Word: lara
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...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 to participate and its leaders are in prison? The election already resembles 'The Emperor's New Clothes,' with Zeroual strutting around in the invisible trappings of a fictitious democracy. Zeroual was appointed head...
...capital has been saturated with security forces to ensure that Algeria's sham elections come off smoothly," TIME's Lara Marlowe reports, where armed guards are patrolling the streets hoping to 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...
...capital has been saturated with security forces to ensure that Algeria's sham elections come off smoothly," TIME's Lara Marlowe reports, where armed guards are patrolling the streets hoping to 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...
...Reported by Lisa Beyer, Johanna McGeary and Aharon Klein/Jerusalem, Lara Marlowe/Beirut, Scott MacLeod/Paris and James Carney and J.F.O McAllister/Washington
...become so violent that even 55 journalists have been killed in the three-year-old civil war, two of them since Sunday. Late Monday, 27-year-old Saida Djebaili was shot several times in the head in Algiers. "The violence will intensify as the November 16 election approaches," reports Lara Marlowe. "The insurgents are going to do everything in their power to disrupt the election, which, if it is held, will be like Iraq's election of Saddam. The military will undoubtedly maintain control of the government. Although the guerrillas have been extremely vicious, the government has been just...