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After two days the mystery was resolved. Hubert Massol, 35, a right-wing candidate for the National Assembly and a veteran of the Algerian war, held a press conference in Paris at which he boasted that he alone knew where the body was. "I will keep my secret," he said, "until the President of the Republic rehabilitates Pétain, and his remains are transferred to Douaumont...
...Schiphol Airport. Customs men searching two bags were surprised to discover one crammed with pistols and ammunition, the other with hand grenades, five detonators and 21 letter bombs similar to those sent to Israelis in September. Airport police promptly arrested a Palestinian traveling to Caracas on an Algerian diplomatic passport. The man, identified as Ribhi Khalum, 33, was released after he insisted that someone else had given him the bags to carry to Caracas...
...return of the money last week, witnessed by TIME'S Rome Bureau Chief James Bell,* marked the latest setback for Cleaver in his rapidly worsening relations with his Algerian hosts. Cleaver had been welcomed as a revolutionary hero in 1969, after jumping bail and evading arrest on charges arising from a 1968 Panther shootout in Oakland, Calif. The government of President Houari Boumedienne set him up in a white stucco villa in the diplomatic suburb of El Biar and granted him an allowance of $500 a month. Cleaver adorned the villa with two brass plaques, each engraved with...
...regime kept its complaints more or less to itself, but Cleaver did not. When the Algerian government showed no intention of letting the Panthers get their hands on the Delta ransom, Cleaver dashed off an open letter to President Boumedienne. "We must have the money," he told his host, "no ifs and buts about the point." The "expropriation" of the aircraft was an "internal problem between the American people themselves, to be settled by them and not others who are incidentally involved...
June 2: Willie Roger Holder, 24, a Viet Nam veteran, and Catherine Mary Kerkow, 20, a student, seized a Western Airlines flight en route to Seattle. They collected $500,000 in ransom money and flew to Algeria via New York (where Holder released 36 hostages). The Algerian government granted them asylum, but returned the money...