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ALGIERS: Bloodied by an Islamic rebellion against the secular government of Algeria, holidays there are a time to kill. More than 1,000 people have died in here since the Dec. 30 start of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month. And even as the Algerian government adamantly nixed a U.S. call for an international inquiry, reports surfaced Wednesday that 27 more people had been killed...
...case of Amistad is far more troubling. Lest anyone forget, President Clinton has called for a national dialogue on race, and Steven Spielberg's re-telling of a 19th century slaveship rebellion looks as if it may be embraced as the vehicle for bringing that dialogue to the wider public. Beginning with Newsweek a month before the film was released, the media has run countless features accompanied by commentaries discussing the state of race relations in this country. It is interesting to note that while these high-falutin' societal spreads have universally praised the movie as an extraordinary achievement, only...
...rebels against the Rwandan Tutsi government of Paul Kagame, fled west back to bases in Congo -- a disheartening prospect since border-crossing raids brought Rwanda and then-Zaire to the brink of war in 1996. Kagame's solution then was drastic: lending military and financial support to the bush rebellion of Laurent Kabila, which swept westward across Zaire to the capital of Kinshasa and renamed the country Congo with Kabila as its new president...
...election next November, the answer is yes--the sooner the better. "When I think of whom I want to see as the face of the Republican Party," says Oklahoma's Steve Largent, "I think of Bill Paxon." Largent is one of the group of disgruntled conservatives who fomented the rebellion that nearly toppled Gingrich. But Largent and others like him say that even if Gingrich has improved as manager of the G.O.P. majority, this hasn't eased the burden imposed on all Republicans by the Speaker's dismal public-approval ratings. "He's still less popular than O.J. Simpson...
...ANGELES: Steven Spielberg says the slave drama "Amistad," set to be released Wednesday, might be "the most important (film) of my career." Novelist Barbara Chase-Riboud, who wrote about the same slave-ship rebellion in her 1989 book "Echo of Lions," thinks it's the most important film of hers...