Word: belgian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...State Department. It indicated that a William Daugherty and a Malcolm Kalp, who the militants claimed were among the hostages, were CIA officers. The document also implied that there were two other CIA operatives on the embassy staff who were not named. In addition, the students displayed a faked Belgian passport and detailed instructions on how it was to be used with a set of forged immigration stamps to give the appearance that the passport bearer had gone in and out of Iran. The militants said the faked passport belonged to a hostage named Thomas Ahern Jr., who they said...
...surplus of ivory coming out of the Congo prompted the Belgian government to offer the material free to sculptors. Many accepted, and the ivory statuette soon stood tall in the art deco movement. Isadora Duncan by Alberto Savinio (Franco Maria Ricci; 184 pages; $125) shows just how exquisite some of these miniature sculptures became. All works pictured here were inspired, in one way or another, by the blithe spirit of American Dancer Isadora Duncan. Artists like Demeter Chiparus and Friederich Preiss, whose names are familiar today only to collectors, shaped ivory as if it were butter; the dancing figures they...
...missiles on their own soil. Britain has indicated a willingness to add to its minuscule nuclear force; Belgium has also signaled that it would be willing to go along. The Netherlands, on the other hand, seems too divided on the issue at the moment to make a decision. As Belgian Foreign Minister Henri Simonet told TIME: "Without ratification of SALT II, it will be politically impossible for the West Germans-and even more so for us Belgians and the Dutch -to say that we are going to modernize our theater nuclear forces. I will not accept the risk. It would...
...casinos to the terror of Turkish prisons. "I am a thief," he tells his brother while priming him for the trade, but Sobhrai doesn't do himself justice. Accompanied by two or three of his gang--a strange Pakestanian named Ajay, a marvelous Melanesian named May, an oafish Belgian named Hugey and a 30-year-old Canadian farmer's daughter who throws away her sedate life for the promises of a man she met once in Bangkok--he roams the Asian continent, Sobhraj is more than a simple drug and rob man; he is a conman, hustler and egomaniac...
Next day yet another bomb went off, this time at a bandstand in Brussels, where a British military band was to give a concert as part of the Belgian capital's millennium celebrations. The I.R.A. is suspected of having planted it. The bomb injured four band members and twelve spectators; no one was killed. Intelligence experts have believed for some time that Irish terrorists have a base in Europe, whose operatives were responsible for the gunning down last March of the British Ambassador to The Netherlands, Sir Richard Sykes, and possibly the car bombing from which outgoing NATO Supreme...