VOL. XXXVII

NO. 29

18 APRIL 1994

The Political Scene

The fundamentalists of the Front Islamique du Salut have welcomed thereplacement of Algerian Prime Minister Redha Malek by a technocrat with less ofa reputation as a hardliner. Israel and the PLO are continuing to inch towardsan agreement on Israel's withdrawal from Jericho and Gaza, despite a secondsuicide bomb attack inside Israel by the Islamic group Hamas, which the Israelisappear to be blaming on Jordan. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak...