Word: tunision
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Aztec. A beetle-browed 200-pounder whose suits seem a size too small, 46-year-old Jacques Soustelle is well suited for his wrecker's work; he looks like an able-bodied warehouseman who has unaccountably wandered into the National Assembly from Les Halles markets. In reality, he...
The players did not seem especially heroic. Mustapha Zitouni, who had been scheduled to play for France in an international match against Switzerland, said glumly in Tunis: "I have many friends in France, but the problem is bigger than us. What do you do if your country is at war...
Striding into Tunis' ornate Constituent Assembly Hall to commemorate Tunisian Independence Day-the deadline for his threatened decision to lead Tunisia into neutralism or Nasserism unless the U.S. and Britain took his part against France-Bourguiba briskly reversed his field, declared, "We tell our Arab and Oriental brothers: We...
The Old Explanation. In Paris French Premier Felix Gaillard, apparently unfazed by the disaffection of one of France's few remaining supporters in North Africa, promptly made matters worse. Racked by lumbago, Gaillard painfully hauled himself to the National Assembly, won his tenth vote of confidence (286 to 147...
But after flying on to Tunis, the tall, imperturbable U.S. troubleshooter scarcely had time to recover from a bout of airsickness before President Bourguiba was trying to persuade him that "it is up to U.S. leadership to convince France that the Algerian war is not profitable." Within 30 minutes of...