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Recounts the violence in Gaza City following the canceled ceremony in which the Israelis were to turn the hotel-turned-police barracks over to PLO representatives. Citing snags in the Cairo negotiations, Yasser Arafat's representative sent word he would not accept the building. Seven Israelis blown up in a suicide attack in Afula; Thursday shooting near the town of Ashdod; Numbers who have died in the past six months.

Presents a firsthand report from Bosnia territory that has been seized by Serb gunmen by dispossessing Muslims and Croats. Serbs feel fully justified in their large-scale `ethnic cleansing'; Purification of Muslims from towns and villages in northwestern Bosnia a hollow victory for Serbs, destroying prosperity as well as security; Interest in improving living conditions in territory overtaken; `Cleansing' in Kozarac especially thorough; Tales from Muslims.

Describes the death of Anwar Aziz on December 13, 1993, in a demonstration of scorn for the failure of the Israelis to begin withdrawal of troops from the Gaza Strip. Members of the Islamic Jihad, an extremist Muslim group, deployed a suicide car bomber just outside the Gaza City limits. Three Israeli soldiers were wounded. Brief profile of Anwar; Comments from family members on his martyrdom.

Reports on the bloodshed in Algeria during the 40th anniversary of their independence struggles against France. Boy Scouts killed by a bomb at a cemetery; Bomb casualties during a war commemoration; Death of military commander Colonel Djelloul Cherif in a confrontation with militant Islamists; Killings as a response to President Liamine Zeroual's abandon of a dialogue with Islamic Salvation Front leaders.