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...same markets?the Middle East, Latin America and their former African colonies. Last year the French clearly pulled ahead of the British, selling $3 billion in war materiel to some 80 nations, ranging from submarines for the navies of Spain, Portugal, Pakistan and South Africa to daggers for Tunisian commando units. The best-selling French items: various models of the Mirage supersonic fighters, the agile and swift AMX tanks, Alouette helicopters and radar-guided Exocet antiship missiles...
...down on dissidents responsible for the skyjacking of a British Airways VC-10 whose crew and passengers were released earlier in the week. The four Arabs who had seized the plane to obtain the release of Palestinian prisoners and also embarrass the more moderate P.L.O. were detained in a Tunisian jail. P.L.O. agents swooped down elsewhere to grab 26 other dissidents. They were accused of supporting a breakaway group called "the Arab Nationalist Youth Organization for the Liberation of Palestine," which opposes any settlement short of destruction of Israel...
...friendly homage that devotees of the book will like as much as Donen's fidelity to the fragile spirit of the original. He has in fact pulled off a rather difficult challenge. The visual style of the film is lush (parts were photographed in the southern Tunisian desert), but there are no big production numbers, since there are never more than two characters on-screen at once. The Little Prince is thus something in the way of a gentle coup, a musical of both ebullience and intimacy...
Then Bourguiba indefinitely postponed the referendum that was to ratify the unification. Finally, an official Tunisian communique stated that unity with Libya could come only by "stages" and after renewed negotiations-conditions that in effect consigned the project to limbo...
...these is Masmoudi, a personal friend of Gaddafi's, who favors many of the Libyan leader's pro-Arab, anti-Western sentiments. Masmoudi advocated unification with Libya, and most likely saw it as a means of improving his own position in the Tunisian power struggle. At week's end, evidence of political difficulties within Tunisia mounted as soldiers occupied key Tunis intersections. Premier Hedi Nouira, a rival of Masmoudi's and a foe of unification, described the troop movements as a "precaution." They were probably meant to discourage Tunisian youth, many of whom admire Gaddafi, from...