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ALGIERS, Algeria — As thousands of soldiers kept an eye out for
terrorists, Algerians picked candidates Thursday in the first local elections since 1900 — the last of four
votes aimed at squelching an Islamic
revival that has mushroomed into a
relentless and bloody revolt
Security forces kept a discreet
watch on voting areas in the capital,
but were out in force in some suburbs that have been flashpoints for
violence.
Soldiers in camouflage patrolled
near the decrepit schoolhouse that
served as a polling station in
Eucalyptus, at the start of the socalled "Triangle of Death" just south
of Algiers. The region — a stronghold
of the most militant Islamic faction
— has been the focal point of the
insurgency-that has killed an estimated 75,000 people in nearly six
years.
Violence wracking Algeria was a
favorite theme of many of the candidates — 10 of whom were killed
while campaigning — and the dominant reason cited by voters for going
to the polls.
"I'm voting above all for safety, so
that my children dont die with their
throats slit," said Farah, a 36-yearold teacher and mother of three.
"If I came here to vote, it's to make
the country stronger," said a stooped
88-year-old woman, Tala Matek
Yamina, in El Harrach, a working
class suburb that has been the site of
numerous .bombings. "I voted for
Algeria. It's my duty."
The Interior Ministry said 66.76
percent of the country's 16 million
voters had cast ballots.
It was the first vote for local and
regional officials since 1900, when
the Islamic Salvation Front swept
into the political spotlight with a
resounding victory, taking nearly
half of all city halls and all major
cities.
The now'banned party called for a
boycott of Thursday's vote for some
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representatives. More than 84,000
candidates were running nation^
wide. Final results were not expeoled before Friday.
The pro-government National
Democratic Rally won June legislative elections, taking 157 of the 380
seats. International observers noted
numerous cases of fraud.
While security forces battle
Islamic insurgents, President^
Uamine Zeroual, a retired general?!
has.undertaken a Vast restructurings
of the nation's political institutiotBC
that — under a veneer of democracy
—gives the president greater control**
and squashes militant Islam.
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Thursday's election brought th<£C
country full circle, following a preset
dential vote in 1995 and a referenȣ
dum on the'constitution in 1906. But*
was unlikely to snuff out violence,
blamed mainly on the ArmeC
Islamic Group, the radical insur£
gency faction that has claimed^
responsibility for a series of brutalk
massacres since August around th<£
capital.
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The winners of the latest poll witjh
serve as a pool from which two-~
thirds of the members of a n
upper house of parliament will
drawn. Zeroual will pick the oth
third — giving him virtual control o
the legislature.
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Nearly half the winners wiBC
replace appointees of the military
backed government that fired*
Salvation Front representatives in •»
crackdown on fundamentalist^
poised to win a January 1992 legislqg
tive vote. The army canceled tha£
vote, triggering the insurgency. -*
The Islamic Salvation Army, th£
Salvation Front's military wing*
called a unilateral cease-fire Oct. !•*
"Politically, socially and institig
tionally, terrorism is being isolated^
Foreign Minister Ahmed Attaf toQK
reporters.
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Security forces have worked fq£
weeks to clean out an Armed Islami*
Group stronghold in Ouled AlhiE
south of Algiers, uncovering $
labyrinth of tunnels, bunkers, bomhr
making factories, documents aiw|
supplies stolen in village raids.
This week, security forces
the group's leader in the eastern
of Constantine, the French-language;
newspaper El Watan reported
Thursday, identifying the "emir" a*
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