Word: ammar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fedayeen taxi driver (and gave him $20), to take me to the 'secret headquarters' of Abu Ammar [code name of Arafat]. To my surprise, he did. Four hours later, by an olive grove, I watched the Fatah leader transact business with two dozen runners, shake the hands of wounded soldiers, and shared a slit trench with...
Married. Habib Bourguiba, 58, mercurial President of Tunisia; and Ouassila Ben Ammar, 49, plump onetime street fighter for Tunisia's 1956-granted independence and part of the presidential entourage ever since; both for the second time; in the House of Happiness, the President's palace in La Marsa, Tunisia. Bourguiba thoughtfully awarded his nation's top honor, the Order of Independence, to his first wife, French-born Mathilde Laurin, 72, after he divorced her last year...