VOL. XXXIX

No. 5

30 October 1995

The Political Scene

France and Algeria disagree as to why the controversial meeting between their presidents in New York was called off at the last moment. The US Congress has gratuitously provided ammunition to extremists on both sides of the Arab-Israeli divide by voting to move the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. Iraq is to create a senate and hold parliamentary elections in the next phase of what is described as "democratic construction." Kuwait...