p. 3 CORRUPTION! - SURRENDER!

From yesterday's press statement by the PR It seems that Albanians fully understand that they are living through the worst period, from the pyramid schemes and the destruction of the state up to yesterday, and not because of the democratic government of the center-right or the moderate center-left since 1992 onward. 1. It seems that Albanians fully understand that they have been going through the worst period since the pyramid schemes and the destruction of the state up to yesterday, and not because of the democratic government of the center-right or the moderate center-left since 1992 onward. For this reason, we must remind Albanians in Albania and everywhere in the ethnic lands that the backdrop of a sordidly motivated little politics by a group of speculators and intriguers at the head of the economy, the media, officials, the police, the courts and the parliaments of our order and cross[?] is meant to hide the truth about what is happening, is confusing the screens and laying political and financial ambushes for a handful of adventurers richer than ever. The spiritual and mental potential of Albanians not only is not replacing them but is crushing them, leading them down the dangerous path of undoing them, including the civilizing potential that our country, with its centuries-old traditions, should use to face the situation in Albania better and especially to keep it from harming the future of Albanians and their society. This has set us against those who wait in hope for what other evil awaits Albanians in order to tear and plunder them, to convince them that democrats with conservative ideas are a threat to stability. The cult of democracy for gain is not achieved by crying out to avoid responsibility by shifting it to independent political and media levers, even though it is in the most favorable civic conditions for making calm and reasonable decisions. The future, the worsening of conditions, and our prospects cannot be solved by these crippled policies, based mainly on their own past. It would be extremely bold and catastrophic to deny Albanians the bloody consequences of that drunkenness for power that is accompanied by their own past. This is not simply a matter of greed or seats; it is the whole process of mismanaging the institutions, mechanisms and state administration, which has become the offspring of this policy, until the spirit of the democratic state has been replaced with that old wound of self-destruction, from 6 years ago. It would be very alarming, and equally unacceptable, to extend this catastrophe even further. The culture of democracy and independent mechanisms are the foundations on which modern states build their identity in the international community; with this tolerance, pluralism and democracy, corrupt dominion[?] and conflicts (with any priority and the nation) concerte[?] itself politically, and they damage not only the discipline of organizing and enforcing the laws but also the political base. A determined government that respects every effort to avoid crime, corruption and nepotism is a necessity for the rebirth of the state and democracy. Otherwise we must accept that, although there is an opposition majority to replace the country's economic and institutional situation with a right-wing alternative, they continue to move along the same path, remaining hostage to a worn-out class that only sows fear, suffocates the economy and increasingly burdens the very bloody lives of Albanians and their families. From this standpoint, the reflection and unification of Albanians wherever they are in all the country's processes must take a clear direction, based on pluralism, the market and responsibility. Thousands upon thousands of ordinary citizens and intellectuals, through their work, have the right to demand not the spectacle of government but well-being, security and respect for their state. It is with them that Albania's future must also be built.

Begaj: PS and PD voted bi- ronjë komitik p. 3

Milo: Let Albanians decide Kosovo's long- term solution p. 3

Shehu: Gjana is a bright a- opening of Shtu- it p. 5

Four judges dismissed p. 2

Sunday, 17 October '99 100, Bingo prize with 10,000 new lekë each, 5 Tele-bingo with 1,000,000 new lekë each, 1 Maggio-bingo with 500,000 new lekë, 1 Star-Bingo with 150,000 new lekë.

The creditors' money will never be returned p. 8

Frauds in banks, toward new traps p. 2

PREJIM by Qamili Buxheli: POETRY by Hysa; DEMOLITION for the Nobel Prize winner in literature[?] by Çiraku and Canaj; PATRIKA by Medi Belortaja. See page 3

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