Word: tunisian
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...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...
...will then be open for Bourguiba and his allies to act as neutral observers in Algeria's eventual vote on self-determination, thus giving the F.L.N. rebels "serious guarantees" that it will be a fair referendum. Then the F.L.N. could achieve power by peaceful political process. Explained a Tunisian official: "If De Gaulle's latest behavior reflects a sincere desire to decolonize Algeria-and we think it does-there will soon be no point in the F.L.N.'s carrying on a shooting war or receiving massive military aid from the Communists...
...clock, 200 nervous Colongolese troops arrived and deployed facing the embassy. TheTunisians, equally jittery, eyed them in the growing dusk. At 7:40, Lieut. Colonel Joseph N'Kokolo, second-ranking officer in the Congo army started across the street with the evident intention of conferring with the Tunisian commanding officer. This was the moment Police inspector N'Gampo chose to shout "Tirez: [Fire]!" A French-speaking Tunisian pulled the trigger of his submachine gun; the burst smashed into the chest of Colonel N'Kokolo, killing him instantly. Both sides wildly opened fire, and, in the first exchange...
...Bottle. For twelve hours the chatter of automatic weapons was punctuated by the deeper thud of shells from Congolese armored cars. Pitch-darkness and bad marksmanship limited the casualties to one Tunisian and four Congolese dead, eleven Tunisians and 30 Congolese wounded. With morning, firing finally stopped, and British General Henry Alexander, commander in chief of the Ghanaian army, appeared...