25/07/1998
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Republika

25 July 1998

Socialists: We want new elections

ISLAMI remains caught in the PRESIDENT’S net. DGXXI faxes are being forged Socialists: We want new elections PS burns Servet Pëllumbi. Tears of emotion at the KPD. Nano sobs to his own people: When we were together in opposition, we couldn’t be apart from one another LOANS: DEBTS ARE FORGIVEN FOR ANYONE WHO BORROWED LESS THAN 5 THOUSAND DOLLARS Page 9

Socialists against the American Congress

Yesterday’s meeting of the PS Steering Committee once again brought to mind the old Bonapartist idea of politics as administration. According to this idea, a statesman or administrator of public affairs is at the same time a member of the upper bureaucracy, of state intervention and of planning. Thus, the state the socialists are creating is nothing other than an accidental benefit of adaptation. The advantages of the various interests are so great that, in every case, the government is able to make concessions to the irrational remnants of the old state farms. Like a commercial utopian, the utopian Nano wants us to believe that in a free society governance is administration, while the question of welfare and the common good of politics is resolved through a philosophy that understands human needs and shapes society accordingly. Socialism, by its very nature, is incapable of defining the contradictions of the political group, because socialist freedom, purpose and policy are the end of all politics. Today’s pseudo-socialist socialism affirms the identity ab- Continued on page 3

RUGOVA AVOIDS THE KLA

Yesterday at the KPD meeting: AGOLLI: Others are used to doing it to you from behind NANO: I’m glad you’re doing it from the front. Be sure, we’ll deal with all of them, both them and Berisha Page 11 Yesterday at the KPD meeting: AGOLLI: Others are used to doing it to you from behind NANO: I’m glad you’re doing it from the front. Be sure, we’ll deal with all of them, both them and Berisha Page 5 PRESS CONFERENCE Today, at 10:00, the PR leadership will hold a press conference at the party headquarters RUGOVA AVOIDS THE KLA

Inside:

MEKSI “hits” his parliamentary group. PD MPs’ salaries are being cut. DOKLE: We will enforce the law their government has enacted Page 5 PEDOPHILIA: the bogeyman is no longer a fairy tale. A MANIAC rapes a 7-year-old girl in his home Page 2 The Court President against the Minister of Justice: KONDI is a toady SMUGGLING case shelved. Brokaj withdraws the accusations Pages 4–7 THE BALLISTS reopen the file on the former deputy chairman and elect a new leadership in Tirana: We no longer want SELFO as an MP Page 5 REPORT from an area under KLA control. MALISHEVA, the symbolic city of Kosovo’s liberation Page 11 From the saga of MASKED thieves. 4 emigrants massacred. The thieves rob them, beat them, then open fire on them. Page 7 THE THEATRE wants to show that it is alive: RAMA didn’t make us artists. The Finance Minister, too, seeks peace with the actors Page 13