Seven ministers under investigation

Nexhmije Hoxha placed at the head of the Albanian communists. A harsh stance toward Ramiz Alia, he has betrayed Enver. 5 million lekë for Enver Hoxha’s grave

Masked men take a People’s Assembly deputy hostage

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The Democratic Party moves closer to the Constitution

Yesterday it set as one of its prior[?]

Mediu: Dialogue between the government and opposition will remove hatred from Albanian politics

Majko: Corruption brought down Nano Page 3 Minister Ingrid Shuli speaks to “Republika”: The clans did not bring me to power

KOSOVO

• Serbian tanks return to Kosovo • Russia threatens the West: Intervention in Kosovo means a return to the Cold War • Holbrooke, the architect of the Dayton peace, once again calls for dialogue in Kosovo • Cook: The EU is ready to intervene p. 11

CULTURE

The meeting of the RTVSH Governing Council is postponed Tomorrow, the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature “The Icebreakers” with a surprise SPORT Kosovo cancels Belgrade UEFA penalizes Yugoslavia pp. 13–15

Police lock up three citizens for possessing unlicensed weapons

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“Gjallica” sponsors the Prosecutor’s Office Companies return 8 million dollars Rakipi denounces Rakipi Emigrants transfer money to Albania Pages 8–9

Masked men rob the police officer The people of Gramsh travel in shifts American wounded in Durrës The odyssey of 60,000 passports stolen in Kakavijë SHIK changes its chief Stones return to the trains The olive tree relieves Durrës of its woes The National Anthem is forgotten in schools Page 7

Albania, ready to take on Serbia. Milo reveals diplomatic secrets: I am not responsible for Nano Meidani meets the Contact Group without journalists present “Friends of Albania” guests in Tirana Page 1

Chaos in the SP, the chairman steps down. PD leaders contradict one another. PAD reveals the Government’s secrets

Inside:

Bezhan(i) investigates the Majko Government. Smuggling: Property seized from smugglers. Thieves tie up the owner of the refrigerator. Blood at Rrema’s Café. Police lock three citizens in a cell for unlicensed weapons. Page 2. Lino to Koçi: Find Haj-Haj-dari’s killer. The state bleeds its citizens dry: one day in hospital, 20 thousand lekë. Prosecutor resigns. Page 6

Constitution

Yesterday it identified dialogue on the Constitution as one of the main priorities of its policy. Indeed, the party’s wings have preferred to express themselves with the maxim that where dialogue is excluded, hatred enters. After all the rhetorical speech about the Constitution, the Democrats have not thought to make public precisely the reasons preventing them from presenting their comments on the completed draft, whether by officially sending them to Parliament or by publishing them in the press. Once again, the co-chairman of the commission for drafting the Constitution, Mr Godo, has called on the PD and “Union for Democracy” to take part in the constitutional process, since this important document is not the work of any party and nobody has ownership of it. Arguing that the Constitution is a matter for Albanians, Godo has informed [us] that Continued on page 3

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