Making Money

When France devalued the franc, newly independent Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba saw a chance to make a little money--and a little propaganda. By the end of the year, said Bourguiba last week. Tunisia will abandon the French franc and issue its own currency, thereby freeing itself from a "policy dominated by instability and by the requirements of a war [in Algeria] whose end cannot be seen."

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