Word: tunisia
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...TUNISIA. The country most likely to be shaken by the vote in Algeria is neighboring Tunisia, which also held municipal and regional elections last week. Unlike that in Algeria, Tunisia's Islamic movement, Ennahdha, was banned from fielding candidates. That decision no doubt stemmed from the strong fundamentalist showing in legislative elections in April 1989, when Islamic militants, running as independents, took about 12% of the vote. The ruling party of President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali claimed last week that it had garnered 99% of the vote -- hardly a democratic outcome...
...comes naturally: as a boy, he wrote for The Log of the West Wind, the paper at his summer camp, and he was later sports editor for the Harvard Crimson. After graduating with a degree in American history, he joined the Peace Corps and taught English in Libya and Tunisia. Columbia Law School followed, and in 1976 Marshall joined TIME...