Government: “Forgery must be uncovered” Strict checks on vehicles circulating in Albania TIRANE - Checks on all vehicles circulating on Albania's roads will be multiplied. This government plan, approved at yesterday's meeting, aims to give the police and road-traffic authorities clear instructions once and for all to stop the entry and circulation in the country of stolen vehicles or vehicles with forged documents. The key point of the decision is the creation of a national vehicle register and the inspection of their documentation. According to preliminary data, many cars circulating today in Albania entered the country with irregular or altered documents. The project calls for such vehicles to be found and blocked and for the authorities of the relevant countries to be notified. On page 5

Only 4 national channels MASS MEDIA / One million USD for the license No one sentenced to more than 10 years in prison may open a TV station One person may not have more than 1 television or radio channel A special committee will oversee and grant broadcasting rights On page 3

TIRANE - “Kosova belongs to Albania.” A memorandum signed by 148 Albanian intellectuals has been sent to the UN, the Security Council in New York, the CSCE and the European Parliament in Strasbourg, as well as to the USA, Russia, France, Germany, England, Italy, China and Japan. It is an appeal for help and a protest against the injustices done to the Albanian nation by the Great Powers at the Berlin Congress of 1878, a date when, as written in the document, Albanians were not recognized as a nation. Kosova remained outside Albania and the injustice continues even in our tragic century.” At the Conference of Ambassadors in London in 1913, a conference that sanctioned the occupation of the Albanian ethnic territories by Serbia, Montenegro and Greece. “It was not considered that this was a condemnatory decision, a grave injustice against a people in the heart of Europe, but also a permanent threat to peace in the Balkans. As part of a comprehensive solution to the conflict in the former Yugoslavia, 148 Albanian intellectuals - artists, scholars, poets, sociologists, teachers and lecturers - are determined to shout that the national “fact” has not been viewed realistically, has been underestimated, and at times has ignored the undeniable truth that in the Balkans there has also existed a fundamental issue that is still the “Albanian Question”. “The memorandum considers the present borders with Greece of 1913 as having been set as colonial-type borders.” Today's Albania, although it seems insignificant, is in fact the only state of a part of the Albanian nation in the Balkans,” quotes the document of the 148 Albanian intellectuals.

16 families denounce them: “They killed our sons” Killings at the border / From Shkodra and Malësia e Madhe they demand justice Today in the Committee on Public Order, SHIK and Defense, the lists with the names of those killed at the border arrive Ramiz Alia TIRANE - A wave of denunciations over the killings at the border strikes Ramiz Alia and Hekuran Isai for the second time. This time it is 16 families from Shkodra and Malësia e Madhe who have filed accusations with the General Prosecutor's Office against the former President and the former Minister of the Interior. They are considered guilty of the killing of the sons of these families in the years 1990-1991 on Albania's borders, when the law that regarded escape as “high treason against the homeland” had meanwhile been repealed. On page 5

SPORT SPORT SPORT SPORT Riddick Bowe seconds after the victory Albania-Wales: Bajko's final days On page 6

An unexpected turn in the country's weather TIRANE - The sunny days are ending and the first power shortages are beginning. The cold weather has been “sweeping” over people and electrical energy for several days, bringing significant problems. Only six days have passed since the beginning of the month in which the Albanian climate has changed at geological speed. People still do not understand what lies behind the low temperatures recorded by the Albanian Synoptic Service. On page 5

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Representatives of 80 states at the Israeli Prime Minister's funeral, including Berisha SPECIAL Yesterday from Rabin's funeral. (photo: REUTERS) On page 7

File Shefizi, the airport's oldest employee, traveled to the USA TIRANE - She had been closer for 27 years to the “foreign” world than to anything else Albanian. She had carried the suitcases of the great and the “small” ones who had left and had left Rinas. But on Sunday File Shefizi carried her own luggage for the first time, on a tourist trip to the United States of America. Anyone who has ever passed along the roads of Rinas airport remembers File's gray head. Her hands have held suitcases and everything else that came and went through Rinas. Since 1968 she has also handled the luggage of all those who stepped onto Albanian soil. No sooner would a plane move than they would ask File: “When does Alitalia arrive?”, “When does Swissair leave?” And it was precisely the Swiss airline company that arranged for her a free trip to the land of dreams, America. For File, getting an American visa was not difficult either. Frequent contacts with diplomats made this almost free tourism easier for her. So on Sunday, after carrying the last suitcases of others, File took off her apron, put on her coat, took her own luggage and headed toward the plane...as a passenger... (Su.Bal.) Rinas

GJIROKASTËR A truckload of hashish stopped, the driver arrested On page 3 VLORË Two children die under the wheels of a car On page 5 ELBASAN Ital-Druri in doubt: peace between the two sides? On page 5

SYDNEY - A farmer who was going out rabbit hunting was yesterday thrown into a major health and security alert, even though Queen Elizabeth II, on the sixth day of her visit to New Zealand, is being welcomed enthusiastically by residents of Dunedin, on the South Island. The police went out into the field with 7 motorcycles, carrying rifles, to listen along the road the queen would take through the entrance to the entire airport. Despite the explanations, the poor farmer was considered a man for several hours. Elizabeth II, who is also the Queen of New Zealand, accompanied by Prince Philip, will today continue her visits in the northern city of Auckland, where she will meet with leaders of Commonwealth countries.

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