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| | To Pull Algeria From the Brink |
 | | Of the seven parties at the talks, three alone, the Islamic Salvation Front, the National Liberation Front and the Front for Socialist Forces, had polled 78 percent of the popular vote in the elections of December 1991, which were later suspended by the country's military rulers. |
 | | The Islamic Salvation Front, or FIS, accepted the principle that political parties could alternate in power, the first time it has conceded this key principle. |
 | | Another reason for hope comes from the presence in Rome of Abdelhamid Mehri, the secretary-general of the National Liberation Front who, two weeks ago, was able to meet the two paramount FIS leaders, Abassi Madani and Ali Benhadj, both of them under house arrest in Algiers. |
| www.iht.com /articles/1995/01/19/edfran.php (1050 words) |
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