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...visiting Manila as part of a four-nation tour of Asia. Manila press reports said police are searching for about 20 foreigners in the alleged conspiracy, which reportedly targeted U.S. airlines. Two Pakistani men allegedly involved in the plot were arrested last Friday near the residence of the Vatican ambassador. Police sources told Manila reporters that the men had bomb-making materials in their hotel rooms. Police reportedly are now seeking a 26-year-old Kuwaiti-born "electronics expert" believed to be the ringleader. The conspirators are thought to have slipped into the country in small groups over a period...
...terrorists laid down an ultimatum: if the boarding ramp was not pulled back and the plane was not allowed to take off before 9:30 p.m., they would kill a hostage every half hour. Their first victim, they said, would be Yannick Beugnet, a cook at the French ambassador's residence in Algiers. He was brought to the cockpit and pleaded into the microphone: "If you don't allow the plane to depart, they will kill me." The French wanted the ramp pulled back. "The Algerians said, 'No, no, we are sure they are bluffing,' " a French diplomat recalled. "Five...
...movie Allen plays Walter Hollander, a New Jersey caterer vacationing in Eastern Europe along with his wife and daughter. They are mistaken for spies, and take refuge in an American embassy being run temporarily by the ambassador's bumbling son (Michael J. Fox). Despite its dated cold war plot, the 1966 play shows that Allen even at this early stage was a skilled farceur. The Hollanders' presence in the embassy causes mounting chaos involving a visiting emir, a fugitive priest who does magic and a stuffy embassy official who gets conked on the head and thinks he's the Wright...
...least, the Republican- controlled Congress may try to gut the U.N. peacekeeping budget, in light of the Balkan experience. Dissension was not afflicting the U.S. alone though. In Germany the Suddeutsche Zeitung last week put on its front page a classified wire sent to Bonn by the German ambassador to NATO, Hermann von Richthofen, a grandnephew of the World War I flying ace known as the Red Baron. His complaints centered on what he styled an arbitrary U.S. push to expand NATO eastward rapidly and to lift the arms embargo on Bosnia, which he said would strain the alliance...
...preferred to think otherwise. Assistant Secretary of State Robert Gelbard said that Bogota had previously "told us their strong preference is to capture them rather than to go for the kind of surrender program the previous government was so enthusiastic about." If a deal was struck, he said, U.S. ambassador to Colombia Myles Frechette "doesn't believe they will be lenient with them...