Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...maintaining sanity. She endured for weeks under the threat of execution by her captors. At one point she was convinced that her country had abandoned her. But last week the long nightmare ended for French Archaeologist Françoise Claustre, 39. After 33 months as a political prisoner of rebel tribesmen in the remote Tibesti desert of northern Chad, Claustre was handed over, exhausted but unharmed, to French officials in Tripoli. Her rescuer: none other than Libya's mercurial leader, Muammar Gaddafi...
...more bizarre, bungled diplomatic efforts in French history. Claustre was captured in the spring of 1974 while exploring pre-Islamic tombs with a young French coopérant -roughly the equivalent of a U.S. Peace Corpsman-and a West German doctor and his wife. In the rebels' attack, the doctor's wife was killed. West German officials quickly arranged a payoff for the doctor's return. Later, the coopérant escaped to Libya, leaving Mme. Claustre alone in the hands of a Maoist rebel leader named Hissène Habré, who demanded a ransom that...
...heartily agree with Mr. Dalton's assessment of the current state of Bob Dylan and his music (pardon the run-on). Hard Rain (both the album and the TV special) was a bitter disappointment musically and aesthetically. Dylan, in the attempt to change his image from Bob Dylan the rebel to Bob Dylan the Pop Star, has succeeded monetarily, but the substance of his material lacks the energy and purpose it once had. Where James Taylor has succeeded and Joan Baez is attempting to do so, Dylan seems happy to rest on his rebel laurels and give token support...
Falling Pound. The threats to this strategy are numerous. The continuing fall in the pound itself is one; by making British imports more expensive, the latest drop will add about one percentage point to the inflation rate. The unions at some stage could be forced to rebel against the social contract and seek big raises to catch up with inflation. Now a new menace has arisen: the possibility that onerous conditions could be attached to the IMF loan. Talk is circulating through London that the IMF may demand, if not a $1.50 pound, then draconian cuts in social spending...
...useful introduction to this new edition provides an account of Childers' tragic later career in the Irish Rebel lion. An Anglo-Irishman educated in England, Childers was a driven and complex idealist whose life ended in front of a firing squad near Dublin in 1922. Along with his Bostonian wife Dorothy, Childers had run arms into Ire land by sailboat before World War I. After serving with distinction in the Royal Navy, he again took up the cause of Irish liberty. Childers, in fact, pressed so hard for total Irish independence after the Free State compromise that he became...