Around the world
NEW PRIME MINISTER: Redha Malek, a member of the military-backed ruling council that has battled Muslim fundamentalists, was named prime minister of Algeria Saturday. Malek, who was foreign minister, replaced Belaid Abdesslam. The announcement by the ruling High State Committee gave no reason for the change, but Abdesslam's popularity has slipped since taking office last year.
RESIGNATION: Russia's foreign trade minister resigned Saturday amid allegations of massive corruption made by a special anti-crime task force set up by President Boris Yeltsin. Foreign Trade Minister Sergei Glaziyev said he was leaving his post over allegations made Wednesday by the Inter-departmental Commission on the Fight against Corruption and Crime that his department was responsible for high-level abuse of its office and embezzlement, the Interfax news agency said.
Across the nationNEW PROBE: The Navy is starting new investigations into the Tailhook scandal after dropping charges against half of the aviators suspected of wrongdoing because of weak evidence, a newspaper in San Diego reported Saturday. Vice Adm. J. Paul Reason, the naval officer presiding over the military's disciplinary hearings, has ordered three judge advocate general probes, scheduled to begin Aug. 30, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported.
STUDENT KILLED: A 25-year-old Japanese exchange student died Saturday, nearly a day and a half after being shot in the head near a San Francisco mass transit rail station. Kuriyama was found sprawled on a grassy area near the Concord metro station about 12:05 a.m. Friday. His body was found by police at the Bay Area Rapid Transit station with a gunshot wound to the back of his head.
In Washington
RESETTLEMENT UPROAR: About 80 members of Congress are urging President Clinton to bar the resettlement in the United States of former Iraqi prisoners of war, congressional aides said Saturday. The lawmakers, Republicans as well as Democrats, have signed letters to Clinton urging him to prohibit the entry of Iraqi soldiers captured by the United States during the gulf war, the aides said.