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He needed help, and in a hurry. But a Soviet military intelligence analyst who wanted to defect to the West recently was almost not allowed to. When this official approached the gates of the U.S. embassy in Tunis, he attempted to make himself understood to the Marine guard. The befuddled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defection: No Jumping in Line | 7/28/1986 | See Source »

Hussein's crackdown caught Palestinian leaders unawares. Without warning, squads of the blue-uniformed Central Security Force spread through Amman shutting down Fatah offices, including the house in the Al Nuzha district that the Tunis-based Arafat used during visits. Jordanian agents seized Fatah documents and applied a seal of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East Death Before Daybreak | 7/21/1986 | See Source »

In developing countries where the American invasion has become full-scale only during the past 20 years, its messages are starker. An artifact of American pop is more vivid and more freighted with meaning in Tunis or Bogota than in Berlin or Ottawa. The explanation for pop's seductiveness seems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop Goes the Culture | 6/16/1986 | See Source »

In Tunis, someone in a passing car hurled a firebomb at the compound housing U.S. Marine guards and other staff members of the U.S. Embassy in Tunisia. An embassy spokesman said an American-owned automobile caught fire but no one was hurt. Later, two young Tunisians on a motorbike set...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Terrorists Strike Back Around the World | 4/18/1986 | See Source »

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, in his interview with TIME last Saturday, revealed that he knew of the Klinghoffer murder when he dispatched the hijackers to Tunisia. But he heatedly denied that he had lied when he said, a day before they left for Tunis, that they were no longer in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: Piecing Together the Drama | 10/28/1985 | See Source »

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