Word: french
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...also agreed to help Honduras upgrade its existing squadron of a dozen French Super Mystere fighter jets, half of which are in disrepair. Even without the Kfir jets, Honduras enjoys air superiority over neighboring Nicaragua, and the U.S. decision is likely to make the Sandinistas more eager to obtain MiG-21s from the Soviet Union...
...British, however, were themselves at least partly at fault because they had failed to prepare their European partners for the serious measures they were going to ask them to make. The French were caught in a particularly embarrassing position. Although Premier Jacques Chirac has taken a tough public line against terrorism, at the time the British broke off relations with Syria his government was engaged in furtive negotiations with Damascus, in an effort to forestall a further wave of bombings like those that terrorized Paris in September and to free the French hostages held in Lebanon. In pursuit of these...
...most intriguing French activity in the Middle East last week was reported in the Paris daily newspaper Le Monde. The paper said that France, via Algeria and Syria, had arranged a "truce" with Lebanon's Abdallah clan, whom France has held responsible for the September wave of bombings. Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, presumed leader of a group called the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Faction, is serving a four-year term in a French prison for possession of arms, explosives and false documents. According to Le Monde, the terrorist group, based in northern Lebanon, was pressured to hold off on new actions...
...ites being held in southern Lebanon by the Israeli-backed South Lebanon Army militia. It was not clear whether a grand swap would also involve other Arab prisoners held in the West. According to one report circulating in Beirut, France would turn loose Georges Ibrahim Abdallah. French officials promptly denied any such deal...
...claims to have killed him, though no body has ever been found. As a price for freeing its captives, Islamic Jihad has demanded the release of 17 members of a largely Shi'ite movement serving prison sentences in Kuwait for, among other offenses, terrorist attacks on the U.S. and French embassies...