Yesterday the head of government explained himself to Parliament after the opposition’s request Meksi: “No incident at the Cassation Court” Dokle: “And SHIK?”: Musaraj: “It was the leaders of the PS” “The Cassation Court was not surrounded by police.” Prime Minister Meksi arrives in Parliament and presents the official version of the incident that occurred a short time ago at this court. He rejects the opposition’s statements about SHIK’s involvement in the affair and confirms that it was the request of the former head of Cassation himself, Zef Brozi, to place police officers at two guard posts. But the polemics had not stopped yesterday either On page 3

KORÇË Food under scrutiny On page 5

TIRANA - Debates are returning over possible alliances between opposition parties. The press offices are being left with an electoral law on the edge. Another idea, with 10 percent needed to enter Parliament, seems to have pushed the opposition toward concrete cooperation and perhaps an alliance for the elections. Neritan Ceka, leader of the PAD, does not deny such cooperation between parties but speaks out against a non-prejudicial alliance with the socialists. The threshold provided by current law to enter Parliament is 4 percent, while Ceka said yesterday that even if it reaches 15, we will go to the elections alone. Ceka’s statements come immediately after meetings of the party leader with several opposition politicians to make concrete the cooperation that began some time ago. The president of the PAD opposes the genocide law and leaves open the alternatives proposed by his party. On page 3

Sacchi in the stands. But 2-0 against “Teuta” The Italian press saved “Parma” from disqualification yesterday 4 foreigners in the lineup... 0-3 From yesterday’s showdown in Parma (photo: REUTERS) On page 5

VLORË Funds for education go up in smoke On page 5

Yesterday the agreement in Romania. Tirana takes another step toward the Pact The sky of Albania under NATO’s umbrella Yesterday Albania, Romania and Slovenia signed the agreement for the management and control of airspace according to NATO standards Spy planes at the NATO base in Gjadër On page 2

About 100 elderly people took part in the first national meeting Pensioners at the conference: we demand higher pensions On page 3

ELBASAN - The boy’s voice with the family on his uncle’s phone. Saddened by a two-year longing for his family, a boy, bewildered by the future he had recently seen on the phone in Elbasan, was stunned. No more was needed. The number had “spoken” to him, in the form of hunger, of sacrifice, from which after many days they connected him with a close family friend. Away from home for almost two years, a 15-year-old was considered missing by his family. Alone in a German city, with no other information about the city except the telephone prefix of Elbasan, he was finally “directed” to the nearest one. But this time not to church or prayers to God. It was God who appeared in the hands of one over the keyboard of the device’s buttons, forming a cross. And strangely enough, the numbers on the arms of the cross alerted a close friend of his father. A truly rare adventure belongs to a 15-year-old from Elbasan. Having left Albania illegally for Italy, for two consecutive years he had been unable to inform his family of his whereabouts. After many attempts, bewildered, in Germany where he had initially ended up, he decided to follow “fate.” On the keypad of a telephone he formed a number that, on the keys, gave the name of a cross. This number, reached completely by chance, belonged to no one other than a friend of the father of the 15-year-old from Elbasan, who immediately delivered the happy news to his family. Mentor Kikia

Yesterday the lawsuit in court PSD takes the “Genocide” to the Constitutional Court The Genocide law has been challenged in the Constitutional Court. The two Social Democratic MPs have formally denounced the anti-communist genocide law, which only a few days ago was approved in Parliament by a majority vote. On Wednesday it was promulgated by the President of the Republic Sali Berisha On page 3

Request in the Council of Europe Assembly Spahia in Strasbourg: the EEC also in Kosovo STRASBOURG - “The Yugoslav crisis shows that preventive measures must not be hesitated over, and these are not limited, for example, only to the Albanian delegates in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. The chairman of the PD parliamentary group spoke yesterday on behalf of the now permanent Albanian delegation in this European body, following the admission of 29 June. On page 3

Otranto Clandestines with two kilograms of heroin On page 5

Request from the lawyers Yesterday “Arsidi” in the Court of Appeal: the trial postponed for 7 days On page 3

TIRANA Arrested for deceit in order to rape On page 3

LAÇ Drug smuggler sentenced to three years On page 5

HISTORY “Bring back our teacher...” ELBASAN - A unique protest by a group of students from a school in the city of Elbasan. The special feeling and, apparently, many memories of their teacher have led them to an unprecedented protest and even to the mayor, over the rather ordinary departure - simply a staff change - of their teacher. Some of the students and our teacher, and so the students were sent to the mayor to bring back to their classroom the sweet voice of the teacher and her beautiful way of teaching. 9? But it seems they have been irreplaceable. The eighth-grade students, perhaps even from the foreign languages school, decided to protest all the way to the mayor for the removal of their Albanian language teacher. “Our teacher is very capable, so we ask that she leave only if it is for the upper class,” the students said, who, instead of choosing an office, chose a private house as the place to meet the mayor that evening. Although they did not manage to hold the first meeting - perhaps they lack experience in such meetings - the students are determined to make it happen with the mayor, believing that their teacher was teaching at the school, and as a result was removed from the school, they think, as a staff change, but now the students are asking for her return. On page 2

Washington: Clinton witness to peace Yesterday the agreement on Palestinian autonomy in Cisjordan was signed. The historic document is signed by Arafat and Rabin On page 2

COPENHAGEN - Completely naked, one of them posing almost in a pagan stance: this is how Birgit Nielsen, the former Danish wife of Sylvester Stallone, was presented in a periodical published by the Lutheran church for the 9,000 residents of the Rõskilds area (Copenhagen). Scandal? Not at all! “We have received no protest” said Protestant priest Raul Joachim Stender, the initiator of the photo, to the press.

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