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...Habib Bourguiba, 80, declared a state of emergency...
...army troops in Jeeps and armored personnel carriers fanned out through the city to quell the "bread riot." The show of force finally brought an uneasy calm, but only after more than 50 demonstrators and bystanders were killed. Then, in a dramatic five-minute radio and television broadcast, Bourguiba announced that he was reversing the price hike. The cost of bread would drop immediately from 18? to 8?, he declared, while previous increases for such staples as pasta and flour would be reduced as well. "We are going back to where we were," he said, fervently hoping that...
...Bourguiba's quick policy reversal has allayed their resentment for the time being. Late last week Bourguiba also fired Interior Minister Idris Guigah, who called out the security forces in the riots. But in defusing the violence, Bourguiba also took a step backward in resolving Tunisia's long-term economic problems. The global recession and plummeting prices of crude oil, Tunisia's principal export, have reduced revenues. The food subsidies, which would have cost the government an estimated $236 million in 1984, were a sensible target for austerity measures and had been suggested...
...Tunisia, President Habib Bourguiba welcomed a contingent of 1,100 Palestinians who arrived Saturday by sea. The Tunisians had been busy last week erecting a tent village near Béja, 60 miles from Tunis, for the guerrillas. They were also refurbishing the Salwa Hotel at Borj Cedria, 16 miles southeast of the Tunisian capital, so that the tourist resort might serve as either a temporary or permanent headquarters for Yasser Arafat and 100 or more of his colleagues. The hotel contains a luxury suite for Arafat, a not altogether appropriate residence for a man of spartan taste who sometimes...
Libyan authorities expressed "astonishment" at the Tunisian charges. But hostility and distrust between the two countries have been simmering ever since Bourguiba abruptly backed out of a 1974 agreement to merge Tunisia with Libya in a single Islamic Arab Republic. According to Tunisian sources, Gaddafi continues to harbor a deep personal resentment over the incident, and has supported several previous attempts to engineer Bourguiba's downfall...