Word: tunisians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shouting, gesticulating speech in the vast Casbah Square of Tunis, Bourguiba said it was "surprising" to discover that Algeria has "become a residence for criminals and plotters against the government of Tunisia." He seemed mostly upset by the fact that Algeria has refused to extradite one Boubeker Mustafi, a Tunisian accused of being party to the Christmas assassination plot against Bourguiba (TIME, Jan. 4), for which 13 Tunisians have been condemned to death...
...dedicated Tunisian nationalist, President Habib Bourguiba, 59, is a popular hero to most of the millions who have followed him since independence was won in 1956. But Bourguiba also has his deadly enemies. Last week a determined group of the latter almost succeeded in assassinating Tunisia's stocky chieftain...
...Replacement. A few hours before midnight, a Tunisian army non-com burst in upon a Defense Ministry official and blurted the details of the plot. That night, and on following days, more than a hundred plotters were jailed. They proved to be a handful of dissident army officers and some disgruntled landowners. But the hard core seemed to be supporters of Bourguiba's old foe, the late Salah ben Youssef, who lost a bitter struggle for control of Neo-Destour, Tunisia's only political party, and went into exile in 1955. When Ben Youssef was murdered in West...
Specialists' Books. Art books, though generally considered all-purpose gifts, are more properly put into the specialist classification. Merely because a person has been heard to praise Van Gogh is no reason to give him an expensive work on Tunisian mosaics (the New York Graphic Society puts out an excellent Tunisian collection at $18, and if legs were offered as an optional extra, it would make a serviceable coffee table). Among the category's best : GREAT DRAWINGS OF ALL TIME (four volumes), edited by Ira Moskowitz (2,000 pp.; Shorewood; $160). The title is accurate, the selection intelligent...
Died. Sidi Mohammed al-Amin, 81, last of the 19 Beys of Tunis, a spade-bearded figurehead given to gilt-encrusted uniforms and tinkering with his 2,000 grandfather clocks, who sat as France's puppet king from 1943 until 1957 when the new Tunisian republic ousted him-and his seven dwarf jesters-from his palace, thus ending a 252-year dynasty originally set up by the Turkish masters of the Ottoman Empire in 1705; of a heart attack; in Tunis...