Word: fuad
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
During the early hours, the heaviest fighting was at the canal, where the Egyptian forces established east-bank bridgeheads in the area leading to the Gidi Pass and in the vicinity of Port Fuad and Ismailiya; the Ismailiya crossing near the center of the canal was dug in and causing the Israelis the greatest concern. The Egyptians also tried to land at Ras Sudr, but lost ten of their troop-carrying helicopters to the Israelis in the attempt; the copters each carried 30 to 40 men. Copters also landed commando units in the northern Sinai in an attempt...
...first leader was Ali Abu Iyad (real name Mohammed Mustafa Shyein), a deputy of Al Fatah Boss Yasser Arafat. Iyad was wounded, captured and executed in July 1971 after a firefight between guerrillas and Hussein's army. But probably the organization's best-known leader was Fuad Shemali, a Lebanese Christian who masterminded some of the group's earlier operations before he died of cancer last month. Shemali left posthumous instructions to the terrorists to concentrate on kidnaping Israelis held in high esteem by Israelis themselves. He mentioned scholars, scientists and athletes...
...tourists on a fishing trip, the Lotzes drove toward the camp and managed to get themselves arrested. "I was afraid they would simply send us away," says Lotz. "Fortunately, they took us straight into the base." Once there, Lotz talked the commandant into calling his old friend Brigadier General Fuad Osman, a highly placed Egyptian intelligence officer. The conversation, as Lotz recalls...
...made an abrupt switch at 60 to the music halls, where she delighted Paris with her naughty-haughty sketches of Mesdames DuBarry and Pompadour, all the while causing equally spectacular offstage tremors with her collection of celebrated admirers, which included Russia's Nicholas II, Egypt's King Fuad, France's Premier Clemenceau and Marshal Foch, Italy's Mussolini and England's Edward VII; of a heart attack; in Deauville...
...pursuit of women. And it was mostly women, last week, who crowded around his bier at Rome's municipal morgue. His first wife, Farida, and her three daughters came from Switzerland. Six other women, who said they were Egyptian refugees, also signed the funeral register. Young Prince Fuad left a sickbed to attend the funeral and was the major beneficiary of Farouk's $3 million estate...