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...Bonn to send his children to the school. He was suspected of credit-card fraud, but while searching his apartment police found bomb-making instructions, household materials that could be used to make explosives, and a handwritten will. But Alfred Stoffel, the prosecutor handling the case, declined to press charges. "What we found wasn't sufficient to take to court," he says. The senior investigator dismisses Stoffel's decision, saying: "We believe we had concrete clues." Investigators say that some of the people who frequent the mosque at the academy have had direct or indirect contact with al-Qaeda. Abdelwahab...
...reluctantly, perhaps because of their anger over extensive French arms sales to Iraq. By Thursday morning, all 14 of the women and children on board were released. That afternoon the remaining hostages were herded onto the runway. The hijackers blew up the plane's cockpit, then surrendered. French Chargé d'Affaires Jean Perrin called the explosion "a little matter of honor...
...invasion, has ballooned to 33%. Business is at a standstill, awaiting completion of the Cuban-built airstrip (estimated cost: at least $70 million) that the U.S. saw as a strategic threat to the region. These days the two-mile runway mainly serves as a jogging track for the U.S. chargé d'affaires, Charles Gillespie. "If the U.S. doesn't do something quickly," says a local businessman, "the well of pro-American enthusiasm could...
...history of U.S. relations with the Vatican is tangled indeed. Washington had a consul, chargé d'affaires or "minister resident" to the Papal States from 1797 to 1867, when, with the impending collapse of the Pope's regime, the U.S. legation was closed down. There matters stood until two days before Christmas, 1939, when Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed his personal representative to the Holy See. (By not sending an ambassador, F.D.R. avoided Senate confirmation and the inevitable Protestant uproar.) There was no regular diplomatic contact following President Truman's debacle of 1951 until 1970, when President...
...fire and was in turn shot dead by a Turkish security guard. As Portuguese policemen hurried toward the scene, four other intruders raced into the adjacent ambassador's residence and seized its only occupants, Cahide Mihçioĝlu, 42, the wife of the embassy's chargé d'affaires, and her son Atasay...