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DIED. HABIB BOURGUIBA, 96, Tunisia's liberator from French colonial rule in 1956, and the nation's pro-Western President for Life until a 1987 bloodless coup; in Monastir, Tunisia. He modernized his country and promoted women's rights and moderation toward Israel...
...salon. Everybody could feel the boat rolling and swaying ever so gently. Later, he said: "Sometimes the keys elude your touch like fishes swimming away from under your fingers." What a sport! In a few days we are going to hear the soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf at the Ribat of Monastir, Tunisia. Then, while cruising to Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, there will be a recital by the Amadeus Quartet and Jean-Pierre Rampal, the flutist. Then on to Catania, Naples and Cannes, where Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli will give a piano recital...
Early Life. Born Aug. 3, 1903, and reared in the ancient Carthaginian fishing port of Monastir, youngest of eight, grandson of an Arab nationalist who was a leader in a 19th century revolt against oppressive taxes. Educated at French lycées in Tunis, the Faculty of Law and School of Political Science in Paris (where he read Victor Hugo and argued about the Rights of Man). Married Mathilde Lorrain, a Frenchwoman he met in Paris. They have one son, Habib Jr., now Tunisia's Ambassador to Italy...
April 8. When the Yugoslavs let the Germans break through to the Vardar Valley, the three divisions of northern Greeks were cut off from Salonika. But the break-through in Yugoslavia had another, far more serious effect. It allowed the Germans to rush at full speed for the Monastir Gap-approximately at the juncture of Yugoslavia, Albania and Greece, and at dead center of the whole Anglo-Greek defenses. Monastir Gap was not only a geological phenomenon: it was also a gap in the Anglo-Greek defense, left because the Allies thought the Yugoslavs would hold the Germans...
...Greeks, observing that the enemy was concentrating supplies in the Monastir sector, announced that their troops were "impatiently awaiting the first opportunity of getting at the Germans." Grimly the Yugoslavs pointed out: "It is one thing to conquer the Komitajis' territory; it is another thing to conquer the Komitaji." This week was Orthodox Holy Week, and devout men like General Simovitch (who was not too devout, however, to divorce his first wife and marry one of the handsomest women in Yugoslavia) threw a religious fervor into their fighting...