Word: french
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three remaining hostages in Lebanon. Last week newly installed Socialist Premier Michel Rocard announced that Paris was re-establishing diplomatic relations with Tehran after a hiatus of ten months, a move promised by ex-Premier Jacques Chirac's government in exchange for Iran's help in freeing the French captives. In addition, the agreement allegedly called for France to repay as much as $1 billion on an outstanding loan made by Iran. While refusing to confirm the secret details of his predecessor's deal with Tehran, Rocard declared, "France gave its word. It will be kept...
...laxwomen made the All-Ivy second team. They are Leelee Groome (who finished third in scoring) and Julia French...
...They weren't human or inhuman. They were nonhuman." That was how French Journalist Jean-Paul Kauffmann, quoting fellow hostage Michel Seurat, , described the pro-Iranian Islamic Jihad terrorists who held him hostage for three years. The wrenching account of his kidnaping, captivity and release appeared last week in L'Evenement du Jeudi, the French newsmagazine Kauffmann worked for when he and French Researcher Seurat were abducted...
...Jewish doctor, Elie Hallat, who was also a hostage, pleaded in vain for Seurat's release. As his condition worsened, a Shi'ite commander volunteered a transfusion. "You are becoming a Shi'ite," joked a captor after Seurat was given blood. In fact, the researcher was dying. By then French Hostages Marcel Carton and Marcel Fontaine had been added to the group. "So I am going to die," Seurat told his friends...
...Given the double meaning of that word, Kauffmann's greatest fears and hopes ricocheted through his emotions until the last second of captivity. Driven to an empty field, Kauffmann was joined there by Carton and Fontaine. Arriving a few minutes later at a hotel in Beirut, Kauffmann heard a French voice shout, "French intelligence services! Clear the way, for God's sake!" The ordeal was finally over...