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...departure for Paris. Most of the 227 passengers had settled into their seats in an almost festive mood, as they looked forward to joining family and friends for the holidays. The boarding of four armed men in blue uniforms with Air Algerie identification badges caused no alarm. Explaining they were security agents, the men proceeded to check the passengers' passports. Then they suddenly closed and locked the doors. "I knew it was a hostage taking when they shouted, 'Allah is great!' " recalled a 40-year-old Algerian-born mechanic now living in France. "I thought of my children back...
...mishandling of HCIA's recognition process is cause for alarm within the Harvard community. If we grant the right to express and disseminate ideas to some students but deny these same privileges to others, then we might as well stop all this highminded talk about tolerance and diversity. Those who stood on the Widener steps in December to cheer the words of Professor David Mitten as he denounced the attacks on Muslims in Bosnia should, to be consistent, be among the first to speak out on behalf of HCIA. If one stands in solidarity with the Bosnian Muslims across...
...Labor and other government sources have told TIME. According to the poll, Labor's share of the 120-seat Knesset would shrink from 44 seats to only 27. The opposition Likud Party, on the other hand, would leap from 32 seats to 47. "There is a great deal of alarm in the party," one Labor official admits. The clandestine poll, unlike far more optimistic recent public surveys, had an unusually large sample size of 10,000 respondents. TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer says Laborites expected a popularity bubble after Israel's new peace treaty with Jordan, the granting...
...billion in annual pain reliever sales -- could prevent 10 percent of kidney failure cases, saving about $700 million in medical bills a year, the study concludes. But Johnson & Johnson, parent of Tylenol's maker, lashed out, calling the drug "remarkably safe" and saying the report would "unnecessarily alarm the public...
...serve them, rather than on upper-income Americans and business interests. Incoming House Speaker Newt Gingrich last week brushed off the inequities of Social Security and its projected insolvency, which he dismissed as "an abstraction that is 25 years from now." He added that it is "utterly irrational" to alarm retirees about entitlements before first reforming lesser categories of federal spending. President Clinton privately expressed similar reluctance to tackle welfare for the well-off because such a crusade would incur the wrath of interest groups influential among Democrats, including the elderly lobby, labor unions and the real estate industry...