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...Ouzaanik and fellow student Mourad Salah-Brahim don't deny there's a order problem in their projects. But, they say, like in banlieues elsewhere, there's too much stick without much carrot. "We live in a tough and mean world: you need cops, you need security," says Ouzaanik of the frequent ID checks and rousts the often ethnic Arab and black project residents are subjected to by police. "But I'm talking about getting searched three times per week - usually by the same cops, who remember you, but figure they'll remind you who is boss all the same...
...that only Iran -- in addition to Israel -- is believed to be actively pursuing nuclear weapons. In spite of its severe problems of debt and unemployment, the Iranian government has not reduced its spending on arms programs. "Iran wants to be the most powerful military presence in the gulf," says Mourad El-Desouky, a military expert at Al Ahram Strategic Studies Center in Cairo. "It wants nuclear weapons for deterrence and to intimidate its neighbors." He believes that the Iranians have the money to go shopping for plutonium and weapons-grade uranium from Russia's black market in Western Europe...
...terrorism cases, charged Carlos in a 1982 Paris bombing that killed a pregnant woman and injured 63 other people -- one of several cases he may stand trial for. Carlos has hired the flamboyant French lawyer Jacques Verges, who defended the late Lyons Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie. His other attorney, Mourad Oussedik, today began a p.r. campaign with a claim that his client had been illegally "taken against his will, tied up and drugged" by French counterterrorism agents in Sudan, instead of simply turned over. Not likely, says TIME senior correspondent William Rademaekers, who says the French tracked Carlos for years...
Algerians from rural villages are flocking to the cities, where few can find jobs. Roughly 40% of the work force is unemployed, and countless thousands of young men spend their time playing dominoes and drinking beer in murky cafes off the Didouche Mourad, Algiers' principal thoroughfare. One diplomat described them as "hooligans in the making" and suggested that the government ought to be worried. So far there are no signs of incipient revolt, and Correspondent Scott found the atmosphere in Algiers one of phlegmatic indolence rather than seething resentment. Graffiti are rare in a secret-police state...
...Mourad Saber could steel himself to the charms of Asmaa, daughter of his trustworthy Saudi Arabian assistant? As she served Saber fish soup, "her dress had an outrageously low neckline; her shoulders were bare almost to her breasts. Mourad was not made of wood; he blushed and a shiver went down his spine. 'Asmaa,' he said sternly, 'you lack reserve...