Word: tente
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were not more casualties in Gaddafi's compound. Of the five bombers assigned to hit it, four dropped 16 laser-guided 2,000-lb. Paveways. The bombs cratered the compound, blew out windows and caved in a wall or two, but they did not flatten any buildings. Gaddafi's tent was still standing, only slightly grazed by a fallen utility pole...
Gaddafi's cause and the means with which he pursues it are the result of his desert youth, his early military training and his scattered reading of utopian and anarchist writers. His father was an illiterate Bedouin shepherd, and Gaddafi was born in a goatskin tent in the desert near Surt. "The desert teaches you to rely on yourself," Gaddafi has written. "The values I learned there have remained with me all my life...
...demonstrate the point, his retinue has been known to include female bodygards toting submachine guns. He lives in a small boxcar of a house, no different / from the spartan homes of the other military men at the well-fortified Bab el- Azizia barracks. He keeps a tent outside, and it is underneath its cloth top that he appears to feel truly at home. He has a piece of bread and a glass of camel's milk for breakfast, a regimen he has kept since he was a boy. He says he likes Western classical music, especially Beethoven, and that...
...military assistance to Sudan, more than to any other African nation except Egypt. While Suwar al Dahab has been friendly with the U.S., he has re- established ties to Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi, who also supplies the government with military aid. "The camel has got his nose under the tent," observes one Western diplomat. "If they are not careful, the Sudanese will become dominated by Libya...
...seemed last week as if all of France was on the campaign trail. Beneath a tent on a mud-covered field outside Paris, the French Communists dined on sausage, beer and angry denunciations of the country's 10.1% unemployment rate. Meanwhile, in a carpeted convention center on the other side of the city, the far-right National Front feasted on smoked ham, wine and heated accusations of "foreign submersion," a veiled reference to France's burgeoning community of North African immigrants...