Word: hassi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Inconclusive Claims. Amidst the talk, shooting continued along the ill-defined border of the Western Sahara. Back and forth went the battle for two tiny desert wells that each side claimed as its own, Hassi Beida and Tinjoub. As the Algerian troops inched forward across the windswept, desolate battlefield, it appeared to one Bible-versed correspondent that men were "as trees walking."* The Algerians had no radios; orders were simply shouted back and forth, echoing clearly across the valley to the Moroccans. "Hey, Mohammed, give them a blast with the 75 recoilless rifle. That's right...
Meal Ticket. Finally, after a border skirmish earlier this month in which Algerian troops killed ten Moroccan soldiers, Hassan mobilized his crack, 35,000-man royal army. The immediate military targets were two tiny, desolate outposts: Hassi Beida, little more than a water hole and a few palm trees perched on a stony hill, and Tin-joub, a mud-walled fort seven miles to the east. One day last week a battalion of 1,000 Moroccan infantry armed with bazookas, recoilless cannon and heavy machine guns stormed both outposts, seized them after a four-hour battle in which at least...
...house in a bleak suburb of Buenos Aires, Argentina, is heavily shuttered, its garden stifled by weeds. But it is home to Veronika Eichmann, widow of Nazi Criminal Adolf Eichmann. Last week, just a year after her husband's death, home she came with son Hassi, 7, from an unnamed hiding place in Western Germany. Barricaded once more behind the white-painted walls, Frau Eichmann and family (her son Dieter, his wife and child) remain in isolation, screaming at intruders, "Leave us alone! Haven't we suffered enough?" Their nearest neighbors merely shrug. "Eichmann built them a prison...
...desert at Edjelé and Hassi Mes-saoud, well-paid, sun-blackened oilmen live in air-conditioned bungalows, splash about in swimming pools-and work in temperatures up to 130°. The 70 Saharan wells already producing are expected to pump 20 million tons of oil this year through two new pipelines to the coast. The $2 billion invested thus far, by a combination of French government and private capital, is expected to produce enough oil to meet all of France's needs...