Word: parise
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By then the hijackers had dropped their demand for the liberation of the F.I.S. leaders; now they insisted on being flown to Paris. That triggered a tug-of-war between the Algerians, who were adamant that the plane stay in Algiers, and the French, who wanted it on their territory...
Still using pilot Delhemme to speak for them, the hijackers broke radio silence at 6 a.m. to demand 27 tons of fuel and permission to fly to Paris. Since the trip normally requires only 10 tons, French officials feared the militants had other plans. One possibility was that they would...
A few hours later, that hypothesis gained weight with word that an anonymous informant had warned the French consulate in Oran, Algeria, that the plane was "a flying bomb that will explode over Paris." From accounts of passengers released in Algiers, the French had already learned that there was dynamite...
Gehin played for time, trying to wear down the hijackers and win the release of more passengers while the G.I.G.N. prepared for its assault. "Listen," Yahia said at one point, "in my opinion, you want us to blow up everything right here! You have 1 1/2 hours to let us...
At the end of 1831, the French artist Eugene Delacroix did something that would change the course of his own art, and to no small degree that of French painting itself. He left Paris and went to Morocco -- an arduous journey in those days, on winter roads to Marseilles and...