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Out of couscous. (Algeria's National Liberation Front)
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The Economist (US)
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January 13, 1990
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Out of couscous
INTERPRETING the mysteries of Algeria's National Liberation Front (FLN), which has run the country since 1962, is like trying to solve Rubik's Cube blindfolded. The party has recently moved in two directions at once. President Chadli Benjedid, like those trying to reform entrenched single-party systems in Eastern Europe, is challenged both by party apparatchiks who fear the loss of their privileges and by the democratic forces he has himself unleashed. <...
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