Word: sidi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...market day, and the streets of Sakiet-Sidi-Youssef, a Tunisian village only 700 yards from the Algerian border, were thronged. Shortly before noon, a flight of 25 French military aircraft-mostly U.S.-made fighters and light bombers-swept over the border. In precise military formation, they bombed the town, strafed the streets with machine-gun fire. When the planes turned back to their Algerian bases an hour later, the scabrous little village was a shambles. Nearly 80 dead and 79 wounded were recovered from the rubble. A school was bombed out and 34 children buried in the ruins...
...months of fighting, irregulars of the Moroccan Liberation Army, under the leadership of a squat ex-Marrakech street vendor named Ben Hamou, have driven the Spanish out of most of their Atlantic Coast enclave of Ifni. Ifni is not much but rocky rubble and scrub, but its single city, Sidi Ifni (pop. 10,000), has been used by the Spanish as the seat of the governor of all its desert provinces-Ifni, Rio de Oro, Spanish Sahara, as well as the part of southern Morocco that they have continued to rule on the ground that King Mohammed's government...
...that the Spanish garrison at Ifni had taken a beating. The first official casualty list enumerated 62 dead, more than 100 wounded. The government admitted that the Spanish defenders had abandoned the frontier outposts to the invading Moroccan irregulars, and had drawn back to regroup around the town of Sidi Ifni itself. Farther south in the Spanish Sahara, the Moroccan Liberation Army announced an offensive on Al Auin, declared that five desert outposts had been "liberated," with Spanish losses of 120 dead...
Long Live Death. In their first thrust the black-turbaned, khaki-uniformed irregulars swept into Sidi Ifni itself, a small (pop. 10,000) fishing town of unpaved streets. They slaughtered a score of sleeping Spanish sentries and made off with some trucks and mules. The Spanish, who last month jailed a few local Moslems for demonstrating in favor of King Mohammed, had quietly reinforced the Ifni garrison with several hundred paratroopers and Foreign Legionnaires. Shouting their battle cry of "Long Live Death," the Legionnaires led a counterattack into the hills that drove most of the invaders back across the frontier...
...week's end the fighting between Moroccan nationalists and Spanish colonial forces had spread south to the Spanish Sahara. Moroccan newspapers reported nationalist attacks on a village at the mouth of the Saguia el Hamra (Red River) and Spanish bombing raids on the inland villages of Smara and Sidi Ahmed el Aroussi; more than 200 Moroccans were reported killed...