Thirteen heads of state were invited to last week's Arab League Meeting in Casablanca, but only twelve showed up. The absentee was Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba, who sent his regrets in the form of a 10,000-word memo randum intended to torpedo, if not the whole affair, at least its main personality, Egypt's Abdel Gamal Nasser.
Bourguiba has made no secret of his unhappiness with Nasser's efforts at singlehanded domination not only of the League but of most other Arab matters as well. But never before had he been so brutally frank; when...
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