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Arab Leaders Meet in Cairo Today on Bourguiba’s Proposals on Israel

April 28, 1965
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Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba’s recent public efforts to induce the Arab countries to recognize Israel and to negotiate peace will be the principal topic on the agenda of a meeting of top Arab leaders in Cairo tomorrow, it was reported here today from the Egyptian capital.

The original purpose of the meeting had been preparation of an agenda for the Arab Premier’s meeting in May in Cairo. Crown Prince Hassan of Jordan, now visiting Britain, declared here today that the Arab world did not agree with the Tunisian President’s proposals.

Protests against the hostile Arab reaction to those proposals sparked an attack today by some 20,000 Tunisian demonstrators against the Egyptian and other Arab embassies in Tunis. The demonstrators hurled stones and bottles of ink at the Egyptian Embassy while shouting “Death to Nasser,” the President of Egypt. Nasser was ridiculed by a drawing of a camel with Nasser’s head on it, which was planted on the Embassy grounds as troops and police struggled to control the demonstrators.

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