FT921-9615 _AN-CBKBQADPFT 920211 FT 11 FEB 92 / Eight Algerian police killed after clampdown By FRANCIS GHILES EIGHT Algerian policemen were ambushed and killed yesterday, the first full day of a state of emergency imposed by the military-backed rulers to crush Moslem fundamentalist agitation for a resumption of the electoral process, writes Francis Ghiles. The killings were reported as the head of Algeria's five-man presidency, Mr Mohammed Boudiaf, told the nation last night that he had imposed the 12-month emergency to fight fundamentalism as embodied in the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS). Speaking in a vernacular Arabic all his compatriots would have understood well, he argued against any dialogue with the FIS. 'When I stretched out my hand, they sent only a threatening letter.' His broadcast came at the end of a day that witnessed the killing of six policemen in an ambush by fundamentalist gunmen in the Casbah, the ancient heart of the capital. Two other policemen were stabbed to death yesterday by the companions of a man they had arrested in Bordj Menaiel, 40km east of Algiers. See Feature, 'Limits of Repression' The Financial Times London Page 3