Word: tunisian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meet Widen, who had landed near the airfield. The Nazi was a cordial fellow named Anton ("Toni") Hafner, fated to become Germany's ninth-ranking World War II ace with 204 planes to his credit. The two spoke through an interpreter for a few minutes in the glaring Tunisian sun. They shook hands, posed for pictures. When Hafner admired Widen's wings, the American gave them to him, and his Colt pistol and his P-38's identification tag as well. As they parted, Widen invited Hafner to visit him in Philadelphia after...
...Gaulle closely questioned a recent Tunisian emissary on this very point. To another visitor, De Gaulle made clear his willingness to build up the stature of Ferhat Abbas in the F.L.N. as a counterpoise to the extremists. But his personal estimate of Abbas, a onetime druggist from the arid plateau country south of Bougie, is not high. "The pharmacist of Setif," he remarked, "would have made a barely passable Radical deputy-sort of an Algerian Queuille."* Executed Settlement. De Gaulle is moving cautiously toward an eventual face-to-face meeting with Ferhat Abbas. De Gaulle no longer demands a cease...
...disarming the unruly Congolese soldiers, the U.N. found the tables turned and its own Nigerian, Tunisian and Canadian soldiers being disarmed by the Congolese. As usual in the Congo, the whole thing started with a misunderstanding compounded by native Congolese hysteria. On a peaceful, sunny Sunday at a lake outside Leopoldville, where hundreds of Belgian families and off-duty U.N. employees had gone to picnic and swim, a U.N. truck with armed Tunisian U.N. troops drew up with urgent orders from Dayal's headquarters, instructing all U.N. people to leave the area immediately. On a nearby hillside, scores...
...diplomatic corps in Paris. Tunisia's young chargé d'affaires was overwhelmed when he was ushered into a small reception room to find De Gaulle waiting for him. De Gaulle asked him to tell his government that De Gaulle would like to see the Tunisian President in the interest of Algerian peace. Bourguiba picked as his emissary Information Minister Mohammed Masmoudi, who called on De Gaulle at the Elysée palace, told him that the F.L.N. leaders still smarted from memories of last June's talks with French representatives at Melun, where they had been...
...celebrate the occasion, Kassem had planned a warm reception when Tunisia's delegate arrived for the Arab League meeting held in Baghdad. He was disconcerted when 10,000 Iraqis flocked to the airport to greet not the Tunisian but the U.A.R.'s Foreign Minister Mahmoud Fawzi, shouting "Union under Nasser soon...