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Here and there the floods left a boon. On the Kairouan plain, 80 miles south of Tunis, a three-foot layer of soil was washed away, uncovering a sizable Roman village. Inland lakes eight miles wide were created by rainfalls of 16 inches in 24 hours. The lakes are now draining down to raise the water table, and farmers are assured of at least four years of well-watered soil. Most important, the rains that battered 80% of Tunisia bypassed coastal resort areas whose hotels account for $40 million in tourist revenues annually. Even so, cancellations already total...
...menu listed such delicacies as Saliva of the Arab Rivers (consomme), Pearls of Kuwait and Casablanca (potatoes), Baby Lambs of Nejd and Kairouan, and concluded with Jewels of Jericho (fruit), and Aroma of Yemen (coffee...
...sudden a plane bursts into flames and comes down. I saw six shot down in one raid outside Bizerte. . . ." Some things have been especially diffi cult for her. One ("The worst moment I've ever had in my life") happened at a hospital in Kairouan. Bob Hope asked her to sing for a young pilot in bed with a sheet tucked up to his chin. He suggested Night and Day or That Old Black Magic...
Fondouk was a lesson to the 34th Division. The task at Fondouk, 90 miles north of El Guettar, was much the same as it had been in the south: to clear the mountains guarding a pass, force the pass and spread out on the plain to Kairouan. Those who watched a brigade of Guards take the dominant hill north of Fondouk in half an hour, who later saw the British armor plunge through a 450-yard-deep minefield covered by twelve anti-tank guns and speed for Kairouan, felt that there was something essentially wrong with the 34th, which...
...sortie is a single attack by a single plane). The next day more than 1,000 were made. The offensive was the greatest the whole North African theater had seen. Allied supremacy advanced with the ground troops, as they captured important Axis fields at Sousse, El Djem and Kairouan...