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...Algerian police ringed the airport, Interior Minister Abderahmane Meziane-Cherif rushed to the control tower and began negotiating with the hijackers via the cockpit radio. Using the pilot, Bernard Delhemme, to speak for them, the terrorists demanded the release from house arrest of Abassi Madani and Ali Belhadj, the leaders of the Islamic Salvation Front (F.I.S.), the political party that was banned by the Algerian government in 1992. "Start by freeing the women, the elderly and the children if you want us to start talking," replied Cherif. About four hours into the negotiations, the hijackers began releasing passengers...
...France, meanwhile, top officials had called off their Christmas holidays to deal with the crisis. At noon on Dec. 24, Foreign Minister Alain Juppe convened a crisis team, while Interior Minister Charles Pasqua met with aides long into the night. The first objective of the French was to persuade the Algerians to allow the elite National Gendarmes Intervention Group (G.I.G.N.) to provide "technical" assistance for a raid on the plane. The antiterrorist unit had been put on alert shortly after the plane's seizure. At 8 p.m. on Dec. 24, some nine hours after the Airbus was taken, about...
...ability to penetrate various interior psychological experiences without exploiting this creepy material is what makes "The Boys of St. Vincent" such a strong film. Part I deals explicitly with the twisted events that take place within the walls of the orphanage between the staff and the children entrusted to their care. Though the horror of the situation is captured through the terrified eyes of the young boys, the film skillfully enters the interior life of the priests as well. Images of the boys showering and scrubbing their fresh young bodies are seen through the watchfully lascivious eyes of the voyeuristic...
Just as Smith so acutely mapped the emotions of the young orphans in their faces, so too is he able to convey the interior psychological experience of Lavin's wife. The therapy sessions of Lavin--his substitute for the confession he never made during his reign of terror over St. Vincent--also stand as a complex tool in probing the introspective experiences of each character involve, as well as dissecting the soul and source of brutality...
...White House operatives are cranking out executive policy options that, they hope, would allow President Clinton to stay a nimble step ahead of Speaker-presumptive NEWT GINGRICH's government-trimming, voter-pleasing butcher's knife. Proposed initiatives -- none of which the President has yet agreed to -- include merging the Interior and Energy departments and abolishing Commerce altogether. While neither step looks likely, Commerce Secretary RON BROWN is already maneuvering to keep his bailiwick intact...