The disappearance of the baby. Staff questioned Yesterday the Tirana Prosecutor's Office opened the criminal case. The first testimonies are being collected TIRANA - Investigations are intensifying into the scandal at the Tirana Maternity Hospital. Yesterday at 1:00 p.m. the Prosecutor's Office opened the criminal case, while in the early hours of the same day no defendant had been identified. It all refers to the episode of 14 October, when a young mother had her newborn baby disappeared on the false pretext that the child had been born dead. The first testimonies were taken yesterday by the investigators, specifically from the Director of the Tirana Maternity Hospital, Zhani Tresa, his deputy - during the time Tresa had been absent - as well as the young mother's brother and her aunt. By late yesterday evening, after the arrest, while the only measure in force was the investigation, in addition to the police, those designated were the Maternity Hospital doctor Bashkim Cenomeri, Shkëlqim Palla, four midwives, a cleaner and an information clerk. The Tirana Prosecutor's Office will question at least those involved from 14 October '95. Everyone used the board Director Tresa, the man who only a day earlier had denounced the scandal and had officially submitted the complaint to the Prosecutor's Office of the Republic. On page 5

"PS makes up secret meetings between parliamentarians elected by free vote and the President also elected by free vote". After the hypothesis, the polemics begin The Presidency: Berisha and Zeneli have not met "PS makes up secret meetings between parliamentarians elected by free vote and the President also elected by free vote". Sali Berisha Zeneli of the PS: "It is false and intentional information spread for specific motives" Bashkim Zeneli On page 3 Sali Berisha; Bashkim Zeneli

HISTORY A boy from Peshkopi the peacekeeper in Bosnia PESHKOPI - There is also a boy from the Peshkopi district in Bosnia. Twenty young men and people from European states and from the volunteer republics in the battle of Bosnia have also come down, one of them from Peshkopi. His name is Fatmir Salihu and he is 27 years old. His story is one of the rarest while the war is taking on broader dimensions. Fatmiri was involved in a battle unknown to the boy from Peshkopi. In 1991 Fatmir illegally crossed the border into Greece. There he had to struggle, like many of his compatriots. In those difficult times, he was out of work for two years, but with iron will he also continued intensively with a private special karate course. But that course was later stopped on a winter day because this kind of thing would very soon be needed in the most terrible war of the century for the Balkans, becoming the first Albanian to officially take active part in the Bosnian war. By Greola Esmul laku After some time in Greece, the young man approached a Frenchman named Simon. Very soon he would take the path of emigration, this time with the help of a Serb illegally, but this time toward the coasts of Puglia. But Italy did not quite "satisfy" the Albanian boy either. From there he set off for French soil. It was almost at the same time that the peace soldiers were being mobilized toward the flames of Bosnia. Here, precisely in Paris, after a few days in the well-known places of the French capital, he did not waste time and headed to the Paris army recruitment center. And not long after passing the difficult admission tests and exams, he put on military clothes and placed the blue beret of the angels of peace on his head. A period later in Rwanda, and two years in Bosnia. While the individual hardships and the discomforts of the military duty are described, Festim is told not to reveal anything about the coordinates of the place where he is - he must regularly call his family, which asks anxiously about the boy in exile, the wishes that once opened his life, he bitterly has described the most unbelievable things. And this fear will last another year. That is how long the contract is that Festimi signed and bought with the military masonry of the United Nations in Paris, and on the wall of his French life. Dritan Shehu

TIRANA Musaraj: "The number of crimes is decreasing" On page 3

BERAT Police uncover the "killers" of the child On page 5

ELBASAN Court: "The strike against Italdrruri is lawful" On page 5

The government seeks help from Brussels and Paris The Director of Reserves reassures: "We have contracted with Romania" The President's decree is a measure to prevent the risk of a rise in the price of bread The change in grain prices on international markets is putting Albanian private operators in crisis On page 3

INTERVIEW Godo against Rugova: "No Kosovo under the UN" TIRANA - Godo against Rugova's statement. "President Rugova's formulation seems to me an unfortunate one," says the PR leader. Only a short time ago, Ibrahim Rugova had spoken of a "Kosovo under the civilian administration of the United Nations Organization." Godo says he is surprised and says that Kosovo has the right to demand independence without wavering. Rugova's statement, the republican leader argues, would lead to "colonial states or those separated from colonization". On page 3 Sabri Godo

Beauty contest in Turkey. Grabocka on the jury ENTERTAINMENT Miss Albania in search of the European crown Beauty contest in Turkey. Grabocka on the jury On page 7 Zguro, Miss Albania '94

"Mediterranean Plans" Albania left out of the EU project Our country is not included in the multi-billion-dollar financial program On page 7

Union supports management: RTSH should make cuts TIRANA - Full understanding between the main leaders of Albanian Radio and Television and its independent workers' union regarding the much-discussed issue of cuts. Yesterday at the hotel, the two sides' twelve representatives signed a short document marking the first 95. "Professionalism and aspects" these representatives, the main leaders of RTSH. Also with the criterion of cuts. But the most difficult task seems to belong to the heads of departments. They will be the ones to propose the names of the staff to be cut. The first of them will have to leave the institution's job very soon On page 5

Vrioni speaks: "Don't sell the privatization vouchers" TIRANA - "Don't sell the securities." At yesterday's press conference, Finance Minister Dylber Vrioni called on all beneficiaries of the valuable papers to use them within the set deadline because "they really have value." The time has now come to close the old blocks of division and acquisitions that will enter the path of privatization. There are about 30 of them, which will have new owners, among which the most important are the electricity distribution companies. On page 5

57th National Championship Today again football in the stadiums... ROUND VIII ALBPETROL - PARTIZANI APOLONIA - LAÇI BESA - TOMORI BESELIDHJA - TEUTA OLIMPIK - ELBASANI SPOTRI - TIRANA SKENDERBEU - KASTRIOTI SHQIPONJA - FLAMURTARI SHKUMBINI - VLLAZNIA

Jasushi Akashi TIRANA - Jasushi Akashi, the United Nations mediator in Bosnia, has arrived in Tirana. His first contact was with Prime Minister Aleksandër Meksi, during an audience with whom the problems of peace in the region, the war in Bosnia, and the issue of the Albanian question in Kosovo were discussed.

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