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...another villa, a few hundred yards away, Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba, the rebels' host and longtime ally, declared: "One must have faith. I believe De Gaulle has gone as far as he can go ... The F.L.N. would be displaying courage if it accepted his offer...
...common rice they ate (Laotians eat glutinous rice). Ten captured Pathet Lao rebels admitted that from one-third to one-half of their units were filled out by North Vietnamese. But when the Laotian government was unable to produce any North Viet Nam prisoners, the U.N. team (a Tunisian, a Japanese, an Italian and an Argentinian) was forced to conclude that it could "not clearly establish whether there were crossings of the frontier by regular troops of the Democratic Republic of [North] Viet...
Habib Bourguiba of Tunisia, who led his country to independence within the French Community, would be the ideal mediator, but can be little more than a tool of the F.L.N., because the armed Algerians in F.L.N. camps in Tunisia happen to outnumber the entire Tunisian army. Conversely, the French Army, though it is good for little else, is admirably equipped for the intimidation and control of metropolitan France...
...tight French defenses on the Morice Line had been partially flooded, and the rebels had slipped through them the day before from a Tunisian base camp, carrying money and supplies to reinforce rebels hiding in Algeria's Kabylie Mountains. They obviously hoped, by a bold stroke, to counter the growing impression (TIME, June 22) that the tide had turned against them in Algeria. But at dawn a French armored-car patrol spotted the rebels, and within an hour more than 3,000 French troops had encircled the tiny orange grove...
...that "however determined [French] operational forces may be, they must first make contact with us and force us to fight." The French point happily to the defensive tone of "force us to fight." In an effort to isolate the rebels, the French have increased their artillery firepower along the Tunisian border to the point where it is almost impossible for the rebels to get supplies and men across without enormous losses...