Word: algerian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lower than the 7.7 recorded in September 1978, when 25,000 people were killed in northeast Iran. In El Asnam, the city was again laid waste, along with many of the farmhouses and villages in a 25-mile radius. Eyewitnesses estimated that 80% of El Asnam was destroyed; the Algerian Red Crescent initially reported that perhaps as many as 25,000 had been killed and another 200,000 injured or left homeless, without food or drinkable water. Said a Swiss official of the International Red Cross: "God knows when we'll have a reliable estimate of casualties. It could...
Announcing the catastrophe to the nation on state-owned Algerian Television, a newscaster wept openly as he read the government's order mobilizing rescue squads and appealing to the public for donations of blood. Shortly afterward, French and Tunisian medical teams were dispatched to Algeria. Britain and West Germany provided emergency supplies, and Switzerland sent its famed air-rescue detachment. Because of heavy damage to railroads, highways and bridges, however, help was slow to arrive in El Asnam, except for a fleet of Algerian military helicopters, which began ferrying seriously injured victims to hospitals in other cities. Finally...
...prime suspect: Daoud Salahuddin, 29, believed to be a security guard at the Iranian interest section at the Algerian consulate in Washington. Although Salahuddin was born David Belfield in Roanoke Rapids, N.C., he had taken a Muslim name about five years ago and had been living at Islamic House, a home for Muslim students and a center for anti-Shah activists. He had been arrested briefly in New York City last Nov. 4-the date the U.S. hostages were seized in Tehran-for having draped an anti-Shah banner from the Statue of Liberty. Police arrested a postal employee, Tyrone...
Both sides were relying heavily on the skill and shrewdness of the five distinguished U.N. envoys. Much care had gone into choosing them: former Venezuelan Ambassador to the U.S. and U.N. Andrés Aguilar Mawdsley, Algerian Chief U.N. Delegate Mohammed Bedjaoui, Syrian Career Diplomat Adib Daoudy, Sri Lankan Lawyer Hector W. ("Harry") Jayawardene, and French Human Rights Activist Louis-Edmond Pettiti...
...Chairman Mohammed Bedjaoui, 50, is Algeria's chief delegate to the United Nations. An attorney who holds a doctorate from the University of Grenoble in France, Bedjaoui served from 1958 to 1961 as legal adviser to the rebels' provisional government during the protracted Algerian struggle against France. After Algeria achieved its independence in 1962, Bedjaoui held a series of high-ranking government posts, including Secretary General, Minister of Justice and Ambassador to France. Bedjaoui has been a member of the U.N. International Law Commission since...