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...Althusser had moved, treated it with the same sort of erudition and emotion they had once directed toward his books and articles. The Communist newspaper L'Humanité's report reads like an obituary not so much for the murdered Mme. Althusser as for "our comrade," the Algerian-born, Catholic-reared philosopher who had switched from conservatism to Communism after five years as a German P.O.W. in World War II. Le Monde, which had published a series of Althusser's attacks on the French Communist party leadership, commented learnedly and protectively about "altruistic suicide," in which manic...
...Tehran had reacted to a formal U.S. response to Iranian conditions for releasing the 52 American hostages. Two days earlier, a U.S. delegation, led by Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher, had flown to Algiers with a carefully formulated written statement of the American position. Acting as go-betweens, Algerian officials received the document and delivered it to Tehran. At week's end the chaotic regime of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini was still mulling over its next move. Whatever that might be, there was little hope now that the hostages would be freed in the immediate future. At Wiesbaden, West...
...presumably contained a pledge of noninterference in Iranian affairs and agreement to unfreeze $13 billion in U.S.-held Iranian assets. That would satisfy two of the four demands issued on Nov. 2 by Iran's parliament, the Majlis. But as Christopher and his colleagues painstakingly explained to their Algerian hosts, constitutional and legal restraints would make it difficult for the Federal Government to carry out the other two demands: the cancellation of all U.S. claims against Iran and the return of the late Shah's wealth to Tehran. Washington policymakers made it clear that Christopher's message...
...Carter administration replied to the Iranian terms ten days ago in a message transmitted through Algerian intermediaries. Iran has yet to respond officially to the American proposals...
...Algerian government plans to expand the tent city to house the crowded survivors for three or four months until prefabricated housing can be erected. Meanwhile, the city itself is to be sealed off and leveled to the ground. Surviving residents surveyed their demolished homes and wondered if the fertile Chéliff River valley town was even worth rebuilding. Said one young man:"I had heard people talk about the 1954 earthquake. But I could never imagine this. I think we should find another place...