The World - News from Aug. 5, 1985

Algeria announced that it will not attend a special Arab League summit due to open Wednesday in the Moroccan city of Casablanca. A Foreign Ministry statement said the summit convened by King Hassan II of Morocco would be divisive when the Arab world needs unity. Algeria is the fifth Arab nation to boycott the summit after Syria, South Yemen, Libya and Lebanon. Syria, it appears, is concerned that Hassan is trying to put an Arab League seal on the accord between the Palestine Liberation Organization and King Hussein of Jordan on a joint approach to Middle East peace talks.