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WORLD, Page 47World NotesALGERIAAnother State Of Siege
Algeria's President Chadli Bendjedid last week took a daring
gamble that given the choice, Algerians will decline to replace
him with an Islamic fundamentalist. After two weeks of angry
antigovernment demonstrations by Islamic fundamentalists and
their supporters, Bendjedid agreed to hold both presidential and
parliamentary elections within the next six months in exchange
for a cessation of hostilities by the protesters.
Thousands of fundamentalists had battled against police,
demanding that elections scheduled for June 27 include the
presidency as well as the legislature. By the beginning of last
week, clouds of tear gas hung over the capital and about a dozen
people had been killed in what looked like a second Battle of
Algiers -- this time between the fundamentalist Islamic
Salvation Front, led by Abassi Madani, and the National
Liberation Front government, which has ruled Algeria since the
country's independence from France in 1962. In retaliation,
Bendjedid declared a state of siege, the postponement of
national elections and the dismissal of Prime Minister Mouloud
Hamrouche and his government. Two days later, he made his
concession to fundamentalist demands.