Berisha, a bolt of lightning against the factions. The fuse is lit at the DP activist meeting. The secretaries reach agreement with the Government The coalition overtakes the trade unions. Nano gains ground on VEFA. Creditors: We have been abandoned

Now, Albania is “moving towards democracy and internal security,” declared yesterday afternoon in Strasbourg the Prime Minister of Italy, Romano Prodi, at a press conference held on the eve of the Council of Europe summit. Of course, this statement is relative. Prodi compares the situation in Albania before June 29 with a situation that now seems calmer, setting aside several terrorist acts that recall the situation before the early elections in June. Albania’s normality resembles the surface of a pond beneath which various currents flow, and even the slightest breeze from outside immediately stirs up waves. Who is disturbing little Albania, and what are the aims of several terrorist acts that have taken place in recent days in the south and north of the country, and even in Tirana? More than killings and theft, Albania is threatened by the “Jupiter complex” that two parties… the two major parties of the former Albanian communists use to come to power. The Jupiter complex was used by analysts during the Second World War. The term refers to creating a climate of terror among enemy peoples during wartime through continuous bombing of civilians, giving them the impression that their opponent was as powerful as Jupiter. After that, everything was sacrificed just to have a little peace. In Albania in 1997, the DP and PS are two fighting powers. Enemies for life and death, both seek to buy power at any cost. The only thing they are not concerned about is the price, which is usually paid by the population. The new card in the power game was revealed during the unrest this spring: destabilizing public order through attacks and other terrorist acts. No one has forgotten the alarms and explosions before the June 29 elections. In the capital alone, dozens of bomb threats were made by telephone, and at least four actual explosions were reported. New elections were quickly called, while the PS convinced everyone that the terrorist acts were the work of its political opponent. Now, after the elections, history is repeating itself. The DP is calling for new elections. And terrorist acts are soon filling the newspaper columns. The south has become an arena of explosions over the past two weeks. Power lines and a bridge are blown up. In Shkodër, the PS headquarters explodes, just as the DP offices did months earlier. In Tirana, attacks are announced and bombs are found, even at the municipality. Besides sowing terror, destabilization gradually gives the two “big players” a chance to fulfil their absurd demands. Meanwhile, Albanians have to vote either for the DP or for the PS. Under the “Jupiter complex,” they forget that, unwittingly, they are voting for terrorism.

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Relatives of the Otranto victims leave for Italy: We do not want DP representatives at the funeral Thessaloniki Mysterious death of a 20-year-old from Laçi in hospital Korçë “Totoci” and the escaped rapist captured Pages 6–7 Prostitution ring in the capital. Masked men attack the Prosecutor’s home — Page 2 Scandal at the Chamber of Commerce: Director steals the car and telephone — Page 8 Berisha should be legally barred from returning to Parliament and politics Interview with Albania’s former ambassador to the UN, Pëllumb Kulla — Page 10