Word: tunision
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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You-You-You. On the morning of the third day out, the fleet dropped anchor in the Bay of Tunis, and Ike and his party buzzed by helicopter to the Tunis suburb of La Marsa, just north of the old Punic ruins of Carthage. There, on a small asphalt lot...
Summoning newsmen to a dingy press office on Tunis' Rue des Entrepreneurs, Rebel Press Spokesman Ahmed Boumendjel announced that his "government" was agreeable to negotiations with France "to discuss the conditions and applications" of the self-determination vote that De Gaulle has promised Algeria. The rebels even named their...
Though phrased to sound like an acceptance, the rebel reply amounted to a rejection of De Gaulle's terms-which specified that the negotiations be confined to arrangements for a ceasefire, and should not include discussion of Algeria's political future. But what gave the rebel announcement an...
¶ Added meetings with Tunisia's President Bourguiba, the West's warmest friend in North Africa, and Spain's Generalissimo Franco to his tightly scheduled, 20,000-mile grand tour (TIME, Nov. 16); the President will invite Bourguiba aboard the cruiser Des Moines for an afternoon'...
Law School before joining the Foreign Service after World War I. As he rose through the corps, putting out diplomatic fires from North Africa to Berlin, from Trieste to Panmunjom, Suez, Tunis and Lebanon (TIME cover, Aug. 25, 1958), 3,400 Foreign Service pros came to look upon him as...