EU: serious threat to the DP. Foreign ministers await a response The 8th anniversary, split in two. Three arrested with bombs after the rally P. 6

Intellectuals should not leave Albania in the hands of failed politicians. Arben ILIAZI Dalip GRECA The commemoration of the Day of the proclamation of pluralism, or Youth Day, showed that the generation of politicians who laid claim to December is irredeemably beyond repair and incapable of doing good for Albania and Albanians. Yesterday, too, the relationship between politics and morality was not respected. Having been promoted the previous day amid extreme tensions, Youth Day was experienced as a divided event: some marched, others reflected. The blame for the division lay, indeed lay, with politics—the mule—capable of giving birth only to conflicts and divisions. Yesterday’s 8 December once again proved that some of the frontline politicians, in both government and opposition, must give up their stubbornness and their continued search for confrontation, since their failure is suffocating Albania. These politicians should be ashamed of the anthropological form they have given democracy, entirely contrary to the tradition offered by civilized Europe. The hardliners in government and opposition, with their disagreements revolutio[?] Continued on page 3

P. 2 Yesterday at Youth Day, the Memorial was inaugurated; Azem’s daughter recites for her father; Kiri’s jacket; December activists celebrate 200 m from one another

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The Otranto drowned man returns after 18 months Page 10 PS and PD, games and fear of manipulation Students now on hunger strike Pages 5–6 A drug addict burned alive Norwegian learns Salihi’s testimony Page 7 Bank blocks socialists’ homes 30,000 debtors will empty their pockets Page 8 Çorovodë, State Archives burned Policeman’s killers caught P. 10 Visa ban for Yugoslav officials P. 11