Word: algerias
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Chirac thanked Syria, Saudia Arabia and Algeria for helping to arrange the release of the captives...
...most intriguing French activity in the Middle East last week was reported in the Paris daily newspaper Le Monde. The paper said that France, via Algeria and Syria, had arranged a "truce" with Lebanon's Abdallah clan, whom France has held responsible for the September wave of bombings. Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, presumed leader of a group called the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Faction, is serving a four-year term in a French prison for possession of arms, explosives and false documents. According to Le Monde, the terrorist group, based in northern Lebanon, was pressured to hold off on new actions...
...this 1,600th anniversary year, few tourists in Milan notice the halfconcealed cathedral doorway leading to the remains of the baptistry where a naked Augustine was immersed by St. Ambrose. In Annaba, Algeria, near the site of ancient Hippo, where Augustine served as priest and bishop, the occasion is being largely ignored. But in other places around the world, numerous conferences on Augustine's thought are marking the anniversary, including last week's assemblage of 500 scholars from 19 nations at the Rome headquarters of the Augustinian order. One notable in attendance, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, the Vatican's doctrinal overseer...
...group of radical Lebanese Shi'ites in June 1985 commandeered the plane after it had departed from Athens, and demanded the release of about 700 comrades held by Israel. The hijackers freed some hostages as the Boeing 727 shuttled between Lebanon and Algeria before setting down at the Beirut airport. There the hijackers and their captives were guarded by Shi'ite security forces, and a military rescue operation was ruled out. After the hijackers dispersed the remaining hostages to secret locations in Beirut, complex negotiations among the U.S., Israel and Syria led to the release of the Shi'ite prisoners...
...made to understand what these infantrymen are enduring. Pyle himself, like the soldiers he covered, was new to war, and only recently rid of the romantic, patriotic belligerence of the Stateside noncombatant. His writing at this period sometimes lapsed into a chatty journalese. A few months before, in Algeria, sounding like a reporter quoting a football coach, he had written cheerily of wounded soldiers who were "busting to get back into the fray again." This was the conventional remark to make about wounded soldiers. But the peppy "busting" clanks falsely against the too elegant "fray," and what is suggested...