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...Castro had become something like the Algerian city of Oran that Albert Camus described in The Plague--a city separated from the outside world, where death and the threat of death hung over everyone. Very often they [AIDS victims] were athletic, ambitious, good-looking men who one day found a purple spot somewhere on their body. The purple spot was the nightmare that haunted the sleep of the Castro. Waking up in the morning, men would search their bodies for it; not finding it, they would search again the next day. Those who found it went...
...later years Paris became a home to exiles from North Africa, including the deposed Algerian President Ahmed ben Bella. Among the Iranian exiles who found refuge there in the 1970s was the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, who lived in the dreary suburb of Neauphle-le-Chateau. After his triumphal return to Iran, Khomeini chased the Shah's last Prime Minister, Shapour Bakhtiar, out of the country. Where did Bakhtiar go? To Paris, along with a deposed Iranian President, Abolhassan Banisadr...
Chirac supports the new regulations; Mitterrand does not. In the duel on this issue, Mitterrand's chosen weapon last week was the guest list for his annual Bastille Day garden party, held in the Elysee Palace. Mitterrand invited two young Algerian immigrants living in Lyons who had conducted a hunger strike to protest the hard line on law and order. Interior Minister Charles Pasqua was so angered at the President's gesture of support for those protesting the government's legislation that he refused to attend the affair...
...each of these actions may seem to many Americans, in Soviet eyes they appear to constitute a coordinated campaign of hostility. "We look upon these actions as defiant and provocative, contrary to the spirit of Geneva," said Deputy Foreign Minister Georgi Korniyenko in Moscow. In an interview with an Algerian weekly, Gorbachev complained that the Geneva summit "half opened the door to hope, but this ray of light so frightened the people associated with the U.S. military-industrial complex that they threw their weight against the door to slam it shut." As one Soviet official exploded to an American journalist...
...chauffeur for the widow of a Texas oilman. Returning home in 1953, he married Bernadette de Courcel, a classmate at the institute who was from a wealthy and aristocratic family. They had two daughters, Laurence, now 28, and Claude, 23. After fighting in the French Foreign Legion during the Algerian war of independence, Chirac enrolled at the prestigious Ecole Nationale d'Administration...