Word: tunision
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nairobi police were waiting at the airport with a search warrant last week when Kenya's 28-year-old Tom Mboya got off the plane after a trip to the U.S. to receive an honorary degree at Howard University in Washington, D.C. For 2½ hours, as Mboya stood...
Died. General Sir Kenneth Arthur Noel Anderson, 67, India-born World War II commander of the British First Army, who led his fellow veterans of Dunkirk across North Africa from the west, captured Tunis in 1943; of pneumonia; in Gibraltar, where he had served as governor and commander in chief...
Fortnight ago, summoned to a staff conference on how to counter the French army's increasingly aggressive tactics, Amirouche and two aides began the long hike to rebel headquarters in Tunis. They never got there. Acting on a tip, 3,000 French troops surrounded a craggy mountain where Amirouche...
Last week both sides did say something. At a press conference in Tunis, big, stoop-shouldered M'hammed Yazid, "Minister of Information" in the rebels' provisional government, stepped forward. "We regret to declare." he announced, "that the provisional government of the Algerian Republic does not presently see any...
All along the 1200-mile arc from Casablanca to Tunis last week, people-Arabs and French alike-mourned the sorry state of things with the same cliché: Nous sommes dépassés par les événements (We are outstripped by events). As long as the...