Word: masmoudi
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Dates: during 1958-1958
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State Over Liberty. Bourguiba exploded. He summoned a meeting of the Neo-Destour Party executive, rammed through a vote to ban L'Action. For voting against Bourguiba's wishes, Mohammed Masmoudi, one of the paper's principal shareholders and once Bourguiba's close confidant, was fired as Tunisian Ambassador to France. (His replacement: Habib Bourguiba...
...pipeline from their Edjele oilfield in the Sahara (estimated reserves: 70 million metric tons) over its natural route through Tunisia to the Mediterranean, unless French troops were allowed to stay in southern Tunisia to protect it. De Gaulle abandoned the conditions. He told Tunisian Ambassador Mohammed Masmoudi: "We are not at all opposed to Tunisia having its share of the Sahara's resources." The French and Tunisians signed an agreement to build the pipeline across Tunisia at a cost of $95 million, which will give jobs to 2,000 Tunisians, turn the sleepy Tunisian port of Gabes into...