Word: madani
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...conclave of generals who secretly make all key decisions in Algeria brought Zeroual back as Minister of Defense in July 1993, then promoted him to the presidency six months later. He has twice initiated talks with imprisoned F.I.S. leaders Abassi Madani and Ali Belhadj, and twice blamed them for the failure of these negotiations. His unsettling fluctuation between policies of "eradicating" the fundamentalists and seeking "conciliation" with them reflects the wavering debate between hawks and doves within Algeria's armed forces...
...Algerian police ringed the airport, Interior Minister Abderahmane Meziane-Cherif rushed to the control tower and began negotiating with the hijackers via the cockpit radio. Using the pilot, Bernard Delhemme, to speak for them, the terrorists demanded the release from house arrest of Abassi Madani and Ali Belhadj, the leaders of the Islamic Salvation Front (F.I.S.), the political party that was banned by the Algerian government in 1992. "Start by freeing the women, the elderly and the children if you want us to start talking," replied Cherif. About four hours into the negotiations, the hijackers began releasing passengers...
...presidency as well as the legislature. By the beginning of last week, clouds of tear gas hung over the capital and about a dozen people had been killed in what looked like a second Battle of Algiers -- this time between the fundamentalist Islamic Salvation Front, led by Abassi Madani, and the National Liberation Front government, which has ruled Algeria since the country's independence from France in 1962. In retaliation, Bendjedid declared a state of siege, the postponement of national elections and the dismissal of Prime Minister Mouloud Hamrouche and his government. Two days later, he made his concession...
Many Algerian voters were not endorsing radical fundamentalism when they voted for the Islamic Salvation Front. Rather, they found common cause with the front's president, Abbassi Madani, who called the ruling F.L.N. a "party of failure." Promised Madani: "We guarantee the freedom of all who have ideas on Algeria's future." While such words are encouraging, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini promoted a similar message before he returned to Iran in 1979 from exile in France...
...Madani's party has put forward no concrete proposal to deal with Algeria's sagging economy. There is no guarantee that he can control the radicals, like those who took to the streets last week chanting, "Oh, Jews! The army of Muhammad will return!" And his party's aim to establish the Islamic legal code, known as the shari'a, conjures visions of public amputations. Middle- class women are particularly anxious: Madani has proposed that women be paid to stay home and not compete in the tight job market...