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...last possible adventure in our epoch." Nine days into the harrowing 6,200-mile course, Thatcher, Co-Driver Charlotte Verney, 38, and Mechanic Jean Gamier suffered a broken axle on their Peugeot 504 and then vanished in the vast expanse of the Sahara. A search party, led by Algerian and French military planes and helicopters, crisscrossed the desert sky while trucks and Land Rovers traversed the rugged terrain. Finally, last week, on the sixth day of the trio's disappearance, they were spotted, stranded between two small Algerian desert towns. Said Thatcher after his rescue: "All I need...
Even at the last moment, Metrinko was defiant. When he was boarding the bus to go to the Algerian plane that was to fly the hostages to freedom, a guard called him an "American bastard." Replied Metrinko: "Shut up, you son of a prostitute." Guards dragged Metrinko off the bus; as it left for the airport, they punched him a few times. But he was finally taken to the airport in a car. Says Metrinko: "I was awfully close to missing the whole show...
...early as October 1979, the Algerians were instrumental in setting up an inconclusive meeting between National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and Iran's then Premier Mehdi Bazargan. After the hostages were seized by the militant Iranians, the Tehran government asked Algeria to represent its interests in Washington. Thus a certain logic was involved when Iran, at the urging of Yasser Arafat, head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, last November asked Algerian Foreign Minister Mohammed Ben Yahia to help arrange a hostage deal...
...three intermediaries originally thought of themselves as "postmen," serving only as messengers between Washington and Tehran. But the Algerians quickly moved to a larger and more complex diplomatic role. "The Iranians took a perverted pleasure in raising and dashing our hopes," explained a member of the American negotiating team. "We don't know exactly what the Algerians said, but they refused to be drawn into the Iranian game and eventually made them come to terms." The Algerians deftly avoided becoming guarantors of any final accord despite Iranian pressure to accept the responsibility. "The Iranians were suspicious of everyone...
After receiving notification from the twelve American banks, the Federal Reserve transferred the money to an account with the Bank of England. Then it was deposited in the escrow accounts for the Algerian Central Bank. The total amounts unfrozen...