VOL. XXXV

NO. 23

9-MARCH-1992

The Political Scene

The political reforms announced by King Fahd of Saudi Arabia do not give thecountry a parliament or a constitution in any conventional sense of the words,but in some respects they do go further than many people expected. A court inAlgiers has dissolved the Front Islamique du Salut (FIS), which could provokethe confrontation the FIS has been seeking to avoid. In the bilateral peacetalks in Washington, the Palestinians have rejected Israel's ideas...