Word: harki
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...racial slur against the player. Zidane was also forced to defend his Algerian identity - and pride in Algeria's fight against the French - in response to charges, first leveled by a Le Pen flunky but echoed during a torrid Algeria-France match, that Zidane's father had been a harki, the term loosely translated as collaborator and used to describe Algerians who had fought for France in the colonial...
...them, wearing the uniform of the loyal French-officered Harki troops, stopped a car on the highway and shot its driver dead. About 30 other terrorists sprang from the woods and set upon the crowded coastline. They kicked open several cottage doors and machine-gunned people inside. Bathers caught out in the open were ordered not to move; some were picked off by the rebels, a survivor later related, "like so many rabbits." When French armored cars rushed up 15 minutes later, 13 bathers lay dead or dying, and another 30 wounded. Soon 6,000 French troops poured into...
...Price of Honesty. The Finns are proud of their reparations record. I mentioned to Ilomari Harki, who sits on the Reparations Commission, that Finland was highly regarded in the U.S. for her honesty. He smiled: "Yes, but it's a pity it costs so much to be honest...
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