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Republika

16 December 2000

BANKRUPTCY

Government: Anglo-Adriatika will be dealt with as the pyramid schemes were The state files charges for trial: “The Fund defrauded people with its bonds” Page 3

How a homosexual destroyed his family

The drama of children who experience their father’s shameful vice The son runs away from home, the daughters hate him, the wife accepts her fate and forgives him Special feature, pp. 12, 13

Raise a puppy, and it will bite your feet

EDITORIAL The SP is in trouble with its own commissioners. Chosen as people so loyal to it that they were even entrusted with securing victory at any cost in the 1 October elections, the little puppies of the left on the CEC have now started barking, and even biting their masters’ feet. Beyond the figures of speech, it can be said that this has once again caused political debate in Albania to degenerate into its most dishonourable corners. “Thanks to the merits” of the SP and its militants, the politics proclaimed in this country has ... once again been altered so that it no longer discusses matters seriously. Even when the majority, without being troubled by the fact that for months it had dismissed the objections, with its appointed knights on the CEC, is now dragging out the debate on “improvements” to the point of discussing two, three, or more resignations. In any case, viewed in the context of the reality already made evident in the election processes and the prior debates about them, the Socialists have a right to be angry with Nano (Fotaq), as well as with the others. Still, a puppy remains a puppy, so the SP need not feel sorry as it sees that the day has come when it bites its master too. Ultimately, the problem begins with them themselves, and the commissioners would therefore not be wrong to demand that the masters who put them where they are and trained them how to behave also answer for their mistakes.

Raise a puppy, and it will bite your feet

...elections, protests and the opposition’s objections to the Electoral Code and Commission, it was the majority that began talking about “necessary changes to these elements,” as if it had discovered this only after the elections. Once again, with its appointed knights on the CEC, it is in the context of the reality that has emerged, Mimoza Arbi and company. After all, none of them had any particular merit in public life “before the elections”; and if they were put where they are today, it was so they could be kept “just as the party wanted them: obedient puppies.” ...

Police: “The murder was revenge”; his brother had killed a woman

The mystery of the body at the Lana Bridge is solved; people suspected of being responsible for the incident are arrested The mystery of the body at the Lana Bridge is solved. The suspect in the murder of the young man found beneath the Lana Bridge has been arrested. Traces of the perpetrator were found on the body of the person discovered on Monday, beneath the Lana Bridge, near Hotel “Dajti”. The police will soon identify the perpetrator. The police have detained a person in Dajt; their identity has not been disclosed for investigative reasons. Page 7

Nano: I will not obey the SP

CEC / The threat of dismissal brings the commissioners together; all united against resignation The chairman of the Central Election Commission, Fotaq Nano, says that the SP’s request that he resign and then be rejected from the race is merely a game played by that party. Nano has responded negatively to this “shocking invitation.” Page 2

“Meta’s would-be assassins,” indefinite detention

Five-hour court hearing for 7 arrested people “Indefinite detention” for the 7 accused in the attempt on Meta’s life. Yesterday, the Durrës District Court ordered the “indefinite detention” of citizens Ndue Kola, Bashkim Zalla, Sejfulla Teta, Kastriot Zalla, Saimir Zalla and Ilirian Sala, all seven accused of the terrorist act of planting a remotely controlled mine in the Fushë-Krujë area, a few minutes before the Albanian Prime Minister was due to pass along this road. Page 6

80 percent of food is substandard

Imports/Consumer goods, without standards; Unfair competition puts the population at risk Imports/Consumer goods, without standards. 80 percent of food is substandard. Unfair competition puts the population at risk. Page 11

Albania, the laundromat for dirty-money laundering

Mafia . Albania, the laundromat for dirty-money laundering. Pages 4, 5

Announcement

. Today, at 11⁰⁰, at the PRSH Central Headquarters, the Executive Board will hold a press conference