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...TUNIS, Tunisia, Nov. 15--This young Arab nation's pro-Western president declared today delivery of small arms to Tunisia by the United States and Britain could change the history of North Africa...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14--The United States and Britain brushed aside strong French protests today and ordered a token shipment of small arms sent to Tunisia in an effort to prevent the French colony from turning to Soviet arms suppliers...
...toward emancipation has kept pace with the drive of their countries toward independence. In Pakistan, where ten years ago cars were heavily curtained to protect women from the vulgar gaze of men, hundreds of still devout women now drive themselves, unveiled, to work or on their social rounds. In Tunisia, where in 1947 polygamy was accepted practice, a husband landed in jail last April for having defied the law and taken a second wife. In Egypt and Lebanon, Turkey and Syria-where for centuries the life of a woman was described proverbially as "from the womb of her mother...
...whom should she write a letter?" But such objections are fast yielding to the demand of the young for knowledge, and the determination of the emancipators that they should have it. In Morocco the government has reduced illiteracy an impressive 10% in the two years since independence. In Tunisia's two years as a nation, the number of girls attending schools has increased tenfold. Ten years ago there were only five women's colleges in Pakistan; now there are 25, including medical and law schools. This drive for education has sharply divided generations. Observed one Moroccan educator...
...Moral Grounds." In TV's most ambitious effort to get the rebels' side of the story at first hand, Kearns and Cameraman Yousef Masraff entered Algeria through the nationalist supply line from Tunisia, hiked for 22 days and nights 175 miles into the mountains with a rebel unit that slipped through the French forces, shared the hazards and discomforts of guerrilla warfare-and the risk that the French, who recognize no war, would recognize no war correspondents...