The terrible disease kills the Durrës young man He was infected in Italy. First case of wasting syndrome: he died weighing only 30 kilos TIRANA - A fatal blow from AIDS. This time the macabre virus has killed a young man. A 27-year-old from Durrës was the unlucky victim of the disease of the century. A few days ago AIDS consumed the young man who for some time had been tragically living with it. The doctors’ efforts were powerless in the face of the virus’s deadly attack, which little by little had "eaten away" the young man’s body until he could no longer resist life. His case thus becomes the third on the tragic list of AIDS deaths in Albania. According to specialist doctors, the symptoms of the disease that took the young man’s life were classic signs of its appearance. For the first time, Albanian doctors have been faced with a typical case of AIDS. The young man from Durrës had the signs of what is called wasting syndrome. On page 3

With no financial obstacles TIRANA - Albania’s final decision is able to settle the last problem of the $500 million. The payment made with the World Bank, for a normal operation - has thus fulfilled the obligation of $100 million that had to be paid last June, so the heavy burden of the super-debt on our country is directed toward 40 foreign banks. At last, the financial "embargo", which although not felt heavily, Albania is now free to enter negotiations with all foreign banks. Bank of Albania On page 3

Photo: H. Pustina TIRANA - Brozi responds sharply to the Minister of Justice. Just a few days earlier, Minister Frashëri had strongly criticized the head of the Cassation Court for weakness in its work. Through a statement distributed to several newspapers two days earlier and also made public, Chairman Brozi has reacted. "Minister of Justice Frashëri will remain in history as the only minister accountable to the judiciary," writes Chairman Brozi, and especially in the wake of the media attacks on the Court of Cassation. It seems that Minister Frashëri and his collaborators want to present to the UN proposals for several additions and changes to the recommendation of 13 October 1944 of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe regarding the independence, efficiency and role of judges. On page 3

The solution? "Insure the crops" LEZHË - Nature against man, but INSIG against nature. Now the state’s problem and inability to determine compensation funds (rightly) for any damage that natural disasters may cause has made people turn their minds to Western versions of compensation. Natural disasters have thus begun to frighten villagers. But the best solution comes from the Director of Agriculture for Lezhë. "Villagers should insure their products with INSIG." The latest flood in Laç On page 3

The President: "Here are the developments of the last 100 days" The head of state reconfirms operational facilities for NATO. And adds, regarding the possibility of the conflict spreading to Koso- "We will react as one nation" Albania at the beginning of September '95 is a completely different country. Speaking last night before Studio 70, from the "ga por" beginning of June '95, President Berisha called the last 100 days "an innovation in the fragile history of Albania". The presence of the President of Ki. of the PD as full members in the EUCD, the youth forum of the PD in DEMYC, prerimi with Rodin e i Penala, Penal Procedure, the new Labor Code, the Law on the State Land Register, Albanian lands and the blocking of borders and choices, have also been called by President Berisha a major and historic achievement of the PD program. President Berisha On page 5

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Athens-Tirana: talks of hope TIRANA - "Albania and Greece are strengthening relations"—this sentence has begun to be used routinely in the language of the mass media on both sides of the border. Behind this phrase, seemingly completely normal, lies in fact one of the situations in the political balance of the Southern Balkans. While our northern "friends" are humiliated, killed, massacred, and flee, diplomatic briefcases have long been traveling from Tirana to Athens and back, with a huge difference over a radius of only a few hundred kilometers. The latest move, undertaken by Foreign Minister Serreqi in Athens. The first aim of the Albanians is contained in a document that the government has approved. Have all the Albanian side’s requests failed? Or has some unknown self-... occurred in Greece - many have not preserved that political touch and do not easily discover their network - that has led to the collapse of the barbed-wire fence? "Employment and regular visas, insurance, and the right to freely transfer money to Albania"—this is the main content of the document that Serreqi has taken and placed on Papoulias’s table. The final solution will arrive only if the agreement passes the test of the Albanian Parliament, not an easy one, if we go by the fiery discussions among Greek deputies. Has one of the summer months passed? one of the most delicate points of the talks: the educational expansion of the ethnic minority and the rights where they do not make up the majority of the inhabitants. It is a delicate point. Some time ago, when the "cold thaw" between the two countries broke out, in a rather hoped-for article it was said that one day reason would defeat intolerance. We two neighbors will manage to overcome even the problems of the wind and it is very likely that this is truly the case—then reason will truly prevail. T.b. DIPLOMACY On page 5

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Elbasan, rejects the lawyer Protest from the cell: "I am innocent" and he starts a hunger strike ELBASAN - Faced with the accusation of murder, he has chosen desperate forms of protest: he has rejected the lawyer and has started a hunger strike in his cell. This is the story of a prisoner protesting from the rooms of the Elbasan police commissariat. The difficult conditions of isolation had previously led these detainees to a similar hunger strike. While, over the course of a few days, someone has begun to use the same sign of protest, but this time alone in his cell. The cause is also completely different, because now it is not the unsuitable cell, but the accused’s refusal to accept the murder charge that has been brought against him. A 30-year-old man arrested about two months ago is accused of illegal possession of weapons and attempted murder. Even today he remains in the hospitals of Tirana in a very serious condition. He has also testified about "protest of dealings" with the police earlier and some trace left behind in the process. While the file is ready to be examined, the 30-year-old continues the hunger strike, started only a few days ago, in the hospital wards, surviving on serum alone. "His condition is extremely serious," his relatives stated, at the lawyer’s office, whom the accused refused for defense against the serious charge. Mentor Kikia

They were playing by the Shkumbin Tragedy in the river: two girls drown ELBASAN - Tragedy in the river, 2 children drown. The little girls were badly affected by the waters of the Shkumbin, near the village of Vidhas. The two 11-year-old girls, Antoneta and Alma Meta, orphan cousins, fell victim to the whirlpool of the waters of the Shkumbin while playing on its bank. While Antoneta’s body was buried yesterday, the search continues to find the body of the other little girl. The event occurred at noon the day before yesterday. The two little girls, while watching livestock on the riverbank, had begun to move very close to the shore. On page 5

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Immigrants robbed: 7 years in prison TEPELENË - Robbery of the fugitive, the court gives the sentence of 7 years in prison. The trial has been concluded at the end of the proceedings of the 25-year-old Hasan Selizi from Matalloz in Tepelenë, accused of robbery with violence. The judicial panel, chaired by the court president Bafjar Shehu, has handed down a sentence of seven years of deprivation of liberty.

“Adidas” shirts disappear Adidas shirts disappear Uniforms stolen from the FSHF offices TIRANA - Sports equipment is stolen from the Albanian Football Federation. There were various kinds of uniforms, socks, shirts, balls presented by the famous brands Dadores, Virma Loto, Adidas, for the football sector, which was soon to organize a sports match to choose the company that would provide the material payments for the first and second division teams and for the youth. Everything happened on Monday evening. While FSHF officials left, closing the office doors, the next day they found that the sports materials coming from the major sports brands were missing. In this case, the theft involved another "scheme" and "patkik" entrance, breaking part of the wall of the "Qemal Stafa" stadium, which is connected to the Federation offices, and they managed to take precisely that intermediate place where the brands had placed the goods secretly. The thieves touched without being able to carry out a theft that was not very expensive, but quite "high-quality." The amount of damage calculated in money does not exceed the same dollars, but now the tender has failed, although some brands are asking that the materials they brought to Tirana be returned. E.Vi.

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Zef Brozi addresses Hektor Frashëri: "Honest cooperation in the interest of the independence of the judiciary", but insists: "Zef Brozi is not afraid of the immoral attacks of the despotic segments of power"

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