Word: tunisia
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...rigny is good for us." De Gaulle's new assertion of authority over Algeria posed a problem to the leaders of Algeria's five-year-old F.L.N. rebellion. Millions of uncommitted Moslems might become less eager to support the harsh cries of the rebel leadership. From neighboring Tunisia, rebel leaders leaked word that they were about to request peace talks on the basis of De Gaulle's Algeria-wide self-determination offer of last September...
...Tunisia's modern-minded President Habib Bourguiba, a Moslem himself, regards Ramadan as so much cultural excess baggage. He has already officially abolished the veil in Tunisia and introduced European notions of marriage and divorce in place of Islamic laws, in which women have little or no rights. Then he set to work on Ramadan, a custom which he believes helps hold Islamic countries in "stagnation, weakness and decadence." Last year in Ramadan he imposed midnight curfew on coffeehouses and other soots where revelers congregated until dawn...
...Treason Theme. Beaten by the Nazis and the Viet Minh, humiliatingly ousted from Morocco and Tunisia, evacuated from Suez, the French army has salved its pride by ascribing all its reverses to "betrayal by the politicians." Its mutinous spirit was not ragtag but austere: a conviction that they who did the dirty fighting are purest of heart, and entitled to sit in judgment upon the acts of the state. "Conditional loyalty," Old Soldier De Gaulle called...
...last begun looking to his country's internal needs. During a flurry of Cabinet meetings last June and July, the President ordered a rethinking of policies in the light of U.A.R. failures to extend its leadership in the Arab world-not only in Iraq, but also in Tunisia, Jordan, Lebanon, the Sudan, Libya. One result of this rethinking was Nasser's speech at Port Said last month redefining Arab nationalism's goal not as one-Arab-nation but as merely "solidarity" of foreign and defense policies among sister Arab states. And for the first time in years...
...hour-and-a-half discussion of African problems, in which they agreed-as a communiqué later put it-that there is "cause of grave concern" because the Algerian problem has not been solved. With an effervescent Bourguiba tugging at his arm, Ike went off to view Tunisia's gifts to the President: a delicately boned little Persian-Arabian gelding called Ghali (Precious) and two yearling desert gazelles. The two Presidents then drove to the nearby American cemetery, past crowds of women who hailed Ike with a birdlike warbling that sounded like you-you-you. Ike laid...