Word: mergers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both countries at first enthusiastically welcomed the planned merger. It would have created one nation having a single constitution, flag, capital (Tunis), army and legislative, judicial and executive system, with Bourguiba as its President and Gaddafi as a Vice President. On the day of the announcement, Bourguiba hailed the development as "an event that will change the course of history." Tunis and Tripoli radios began identifying themselves as the radio of the "Arab Islamic Republic," as the new nation was to be known...
...economic terms, at least, the merger made some sense. Tunisia (pop. 5,500,000) suffers from a labor surplus, a lack of natural resources and a foreign debt of more than $1 billion. Oil-rich Libya (pop. 2,088,000) needs workers and has plenty of money for investment and industrial expansion. Last year Libya's oil wells earned more than $2 billion in foreign currency...
These differences obviously gave Bourguiba and his advisers second thoughts about unification. Only two days after proclamation of the "Arab Islamic Republic," Bourguiba fired the chief architect of the merger, Tunisia's Foreign Minister Mohamed Masmoudi...
...coalition government, militant Unionist members voted to oppose the Council of Ireland agreement worked out last month between Northern Ireland, Britain and the Irish Republic. The Unionists' Protestant hard-liners viewed the agreement, which calls for regular consultations between Belfast and Dublin, as the first step toward merger with the predominantly Catholic South...
...hope is that the philosophical issues can be discussed as such," Alberta B. Arthur, dean of Radcliffe admissions, financial aid and women's education, said last week. "Focusing on economic feasibility of merger leaves out what's best for women and for undergraduate education...