In the next issue you will read: 1. A letter of complaint from the Hoxha family addressed to international organizations 2. F. Nano: The road to Europe passes through Greece

Vlorë, its land and coastline, has a wonder that is not ours. Tano, the Karids of Land and Sea Vlorë, its land and coastline, has a wonder that is not ours... Nature gives it everything, everything a person needs for a comfortable life. If you go there and observe it carefully, you will understand a perfect harmony of natural riches that make this place prosperous. Average temperature 18°C, 220 millimeters of rainfall, enough to favor a vegetation marked by forest belts, where alpine... with every step you pass a bush with beautiful and rare animals, hares, martens, foxes, squirrels, wolves, I don't know, without stopping at the wolf-like sounds. But some ...? They left not a telephone wire, not a cable strand from those of the cement factory’s telephone system, not the steel ropes of oil wells un stolen. They need them for hunting grounds! The masters of this kind have, as if feverish, taken over the entire forest area of Llogara, Karaburun, Çumenishtë, and Fterrë. They left not a wild boar standing. Not only the boar. Martens (for the fur), deer, roe deer, partridge and Pér[?] are also heading toward abduction; everything in the forests seems to have found, long ago, something that never leaves it. “Let us not scare them with empty talk,” said the teacher, who for hunting must use the elegant method of didactics. For feuds and walls, their customary habits. But these have not been forgotten. Besides the weapons intended for this purpose, those with bullets (rifles) are also being used. If only it were when the forest is roaring... as if there were a military range... The sons of conservatives who abandon political rifles, through unknown weapons in the country, or imported from abroad, have obtained light weapons. It seems they will declare war on Albanian nature in order to turn it into scorched earth. What until yesterday kept us isolated, together with some pseudodemons in blue-pink, burdens, the liberals and foreigners... A large number of Italians appeared recently, but that did not stop them and no law was passed. Yes, but not even a voice was raised to protest the foreign influx. They occupied entire areas such as Mali i Bardhë, Shashica, Llogara, and the Vjosa River; to seize the free prey of open hunting. With modern cars, with packs of hounds in the manner of Ancient Rome, they hunt every night! By day they turned the whole thing into their own slaughterhouse, but at night it is with hounds. Under the diktat of school prosecutors, the bee cards. Films for killing scrap are increasing. The liberal conservative gains some villa under the table (that is what they say in Vlorë) at the expense of nature. “Friends, and for sleeping and for parking cars, as a base they have the houses of the roadside people... oh God! GANI LEKA, BESNIK VELA (Continues on page 2)

Read on page 3: THE GANG OF XHEVDET MUSTAFE

Meditations After the PP(S) Congress Among other things... PS, AS A LEFT-WING FORCE, IS THE SURE GUARANTEE TO TAKE US INTO RIGHT-WING EUROPE. PS’S prediction, during the electoral campaign, that left-wing forces would come to power in most Western European countries, was fully confirmed to its own detriment. Right-wing forces came to power everywhere, even in Sweden. PS, STILL NOT ACCEPTED INTO THE SOCIALIST INTERNATIONALS, THIS FACT GIVES EVERY GUARANTEE THAT WITH IT AT THE HEAD ALBANIA WILL CERTAINLY BE ACCEPTED INTO RIGHT-WING AND CAPITALIST EUROPE. TO REGISTER WITH THE MINISTRY OF JUSTICE OF ALBANIA, PS NEEDED 300 SIGNATURES; IT GOT THEM TO REGISTER WITH THE SOCIALIST INTERNATIONAL. IT WANTED 100,000 SIGNATURES. PR HAD 100,000 MEMBERS, WHEREAS PS HAS 100,000 MEMBERS. DELEGATE

Dr. Gramoz Pashko, after shocking the economy, has begun to think about the shock of the rearrangement. Dr. Pashko Applauds... Himself Dr. Gramoz Pashko, after shocking the economy, has begun to think about the shock of the rearrangement. Always sincerely, without prejudice, without prejudice. As always, the doctor: only to cure! Results will come soon and will be reflected in the pages of the serious and patriotic organ of “Zëri i popullit,” shocked by the... Stability government. Parliament was caught by surprise by the mournful tones of Pashko, who announced A. Hajdari’s DEPARTURE. This is hard to understand, because what would Mr. Hajdari have done if he were still himself in Parliament and heard the moved Pashko? And, secondly, how would Pashko himself feel if he heard the farewell speech in absentia? The truth is only one, figures of the right wing: A. Hajdari and Ismail Kadareja. Pashko had both of them as friends. Kadareja left, and Pashko then defended him to the “voice” of America, not to some “other Voice.” In the end Kadareja returned, declared that he supports Berisha without any reservation, and thus supporting him is the duty of all intellectuals. But Dr. Pashko, it seems, is destined to lose another friend. “He left for an indefinite time,” Pashko declared. His departure will be felt, just like Kadareja’s departure. Although the doctor rarely jokes, this statement should be taken seriously. But Parliament did not seem ready to mourn the desired dissidences. Perhaps only because “A File for Homer” is precisely Kadareja’s crisis. And would Azem Hajdari himself dare to pray using his name? When in all interviews and rallies (?) he has made it clear that anyone who follows the doctor... Berisha will never be disappointed? Would Hajdari feel hurt by the (deceptive) comparison with Kadareja? No one denies Azem Hajdari for the values he had, nor for the merit that even Dr. Pashko himself supposedly learned democracy from him. There. The contribution of every democrat is recorded by democracy, and it is precisely by it that his possible role and necessity are verified. Why did the doctor not press Hajdari to leave sooner, when the plane had not yet even taken off in the eyes of the public? When had he begun, from the very dawn of democracy, to speak of this departure? And then it is not known whether Pashko expressed it as “God forbid,” or “God willing,” that Azem Hajdari would return without exile? And at a rally he would tell the truth and nothing but the truth, as he knew how to tell it?! And it is known that Azem Hajdari has recently had headaches. There have also been people concerned about his distress, people who have befriended him and attributed to him things he himself has neither claimed nor wants. Pashko’s applause, for example! RAPO OBLIKA

Albania is more interested than any other country in a shared European press, for the simple reason that for 50 years it was the most oppressed country and it continues to be the poorest country on the continent. THE LESS AID WE NEED TO GET OUT OF THE TRAP WE HAVE FALLEN INTO Albania is more interested than any other country in a shared European press, for the simple reason that for 50 years it was the most oppressed country and it continues to be the poorest country on the continent. There are no precise data on current per capita income, but some economists think income is at the level of the poorest African countries. How it is possible for a European state to live in such conditions will take time to explain. In the elections of 22 March last year in Albania, communism was defeated and democracy won. For at least 500 years this Albanian land has lived under foreign occupations and for a 15-year period under a dark monarchy. Today, for the first time, our people are trying to live in democracy. But it must also be understood that democracy has no meaning without legal structures to support it and enable economic development. Legal and state structures are being built with difficulty, while the economy is in a complete crisis. It is believed that this crisis can only be overcome through rapid privatization and by giving free rein to individual initiative for the common good. A necessary element is also the attraction of foreign capital. Albania’s natural resources are estimated at 70 billion dollars. So the conditions exist for any country with 3 million inhabitants to create a decent life. The whole issue is to find the least painful ways to get out of the trap of force into which we have fallen. The West sees privatization and free individual initiative as the levers of salvation. But using them is not so easy, because among other things they also involve psychological factors. In Albania, communist rule lasted longer than in any other Eastern country, with the exception of Russia. In recent years the people nurtured the idea that once democracy triumphed, the civilized world would welcome us warmly with all its blessings, like a lost child who has finally returned home. Now this people, which clung so strongly to that somewhat naive idea, unexpectedly shows hotheadedness and demands miracles from the government. So there is a shock, a lack of conviction and trust that we can get to the other side by our own efforts and with the assistance offered by the West. The specifically Albanian nature of this psychological state can change only after the first concrete steps toward improvement are seen, on the condition that the government acts with complete transparency. Meanwhile, the government, in wanting to calm tensions, often explains that it is carrying the burden of cannibalism on its shoulders, without making this fully public. Then, instead of cooperation, a kind of game of surveillance develops between the people and the government, with daily petitions and minimal governmental demands. The implementation of the necessary economic reforms, which may in practice be the key to social peace, will bring new social tensions. This situation can be faced through the coordination of all political forces of the democratic camp. But this coordination is not complete, because the party that came to power, while losing appeal beyond its votes, preferred to take upon itself all responsibility for governance. The rule of a single party is objectionable in another respect as well: it runs counter to pluralism and does not favor the development of true democracy. In our internal situation, another external factor adds to the complexity: around 3 million more Albanians living in Yugoslavia. The conflicts in the former Yugoslavia began with Kosovo and will end with Kosovo. If European structures and the United Nations do not intervene quickly and forcefully for a reasonable solution, the Serbs and Montenegrins will suddenly attack the unprotected Albanian population, creating for us a war threat and opening the way to Balkan conflagration.

The shortage of basic food items in the towns of Peshkopi and Bulqizë has for months now been encouraging all kinds of traders. Corruption - Speculation - Corruption ONE DIBR HAS NO OIL, GREATER DIBRA LIVES OFF US The shortage of basic food items in the towns of Peshkopi and Bulqizë has for months now been encouraging all kinds of traders. Food rations are not being distributed regularly either, at a time when television says they are guaranteed. For months now, washing powder, oil, sugar, flour, rice and butter have been missing from the market, as well as powdered milk for babies and the like. The residents of Peshkopi are at a loss, trying to explain some new cooking method that “revives” the market. Only the swindlers profit from this shortage, selling imported oil for 50 lek per liter, while olive oil costs 100 lek per liter. Likewise, private sellers from the villages also profit by selling butter at a price of up to 150 lek. At such a price not everyone can buy it with the meager income from social assistance. Among the basket items most in demand today is oil, without which nothing can be made. The many aid shipments and the considerable quantities that have arrived have not been distributed, but one thing is certain and documented: speculation has been carried out with it, just as with flour and butter. While in the Dibër district these items are very hard to find and at high prices, in Dibër e Madhe they are available in abundance, and it is precisely the oil from our aid that crosses the border toward Dibër, in the Republic of Macedonia. I was there these days as a visitor in Dibër e Madhe and saw with my own eyes how our swindlers were taking oil from state to state, for a few dollars. I also saw a woman who blocked the door before the eyes of foreign men[?]. I do not want this oil crossing the border from mouth to mouth, brothers who are starving for bread, and this problem too[?]. Dozens of stalls were claiming that the meat from our livestock was being sold in Dibër e Madhe for dollars, as was the aid butter, while in the town of Peshkopi... So, as can be seen, the basket items have been swallowed up by swindlers who profit from the “generosity of the warehousemen,” while television shows scenes of the successful actions of the financial police. But are they really like that? The facts show they are not. As long as the black market continues to thrive and warehousemen play games with the basket foods, how can they be guaranteed? The people themselves do not know what the state organs are grinding away at. They want food rations on the market, so they don’t have to worry their heads about them, because children don’t care; they want food so they can grow and later work in peace. The world is helping Albania get out of the mud it has fallen into. Speculation with aid and its sale by petty thieves and big thieves makes things even harder for the people. Speculation with crime and with matters of greater and lesser importance. The state and the aid should come out into the open. EDUARD BAHOLLI