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...barbouzes, shadowy secret government agents with false beards or other disguises. The gem of these was surely the Greenpeace affair of 1985, in which two teams of French secret service frogmen blew up a trawler belonging to the environmental organization Greenpeace in Auckland harbor. The resulting international uproar shook Francois Mitterrand's Socialist government and forced the sacking of its intelligence chief and the resignation of its Defense Minister. Unlike Iranscam, however, that was the extent of it. Parliament never pursued it further. Indeed, the two French agents jailed by New Zealand until last July are now regarded as heroes...
Like several other events that shook the Middle East last week, the hijacking was almost certainly related to the 6 1/2-year-old war between Iraq and Iran. In Tehran, the government of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini denied involvement and said it condemned "any moves that may threaten the lives of innocent passengers." But in Lebanon, several terrorist groups, including the pro-Iranian Islamic Jihad, claimed responsibility for the hijacking. One survivor of the crash reported that the terrorists spoke with southern Lebanese accents, implying that they were indeed Shi'ite fundamentalists loyal to Khomeini...
...late afternoon, Olebogeng arrived in Ganyesa, a collection of mud-brick huts about a mile from the highway. Outside one meticulously maintained house stood Selena, Olebogeng's mother. He shook her hand, kissed his sister and playfully cuffed the ears of two younger brothers. Two other brothers who also work as miners were expected at any moment. His father was still in the fields, but neighbors flocked to greet Vincent. "You don't write, and you don't send money," said his beaming mother in mock irritation. "I should be angry, but you're tired, and I'm glad...
Many immediately denounced the reforms as "elitist," charging that they restricted educational opportunities. French students, traditionally eager to man the barricades, have protested attempts at school reform before, including staging a revolt in 1968 that badly shook the government of Charles de Gaulle. But unlike the 1968 rioters, who were engaged in an ideological battle against "bourgeois society," this year's protesters had a strong economic motive. With nearly 30% of those ages 18 to 25 unemployed, the French young increasingly view a college diploma as the surest passport, perhaps the only passport, to a good job and a secure...
...they called him Danny the Red -- a tribute both to Daniel Cohn- Bendit's hair and to his ideology. Today Cohn-Bendit, 41, the onetime leader of a student revolt that shook France to its foundations, is a member of the West German Green Party and an author. His latest project: We So Loved the Revolution, a coffee-table book that takes a backward look at himself and other young European and American radicals of the 1960s. The book is full of pictures and interviews with the likes of Yippie Turned Yuppie Jerry Rubin, now an entrepreneur. Since its September...