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...recount two decades filled with ever-more-violent incidents of humiliation and brutality. The military police, he says, arrested and tortured his father and uncle. They eventually arrested Said, who at 16 had joined the ranks of the young intifadeh rebels. His mother, trying to stop her youngest son, Farid, from hurling stones at Israeli tanks, is said to have been shot in the forehead and killed. Released after four years in jail, Said says he made a life for himself, working as a joiner. He dreamed of happy years to come, of marriage and family: "The freedom which...
...room lined with iron beds. Squatting around a smoky hurricane lamp we eat a meal of stale bread dunked in thin soup and drink strong black tea. After finishing, two of the boys turn to karambol, a game like pool in which flat counters are flicked across a board. Farid, another section commander, sits intently loading an ammunition belt with machine-gun rounds. Allah Mahmad lounges on one of the beds and talks wistfully of wanting the kind of education for his four sons that he never got. "Right now the two eldest are being taught by mullahs," he says...
...more amazing than the government's ability to bring off the election without disastrous violence. Many voted as they had for three decades of one-party rule--mechanically and without conviction. Others saw the poll as a fresh start: "I don't care if the F.I.S. is excluded," said Farid Harssani, 38, a printshop worker. "This is the first time we've had more than one candidate to vote for." Above all other considerations, Algerians voted in the desperate belief that their gesture might somehow stem the violence wracking their country...
Back home at her apartment last week, Nasrin was virtually crippled by fright after discovering that TIME reporter Farid Hossain had slipped past the official security detail. She shouted, "If he could come in, any killer can walk in!" Two months of fugitive life, in a hideout Nasrin has refused to identify, had taken a toll. During her confinement to a single room, she lost not only weight but all awareness of events in the outside world after the telephone was removed. "It was like living in a jail cell," she said. "I felt as if I was dying every...
...effort. "The vast preponderance of seafood that reaches the consumer is safe, clean and free of contaminants and chemicals," Kessler , maintains. Researchers at the National Academy of Science came to essentially the same conclusion last year in a report on seafood safety. "There are some areas of concern," says Farid Ahmed, the toxicologist who oversaw the report, but "basically the fish supply is safe...