Word: arabization
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...French cut off the medina with three cordons of troops, through which no Arab could escape. Inside the medina were detachments of Foreign Legionnaires, colonial infantry with tanks, barefoot Berber goumiers, whose hatred of the Arabs is legendary, and French police from whose wrists swung weighted truncheons. Police men, working with maps, split the medina into half a dozen sectors. Then the legionnaires, working systematically, began breaking down the doors of every house...
...scores and wounded hundreds. In Tunisia, where French paratroopers are engaged against nationalist guerrillas, French Premier Mendès-France was trying to head off revolt with a belated promise of home rule. Evenin Algeria, a part of metropolitan France and the home of 1,000,000 Frenchmen, the Arab population (8,000,000) is rumbling with discontent...
...Twice, Arab extremists have tried to assassinate Ben Arafa; he no longer stirs from his palace in Rabat. The French, in turn, have outlawed the moderate Istiqlal, jailed 5,000 of its members (whom they could catch more easily than the terrorists), and have come close to turning Morocco into a colonial police state. From these events came the violence that shook Morocco last week...
...outfit and maintain its Middle East forces. But during this time the Suez base must be staffed not by the military but by civilian technicians, under a private contractor. ¶Britain's troops may return to Suez and reactivate the entire base if any of the eight Arab League states or Turkey is attacked...
...plan for Tunisia (which, if successful, he may try to adapt for Algeria and Morocco) emerged from ten days of intensive conferences. Mendès used his favorite method of conversations à deux-knocking heads together. This time he set up two-man meetings between French officials and Arab representatives of the Neo-Destour (or Tunisian Nationalist) Party. His most useful collaborator was the Arab's No. 1 nationalist, the ascetic-looking, white-haired Habib Bourguiba, 51, exiled leader of the Neo-Destour. In an adroit move Mendès transferred Bourguiba from lonely sequestration on an island...