Word: algerianness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...conducting covert negotiations with Iranian officials for freeing the Americans. The talks had often looked promising, but repeatedly failed when the erratic Khomeini refused to order that control of the hostages be transferred from their militant captors to his government. After the rescue attempt, little progress was made until Algerian diplomats agreed to serve as official intermediaries between the U.S. and Iran. Through this channel, complex legal questions involving the disposition of the frozen Iranian assets were tackled and Iran dropped its demands that the Shah and all his financial holdings be returned to his homeland. As the election...
...Algerian team under Foreign Minister Mohammed Benyahia were acting as intermediaries. The Iranians, who spoke Persian, would talk only with the Algerians, who spoke French. Any question or proposal of mine had to be translated twice as it went from Washington to Algiers to Tehran; the answers and counterproposals had to come back over the same slow route...
...also in London, Istanbul, Paris, Bonn and other world political and financial capitals, related negotiations had been under way for weeks. Sunday, on my last visit to Camp David, I had signed the 15 documents necessary to initiate the financial transactions. Under the agreement worked out through the Algerians, enough Iranian funds would be held in escrow to pay any legitimate American claims. The Bank of England had been chosen to hold the escrow account in the name of the Algerian central bank. The balance would be returned to Iran. The Iranian gold we had seized had been transferred...
...many are Frenchmen who, with the tacit complicity of the legion, join by pretending to be Belgian, Swiss or Canadian. One attraction for recruits: new identity papers that protect them from the police. The Deuxième claims to have killed or wounded some 4,000 rebels during the Algerian war, while only 171 of its men were killed and 427 wounded. The unit remained neutral when the First Foreign Parachute Regiment backed an attempted coup against President Charles de Gaulle and was subsequently disbanded...
Since 1976 the Algerian-backed guerrillas have been engaged in a bitter desert war with King Hassan II of Morocco over a 100,000-sq.-mi. former Spanish possession. At least 19 moderate African states were outraged at their organization's recognition of S.A.D.R., which they claim violated O.A.U. procedures...