Word: sidi
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...plane approached Tunis, where it was scheduled to take on more medical supplies, the control tower of Tunis-Carthage Airport diverted it to the Sidi Ahmed military airbase at Bizerte, about 40 miles away. The following day, after spending the night in a nearby hotel, Marable returned to his plane to discover that he had 105,000 Ibs. of cargo aboard-15,000 Ibs. more than the plane is certified to carry. The pilot could see immediately that the new cargo contained weapons and ammunition. He explained to his passengers that he needed to make some repairs...
...disbanded First Parachute Regiment joined the generals' putsch against Charles de Gaulle. After De Gaulle accorded Algeria its independence in 1962, the legionnaires disinterred their most illustrious dead from their desert graves and transported their pink Saharan granite Monument aux Morts from 118-year-old headquarters in Sidi bel-Abbés in Algeria to metropolitan France, together with their battle-worn flags, standards, regimental colors and a multitude of medals and decorations. These tokens of the legion's past now repose at its new headquarters at Aubagne, ten miles east of Marseilles...
...fatigue, Fischer's trip had its compensations. "The Arab tradition of hospitality," he says, "is alive and well. When we arrived at Sidi Jabir railroad station in Alexandria, members of the press were each presented with a fresh flower by gracious Egyptian girls. At the Alexandria Sporting Club, we were plied with Arab pastries and cool glasses of lemonade." Egyptian crowds all along the route cheered wildly for the two Presidents and directed huzzas at the press corps riding by-until recently a rare experience for Americans in Egypt...
...Where else but in South Carolina would a congressional candidate named Julian Sidi Limehouse III campaign in red, white and blue tennis sneakers? Yet Limehouse, 33, a Republican cattleman, is certainly considered more progressive than his opponent, Incumbent Democratic Representative Mendel J. Davis, 29, godson of Mendel Rivers, the late autocratic chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. Davis is banking on the "Mendel mystique" and his role as protector of the military installations that were his godfather's legacy to the district. Limehouse, who goes about coatless and tieless and shows up at Democratic rallies to hand...
...leave no trace." With the deaths of the King, three of his children and his only brother, Prince Moulay Abdullah-all of whom were on the plane-Oufkir would have had dictatorial powers as head of a regency in the name of nine-year-old Crown Prince Sidi Mohammed. In fact, he had planned to pick up the child, who was vacationing in the mountains, immediately after the attack...