Word: tunisia
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...ambiguous peace that followed the summer's storms, Nasser has become the increasingly acknowledged Mr. Big of the Arab world. Such was his prestige that last week Morocco and even his old rival, Bourguiba of Tunisia, felt compelled to join the Arab League. In the new Arab order taking shape after the Iraqi revolt, only Jordan and Lebanon had lined up against Nasser, and the Lebanon that elected Chehab was already trending back to the old Lebanese position of neutrality among Arabs. If Hammarskjold is undiplomatically candid when he makes his report to the U.N. Assembly later this month...
...outlined his scheme to his fellow Arabs in the Hotel Pierre suite of Abdel Khalek Hassouna, Secretary-General of the Arab League, a moribund outfit invented in 1945 by the British and captured by the Egyptians. Fawzi's audience-the representatives of the eight Arab League nations* plus Tunisia and Morocco-personified all the quarrels which have rent the Arab world for 40 years. And some of the quarrels persisted at the meeting. But before long the beauty of Fawzi's plan had turned the meeting into an old-fashioned Arab love feast. ("You could practically smell...
...house was filmed. Separating the legitimate tenants from a recurring stream of Algerians, the police narrowed their search to a two-room flat on the fifth floor, rented by a 28-year-old French girl named Cécile Decugis, a cinema technician who had once worked in Tunisia...
Bourguiba, besides wanting to be friendly with France, also wants to make Tunisia strong enough economically to withstand the assault of Nasser-style propaganda. He is reported "deeply disturbed" by the continued subservience of the Algerian F.L.N. to Cairo, while Cairo compares him to the "imperialist lackey," Nuri asSaid of Iraq...
...week when so many other men minced their words about the Western role in the Middle East, Tunisia's courageous President Bourguiba spoke out to the Tunis newspaper L'Action...