Word: haik
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ahmed wouldn't agree to support the new regime. All to no avail. One night last week, when Djamila, other relatives, and neighbors trooped homeward, the group also included an extra, heavily cloaked figure in a Moslem woman's head-to-foot white haik. Friendly guards looked the other way. Before Boumedienne got the word several hours later, Aït Ahmed had been whisked to the coast ten miles away and put on a yacht bound for Europe...
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