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Mandela trains in Algeria. After returning he is jailed for illegally leaving the country, among other charges. He is convicted of sabotage and sentenced to life in prison...
Algerian diplomats in particular accused the commissioner of overstepping her authority after she called the human rights situation in Algeria "intolerable...
France kicked off its World Cup soccer campaign today with a preemptive strike two weeks before the opening whistle. The French police coordinated with allies in five European cities to issue a yellow-card warning to Algeria?s Armed Islamic Group. At least 60 members and sympathizers were arrested in what appears to be less of a response to a specific threat or conspiracy, but a pre-emptive strike designed to wrong-foot elements who might be planning a world cup terror campaign, says TIME Paris correspondent Bruce Crumley. ?France is sufficiently aware of the terrorist threat to have conducted...
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...While serving a jail term for assault, Cleaver took up the idea of black power and penned Soul on Ice, his radical 1968 polemic on black rage. He joined the Black Panther Party on his release. Two years later, after a gunfight with police in Oakland, he fled to Algeria, Cuba and Paris, living in exile for eight years. Abroad, he embraced fervent anticommunism and evangelical Christianity. Addiction to crack and petty crimes followed his return to the U.S., as did an unsuccessful 1986 bid for a G.O.P. Senate nomination in California...