Word: tunisian
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...threadbare, third-floor suite of rooms on a Paris back street, Tunisian Premier Habib Bourguiba told U.S. Ambassador to France C. Douglas Dillon that 400,000 unemployed Tunisians face starvation after two years of poor harvest. Tunisia, said Bourguiba, needs wheat fast. Dillon is keenly aware that France often resents U.S. aid and similar "interference" in North Africa. Had Bourguiba discussed his problem with the French government? Oh yes, said Bourguiba, it was the French Finance Minister, Paul Ramadier, who suggested that Tunisia should put the bite...
...boldly challenged ancient Rome for world supremacy. Now, in long subjected Tunisia, a new nation was being born. Opening the inaugural sessions, the spade-bearded, well-tailored old Bey of Tunis gracefully bowed to the new spirit of democracy, dispensed with the traditional custom which once decreed that every Tunisian present should kiss his hand in token of submission...
...triumph and new post, Bourguiba would need all his prestige. In the south, extremists led from Libya by Salah ben Youssef and backed by Egypt defied the new nation's authority, organized sporadic terror bombings against the Neo-Destour leadership. Next week Tunisian delegates headed by Bourguiba himself will fly to Paris to thresh out the final terms of "interdependence" with France...
...full and sole responsibility" for Tunisia's internal order, complete control of its own diplomatic service. Also, though Bourguiba concedes that Tunisia is too poor to pay for its own defense and can neither live or defend itself without French help, he strongly objects to a French-led Tunisian army patterned on the Arab Legion in Jordan...
...trucks loaded with French recruits rumbled through a narrow pass in the Nemencha Mountains near the Tunisian border. In this ideal ambush terrain, a murderous hail of bullets burst from the cliffs above them. Two officers and 21 men were killed. The survivors jumped down, sought cover and fought back. Four hours later helicopters thrashed overhead. Each disgorged five men as reinforcements, picked up the wounded, flew off to return with a new load. For five days last week the battle raged as French troops and paratroopers tried to root the rebels out of caves in the cliffs. At battle...