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...mere prospect of Le Pen's forces' grabbing a share of real power is enough to make any true democrat shudder. A former paratrooper who has been accused of torturing prisoners during the Algerian war in 1957, Le Pen raised his party's support from less than 1% in 1981 to its current 15% by exploiting public fears of France's 4 million immigrants, preaching racial inequality and dispensing thinly disguised anti-Semitism (he has dismissed the Holocaust as a "detail of history"). With unemployment at 12.8%, Le Pen is winning support for his calls to expel immigrants and give...
...work was too "internationalist." Demoralized and dispirited though they are, opponents of the Front's municipal governments are striking back with tracts, demonstrations and information campaigns. "To fight the National Front, you have to convince people one by one about what they're doing," says Ahmed Touati, 31, an Algerian-born former Toulon employee who was transferred from the city archives to the garbage detail and finally goaded into quitting...
ALGIERS: A weaker than hoped-for turnout gave Algerian President Liamine Zeroual's party 150 seats in the country's first elections since 1992. But fundamentalist parties captured 103 seats, giving the country's Islamic movement a potentially important foothold once again in Algerian politics. More than 60,000 have been killed in the struggle between the government and the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) since the Islamic party, which looked sure to gain control of the government in the 1992 elections, was outlawed after an army coup. Although the FIS is still party non grata, Zeroual has agreed to allow...
Moreover, many of us, are not part of one "we" or group--instead we are part of many. My own background contains a rich mix of a French, Algerian, Catholic and Muslim heritage. Looking at the backgrounds of my friends, I can relate the experiences of friends, who are simultaneously black, Hispanic, Buddhist and homosexual. Which "we" would we belong...
...Richard Branson is down--and lucky to be alive. Just 19 hours into the flamboyant British tycoon's second attempt to make the first nonstop, round-the-world balloon flight, the 174-foot "Global Challenger" experienced technical problems and the three-man crew was forced to land in the Algerian wilderness. "At one stage I was standing by the door chucking out everything movable - oil canisters, food, anything - to halt the descent," Branson said. "I thought, "What am I doing up here?" The acknowledged hero of the safe landing was engineer Alex Ritchie, himself a last-minute replacement...