Word: algerianness
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...expanding economically. Leave Iraq to the Iraqis, and get out. That nation will set itself right more easily without the U.S. tipping the balance. You wanted to oust Saddam Hussein. You did. Now leave. Arunachalam Ashokan Quilon, India As a former french paratrooper and commando during the Algerian war, I was surprised by several aspects of your report on the way Iraqi insurgents have adapted their tactics to U.S. forces. That six Marine snipers could be killed so easily while on a mission, as your story reported, shows a basic tactical error: in a military situation of stealth, a prime...
While E1 A1 appeared to be the target of both attacks, the terrorists in Rome evidently did not much care whom they hit. In addition to the five Americans, the victims included at least three Greeks, two Mexicans, one Algerian and two men whose nationalities were not known...
...week began, the first order of business was burying the dead in the wake of the airport atrocities. On both sides of the Atlantic, families and friends gathered to mourn their lost loved ones, who included five Americans, four Greeks, two Mexicans, an Italian, an Austrian, an Algerian and an Israeli. Nearly 400 people, among them U.S. Ambassador to Italy Maxwell Rabb and Archbishop Justin Rigali, representing Pope John Paul II, gathered in the chapel of Rome's North American College for the funeral of Natasha Simpson, 11, the American schoolgirl who was the youngest of the airport victims...
...foreign policy and breaking diplomatic ties with Washington during the 1967 Six-Day War. While Algeria renewed relations with the U.S. seven years later, it is Colonel Chadli Bendjedid, President since 1979, who has launched his country on a more moderate course. Last week Bendjedid became the first Algerian leader to make a state visit...
...shared their common experience of oppression and inequity but reveled in positive personal qualities: determination, humor, intelligence. Many felt that it would only be a matter of time before "the spirit of Nairobi" would translate into action back home. "There has been tremendous change," said Chafika Sellami-Meslem, an Algerian who served as deputy secretary-general of the conference. "Women's issues can no longer be dismissed by the governments of the world, and it would not have happened without the Decade...