Word: saharan
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...Hamou's nationalists and tribesmen were moving fast. Now calling themselves the new Saharan Army of Liberation, they appeared at Edchera, near Aiun, in the midst of a blinding sandstorm, launched a fierce attack on its garrison of Spanish soldiers and Legionnaires. It was the most murderous battle since the 1934 French "pacification" campaign. The Spanish claimed the Moroccans fled, leaving 241 corpses and 20 camels. The communiqué also listed 51 Legionnaires dead, but a knowing Madrid source indicated that total Legion casualties almost equaled the Moroccan dead...
...uprising that launched the rebellion, Ouamrane has a reputation for savage ferocity, is currently coordinating military activities on the increasingly important "Sahara front," where last week rebels attacked a party of French oil prospectors and killed 24. "Remember," said one FLN leader, "that even a minor Saharan incident will shake French and foreign-oil interests abroad." Ouamrane's chief of staff is bespectacled Belkacem Krim, 35, a ruthless, fearless former French army NCO who has been sentenced to death four times. Under him are Abdellah ben Tobbal, a 34-year-old ex-miller who is known as "The Chinaman...
...long struggle with Algerian rebellion, the French have always felt confident of the loyalty of the Shamba tribesmen who make up the bulk of France's elite Saharan Camel Corps. The Shamba, each of whom owns and cares for his own camels (two for riding, one for supplies), earned high honors during World War II for their support of General Leclerc in his march across Africa...
...Morocco. To get their iron and copper out of Mauritania and western Algeria, they would like to go through Morocco, and to do that they need good relations with the kingdom they recently freed. Fortnight ago the Moroccan government officially asked France to negotiate on the future of the Saharan frontier. Last week Si Allal el Fassi brought out the first edition of a 16-page weekly propaganda sheet, called The Moroccan Sahara, dedicated to freeing "our Sahara...
...desert. Never did he falter in hatred of the Italians who had cruelly dispersed his people and turned their holy city of Girabub into a fort. Over cups of China tea flavored with mint (Senussi Moslems may not touch alcohol or coffee), His Eminence entertained intriguing envoys from remote Saharan oases, helped recruit Senussi scouts and guerrillas for World War II's Battles of Libya, talked over with his British backers prospects of his return to Girabub...