MR. SABRI GODO’S MEETINGS IN THE DISTRICTS LET US CLEAR THE WINNERS’ ROADS On 17 October, the chairman of the Republican Party, Mr. Sabri Godo, met with the farmers of Kuta in Mallakastër. Mr. Godo spoke about the reform and other issues concerning the current situation. In particular, he dwelt on the problem of agricultural produce: the farmers do not know what to do, since they cannot find markets and have no means of transporting it. In Kuta alone, farmers have around 1,000 quintals of sunflower seed stored at home; some farmers have surplus wheat, maize and beans amounting to dozens of quintals. The oil factory in Fier is not taking the sunflower seed because it has more than 60,000 quintals in stock, which is deteriorating and has already lost 20 percent of its oil content. This is happening at a time when we are asking around the world for sunflower oil, even in America, or buying it through trade. Wherever you go, you sense the countryside’s paralysis. In Tepelenë they do not know what to do with wool, hides and dairy products; in Malësi e Madhe, Shkodër, they have no hope for medicinal plants; in Kalaja e Dodës, Dibër, they have potatoes left over and even meat to sell. Farmers are having a hard time even travelling themselves, let alone transporting their produce. It makes no sense to give farmers land and encourage them to grow (continued on page 2).

— Statement delivered by PR deputy Mr. Mehmet Çeliku at the plenary session for approval of the parliament’s work-development program — I approve the two-year program, which is being carried out at the expense of the work of Parliament. It is not working, and no work is being done. The village lands have sparked debate, but they must be returned to the farmers from whom they were taken, used to resettle landless farmers and to provide partial compensation to citizens expropriated by the communist regime. The Albanian Republican Party considers that without laws on ownership and privatization, the country will remain trapped in an unprecedented crisis. Foreign investors, who do not want the state as a partner, will continue to stay away. I call on the entire Assembly to give due consideration to ownership and privatization, so that work on these issues can proceed according to an intensive timetable, immediately setting aside other matters. Wasting time means wasting the country. The proposal I am making today on farms is a concrete step within the reform, which, by aiming only to turn them into assistants, is heading in a direction that causes serious concern. In the first phase, the law should provide for the privatization, by November of this year, of the farms with ...; state-owned vineyards, vegetable gardens and orchards. This national wealth is being severely damaged, to the point of destruction. On the other hand, returning this property to its lawful owners will not only right an injustice, but will also help employ people and increase the production of oil, vegetables and fruit. The second part of the law should provide for the privatization of all farms that are to be worked. Arable land should be returned to the farmers from whom it was taken, used to resettle landless farmers and to provide partial compensation to citizens expropriated by the communist regime.

IS THE STATE ROBBING NEWSPAPERS OR HELPING THEM? — MARKET ECONOMY WITH NEWSPAPERS’ “UPS AND DOWNS.” — WILL WAGES FOR STATE-ENTERPRISE WORKERS BE RAISED WITH NEWSPAPERS’ “REVENUES” WHEN THE NEWSPAPERS HAVE NO REVENUES? MARKET ECONOMY WITH NEWSPAPERS’ “UPS AND DOWNS.” WILL WAGES FOR STATE-ENTERPRISE WORKERS BE RAISED WITH NEWSPAPERS’ “REVENUES” WHEN THE NEWSPAPERS HAVE NO REVENUES? The periodical press published in Albania today continues to find itself in increasingly suffocating difficulties. “No newspaper today is able to monitor the vendors, the revenue obtained from sales, and complete distribution.” This is what the director of the press transport enterprise, A. Telegr., is saying. We do not know what the director means by this, but the truth here is not hard to see. Perhaps the director is referring to the daily thefts at the newspaper printing house—for example, what is due to one newspaper; perhaps he means the three thousand or so newspapers that “disappear” every month in the department of the enterprise he runs; or perhaps he means the proceeds from newspaper sales, which “vanish” like a river flowing into the desert. In any case, the director with the practical surname, Telegrafi, seems to be entirely right. The “tides and ebbs” created by his 20 workers in distributing the press are felt most keenly by the many newspaper editorial offices, which pay for their newspapers too. Meanwhile, instead of newspapers, those editorial offices pay salaries to ... NEWSPAPER LOSSES IN PRESS DISTRIBUTION, WHICH THE EDITORIAL OFFICES THEMSELVES PAY FOR. Work in press editorial offices has thus become “a morsel impossible to swallow.” Those that sought a chance to survive through freedom of thought and expression, working in market competition, are now faced with a permanent shortage of paper and monopoly rates for press production and distribution. Thus the market economy “... one side of a bankrupt economy, of newspapers, increasingly at risk of being “put out of play.” It is a fact that today, on average, production and distribution in a month at an editorial office ... but not the last.

The session on lifting MP Ilir Meta’s immunity lasted until three in the morning. Great fatigue and perhaps hunger drove many MPs to doze off and perform actions abnormal for normal people. At one o’clock at night, Dr. Kastriot Islami showed the first signs of a new, reactive position. The issue being discussed was very serious, while the doctor tried to imitate an unfamiliar voice during the reading of his “not at all” politicized speech. The tone of his voice changed several times, but the doctor could not find what he was looking for. At the end of the address he returned to his own voice. Through the chairman of the PS parliamentary group, in the early hours of the morning of the 24th, it was announced more than once that 2 hectares of [unclear] remained in Poliken. An interpellation with the government is expected to be requested soon on this issue. At one point, the Democratic Party MPs all left the hall. Fatos Nano addressed the chairman of the Presidium of the People’s Assembly, expressing his genuine concern about the jeopardizing of democracy’s fate in Albania. “Don’t worry, Mr. Nano,” Mr. Arbnori said. “The MPs haven’t gone far. They are bored with hearing familiar words.” Since the speakers were repeating one another, Mr. Arbnori several times proposed to the parliamentary group leaders that the speeches be brought to a close. This was not achieved (following Mr. Dokle’s insistence), so at 24:00 Mr. Arbnori closed the session to resume it the next day at 10:00. “At nine o’clock we have a meeting of the PS KD, so we have to finish tonight.” “Agreed, gentlemen, we can work all night, but I’m afraid that with these long speeches you are making (only the PS MPs are speaking), you won’t be able to hold that nine o’clock meeting tomorrow.”

Unprecedented new theft We have just learned that Mr. Idajet Beqiri has been robbed again. The fact is that this time his DIPLOMATIC BRIEFCASE was stolen. Among the particularly important documents in this briefcase are: 1. History of the National Unity Party (two volumes). 2. Draft program for the unification of ethnic territories (through the end of 1991). 3. Draft platform for the coalition and local elections with 3. (This major issue). 4. Draft copy addressed to the Socialist International regarding the admission of the PS. 5. Copy of a protest addressed to Mr. K[?] Fan Noli at the Albanian Radio-Television address. 6. Prefse thonish parfum 7. Speech delivered at the Konsipol celebration.

Parliament, the “strong man” who stands up for Albania ... valuable thoughts on drafting the constitution and the way the rule-of-law state functions in Albania. The president’s insistence on “strengthening the parliamentary tradition” and weakening the ideas of the powerful man is based precisely on the fact that for 75 years of a consolidated Albanian state, and even before that, Albania has been the country of “one man,” who at different times has had different titles. Now “the time has come for Albanians to forget that...” (Continued on page 4)

— My 20-year-old friend’s hands were shaking — I could hardly fail to notice the sudden change in my friend. Excessive carelessness, lack of propriety and a disregard for everything, then, quite suddenly, an outburst; she was overcome by shaking hands and sobs. Finally, an explanation through tears that left a distortion even on the retinas of her eyes: “I take drugs.” I was utterly overwhelmed. It is completely different to read about this kind of finding in a newspaper and to have one of these phenomena right beside you. “I don’t even know how it happens at first. Then...” she said. “But where do you get it? Where do you get it? Who gives it to you?” “I won’t tell. I’m afraid.” More tears interrupted the rush, and she went on: “I don’t know... they steal it from me...” “I don’t know. Where do I get it?” There was a pause. “And we don’t know her name. For the first time, the impressions of...?” One evening ... (Continued on page 4)

WHY IS THE “INTELLECTUAL” RIDVAN “PESHKEPIA” BEING SLANDERED?! We were compelled to put the surname PESHKEPIA in quotation marks after Mr. Ridvan’s name, in order to spare the Peshkëpia family and clan, even a little, from the unwelcome h[?] that might result from the activity of their outspoken bloodline. Ah, son and grandson of the family Do we know Ridvan (“Peshkëpia”)? First of all, we know him only through his SURNAME. A surname that the red dictatorship, just as it did with the blood of the GREAT FAMILIES, turned into a matter of ... “You, comrade and friend, acquaintance, please do not ask me to explain the anti-democratic behaviour against the family tradition of the nephew, because the word ‘BASTARD’ also exists, and I would not wish it upon everyone sheltering beneath the roof of our family.” (Xhagin Demkëpa) (“Ridvan ‘Peshkëpia’s’ uncle”) A member of the great Peshkëpia family would find it impossible to commit such an insult, however compelled he might be by his society and his [unclear], or by commitments he may have signed under compromising circumstances that implicate him. How do we know Ridvan (“Peshkëpia”)? First of all, we know him only through his SURNAME. A surname that the red dictatorship, just as it did with the blood of the GREAT FAMILIES, turned into a matter of ...

COMMUNISM’S HOSTILITY TOWARD INTELLECTUALS WAS ONE OF ITS FATAL, GENETIC SINS. I HAVE THE IMPRESSION THAT ALBANIA WILL NOT REMAIN AT THE TAIL END FOR LONG. INTELLECTUALS REMAIN INTELLECTUALS IN ALL CIRCUMSTANCES, THROUGHOUT THEIR LIVES, REGARDLESS OF WHAT THEY CREATE FOR THIS COUNTRY. IF WE GIVE THE INTELLECTUALS TO THE DICTATORSHIP, WHAT WILL BE LEFT TO DEMOCRACY?