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“Republika” correspondent in Kukës: Serbs mine our land, build firing positions, launch shells, shoot with snipers P. 2

The NATO summit in Washington once again sidestepped the issue of a ground intervention in Kosovo, even though Millosheviçi was described as Europe’s last dictator. This strategy of not intervening by land has now become a paradox. The process is at risk of being blocked. It is suspicious that air strikes continue in parallel with fuel smuggling. The Serbian war machine is supplied with fuel through illegal routes. Meanwhile, NATO leaders have praised the efforts of the Russian envoy in Belgrade, former Prime Minister Çernomër-din, when the latter treats the Kosovo issue as an internal matter of Serbia. The Pan-Slavist card must be denounced by the West. F je[dha?] nationalism are acting together against an ethnic problem in the region. Thus, the efforts of Western diplomacy must not build castles in the sand. NATO lacks neither the necessary authority nor the power to put an end to Millosheviçi’s stubbornness. The NATO summit should have declared unequivocally that the new Serbian dictatorial order... The International Court of Justice in The Hague must intervene immediately, addressing the crimes in Kosovo under the Geneva Convention. A ground intervention would be the most preventive measure. Continued, page 3

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S.O.S. Last night in Kukës, not a single sack of flour was left

• Alimuça’s armored car sells for 700 thousand lekë Page 15 • The IMF will help Albania Page 2 • Russia violates the embargo Page 4 • Kosovars search for one another Page 22

• The two UDB agents are exposed by their Kosovar lover • Elbasan’s small-time mafia Pages 7, 16 Milošević is afraid of the generals; he isolates himself in their homes P. 5

TODAY IN THE SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: Janaq Paço, Gj de Mopasan, Nikolla Mullisi, Asdreni, Valter Dauti, Hamdi Hysuka, etc. Pages 10–11