WORLD IN BRIEF : ALGERIA : 5 Officials Dropped in Cabinet Reshuffle
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Algerian Prime Minister Mouloud Hamrouche and four of his Cabinet ministers were dropped from the politburo of the ruling National Liberation Front in a reshuffle prompted by its crushing electoral defeat last month. The shake-up capped a three-day meeting of the 268-member central committee of the ruling party after the upset victory by the fundamentalist Islamic Salvation Front in the June 12 elections.
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