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Died. Field Marshal Earl Alexander of Tunis, 77, World War II hero and one of the great figures of British military history; of a rupture of the aorta; in Slough, England. Though Montgomery was more popular, Alexander was judged by many to be the outstanding Allied general of the war...
Sir: This likeness of the Emperor Vespasian [979 A.D.] from the Bardo Museum in Tunis, may well interest any of your Texas readers who are themselves concerned with their place in history.
As Bourguiba's admiring silent partner, the U.S. gives more per capita assistance to Tunisia (pop. 4,460,000) than to any other African state. This fiscal year American aid will reach $62 million-mostly in Food for Peace. Though politically pro-West, Bourguiba also welcomes Communist aid: the...
The fever was high enough already. Cascading around the U.S. embassies and cultural centers in Cairo, Baghdad, Beirut, Damascus, Benghazi, Tunis, Algiers, Amman and Khartoum, the ever-ready Arab mobs screamed obscenities. Windows were shattered in the Lebanese and Syrian U.S. embassies, and official cars-ignited by the mobs-burned...
Tunisia's Habib Bourguiba has long been the Arab world's loudest cham pion of women's rights. In 1956, when Tunisia won its independence, Bourguiba abolished polygamy, made it harder for men to get divorces, and gave women their first, real legal rights. He looked on...