Word: tunisian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reforms, abolished polygamy; from Moufida Bourguiba, 72, his wife since 1926, mother of Habib Bourguiba Jr., Tunisia's ambassador to the U.S., Canada; in a French-style civil court last spring. Also revealed: Bourguiba's marriage last June to Ouassila Ben Amar, 45, a plump and smart Tunisian divorcee who has long wished to be first lady...
...great help to the Algerians and was always preaching unity in the North African struggle." In 1936, at the age of 28, Slim returned to Tunis, with Bourguiba founded the Neo Destour Party, dedicated to liberation from France. He fell in love with a young Tunisian girl, but suddenly broke with her. Explains a friend: "After much thought he decided one can't go to jail and get married at the same time, so he chose jail instead." In April 1938 Slim, Bourguiba and all other Neo Destour party leaders were jailed for participating in a wild demonstration...
...anticolonialism" that last week the acrimonious argument took place on schedule in the U.N. General Assembly. Up for heated discussion was the Afro-Asian draft resolution proposed by 32 nations calling on France and Tunisia to begin "immediate negotiations" for the "withdrawal of all French armed forces from Tunisian territory...
...debate veered back and forth between East-West differences and the Franco-Tunisian dispute, the Assembly dwindled to as few as one-third of its 99 members. The delegation from France never appeared at all, since Charles de Gaulle had ordered a U.N. boycott. Presumably to underscore French indifference, word was passed that none of the French delegates even planned to listen to the session on radio. The biggest blow for President Charles de Gaulle came when all eleven African states of the normally pro-French Brazzaville group decided to vote against France...
...that the West would never look at him with the same confidence again": I feel I ought to put the record straight that if France refuses to quit Bizerte and the U.S. is content enough to only issue statements of regret, then not only Mr. Bourguiba and the Tunisian people but the Afro-Asian countries as a whole will lose confidence in the West...