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After the airport greeting by Algerian President Houari Boumedienne, each of the visiting heads of state (59 in all, plus representatives from 17 other nations) was driven off to the elegant Club des Pins, a seaside resort above the Mediterranean. Atop each white stucco villa flew the standard of its occupant, making the resort look like some encampment of medieval knights about to go into combat...
...famous movie star" but gave it up after only six weeks of trying to be an actress in New York. Over the next few years, she worked as a go-go girl, a public relations agent for a Coney Island animal husbandry exhibit, and social secretary to the Algerian Ambassador in Washington. The story of her subsequent hiring by the Washington Post may contain a moral for those who would make too much of her present lack of background in TV. "Can you show me something you've written?" asked Managing Editor Benjamin Bradlee. "I've never written...
...politician and publisher, flew off to organize a demonstration in Tahiti. On his arrival, he lauded those willing to risk their lives in the explosion zone-particularly Jacques de Bollardière, 65, a wartime military hero who had resigned as a general in 1961 over the mistreatment of Algerian captives. The former general, said Servan-Schreiber, "is saving the honor of the French army." The American couple in the zone were David and Emma Moodie, who had recently been running a ferry service in New Zealand. Before sailing toward Mururoa, David Moodie, 27, said: "The danger to ourselves...
...psychologist based in Paris. Most of the recruits are married-though not to each other. Women crew members include a navigator and a radio operator, both Americans; two doctors, one Israeli and one Czechoslovak; a French diver, who will be responsible for repairs to the raft; and an Algerian oceanographer. The men include a Greek who will do the cooking and a cameraman who has not yet been chosen, along with a South Vietnamese photographer, a Uruguayan anthropologist and an Angolan priest, all of whom will have little to do but enjoy the scenery-and perform a variety of secondary...
Repeating a familiar, futile ritual, the U.N. Security Council was called into session last week in response to the Israeli commando attacks on Beirut. Even Arab diplomats acknowledged that they did not expect the meeting to find a solution to the Middle East crisis. In fact, said Algerian Ambassador Abdellatif Rahal, "it is not my intention to propose one." Instead, he and other Middle Eastern emissaries planned to spend the session condemning both Israel and the U.S., which, in the view of Arab leaders, promotes Israel's military aggressiveness...