Word: algerian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Richard Branson is down--and lucky to be alive. Just 19 hours into the flamboyant British tycoon's second attempt to make the first nonstop, round-the-world balloon flight, the 174-foot "Global Challenger" experienced technical problems and the three-man crew was forced to land in the Algerian wilderness. "At one stage I was standing by the door chucking out everything movable - oil canisters, food, anything - to halt the descent," Branson said. "I thought, "What am I doing up here?" The acknowledged hero of the safe landing was engineer Alex Ritchie, himself a last-minute replacement...
...France Info radio, the blast occurred at 6:05 p.m. at the underground Port-Royal station, which serves the RER regional line. French Prime Minister Alain Juppe, who arrived on the scene soon after the blast, said no one has yet claimed responsibility, but suspicion immediately fell upon Algerian militants who had claimed responsibility for a string of similar bombings in 1995. Initial reports by French television said the bomb was created from a gas canister similar to those used in the 1995 attacks. The device was planted in the fourth train car, which was severely burned...
...Last December, British police raided the London residence of an Algerian named Rachid Ramda and found communications from the Armed Islamic Group, an Algerian organization suspected in seven bombings in France that killed seven and wounded 180 last year. The police also discovered records of wire-fund transfers and traced them to bin Laden's headquarters in Khartoum...
...imagine being whisked to Algiers, where you are surrounded by fugitive Black Panthers, white-bread revolutionaries and Algerian police. Then picture this: a mysterious siren comes swinging to your rescue, sweeps you off your feet and promises to deliver you from your nightmare by marrying you. For a honeymoon, she wants you to meet her folks at their estate in Afghanistan. The folks, though, turn out to be four U.S. narcs with cuffs and extradition papers...
...WILD REEDS Young love rarely seemed so tormented or rapturous as it does in Andre Techine's memory film. Political rivalries cloud a bucolic French town and Algerian war drums beat, but the main convulsions are romantic. A great date movie for teens with high sat scores and overheated hearts...