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Assembly President Mangi Slim Family. Born Sept. 15, 1908, in Tunis, Mongi Slim (pronounced Monjee Sleem) is an improbable cross-breed of Mediterranean civilizations: Greek, Turkish and Arab. One great-grandfather, a Greek named Kafkalas, was captured as a boy by pirates, sold as a mameluke (white slave) to the...
Aware that they stood a good chance of being captured, Taylor and Gardiner wore their uniforms lest they be shot as spies. The two men transferred from a British PT boat to an Italian corvette and were put ashore in the port of Gaeta. They made the 75-mile trip...
We Will Die. This twist of the tiger's tail was one too many. With a savagery that stunned the Tunisians, the French struck back. Jet airplanes thundered down on roadblocks, blasting them with rockets. Tunisian troops, armed with rifles and light machine guns, were flattened under barrages from...
Help to Rebels. A.F.L.-C.I.O. pours considerable sums of its own into Africa, last year put up $54,000 toward a new Nairobi headquarters building (Solidarity House) for Mboya's Kenya Federation of Labor, subsidized Harvard scholarships for several African students, recently allocated another $330,000 to help African...
On leaving Tunis last week, Belkacem Krim was agreeably surprised when representatives of the U.S. and British embassies were at the airport to see him off, thus reflecting the F.L.N.'s swift change from a pariah to a recognized organization. On landing in Geneva, Belkacem was welcomed by the...