22/05/1999
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Republika

22 May 1999

KLA retakes Jablanica

Russian officer killed in Kosovo Milošević may travel to South Africa P. 5

Thaçi: Despite Rugova’s suspicious moves, I will cooperate

P. 5

Met Bega: Young women now want only “Apach”

Marjana Kondi: I will divorce Met Marjana Kondi: I will divorce Met P. 13

The CIA was to blame

“Red Brigades,” pressure on D’Alema?

Segments of the Italian left, bolstered by the so-called “Red Brigades,” accuse D’Alema’s government of having entered an “imperialist war against Yugoslavia.” Perhaps this is the reason Italy has proposed a temporary halt to the bombing, a proposal which, according to Ms. Olbrajt, has not been considered by NATO. A war waged in favor of democracy, to avert human tragedies and ethnic cleansing, cannot be described as “imperialist.” Almost the entire structure of world power is engaged in this war, and it is not only Italy. Milošević’s policy is a hallucinatory policy of monstrous killings. Never before in our region had human annihilation been carried out with such a concentrated blow in the name of irrational and self-justifying aims. Mass killings and expulsions are directly linked to conflicts and physical occupations and are matters of a continuing policy based on systematic premeditation. Before describing the attack on Yugoslavia as “imperialism,” the Italian left should acknowledge the detailed chronicle of the bloody evidence of deaths; it is the Serbian militarists who embarked on the practice of total war. The number of unprotected individuals and the... [text continues beyond the visible portion] Further, page 3

Letter to Milošević: We want our sons, not coffins

P. 4 The road to Europe goes through Washington P. 10

PRESS CONFERENCE

Today, at 11:00, at the PR Headquarters, the leadership will hold a press conference.

Tirana-Vllaznia, in the new challenge

TIRANA: Today between one ... [the rest of the text is illegible] P. 16

The first 34 winners of the American Lottery announced

P. 9

Inside:

• Bosses accused of arms trafficking Displaced Kosovars in Holland seek addresses in Albania P. 1