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...have been a quiet peace mission, as the official Algerian announcement described it, "to try to stop the bleeding from which both the brotherly peoples of Iraq and Iran are suffering." Algerian Foreign Minister Mohammed Seddik Benyahia, 50, the gifted negotiator who helped mediate the release of the 52 American hostages from Iran early last year, and eight other senior Algerian officials were en route to Tehran to try to end the war that has racked Iran and Iraq for 19 months. But as Benyahia's Grumman Gulfstream II executive jet last week flew near the point where...
...Monday morning in Algiers, there was evidence of further progress. At 7:17, Christopher met with Algerian Foreign Minister Mohamed Seddik Benyahia and signed two declarations that would set up a complex procedure for the return of Iran's frozen assets upon release of the hostages. At the same moment in Tehran, Nabavi was signing his copy of the declarations. "At last I can smile again," beamed Christopher after putting his name on the documents with a felt-tipped pen that he borrowed from Saunders as a sign of appreciation for his work on the accord...