Famous actors, singers and footballers will take part
. Five days of non-stop spectacle. Event against drugs and violence. Singer Eduardo Bennato. Singer Tony Esposito. FATOS BAXHAKU. TIRANA — The project is ambitious. It is thought that it will certainly be one of the largest cultural events organized in Tirana to date. Nearly 30 famous sportsmen, singers and some of the best-known presenters in Italy will take part from 22 to 26 June in an event [cut off]. Inside: The two images of Albania that is changing [text continues, cut off]. A successful concert by the musicians of Monopoli. An English television award for an Albanian. A major cultural event. They will all come together under the slogan “Don’t forget,” in support of victims of drugs and violence. This is the purpose of the proposal that an association, Associazione Beneficienza Assistenza, based in Rome, has sent to the Ministry of Culture in Tirana. Following the tremendous success achieved by the singing duo Albano and Romina in Tirana four years ago, this event will undoubtedly be warmly welcomed by the Albanian public. Many personalities from the Italian entertainment world have long been familiar to Albanian viewers through RAI broadcasts. But now, for the first time, Albanian fans will have direct contact with some of the most distinguished former players of the Italian national team, including: Al-
Singer Eduardo Bennato; Singer Tony Esposito
In America, a ship runs aground; 10 undocumented migrants die
bertosi, Benetti, Graziani, Altobelli, Becalossi, Sala, Boninsegna, Giordano, Conti, Chinaglia. The veterans of Italian football will play a symbolic match against well-known former Albanian footballers. Italian entertainment will be represented in this important cultural project by the well-known Neapolitan music singer Eugenio Bennato, the percussionist Tony Esposito, [cut off]. In America, a ship runs aground; 10 undocumented migrants die. The presenter of TV Norba’s well-known television program “Colpo Grosso,” Gabriella Lungi, and the illusionist Raptus. The Italian organizers will cover all travel expenses for the group of sportsmen and artists, while asking the Ministry of Culture to make the structures and technical equipment needed to stage the show available to them. The Albanian Ministry of Culture has considered the proposal and given the Italian organizers a positive response. “We have welcomed the Italian association’s proposal with pleasure, because it is the first proposal of this kind that we have received. We are now waiting for the program to be specified in detail,” one of the officials at the Ministry told the newspaper.
Fiorentina relegated to Serie B!
The lily team is relegated after 40 years. Cagliari and Juventus earn the right to play in the UEFA Cup
Sport. The team of the lily is relegated after 40 years. Cagliari and Juventus earn the right to play in the UEFA Cup. Fiorentina relegated to B! Toto-football. FORM N. 38 1. ANCONA-ATALANTA 2 2. BRESCIA-SAMPDORIA 1 3. CAGLIARI-PESCARA 1 4. FIORENTINA-FOGGIA 1 5. GENOA-MILAN X 6. INTER-TORINO 1 7. JUVENTUS-LAZIO 1 8. NAPOLI-PARMA X 9. ROMA-UDINESE X 10. BARI-CREMONESE 2 11. BOLOGNA-LECCE 2 12. LUCCHESE-PADOVA X. Disappointment. Fiorentina footballer Gabriel Batistuta. FABRIZIO NITTI. 1937–1938 season: Fiorentina finished seventeenth in Serie A and were relegated to Serie B. After 56 years, history repeats itself. Having won the Italian championship twice, one UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup, four Coppa Italia titles, and thousands of places of honor, the club has suffered a disconcertingly easy decline in recent seasons. A worrying decline that seemed to be the fate of the Antonogni-Chiarugi double hopes. An unstoppable downward trajectory, the prologue to this season’s failure. It is the first relegation since the war. One billion over three years: Serie B comes at a high cost. The victory over Foggia in the last match of the championship serves no purpose. It might have been enough to correct one mistake with [cut off]. There are 14 winning columns with 12 points in Totofootball Contest number 39. According to the Central Contest Commission, the winners with 12 points — barring any possible claims — each receive 10,532 lekë. Meanwhile, there were 198 columns with 11 points this week. These too — barring any possible claims — [cut off] receive 496 lekë each. Contest number 39 was the penultimate one for this football season, since next week it will be held with the teams of the Italian Serie B Championship. The amount available to the winners this week was 245,748 lekë.
Fiorentina, a major surprise in Serie A, fell won the Italian championship twice, one Cup Winners’ Cup, four Italian Cups and numerous honors, it suffered a slight decline over the last two seasons. A decline that was not meant to be overcome through the addition of foreign (Laudrup and Effenberg) and Italian (Baiano and Di Mauro) players; the whole area set off at a sprint, with spectacular play. UEFA was the minimum objective, the ambition of the anti-Milan team and a hidden desire. Then came the home defeat to Atalanta, which exacerbated the tensions already existing between coach Radice and vice-president Vittorio Cecchi Gori.
Then the spectacle began: a fierce argument in the dressing room, Radice’s immediate dismissal, the team placed in Agroppi’s hands—and that was the end. The final attempt to entrust the team to the squad was of no use…
… all the champions. It is easy to hope for luck, to hope for results from the other teams in danger. For just five minutes, the Tuscans savored staying in the top division. It was 5:44 p.m.: Fiorentina and Brescia were winning, Genoa and Udinese were losing to Milan and Roma. At 5:49 p.m. the dream was over. The Florentines return to Serie B with their heads bowed. For Brescia and Udinese the championship will end with a playoff. The two sides, which never gave up even in their darkest moments, will play to remain in the top division. A reward for two provincial sides that did not surrender. The Lombards, with ten play—
Cagliari is the other story of Sunday. A place in the UEFA Cup at the end of a season that was expected to be an easy escape from relegation. Instead, it climbed into the upper reaches of the standings and prepared for the final sprint toward its European destination. This is the second time the Sardinians have earned the right to take part in a continental competition. We have to go back 24 years, to the days of the legendary Cagliari of “Rombo di Tuono,” whose real name was Gigi Riva. The 1969–1970 championship was being played; it was Manlio Scopigno’s team, and the victory was an unexpected and unrepeatable success. Like yesterday’s victory. But Mazzone, a fiery coach (last year he managed to avoid relegation with considerable difficulty), is going to Rome, and his reasoning is sound: he is leaving as a winner. Sardinia and Genoa are celebrating. A point wrested from Milan through sheer desperation, a point that means Serie A once again. A merit of…
A ship runs aground; 10 undocumented migrants die
NEW YORK — Kegës[o?] —
NEW YORK — Kegës[o?] as the ship passed, the tragedy of the “Golden Venture,” the commercial vessel carrying 300 Chinese and others illegally, took place between Sunday and Monday, a few hundred meters from Rockaway Beach, a coastal area in the New York borough of Queens.
Emergency services said that at least ten people were dead, while 28 people had been admitted to Queens Hospital.
The ship’s passengers, which had set sail from Thailand or China several months earlier, were trying to enter the United States illegally. Ten of them, who together with 90 others had jumped into the water to reach the shore, could not escape death.
Young man from Shkodër dies in hospital after a fight with two residents at his workplace
SHKODËR —
Another murder in Shkodër. This time the victim is Ramadan Lici, a young man from Shkodër who worked as a guard at the shoe factory. The Public Order Police have now also verified the names of the perpetrators of the crime, who — according to the same source — are the brothers Ndue and Mark Marku, aged 28 and 15. Although the investigation is ongoing, an official version describes the incident as a “murder for trivial reasons.” Besides the victim, Lici, who died in hospital after two blows to the heart, resident Nikolin Kola was also wounded.
The Criminal Police have so far managed to arrest one of the perpetrators, while the other is being sought. “Although the victim and the killer were of different ... this does not at all mean that they were ...” [the remainder of the text is not fully legible]
Attack on UN forces in Somalia, 22 dead
Italian soldiers rescued the other “blue helmets”
MOGADISHU — Tension in the Somali capital the day after clashes took place in various parts of the city, causing the deaths of 22 Pakistani UN soldiers and wounding 50 others, the deaths of 38 Somalis, and the wounding of three Americans and 131 Somalis.
After the Pakistani soldiers asked the Italians for help in breaking through the Somali encirclement, on Sunday the leader of the Somali National Alliance (SNA), General Mohamed Farah Aidid, threatened the Italian special envoy, Ambassador Enrico Augelli, over the intervention of Italian troops to collect the bodies of Somalis killed near the stadium, since the Pakistanis were allowing no one to approach.
“The innocent people are being massacred,” General Mohamed Farah Aidid asserted. “The more efforts are made to bring peace back, the more it seems that this is troubling the UN leaders who are here. We want peace,” he said, “but we defend ourselves if we are attacked. This is no longer a humanitarian mission — [unclear] UN troops are not here to attack unarmed people.
Meanwhile, the UN Security Council is preparing a firm resolution to condemn those responsible for the attacks. At a meeting held at the Glass Palace, at the request of the governments of Islamabad and Italy, the Council formally heard UNOSOM representatives (the UN troops in Somalia) for the first time, to discuss Saturday’s clashes, considered the fiercest since the start of the allies’ operation in Somalia.
The draft resolution on resolving the situation in Somalia (which may also be amended), at the center of the debate, urged Secretary-General Boutros-Ghali to authorize UNOSOM to use all necessary means to identify and capture those responsible for the clashes with the “blue helmets.” In particular, if adopted, the UN resolution could pave the way for the arrest and imprisonment of General Aidid “whenever his guilt can be proven” in Saturday’s attacks.
According to a report on the clashes sent to the UN by Boutros-Ghali’s representative in Somalia, Jonathan Howe, Aidid and the United Somali Congress (USC) are identified as responsible.
Dj[e?] in Albania
ALBANIAN PARLIAMENT REPEALS THE OLD CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE — Parliament’s approval of several amendments to the Code of Criminal Procedure marked the end of some archaic articles and created greater opportunities for the legal protection of every citizen in the Republic of Albania. Under this decision, it has been established that a lawyer has the right to take part in preliminary investigations and may meet their client freely and privately, without anyone else being present. Defendants, when they [text unclear] the presence of a lawyer, are provided with a lawyer free of charge if they cannot afford one; the investigation period was also changed, and was raised. Likewise, the interim Congress, from 72 to 49 hours. Likewise, a home search can now be carried out without authorization from a judge.
THE FIRST ALBANIAN SCHOOL IN GJIROKASTËR TURNED INTO A CAFÉ — The decision of the Municipality of Gjirokastër to turn the first Albanian school, “Liria,” into a café has provoked a strong reaction among intellectuals, citizens and various political forces. Opened in 1887 as the first school for teaching in Albanian — this school should be turned into a museum — representatives and officials of the Ministry of Culture, who are competent[?] ...
ANJE GJIRARDOT INAUGURATES “FRENCH CINEMA WEEK” IN TIRANA — The famous French actress Anje Girardot arrived[?], accompanied, as [reported?], by French cinema activists, in addition to the activities that will take place at the Odeon K[?] — Albania and her guests ...
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