to avoid personal jingoism. Ghana, of course, sings the praises of Kwame Nkrumah, and Tunisia pays tribute to "the spirit of our Habib, the great leader," but few other new nations have used their songs to glorify current heroes. South Africa's whites have even resisted, mercifully enough, the temptation to change their lovely anthem to the Verwoerd March...
Thirteen heads of state were invited to last week's Arab League Meeting in Casablanca, but only twelve showed up. The absentee was Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba, who sent his regrets in the form of a 10,000-word memo randum intended to torpedo, if not the whole affair, at least its main personality, Egypt's Abdel Gamal Nasser...
...guns. Still angry about West Germany's recognition last month of Israel, Syria urged joint 'economic sanctions against the Bonn government, raised again the proposal that all members of the Arab League establish relations with East Germany instead. The Syrian delegate even demanded that Tunisia, whose President, Habib Bourguiba, had recommended negotiations instead of war with Israel, be expelled from the Arab League...
...began with some remarks by Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba, who often says out loud what most sophisticated Arabs say only in private. Returning home from a Middle Eastern tour in which he visited the Jordanian refugee camps near Jericho, where 71,000 Palestinian Arabs have languished for 17 years, Bourguiba declared that it was obviously impossible to erase Israel from the map by force and that therefore it made sense to accept its presence. He proposed that the long-festering refugee problem be settled on the basis of the 1947 United Nations partition plan, which would require Israel...