Word: tunisian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When Tunisian students passed a bristling condemnation of U.S. policy in Viet Nam last month, President Habib Bourguiba decided to give them a cooling little lecture himself. His message, rare in the Arab world for its espousal of U.S. views: "If the Vietnamese guerrillas could contain the American Army, China would not hesitate to unleash its masses on South Viet Nam, Asia and even Russia." Later, Bourguiba described his fellow Arabs' belligerence against Israel as "vain obstinacy" and Gamal Abdel Nasser's closing of the Gulf of Aqaba as "a monumental miscalculation." He has also shocked Moslems...
Kicking the Tradition. Under the paternalistic rule of le Pere, as his countrymen call him, youngsters everywhere now flock to new secular schools that have replaced the dreary old Koranic institutions. Young Tunisian women wear mini-djebbas that are the scandal of the mullahs, and bikinis among the scantiest on the Mediterranean. But Bourguiba is kicking more than tradition into the North African dust...
Ahmed Shukairy, the fiery chief of the Egyptian-based Palestine Liberation Organization and a special Nasser guest in Khartoum, blasted right back, labeling Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba "a traitor to the Arab cause" for having advocated peace talks with Israel back in 1965. Furious, Slim stormed out of the conference hall. "There is no justification for Mr. Shukairy's presence," he told reporters. The arguments increased in intensity until Syria's Foreign Minister Ibrahim Makhous went on Khartoum television to announce that the whole conference was "a farce and a waste of time...
...planeloads of Moroccan troops actually got to Cairo, but five others were grounded in Libya because Egypt had not given them clearance to enter Egyptian airspace. More than 100 truckloads of Algerian troops crossed southern Tunisia on the way to the Sinai front, which crumbled long before they arrived. Tunisian troops ready to move for Nasser were never asked for by Cairo...
...magazine was founded in 1960 by Béchir ben Yahmed, 38, a Tunisian who decided he could exert more influence as a journalist than as a politician. An intimate of Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba, he quit his job as Minister of Information because he felt that his boss had assumed too much power. The danger of one-man rule is, in fact, one of Jeune Afrique's most persistent themes. "We believe that the funda mental role of the press is to prevent leaders from taking advantage of the people," says Ben Yahmed. "Africa's rulers have...