Word: tunisians
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...President Bourguiba has been trying to get the French to equip his fledgling army. His 6,000 men had only 3,000 rifles and less than three rounds of ammunition per man. Successive French governments, arguing that Bourguiba was giving aid and comfort to the Algerian rebels, stalled the Tunisians off. Last September, after French forces in Algeria invoked "the right of hot pursuit" and began to follow fleeing Algerian rebels into Tunisian territory, Bourguiba publicly appealed to the U.S. for arms...
LONDON, Nov. 21--Prime Minister MacMillan announced today he will go to Paris Monday to see Premier Felix Gaillard. Plainly his mission will be to smooth ruffled British-French relations. MacMillan told the House of Commons he and Gaillard will discuss the Tunisian arms mixup and next month's summit meeting of NATO powers...
Some American sources admit privately it it possible some arms may fall into rebel hands despite Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba's pledges to the contrary...
...bands which have long operated in and out of neighboring Morocco and Tunisia. Last week on Algeria's eastern border, a patrol of the French Army's 26th Motorized Infantry Regiment, ambushed by a small band of Algerian guerrillas, chased its attackers 300 yards inside Tunisia. When Tunisian troops tried to intervene, the French killed six Tunisians as well as six Algerians. In response to an indignant protest from the Tunisian government, French Commander in Chief in Algeria, General Raoul Salan (who once commanded the troops that lost Indo-China), coldly announced that henceforth his troops would exercise...
Last week Tunisian ambassadors from all over the world were summarily recalled to Tunis. After meeting with them and with the executive committee of his own ruling Neo-Destour Party, Bourguiba called a special session of the nation's Constituent Assembly. In a hall from which the Bey's old throne had disappeared, the governing body of Tunisia voted unanimously to 1) do away with the monarchy, 2) establish a republic, 3) make Habib Bourguiba its first President. "Because of the affection of the people for me," Bourguiba said cockily, "I could have myself declared...