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...morning, five hours after the polls had closed, Algeria's Interior Minister stepped to the microphone at the government press center in the capital city of Algiers. Speaking in a monotone, Mohammed Salah Mohammedi delivered the startling news: the fundamentalist Islamic Salvation Front was ahead in Algeria's first multiparty election since the country's independence from France in 1962. Eventually the scope of the victory became plain: the Islamic party took a majority of the municipal and provincial councils, while the ruling National Liberation Front (F.L.N.) captured only one-third of them...
...fall in prices should help industrial countries reduce inflation. But for oil producers, lower prices could bring a precipitous drop in export earnings. OPEC members are so alarmed that Sadek Boussena of Algeria, the group's acting president, has been consulting with other members to consider calling an emergency meeting to deal with the glut...
...this standard -- the standard of America's response to the urban riots of the '60s -- Israel's handling of the intifadeh has been measured.) The relevant comparison is with Western democracies at war: to, say, the U.S. during the Civil War, the British in Mandatory Palestine, the French in Algeria...
...Israel," opined the Economist, "cannot in fairness test itself against a standard set by China and Algeria while still claiming to be part of the West." This argument, heard all the time, is a phony. Israel asks to be judged by the standard not of China and Algeria but of Britain and France, of Venezuela and India. By that standard, the standard of democracies facing similar disorders, Israel's behavior has been measured and restrained...
Similarly, human rights violations must be taken in context. A soldier in any country who is being attacked by stones from three different directions is not expected to stand still and take the punishment. Unlike in China and in Algeria, where in the past year peaceful demonstrations were broken up by a hail of gunfire and murder, the Israelis are reacting to the violent protests with considerable restraint. Dealing with such protests is a very difficult, but necessary, task that can never be done "peacefully." That is not to say that no abuses have occurred, but what can one really...