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...flipping on their radios heard startling news. The regime of Habib Bourguiba, ruler of Tunisia since the country gained its independence from France in 1956 and President-for-Life since 1975, had come to an abrupt end. After carrying out a bloodless takeover in the predawn hours, Prime Minister Zine al Abidine ben Ali took to the airwaves at 6:30 to declare that Bourguiba, 84, had been ousted. Citing a constitutional provision allowing the President to be removed if he is incapacitated, the Prime Minister claimed that a team of seven doctors had examined Bourguiba, who suffers from arteriosclerosis...
Last week Bourguiba ensured that the pressure on dissenters will continue when he abruptly sacked his Prime Minister and replaced him with Interior Minister Zine al Abidine ben Ali, who has led the crackdown on the fundamentalists. "You will not see any steps toward greater pluralism now," / commented one worried Western diplomat. Indeed, Bourguiba has knocked out his opposition so effectively that many fear there is now no credible successor, and that when he dies the radical fundamentalists will leap to fill the political void...
While refusing to comment on Radcliffe's new guidelines, Blumenthal said the Sullivan Principles should not be the "zine quanon" in deciding whether or not to invest. "There are a number of problems I would see in using the Sullivan Principles at go, no-go guide," he added...
Harper's (circ. 325,000) had been on the block for nearly a year. Religious and other special-interest groups made inquiries but were turned away as unsuitable owners; other prospective buyers were unwilling to absorb the maga zine's hefty operating losses and its liability of $3 million in prepaid subscriptions. Editor Lewis H. Lapham and two partners failed in a last-hour rescue attempt...
Editor Campbell has set his sights am bitiously high. Except on an experimental basis. USA* 1 will not be sold on news stands, and will take full-page ads only ("more dignified"). Although the maga zine's opening subscription rate was a stiff $10 a year (it will rise to $15 in May), test mail solicitations pulled some 125,000 charter subscribers. Those who signed up should feel little pain as they pay the high price of news-plus-history: according to a recent survey, their average income exceeds $26,000 a year...