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...Belgian, Swiss or Canadian. One attraction for recruits: new identity papers that protect them from the police. The Deuxième claims to have killed or wounded some 4,000 rebels during the Algerian war, while only 171 of its men were killed and 427 wounded. The unit remained neutral when the First Foreign Parachute Regiment backed an attempted coup against President Charles de Gaulle and was subsequently disbanded...
...Keyhole Unit. When the Bureau of Reclamation constructed the Keyhole Reservoir in 1952, it acquired a large amount of land near eastern Wyoming's Belle Fourche River. Now the bureau proposes to sell off 280 acres, most of it in scattered parcels near, not directly abutting, the reservoir. Dry and covered with sagebrush, the land might interest cattlemen looking for grazing areas, especially if it can be acquired at a bargain price. Property in the area is currently fetching $125 to $225 per acre...
Within six hours loyalists from the 12,500-member Kenyan army and the 1,800-member General Service Unit (a paramilitary police force) rallied to beat back the rebels and began to restore order. To be safe, Moi finally placed virtually every man in Kenya's air force under arrest...
...charges a moderate $2,500 to $6,000 a week for two bedrooms and two baths, plus the use of a village-owned fleet of 22-ft. to 25-ft. cabin cruisers docked outside. About 100 miles to the north in Madeira Beach, Fla., another attractive timeshare, the 46-unit Commodore Beach Club, has been in operation since January 1981, and is already 95% sold...
Once they become part-time owners, people sometimes find that their dreams turn into nightmares. During a year, dozens of families can wind up occupying a unit, with some stealing the linen or perhaps wrecking the living-room sofa and thereby adding to upkeep costs. Says Barney Logan, a condo dweller in Honolulu, whose 47-unit building now includes about a dozen time-share apartments: "When we first came here, nothing was said about time sharing. Then the flood started. There was overuse of utilities, maintenance costs went up, and sometimes you couldn't even get an elevator, there...