Word: algerian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Similarly, the President and President-elect have stood together on the hostage crisis in Tehran. In Algiers last week, Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher, accompanied by U.S. Ambassador Ulric Haynes Jr., warned Tehran through Algerian intermediaries that Iran could not expect to get a better deal from...
Uncertainty also continued to dominate the delicate, submerged negotiations for the release of the 52 American hostages. An Algerian diplomatic team, which has been acting as go-between, arrived in Washington with a request from Iran for "clarifications." Presumably, these related to the legal obstacles that the U.S. faces in meeting two of Iran's four principal demands: canceling American claims against Iran and returning the late Shah's fortune. The other two demands-a promise not to interfere in Iranian affairs and the unfreezing of $13 billion in Iranian assets-are not thought to pose serious problems...
...plate bearing the African continent is generally pushing north and trying to slip under the Eurasian plate. That movement, under way for millions of years, created the Alps and has helped to stoke such volcanoes as Sicily's Mount Etna. The devastating 7.2 quake that leveled the Algerian city of El Asnam nearly two months ago, killing more than 2,500, occurred almost precisely at one of the points where the African and Eurasian plates are believed to be thrusting against each other. But the Italian peninsula is also being wrenched by other forces within this broad pressure pattern...
...Althusser had moved, treated it with the same sort of erudition and emotion they had once directed toward his books and articles. The Communist newspaper L'Humanité's report reads like an obituary not so much for the murdered Mme. Althusser as for "our comrade," the Algerian-born, Catholic-reared philosopher who had switched from conservatism to Communism after five years as a German P.O.W. in World War II. Le Monde, which had published a series of Althusser's attacks on the French Communist party leadership, commented learnedly and protectively about "altruistic suicide," in which manic...
...presumably contained a pledge of noninterference in Iranian affairs and agreement to unfreeze $13 billion in U.S.-held Iranian assets. That would satisfy two of the four demands issued on Nov. 2 by Iran's parliament, the Majlis. But as Christopher and his colleagues painstakingly explained to their Algerian hosts, constitutional and legal restraints would make it difficult for the Federal Government to carry out the other two demands: the cancellation of all U.S. claims against Iran and the return of the late Shah's wealth to Tehran. Washington policymakers made it clear that Christopher's message...