Trafficking police officer arrested EDITORIAL By Adrian THANO A dangerous "joke" ... with regard to the case of traveling with some baggage suspected of containing narcotic substances, the confiscation of each item, whether in small quantities or considered for personal use [?], must be accompanied by criminal proceedings against the delegation. It was Thursday evening when officials of our Police benefited from a signal coming from Jamaica [??] that the Turkish government plane with the delegation, including the Deputy Minister of Defense, would land on the Rinas runway. The informal request from the Turkish side not to search the baggage of this part of the delegation had been made in writing and, according to protocol, had been complied with. Suspicion over a letter [?] first [??] arose from the anomaly that once this escort was missing, the second issue that [??] also caused other doubts for the Albanian government was information from the Turkish services about a suspicious suitcase. Given that the government complained [??] based on the fact that there was a respect for ambassadors and that an avieri [??] had an arrest at the airport [??], our police deemed it necessary to act for the result of the vote-

51 thousand homeless families The Prime Minister promises during the campaign that he will house 1 thousand Page 5

The Prosecution launches investigations into car traffickers ... there had been registered numbers by means of the vehicle with conversion numbers, which in 500 vehicles corresponded to a set of new parts with different numbers of different brands, because if they had checked all the other components in detail, such as the body, lights, tires, etc., they would have managed to uncover this regularity [?] of improvisations of vehicles registered with foreign plates, since they had been put into circulation, not as commercial [?] and the chassis number is altered. The Chief Prosecutor of Tirana, Jola [??], stated in a comment for "Republika" that all this work was done taking into account the very nature of these cars, which had previously been registered in foreign countries [??] and now in the lots the value [??] for engines, since there have been cases which turned out to be [??] trafficked. Now one [??] [maybe?] for the second time you can distinguish the people who bought these. This clarifies the missing, it is in circulation

The seal of the Commissions and Polling Stations split within PS Clashes broke out again within the ranks of the Commission officials, centered [?] around suspicions and denunciations. This time, an institution was also involved, which has been repeatedly denounced with insinuations by the center [??] On Monday, in the office of the chairmen of the Election Commission, in a tense session, a meeting was held in which the problem of the seals of the commissions and polling stations split for PS and vote counting was examined. Page 2

On Sunday, 03.09.2000 at 11:00, in the Opera Theatre square, the boulevard in Tirana, PRSH invites citizens to take part in the official opening of the election campaign. Emigrant MPs [?] and candidates, of PP and PDKR, citizens devoted to the country as well as the chairman and the second Secretary of PR in the tripartite Presidency. Presidency

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