Word: tunisians
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sorts, over issues of a sort, was being fought last week by two countries who were sort of friends the day before hostilities. Tunisia and France, joined in the dubious nostalgia of ex-colony and motherland, were firing at each other on Tunisian soil and exchanging bitter charges in the august echo chamber of the United Nations Security Council...
There was every sign that nobody was more astonished than Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba at what he had touched off. True enough, he had some provocation. After giving Tunisia independence in 1956, and promising to negotiate the future of the great Bizerte naval airbase, France has since refused to budge. Then Bourguiba learned that the French, instead of preparing to leave, were planning to lengthen the airstrip...
That was outrage enough for Bourguiba to organize a stylized, Arab-type demonstration. Orators wailed that Tunisians would fight to remove the last remnant of evil colonialism. Crowds ecstatically shouted for action. Roads to the base were blockaded, and Bourguiba warned the French to keep their planes out of Tunisian airspace. Barricades were erected at a safe distance from French outposts...
...Will Die. This twist of the tiger's tail was one too many. With a savagery that stunned the Tunisians, the French struck back. Jet airplanes thundered down on roadblocks, blasting them with rockets. Tunisian troops, armed with rifles and light machine guns, were flattened under barrages from 105-mm. howitzers. Evidently disregarding orders from Paris-a tradition with the French army-tanks and armored cars roared 15 miles outside the Bizerte base. Tanks sprayed bullets into the town of Menzel-Bourguiba, nine miles from Bizerte, where the French maintain an arsenal and shipyard. Soon there were 27 Tunisian...
...between such places as Tunis, Lagos. Salisbury, and Dakar. It was Brown, and other trade unionists like him, who offered many an African leader comfort and advice when they were considered dangerous subversives by their colonial mentors. For his efforts. French colonial officials once barred Brown from Algeria. A Tunisian rebel, released after arrest by the French in 1955, telephoned Brown the moment he was free: "I will be over to see you in a few minutes. I am free, thanks to you." His name: Habib Bourguiba, today President of Tunisia...