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Many Algerians heeded fundamentalist warnings to stay home. They stocked up on food and supplies ahead of time, and the streets of Algiers, the country's port-city capital, were eerily silent when the time for voting came. Open-air markets and schools were closed all week, in fact, lest they be targeted by the Islamists. As security forces 200,000 strong took up posts in Algiers and other large cities, motorists were stopped every few hundred yards at police and army check-points. At campaign rallies, supporters were often outnumbered by bodyguards and police brandishing pistols...
Claiming to have captured 61.3 percent of the vote, General Liamine Zeroual announced Friday that he was the big winner in the Algerian president election, saying that the vote constituted a victory for democracy. Others aren't so sure. The fundamentalist Islamic Salvation Front, the major opposition to the government, was barred from the elections, and some charge the election results were rigged. "Algerian diplomats admit openly that the purpose of the election is to give legitimacy to the government," says TIME's Lara Marlowe. "But how much credibility can the election have when the main opposition is not allowed...
...ensure that presidential polling goes off without a hitch on today. It won't be easy. "Algerian diplomats admit openly that the purpose of the election is to give legitimacy to the government," says Marlowe. "But how much credibility can the poll have when the main opposition, the fundamentalist Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) is not allowed to participate and its leaders are in prison? The election already resembles 'The Emperor's New Clothes,' with the incumbent, retired General Liamine Zeroual, strutting around in the invisible trappings of a fictitious democracy. Zeroual was appointed head of state by a military-dominated...
...ensure that presidential polling goes off without a hitch on Thursday. It won't be easy. "Algerian diplomats admit openly that the purpose of the election is to give legitimacy to the government," says Marlowe. "But how much credibility can the poll have when the main opposition, the fundamentalist Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) is not allowed to participate and its leaders are in prison? The election already resembles 'The Emperor's New Clothes,' with the incumbent, retired General Liamine Zeroual, strutting around in the invisible trappings of a fictitious democracy. Zeroual was appointed head of state by a military-dominated...
...Reckoning with Depression (Putnam; 286 pages; $23.95), Tracy Thompson, a reporter for the Washington Post, provides a harrowing chronicle of her battle against the demon she calls "a psychic freight train of roaring despair." Thompson is uncommonly thoughtful on many levels--from her fearful childhood in a Southern fundamentalist family, to her confused entanglement with a harshly supportive man, to her hospitalization in a mental ward and her sunlit rescue by Prozac. Thompson's reporter's eye is unsparing, and she writes with tough grace. About one of her more hopeful moments: "Life did not get easier. But living...