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FIS-Ski - Home Page - Summer (226 words) |
 | The FIS Continental Cup Ski Jumping started in Velenje and Kranj (SLO) last weekend. |
| With 231 days remaining until the start of the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Liberec (CZE), the organizing committee last week joined forces with the Czech Prime Minister to inform on the status of event preparations |
| The official kick-off meeting for the first LG FIS Snowboard World Cup season took place last week. |
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Islamic Salvation Front - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1557 words) |
| The FIS was founded shortly afterwards in Algiers on February 18, 1989, led by an elderly sheikh, Abbassi Madani, and a charismatic young mosque preacher, Ali Belhadj. |
| Although FIS had condemned Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, public opinion shifted in Iraq's favor once it was apparent that Western intervention was inevitable, and FIS made political capital out of outdoing the government in gestures opposing Desert Storm, including massive demonstrations, blood donation drives, and even calls for volunteers to fight in Iraq. |
| The strike itself was a failure, but the demonstrations FIS organized in Algiers were huge, and succeeded in pressuring the government; it was persuaded in June to call the strike off by the promise of fair parliamentary elections. |
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