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After wresting independence from France in 1962, Algeria established itself as an exemplar of Third World socialism, often criticizing U.S. foreign policy and breaking diplomatic ties with Washington during the 1967 Six-Day War. While Algeria renewed relations with the U.S. seven years later, it is Colonel Chadli Bendjedid, President since 1979, who has launched his country on a more moderate course. Last week Bendjedid became the first Algerian leader to make a state visit...
Though the Soviet Union officially denied it, the report suggested that Moscow might be ready to try a new approach in the Middle East. According to Israeli state radio, the Soviets last week offered to renew diplomatic ties with Israel, which Moscow broke in 1967 during the Six-Day War, and to allow increased emigration of the Soviet Union's estimated 2.5 million Jews. Moscow's asking price: an Israeli-Syrian agreement on the Golan Heights, part of which Israel seized from Syria during the 1967 war and formally annexed...
Despite its colossal box office success, the original Deep Throat left a wake of disaster for its creators and stars. Inside Deep Throat gives a whirlwind account of the manic blend of glamour, controversy, and despair that arose from just a six-day shoot with some low-grade cameras in southern Florida...
...After the ceremony, the official Xinhua News Agency released an obituary referring to Zhao's "serious mistakes" in dealing with the 1989 student protests. Zhao was deposed after opposing that summer's Tiananmen Square crackdown. MEANWHILE IN MALAWI... Justice on Wheels High court and supreme court judges ended a six-day strike after accepting a government offer to replace their aging Toyota Corollas with a fleet of new four-wheel-drive vehicles. The judges, who complained that their old cars needed constant maintenance, had originally demanded Mercedes or BMWs. Their new Nissan Terranos will cost about $60,000 apiece...
Closing out the year with a six-day jaunt to the Middle East, University President Lawrence H. Summers told an audience in Jerusalem that instances of apparent anti-Semitism on American college campuses had declined since he first spoke on the issue more than two years...