VOL. XXXIII

NO. 29

23-APRIL-1990

The Political Scene

Algeria's ruling FLN party has defused a potentially violent confrontationwith its main rival, the Front Islamique du Salut (FIS), by calling off acounterdemonstration to an FIS march on the presidential palace in Algiers on20 April, but the two groups - plus some 20 other parties and a host ofindependent candidates - will fight it out at the polls in June in local andprovincial elections which will represent the first test of the country's...