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Specialists' Books. Art books, though generally considered all-purpose gifts, are more properly put into the specialist classification. Merely because a person has been heard to praise Van Gogh is no reason to give him an expensive work on Tunisian mosaics (the New York Graphic Society puts out an excellent Tunisian collection at $18, and if legs were offered as an optional extra, it would make a serviceable coffee table). Among the category's best : GREAT DRAWINGS OF ALL TIME (four volumes), edited by Ira Moskowitz (2,000 pp.; Shorewood; $160). The title is accurate, the selection intelligent...
Died. Sidi Mohammed al-Amin, 81, last of the 19 Beys of Tunis, a spade-bearded figurehead given to gilt-encrusted uniforms and tinkering with his 2,000 grandfather clocks, who sat as France's puppet king from 1943 until 1957 when the new Tunisian republic ousted him-and his seven dwarf jesters-from his palace, thus ending a 252-year dynasty originally set up by the Turkish masters of the Ottoman Empire in 1705; of a heart attack; in Tunis...
...with whom Ben Bella has most in common are the top military lead ers of the F.L.N. army units stationed in Tunisia and Morocco. Unlike the 70,000 F.L.N. guerrillas inside Algeria-most of whom seemed loyal to Benkhedda-the Tunisian and Moroccan detachments have done little fighting against the French. They are uniformed and disciplined men. armed with Russian and Czech weapons, indoctrinated by Marxist commissars...
...Tunisia, President Habib Bourguiba promised that Jews would be allowed to practice their religion in peace: "While I am alive, not a hair on Jewish heads will be touched." But Tunisian Jews are trapped in the cold war between Israel and the Arab states. Bourguiba's government has disbanded even Jewish religious organizations on the ground that they promote Zionism, and Jews fear that other Arab countries could force Tunisia to impose restrictions upon them...
...final days before the cease-fife, the French and Algerians were fighting an artillery and air battle along the Tunisian border. Probable reason: the F.L.N. wanted to show that it was fighting to the last...