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...trip to Algiers two weeks ago, Iranian Prime Minister Mir-Hossein Moussavi spelled out those terms and stressed Khomeini's intractable demand that Saddam Hussein must go before peace can be restored. The Algerians, according to a senior Iranian diplomat, suggested that one way to break the impasse would be to create an international commission that would assign guilt in the gulf war and thus presumably condemn Saddam Hussein for his initial invasion of Iran. But Moussavi rejected the idea and declined to modify his position. Said he: "Iran will accept Algerian mediation if it helps to achieve...
...have been a quiet peace mission, as the official Algerian announcement described it, "to try to stop the bleeding from which both the brotherly peoples of Iraq and Iran are suffering." Algerian Foreign Minister Mohammed Seddik Benyahia, 50, the gifted negotiator who helped mediate the release of the 52 American hostages from Iran early last year, and eight other senior Algerian officials were en route to Tehran to try to end the war that has racked Iran and Iraq for 19 months. But as Benyahia's Grumman Gulfstream II executive jet last week flew near the point where...
...Algerian team was dispatched to the scene to investigate the crash, the soft-spoken Benyahia, a prominent figure in Algerian politics ever since the country's struggle for independence from France, was mourned as a senseless casualty of the conflict. Said Algerian President Bendjedid Chadli: "What makes it more painful is that he died while embarking on a noble peace mission...
...release of the 52 Americans held hostage by Iran; in a plane crash under mysterious circumstances while on a peace-seeking mission to end the Iraq-Iran war (see WORLD); near the Iran-Turkey border. The ascetic-looking Benyahia was a guerrilla fighter and a founding father of the Algerian revolution of 1954-62. In 1979 he became Foreign Minister and played a decisive role in the postwar reconciliation between his country and France. After mediating the hostage crisis, he formally handed over the Americans to State Department officials...
Western Sahara. Following Spain's withdrawal from its former North African colony in 1975, King Hassan II of Morocco dispatched 350,000 of his unarmed subjects into the region to claim it. They were later backed up by Moroccan troops. Opposing the Moroccans is the Algerian-backed Polisario Front, a guerrilla force that claims sovereignty over the area...