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This French-West German co-production was filmed in English in 1981 by a Polish emigre and stars an Australian (Sam Neill), a German (Heinz Bennent) and a French-German-Algerian-Turk (Isabelle Adjani). Alienation is, not surprisingly, all. Adjani bickers endlessly with Husband Neill, flirts with the mysterious Bennent, and wanders the deserted streets under a sky clouded with portents of apocalypse. One day, in a creepy subterranean walkway, she is seized by violent cramps, writhes about and delivers a glutinous hunk of protoplasm...
...could have perished. Declaring the bombing "an odious and cowardly attack," French Defense Minister Charles Hernu immediately departed for Beirut. "What kind of insanity are we talking about?" asked Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson. "This is madness." For France, it was the worst military loss since the end of the Algerian war 22 years...
...gathering at the Club des Pins, a seaside oasis outside the Algerian capital, was the first by the P.L.O.'s unofficial parliament-in-exile since the organization's military defeat by Israeli forces and the subsequent evacuation of its fighters from Beirut last August. Amid the tearful reunions, there was a defiant sense of triumph that the meeting was taking place at all, a public affirmation that the P.L.O. had not been destroyed by Israeli military might. Declared P.L.O. Spokesman Ahmed Abdel Rahman: "This meeting is an open message to the Arab world, to the U.S., and above...
...total of $7.977 billion of Iranian money [the $5.5 billion held overseas by the twelve U.S. banks plus $2.4 billion in frozen Federal Reserve accounts] would have to be in the Bank of England and ready to be transferred from our account there to the Algerian account, the last step before the hostages can be released. I tell Miller to be sure the Bank of England is ready with its certification of deposit, so we will have no further delay after the funds are in London...
...from Miller: "It only took two seconds to transfer the money to London. Now all we need are three things: the signed escrow agreement, the certification of deposit from our account to the Algerian account, and for Algiers to notify Washington and Tehran that all agreements have been fulfilled...