Yeltsin changes course: Milošević, make way for the peacekeepers. Italy is not opposed to a ground intervention P. 6

Blair sends Milošević a message: We will remove you from Kosovo. Prishtinë: Night makes 3,000 people disappear P. 4-5

. “Albania does not play the role of the victim, but of partnership with the EU,” Prime Minister Majko declared yesterday. Yesterday, too, Foreign Minister Milo asked the EU for a reward for the role and stance of the Albanian government at this time. Majko asked the ambassadors of EU countries for the European Union to accelerate the pace of Albania’s integration. Such a request at this moment sounds cynical. This is the role of a victim. The cabinet has not tried to [unclear] its commitment to the national ideal and democracy, but to increase its share through its political rule and give it another mandate, with the EU’s signature. The reaction of the Albanian chief diplomat is the instinctive reaction of those who deny the historical functioning of rational philosophy and encourage alternative feelings of political ambition. At this stage, an integrating structure in politics should have been absent; small beliefs can degenerate into great vices, which become the starting point for a quarrelsome policy. The EU announces that it is aware of the economic and financial advantages that should be given to Albania, by postponing payment of the foreign debt, but Milo demands that the EU immediately accept it into its fold, violating all the basic principles of its functioning and the admission criteria. Our chief diplomat was ready to say that the position in Albania

The very tense situation at the border, and the frequent bombardments and attacks by the Serbian army in the border area of Tropoja, have reduced to a minimum the flow of people going to the northern district. The road to Koman, from where one takes the ferry to Fierzë, is without the heavy traffic we are used to seeing at other times when we have travelled to Tropoja. On the paved road, damaged in places, one can see the tracks of heavy military vehicles that set out days or weeks ago for the Albanian army bases in Tropoja. At the place where the ferries stop, you meet only a few Page 16

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The very tense situation at the border, and the frequent bombardments and attacks by the Serbian army in the border area of Tropoja, have reduced to a minimum the flow of people going to the northern district.

• The $20,000 swindler is arrested. Prosecutors investigate the aid Page 10 • The Carabinieri—why in Durrës? The thieves from the Electricity Company are arrested Page 7 • Clinton meets Albanian-Americans Page 3 • Kosovars seek one another out Pages 7, 15