Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Authority & Oil. By week's end the fighting between Moroccan nationalists and Spanish colonial forces had spread south to the Spanish Sahara. Moroccan newspapers reported nationalist attacks on a village at the mouth of the Saguia el Hamra (Red River) and Spanish bombing raids on the inland villages of Smara and Sidi Ahmed el Aroussi; more than 200 Moroccans were reported killed...
Just five years ago swarthy, blue-eyed Habib Bourguiba was a little-known Tunisian lawyer and nationalist leader scornfully dismissed by the French Resident General of the day as "a dangerous maniac who actually thinks he might become a figure in world affairs." Today Habib Bourguiba, 54, is President of his country (pop. 3,800,000) and indubitably a world figure. Last week, having successfully obtained U.S. and British arms over French objections, the Tunisian leader flew to Rabat to work out with Morocco's King Mohammed V a new formula for mediating in France's Algerian...
Moderation is the basis of Bourguiba's effectiveness as an Arab spokesman. He was a nationalist leader when the strutting colonels of Egypt and Syria were adolescents, and he has built up a mass political following organized down to the cell level in 700 Tunisian cities and villages. Trained as a law student on Paris' Left Bank and married to a French wife, he was imprisoned again and again by colonial authorities, still kept up his wide contacts with more progressive French politicians in Paris. "I hate colonialism," he said, "not the French...
...hate for Zionists, Wang affirms, is very intense, and he calls them a "fanatical Jewish nationalist group devoted to promoting the special interest of Israel at the cost of destroying the United States." He also opposes the NAACP, since "it is controlled by Zionists and Communists...
...champion of France in 1953, '54 and '55. When he turned pro in 1955, he went back to Algeria to begin his career. Along with every other fighter who preferred to do his scrapping with his fists, he beat it out to France again when the nationalist rebellion closed North Africa's prizefight palaces. He lost only one of 21 bouts on his way to the title...