21.   Germany also has significant interests in Algeria and is the home of many fundamentalist opponents of the Algerian government.

22.   Gradually he said he became convinced by other Algerians that the Algerian government was murdering its own people, and that he became resolved to fight it.

23.   In March, the Algerian government imposed special security measures in all important oil regions, making access possible only with passes.

24.   In January, French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe called on the Algerian government to find some political accommodation with the fundamentalists.

25.   It remains unclear whether all the Islamic factions fighting the Algerian government would go along with the Rome proposals, which two major secularist parties also signed.

26.   Kepel said the political turning point came when Balladur insisted that the Algerian government allow the plane to fly to Marseilles.

27.   Most everything about the Algerian government remains murky.

28.   Nevertheless, outside powers, especially the United States and France, should pressure the Algerian government toward dialogue.

29.   Most other governments have generally supported the Algerian government and the elections it organized last year, though that support has begun to erode amid the continuing violence.

30.   None of the dead has been identified by the Algerian government, whose army is mired in an ever-expanding war against armed Islamic fundamentalists.