Word: algerian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Next stop was Algiers, where local officials responded to the plane's landing request by closing their airport. But they changed their minds after the arrival of an urgent plea from President Reagan to Algerian President Chadli Bendjedid. U.S. officials, who well remember the important role played by Algerian diplomats in settling the Iranian hostage crisis almost five years ago, had hoped that the hijacking could be resolved one way or another in Algiers. But after remaining on the runway there for five hours, during which time they released another 21 passengers, the hijackers ordered the pilot to take...
...next destination turned out once more to be Algiers, where the plane landed, for the second time, at 7:45 a.m. local time (2:45 a.m. E.D.T.) Saturday. Algerian officials authorized the landing on condition that the hijackers not use violence. Before leaving Beirut, it turned out, the hijackers had demanded that Ali Atwa be released by Greek authorities and brought to Algiers. Otherwise, they said, they would kill all eight Greeks on the plane, including Singer Demis Roussos. Greek authorities complied and sent Atwa to Algiers in an Olympic Airways plane...
...Chilean military aircraft take them on to Lieut. Marsh Base in Antarctica for a spot of penguin watching. Looking for something really different? For $751 you can fly from Paris to Tamanrasset, an Algerian town at the edge of the Sahara. From there you travel by Land Rover on a two-week trek into the desert. You can ride a camel too, but beware of scorpions...
...will help bail them out of this crisis, they are likely to face another problem in the spring, when demand falls off. Even if OPEC agrees to tighter output quotas, many members may continue to flout those limits. "When we make a commitment, we must keep it," says Algerian Oil Minister Belkacem Nabi. "Those in OPEC who don't respect their promises have done us much harm...
...July, he had sufficiently rebuilt his authority within the P.L.O. to call a Palestine National Council meeting for Sept. 25 in Algiers. Assad, alarmed that Arafat might use the occasion to diminish the Syrian leader's influence in the P.L.O., flew to Algiers last month to pressure Algerian President Chadli Bendjedid into canceling the P.L.O. get-together. Chadli agreed. Hussein was so dismayed by the Syrian President's heavyhanded interference that he decided to make the burgeoning Jordanian relationship with Egypt official. "Jordan was fed up with it all," said a Western diplomat. "It just decided that enough...