EMBARGO / Tighter customs controls planned Smuggling in the crosshairs Measures against the oil trade ANDREA STEFANI TIRANA — Even stricter measures to reinforce the “wall” of the embargo imposed by the UN, aimed at blocking the economic arteries linking Serbia and Montenegro with the world. This is a project of the Albanian Government, whose implementation will make it even more difficult to carry out anti-embargo smuggling of goods across Albania’s borders, particularly the most popular kind: fuel smuggling. It is a document drawn up by specialists in this field, based on experience accumulated by the customs control system and the financial police, and intended to close the gaps and cracks identified in the blockade’s chain through which smuggling activity could penetrate. Although the document’s scope covers everything relating to implementation of Security Council Resolution 820, the measures focus on choking off fuel smuggling, so widely discussed in the press at the time. In three of its provisions, the project calls for stricter regulation of the documentation required from private entities importing oil or its by-products. They will be required to submit to the customs authorities advance contracts for the delivery of every quantity of imported fuel. Private businesses that sell fuel wholesale will also be required to submit advance contracts concluded with fuel retailers. Some other measures apparently concern suppressing the net- [text continues beyond the frame] [Another column:] work, the transport arteries, as well as the “warehouses” used for the illegal export of energy products. The main measures include a ban on selling “black gold” from itinerant outlets, as well as on storing any quantity of fuel near lakes and rivers, and generally anywhere along the entire border strip with Serbia and Montenegro. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Industry and Trade will be asked to clearly define the criteria for issuing licences to sell oil and its by-products wholesale. The requested measures mark a new phase in Albania’s commitment to respecting the blockade against the former Yugoslavia, a commitment praised in the UN Security Council’s monthly reports. In the first six months of this year alone, the competent authorities seized around 2,000 tons of fuel in the districts of Shkodër, Vlorë and Durrës, as well as various goods worth USD 90,000. Government headquarters

Match between Piacenza and Cesena Seven goals in Salerno, six in Lucca and four in Verona In Group 7 of “Euro ’96”, four matches have been played, so the situation is not yet clear. The team favoured to win the group, Germany, will play its first match against Albania. We can offer some thoughts on this occasion. Among the national teams formed from the constituent republics of the USSR, Moldova’s position in the standings is a surprise: it has won both matches played, narrowly, 1–0 against Georgia (Oprya scored) and 1–0 against Greece, with Buluçe scoring. At Moldova’s last group match, at midday, the Albania-Bulgaria match may be played here. Moldova was formed solely from former republics of the Union. BULGARIA-MOLDOVA The new team is expected to clarify many issues. Bulgarian coach Dimitër Penev has called up 16 players from the Levski Sofia team; all those who play abroad are also present. Wales, which beat Albania with difficulty, lost to Moldova, but tomorrow it will perhaps have an easy match against Georgia and, as hoped, will be able to take into consideration “bad nightmare” in the new legislature controlled by Republicans, will “give a more active role to the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, War.” The most important preliminaries, perhaps, are due to take place tomorrow; the German championship has not stopped, and matches in the 13th round were played on Saturday and Sunday. All the German national-team players have shown good form. After two months, Rainer of Munich returned to the field in a 2–0 win over Schalke 04; Papin scored (62), and Brazilian Jorginho doubled the score. A great performance, as usual, by captain Matthaus. Borussia Dortmund continue to lead the standings, having also won 2–0 in Bochum, with spectacular goals by Riedle and Chapuisat. Reuter, Möller and Sammer played. Freiburg and Rraklli also recorded a win: a real surprise team this season. This time they beat Eintracht Frankfurt 2–0, thanks to an own goal and a goal by Zimmerman; Arnsberg’s Cardoso is now on 10 goals). Eintracht have national-team goalkeeper Koppke and midfielder Weber in their squad, but despite this are in one of the lower places in the standings. Another national-team player is Diet (24 years old). Worth noting this year is that Rraklli has a secondary role, having been a substitute more often than a starter. Second in the standings is Werder Bremen (4–0 against Stuttgart), whose squad includes only one national-team player, midfielder Eilts, who, despite being seven and thirty years old, has played for the national side only four times. Two German national-team players who play abroad are worth mentioning. They are defender Kohler (with Italy’s Juventus) and, especially, star striker Klinsmann, who plays for the English team Tottenham. Taking the statistics and coach Vogts’s statements into account, a line-up such as this can be envisaged: Koppke, Strunz, Kohler, Matthaus, Weber, Möller, Eilts, Hessler, Sammer, Klinsmann, Riedle. P. Mo. Perugia’s goalkeeper fails to save Bonanni’s header

The victim’s son has been accused of murder VLORË — A deadly attack shattered the peace of Vlorë on Saturday. Five killers against one: that was how the attack unfolded, ending with the death of Asllan Sulçe, aged 63. A passer-by was the only witness to the tragic scene. As he was going about an errand, the witness — whose identity has not been disclosed in order to protect the confidentiality of the investigation — saw five men rush out of a stopped car and open fire on the victim. Sulçe had been a political prisoner and was later interned for several years. Recently, he had moved to Vlorë. According to eyewitnesses at the scene, the elderly man died from numerous wounds caused by shots fired from an Italian-made “Beretta” pistol. Although the investigation began immediately, nothing has yet been confirmed about the cause of the brutal murder. It is only known that one of the victim’s sons is in prison, accused of a murder committed some time ago within his own clan. For this reason, investigators are now considering the possibility of a vendetta within the family clan.

Is the milk infected too? ELBASAN — Tuberculosis has swept through the cows of Elbasan district, infecting around 10 to 15 percent of the animals. The veterinary service directorate was the first to raise the alarm, while 105 specialists have been sent out to the villages to assess the true extent of the danger. An Italian association had, following an experimental examination, raised suspicions that the TB germ was spreading among cows, as well as concerns about the danger to people posed by consuming their livestock products. The suspicions have now been confirmed by examinations urgently carried out by the district veterinary service directorate. “It will take a few more days to complete the full investigation,” Selman Çomo, head of the veterinary service, told Gazeta Shqiptare, “but it can be said that 10–15 percent of the cows have tested positive for TB.” To prevent the epidemic from spreading, measures must be taken to slaughter the affected cows. The district veterinary service has requested the necessary funds from the Ministry of Agriculture. Under the law, farmers must in this case be reimbursed by the state for the value of each cow slaughtered. Me. Ki.

Hunger strike ends KRUJE — The hunger strike by detainees at the Krujë Police Commissariat has ended after many days of talks and negotiations. It began two days ago, prompting representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Justice to take action. Now, at last, it seems that both sides have found common ground, and the hunger-strike protest has ended. The demands the detainees had initially submitted were that legal deadlines for investigations be respected and that judicial investigations not be prolonged when cases proceed to trial.

TIRANE — He put counterfeit dollars into circulation and later also forged official documents, and now he must serve one year in prison. This was the gist of Saturday’s ruling at the Tirana Court in the case against Sali Krasniqi. The investigation began following a report by a 15-year-old citizen and his mother, from whom Krasniqi had asked to buy something with dollars, at a price calculated above the exchange rate at the time. A check that the two first victims of the fraud later made at the State Bank immediately dispelled any doubt: the 50-dollar banknote had indeed been counterfeit.

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Relocation faces difficulties The long-awaited relocation of the families flooded out during the construction of the Fierza and Komani hydroelectric plants has encountered many difficulties. There are 450 families from Pukë who are to be resettled in several areas of the district of Lezhë; however, their relocation is being delayed by the still-uncompleted micro-plan for arranging their future homes. Private drivers not being paid The Copper Plant in Kukës has still not paid the private drivers who have spent the entire year transporting copper, copper ore and other materials on its behalf. Despite the drivers’ requests to the Copper Corporation, it is still not known where the money will come from, especially given that the plant is in a very difficult financial situation.

Abdalah Shami still at large Abdalah Shamil still at large Abdalah Shamil, an ideologue of the organization “Islamic Jihad,” has managed to evade the Palestinian police sweeps, which are trying to find those responsible for Friday’s attack in Gaza, and remains at large. In the morning, Israeli Military Radio had reported his capture, and this had also been confirmed by the Palestinian authorities in Gaza, but it was a different person. USA, the Department is shaking American policy is at risk over the issues of Haiti, Ru-zia, the UN and Bosnia. Jesse Helms, an ultraconservative from North Carolina and a staunch opponent of aid to other countries, has taken the helm of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The first matter he will consider is Helms’s 73 questions, which the “Washington Post” calls the Democrats’ “bad nightmare” in the new legislature controlled by Republicans: “I will give the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee a more active role, the role it had in the period immediately after the War.”

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