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Among the offshoots of Al Fatah, however, are the notorious Black September teams, whose exploits outside the parent organization include the Munich massacre of 1972, in which eleven Israeli athletes were killed, and the slaying of one Belgian and two American diplomats in Khartoum in March 1973. This secret subgroup took its name from September 1970, when King Hussein forced a showdown with fedayeen groups that had been encroaching on military and political power inside Jordan. The King's soldiers not only chased the commandos out of the country but in the process killed at least 2,000 commandos...
...life-style and mandatory adulation are not necessarily all an egregious ego trip. By making himself the center of a national personality cult, Mobutu has succeeded in forging an unprecedented degree of unity among the nearly 200 tribes speaking more than 75 different languages that make up the former Belgian Congo's population. In 1965 when Mobutu, then an army commander, led the bloodless coup that deposed President Joseph Kasavubu, the country had endured five disastrous years of anarchy, civil war and bloodshed. Although rich in natural resources, Zaire was totally unequipped to utilize them when Belgium granted independence...
...Claude, Belgian-bred but a naturalized American, laid the foundation for modern cell biology with his work at Rockefeller U. between...
Aggressive Enzymes. De Duve, a Belgian citizen, in 1962 joined Rockefeller U., where he continued to refine the fractionalization techniques developed by Claude. His studies led to the discovery of lysosomes, aggressive enzymes that work as a sort of digestive system, breaking down the substances ingested by the cell-and in some diseases or disorders, destroying the cell itself...
...harshness of the sub-Artic climate, the long winters and loneliness of vast expanses of wasteland have traditionally inspired in inhabitants a fear of the supernatural. Yet old superstitions seem to have died out on the whole and have been replaced by Roman Catholicism. Twice a year, the Belgian Roman Catholic priest from La Romaine spends a week in the tiny church which the St. Augustine Indians built for themselves under his supervision. To make up for lost time, he performs continuous masses, weddings and baptisms--all in Algonquian, the language spoken by the tribes of the sub-Arctic cultural...