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Only nine days later, Palestinian terrorists broke into the Saudi Arabian embassy in Khartoum and killed three diplomats (two Americans, one Belgian), thus turning world indignation away from Israel. Summing up the Arab fears this time was Beirut's highly respected an-Nahar, which urged "Palestinian brothers" to avoid "any operation for the time being, so that the world could not deliberately forget the piracy committed by Israel over Beirut...
...even joked about solving his financial problems by arranging his own "perfect kidnaping," which police noted was curiously similar in plot to the one in the movie Travels with My Aunt, currently playing in Rome. The night he disappeared he was seen having an argument with a blonde Belgian go-go dancer in the Piazza Navona, where hippies gather. She resisted his passes and he stormed away, yelling back an Italian obscenity...
...villas dot rolling green hills overlooking the vast blue expanse of Lake Tanganyika, has become virtually a Tutsi town. The few Hutus left are keeping a low profile. "The Hutus will never stop grasping for power, and the Tutsis will fight to the last man to keep it." a Belgian businessman told me. "I honestly cannot see any end to the killing. I only thank God that they are leaving the whites out of it." Elsewhere, the Tutsis and Hutus seem to be living together without trouble-at least for the moment-sharing the same hills and villages. But calm...
...Among them: the British pound, Italian lira and Japanese yen, which float independently, and the German mark, Dutch guilder and French and Belgian francs, which are supposed to rise and fall in unison against the dollar...
Sabena, which is owned by the Belgian government, introduced student fares in May 1971 and decided to discontinue them on the government's orders. Pan Am and Icelandic officials said they decided to end the fares when they learned that Sabena would...