- Title: ALGERIA PREPARES FOR SELF-DETERMINATION REFERENDUM
- Date: 30th June 1962
- Summary: 1. GV BANNER DRAPED ACROSS MAIN STREET IN ALGIERS 0.05 2. GV PAN..BANNER "LE PEUPLE ARTISAN DE L'INDEPENDENCE VOTEZ OUI" 0.10 3. GV ARABIC BANNER 0.13 4. SCU REFERENDUM POSTER (2 SHOTS) 0.21 5. SCU POSTER WITH MAN HOLDING TORCH AND "VOTEZ OUI" 0.23 6. SCU REFERENDUM POSTER 0.26 7. LV BANNER IN STREET 0.29 8. SCU PAN..DITTO 0.34 9. GV ALGERIAN FLAG FLYING FROM BUILDING 0.38 10. GV MOSLEMS OUTSIDE 0.41 11. SV..DITTO 0.45 12. SV PARTY WORKER INSPECTS ALGERIAN FLAG 0.49 13. GV ZOOM IN..TO MAN SEWING ALGERIAN FLAG 0.55 14. SV MAN PAINTS ALGERIAN EMBLEM 1.00 15. SCU..DITTO 1.02 16. GV PAN..DOWN TO SMALL BOY ON PAVEMENT SELLING ALGERIAN FLAGS AND EMBLEMS 1.08 17. SCU PAN..EMBLEMS 1.10 18. STV EMBLEM BOUGHT 1.16 19. SV PEOPLE IN STREET WITH EMBLEMS 1.21 20. SV VOTING PAPERS SORTED OUT 1.25 21. GTV PAPERS 1.28 22. SV PAPERS COUNTED 1.32 23. SCU GIRL COUNTS CARDS 1.35 24. STV PAN..PARTY WORKERS 1.43 25. SV PEOPLE WATCH FROM DOOR 1.47 26. GV SMALL BOY ZOOM IN TO BADGE ON HIS BLAZER WITH EMBLEM OF ALGERIAN FLAG 1.52 Initials KB/S/MGT/ES Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 15th July 1962 13:00
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- Location: ALGIERS, ALGERIA
- Country: Algeria
- Reuters ID: LVA767BJ9RVV4L9YVNO9OJX51M60
- Story Text: AS THE LAST FEW DAYS PASSED BEFORE THE REFERENDUM WHICH WILL DECIDE ITS FUTURE, ALGERIA - FOR SO LONG A BLOODBATH OF TERRORISM - SETTLED INTO AN AIR OF COMPARATIVE TRANQUILLITY. ALL RESISTANCE FROM THE OAS SEEMED TO HAVE COLLAPSED AND ONE OF ITS LEADERS, JEAN-JACQUES SUSINI - ONCE CONSIDERED THE MOST EXTREME OF THE SECRET ARMY CHIEFS - APPEALED TO THE COUNTRY'S EUROPEAN POPULATION TO VOTE "YES" IN THE REFERENDUM ON JULY 1.
MAIN ACTIVITY IN ALGIERS WAS PREPARATION FOR THE VOTING WHICH HAS ALREADY BEGUN IN SOME PARTS OF THE SAHARA. AN OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF SIX MILLION ELECTORS WAS EXPECTED TO REPLY "YES" TO THE QUESTION: "DO YOU WISH ALGERIA TO BE AN INDEPENDENT STATE COOPERATING WITH FRANCE IN CONDITIONS DEFINED BY THE DECLARATIONS OF MARCH 19, 1962?" THE PROVISIONAL PREMIER, MR. BEN KHEDDA, HAS CALLED FOR "THE STRICTEST ORDER AND DISCIPLINE" DURING THE REFERENDUM.
SO CONFIDENT OF THE RESULT IS THE POPULATION THAT A MAJOR INDUSTRY HAS SPRUNG UP, THE MANUFACTURE OF THE GREEN ALGERIAN FLAG WITH ITS WHITE STAR AND CRESCENT. THE EMBLEMS OF THE NEW ALGERIA ARE EVERYWHERE, FROM THE LAPEL OF THE SMALLEST CHILD TO THE FLAGPOLE IN THE FLN BUILDING.
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FRENCH SYSTEM, BALLOT PAPERS ARE DISTRIBUTED BEFORE THE ELECTION. ON THIS OCCASION THEY ARE PRINTED IN BOTH ARABIC AND FRENCH: THE "YES" BALLOT IS ON WHITE PAPER, THE "NO" BALLOT ON ORANGE PAPER, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE ILLITERATE.
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