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...Algerian police ringed the airport, Interior Minister Abderahmane Meziane-Cherif rushed to the control tower and began negotiating with the hijackers via the cockpit radio. Using the pilot, Bernard Delhemme, to speak for them, the terrorists demanded the release from house arrest of Abassi Madani and Ali Belhadj, the leaders of the Islamic Salvation Front (F.I.S.), the political party that was banned by the Algerian government in 1992. "Start by freeing the women, the elderly and the children if you want us to start talking," replied Cherif. About four hours into the negotiations, the hijackers began releasing passengers...
...Cherif Bassiouni, who chairs the U.N. Commission of Experts appointed to study Bosnia war crimes, has passed 65,000 documents to the Hague tribunal. Ten three-woman teams, each consisting of a prosecutor, a mental-health specialist and an interpreter, have interviewed 200 rape victims and gathered data on 800 more cases...
...long-downtrodden underclass of Shi'ites in Lebanon, some 40% of the population, Khomeini's fundamentalist - revolution was an inspiration to rise up against their perceived oppressors: Western and Arab, Christian and Jewish. "If you develop a psychosis that the whole world is against you," says M. Cherif Bassiouni, professor of international law at Chicago's De Paul University, "then the only way to survive is to become clannish, mystical, fanatic and sometimes to lash...
Another entry in the Carter social steeplechase is Alabama-born Yolande Fox, 44. She is a former Miss America (1951), the widow of a film executive who died 13 years ago and a constant companion of Cherif Guellal, the former Algerian ambassador to the U.S. Her first effort at entertaining for the Carter circle was a dinner for Andrew Young, Carter's U.N. ambassador. Yolande owns three houses in Georgetown: the 18-room digs she occupies with Guellal; a second home, now rented by LaBelle and Bert Lance, director of Carter's Office of Management and Budget...
...Arab world, Nixon's trip dramatized the beginning of a new era in U .S.-Middle East relations. "To the critics, to those with pragmatic American minds, the gesture is unnecessary," admits Cherif Bassiouni, an Egyptian who teaches international law at Chicago's De Paul University. "But such gestures reflect emotions, and to the Arab psyche such gestures have a greater impact than anything else the U.S. could have done. For the Arabs, political issues must be couched in moral and symbolic terms, not in terms of pragmatism...