Word: tunisians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...deadly instrument of interpellations (questions in debate). The technique was to pop a question at a minister, then toss in a series of motions, and demand a debate and a vote on every single one of them. As perfected in the 1952 debate that stymied the Tunisian reform program of Premier Pinay's government, this method of ministerial massacre has been known ever since as " Tunisification...
Bradley graduated from West Point in 1915, in the same class as President Eisenhower. During the Second World War, he had several different combat commands in the European Theater of Operations. He led the Second Army Corps in the Tunisian and Sicilian campaigns, and commanded the First Army in the Normandy operations...
Elected to France's Assembly, Néfissa Sid Cara pored over recent Tunisian and Moroccan codes that have liberalized the rights of women; she consulted religious authorities and legal experts; she agitated in Paris. Last week Néfissa's reforms, having been approved as one of the last of 300 decrees issued before the De Gaulle government's four-month emergency powers expired, became law. Only the Moslem Mozabite sect, whose 40,000 members are not quite ready to be yanked out of the Middle Ages, was exempted from it. For the rest of Algeria...