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...commentary on the situation in Israel represents unilateral and simplistic thinking. We have seen suicidal actions in Vietnam and Algeria and in other places. These are the acts of desperate people. Why are they desperate? Is the destruction of all Palestinians the only good solution, as some in Israel see it? Didn't the fact that Israel could not avoid all terrorist attacks persuade it to agree on some peace process rather than continue a spiral of violence? Benjamin Netanyahu has harvested what he sowed. Please save us from this kind of simplistic and shortsighted commentary. HUBERT CHRISTIAEN Heverlee, Belgium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 1, 1997 | 9/1/1997 | See Source »

...highest fuel prices of the summer are creating Labor Day gas pains for holiday commuters (Reuters) ... Muslim rebels have slaughtered 98 people, mostly women and children, in Algeria (TIME Daily) ... Just for a moment, the Mir crew lost their main oxygen generator, and "couldn't find it anywhere," according to mission control (Reuters) ... Big Tobacco may save money in State settlements (TIME Daily) ... Two thousand people march in New York to protest police brutality ... (Reuters) ... Non-citizen immigrants lose their food stamps Monday (TIME Daily) ... The Kennedy name loses its luster in Massachusetts as Joe drops out of the governor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Today's News Roundup | 8/29/1997 | See Source »

PARIS: There was confusion today over the number of casualties in Algeria's latest bloody massacre. The country's national radio reported 98 dead, while locals claimed the figure was nearer 300. According to these sources, victims had their throats slit and several were decapitated, with their heads left on the doorsteps of their homes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Confusion Over Algeria Massacre | 8/29/1997 | See Source »

...appeared to have won national elections in 1992 when the army stepped in to nullify them. Since then, about 60,000 people have been killed in a campaign intended to press the government into accepting Islamic rule. There's a reason we don't read and see more from Algeria ? the fundamentalists are waging a smart war. Top of their hit list: local and foreign journalists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Confusion Over Algeria Massacre | 8/29/1997 | See Source »

...NAME] Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Jun. 23, 1997 | 6/23/1997 | See Source »

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