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...Laden associate and network coordinator. That sweep came a day after British police apprehended three men, including Kamel Daoudi, 23, a Frenchman who escaped the Sept. 21 capture of seven co-members of the Beghal group in suburban Paris. The joint European crackdown began on Sept. 13, when Belgian and Dutch authorities apprehended six extremists said to be part of a plan to attack U.S. targets in France - including the American embassy in Paris. "This effort prevented what could have been more very deadly attacks," says a French antiterrorist official. "It?s the culmination of a lot of hard, diligent...
...last four Grands Prix." Persuading Schumacher to take a rest may be the only way the other teams can stop him. For the man to whom winning is everything, 51 victories will surely not be enough. When he climbs into his Ferrari at Spa next Sunday for the Belgian Grand Prix, he is likely to surpass Prost's mark. The next big target will be to eclipse the legendary Juan Manuel Fangio's tally of five drivers' championships, a record that has stood since 1957. "He'll have seven by the time he retires," predicts Schumacher's former Ferrari teammate...
...European works that sound interesting. Top Shelf publishes "Miniburger," an actual box containing a set of mini-comix selected by the Slovenian editors of "Stripburger," which will include works from Slovenia, Bosnia, Serbia, Italy, and France. The Bries publishing company will put out "Louis Armstrong," by Philip Paquet, a Belgian, about Satchmo's early days, and "Tango with Death," by Ulf K., a German, made up of short stories involving...
...Though Swissair insists the payments it is making to get out of the three airline deals were already covered by provisions in the company's reports, analysts note that the firm remains a minority shareholder of Sabena and could be affected if the Belgian airline's recently announced restructuring plans are not successful. "Corti has certainly done well in managing to get out of obligations in France and Belgium," said Andrew Light, an airline analyst at Schroder Salomon Smith Barney in London. "He's bought himself some time...
...Servais exemplifies this intangible value we call individuality. Stradivari's cello found its way into the possession of the Russian court. There Servais, a young Belgian musician, contrived to play it before Czar Nicholas I. The Princess Yusupova, the story goes, had fallen for Servais in a big way and lent him the Stradivarius. The Czar praised the performance, and the Belgian modestly replied that it was surely due to the loan of the great cello. Whereupon the enamored princess exclaimed: "Oh, it wasn't a loan, it was a gift!" The Czar's court was said to be distinctly...