Word: algerian
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...planned meeting of all 13 oil ministers was put off, and Algerian Oil Minister Belkacem Nabi said the ministers would meet today...
Ever since the trial of Accused Nazi War Criminal Klaus Barbie began in Lyons last May, Defense Attorney Jacques Verges had threatened to put the conscience of France in the dock. He hinted at possible revelations of French collaboration with the Nazis and of human-rights violations during the Algerian war of the 1950s. Last week Verges presented his case -- and he revealed almost nothing...
Verges and Barbie will probably try to blur the distinctions. They may go further and remind France that the nation was itself guilty of torture and murder during the Algerian conflict. War is war, they may say. In war everything is allowed. As Barbie remarked to one journalist, "The point is to win. It doesn't matter...
...Castro had become something like the Algerian city of Oran that Albert Camus described in The Plague--a city separated from the outside world, where death and the threat of death hung over everyone. Very often they [AIDS victims] were athletic, ambitious, good-looking men who one day found a purple spot somewhere on their body. The purple spot was the nightmare that haunted the sleep of the Castro. Waking up in the morning, men would search their bodies for it; not finding it, they would search again the next day. Those who found it went...
...later years Paris became a home to exiles from North Africa, including the deposed Algerian President Ahmed ben Bella. Among the Iranian exiles who found refuge there in the 1970s was the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, who lived in the dreary suburb of Neauphle-le-Chateau. After his triumphal return to Iran, Khomeini chased the Shah's last Prime Minister, Shapour Bakhtiar, out of the country. Where did Bakhtiar go? To Paris, along with a deposed Iranian President, Abolhassan Banisadr...