The anxiety of the final day. Today, the Rambouillet enigma awaits a solution US missiles aimed at Belgrade ready. OSCE expelled from the Serbian border The mystery of a secret meeting in Belgrade last night The anxiety of the final day. Today, the Rambouillet enigma awaits a solution Kukës is ready for war US missiles aimed at Belgrade ready. OSCE expelled from the Serbian border The mystery of a secret meeting in Belgrade last night P. 2

The card the Great Powers are playing cannot… . The card the Great Powers are playing cannot impose peace in Kosovo. While the Albanian side is seeking guarantees for a referendum, the spokesperson for the US State Department declares that “the International Committee will not support recognition of a referendum on independence,” giving the unconvincing reason that “the agreement that may be signed in Rambouillet will be temporary.” This is pressure on the Albanians. The International Community already understands that the Albanian side cannot submit to a document that rules out independence. Otherwise, the representative group would have no mandate whatsoever to represent the Albanians. By confronting the Albanian side with an exclusionary reality, solely to avoid compromising the misguided solicitude shown toward the Serbian side, an attempt is being made to leave the bill for the possible failure of the peace talks in the hands of the Albanians. The fact that Ms. Ollbrajt is leading the final efforts for peace shows that American involvement exists, but the challenge to Millosheviç is still not being contained. This excessive solicitude toward the Serbs in Rambouillet is truly unexpected, given that the US

— I can see a light over there. I’ll break it… Rambouillet

Open letter to Messrs. Meidani and Majko On 10.8.1998, the board of the National Association of Former Political Prisoners of Albania sent a letter to the Council of Ministers, but, regrettably, we must point out that the former Prime Minister did not respond to our request at all. In the aforementioned letter, the National Association of Former Political Prisoners of Albania asked the Government to dismiss Kurt Kola from his post as director of the Institute for the Integration of Former Political Prisoners and Politically Persecuted Persons. This request was based on official documents that were uncovered and also published in the daily press last year, according to which Kurt Kola was found to have falsified his criminal record testimony.

The Albanian Parliamentary Parties grouped in the political formation “United Albanian Right” are closely following the talks on resolving the Kosovo issue in Rambouillet, France. Sharing a common position on the Kosovo issue, these Albanian political forces support the position of the Albanian delegation in Rambouillet and its efforts to determine Kosovo’s future through peaceful and political means. 1. We condemn the offensive and violence that is Page 3

The Greeks are angered by the tenders, block the buses Pages 3, 8

The testimony of a man who claims that the leader of the Kurds stayed at his home TEPELENË: Oçalan has been in Tepelenë. It is surprising, but it seems it happened. Rumors are circulating in the Labëria area, in the villages of Vericot and Turhan, villages that are home to Kurdish emigrants along the Greece-Italy trafficking route. It was the arrest of the Kurdish leader Oçalan and his appearance in Page 7

Ramiz Alia and Leka Zogu’s lawyer is shot three times by a young man. His client, the former president, has still not visited him in the intensive care unit. Lawyers: “protest statements are pointless” Bullets fired at the Chairman of the National Bar Association. The lawyer of former President Alia as Page 6

Today, a boycott of the Justice system Lawyers and notaries on strike Page 4 Albanians should be united Albanian Parliamentary Parties grouped together

Where the future coexists with petty crime Cars without license plates and making a lot of noise drive along its streets. To get into a building costs just three hundred lekë. To get into any room you want in “Qyteti Studenti,” you need no more than three hundred