22/07/1999
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Republika

22 July 1999

Majko: If we do not put ourselves in the spotlight, we are lost forever

P. 3

Bushati: Democrats, you are not ready for elections

Bushati: Democrats, you are not ready for elections P. 3

Populism revives

Berisha: We are the new locomotive of change P. 3

Çeka gets ready to become minister

P. 3

“Clinton refuses to be an honorary citizen of Albania”

Agim BAÇI 5 murders... 7 rapes... 3 kidnappings... 10 thefts... All these news stories, carefully published every day and in detail in all Albanian newspapers, and also helpfully provided by informants at the Ministry of Public Order, would fit entirely into the core that has begun to become “a little criminal.” Indeed, quite naturally, these stories could make these “small-time criminals” feel inferior to their criminal “colleagues,” who have filled the pages of all the newspapers and television broadcasts. One action to complete the “criminal roster” is made even easier by the convenient news of criminals’ permanent departure to an unknown destination. But these stories would not make much of an impression if reports were not coming from America that “this insecurity has in fact made Clinton think about the proposal to become an honorary citizen of the Albanians.” (All the more so because, to make Clinton one—that is, an honorary citizen of the Albanians—the DP has proposed him to the “Kalashnikov parliament.”) “Crime, having become master of Albanians’ lives and spread thickly through the ranks of government, is breaking the record for announcements in a country where only the ‘beak of crime’ is known.” On this matter, everything is uncertain not only for Continued on page 3

Government leaders, lined up before the DP

SHIK accused of political murder P. 3

A dead refugee arrives at Kapshticë

The Greeks lie to Poçi P. 2

Democrats demand Gjinushi’s head

“He is capable only of crimes” P. 6

Kateshi risks going blind

P. 11

Alimuçaj at the International Helsinki Committee

Prosecutor’s Office searching for the judge for the President of VEFA P. 11

8 million dollars missing from the Aid Fund

P. 8

The State Budget at risk

The Minister of Finance speaks P. 9

Albanian art and folk music at Milan’s multicultural festival

P. 13

The KLA disarms by handing over a large number of weapons

P. 1