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In his 76th year, a full decade after most businessmen retire, Hilton is busy spotting the world with hotels wherever the U.S. tourist and businessman alight, girding the globe with new links in the longest hotel chain ever made. Already this year, Hilton has opened new hotels in Teheran, London...
But last week, in a shouting, gesticulating speech in the vast Casbah Square of Tunis, Bourguiba said it was "surprising" to discover that Algeria has "become a residence for criminals and plotters against the government of Tunisia." He seemed mostly upset by the fact that Algeria has refused to extradite...
The plotters actually made two attempts on Bourguiba's life. The first try failed on Dec. 15 because Bourguiba did not spend the night at his Presidential Palace at Carthage, near Tunis. The plotters next laid their plans for midnight. Dec. 21, and even Bourguiba's personal bodyguard...
Died. Sidi Mohammed al-Amin, 81, last of the 19 Beys of Tunis, a spade-bearded figurehead given to gilt-encrusted uniforms and tinkering with his 2,000 grandfather clocks, who sat as France's puppet king from 1943 until 1957 when the new Tunisian republic ousted him-and...
The most powerful force in the A.L.N. is former Army Chief of Staff Colonel Houari Boumedienne, 37, a gaunt, chainsmoking ascetic who wears no insignia on his ill-fitting khaki uniform. One of the best-educated men in the F.L.N., Boumedienne attended the two finest Moslem universities, al-Azhar in...