A new wave of arrests in the capital yesterday. 9 former officials in handcuffs TIRANA - Handcuffs are clanking once again on the wrists of high-ranking former officials of the dictatorship. A new wave of arrests swept up 9 of them yesterday. Former ministers, former Attorneys General, former members of the Political Bureau and other former officials of the Ministry of the Interior were taken by police cars to the Tirana court, where they officially heard the arrest warrant issued against them. The charge? The now familiar one that sent many of their fellow members of the dictatorship to prison just a few weeks ago: “They violated the constitutions in force in 1946 and 1976, and the Criminal Code, by committing genocide against the Albanian people.” On page 3 Hekuran Isai

The Greek government changes Papulias has left: Tirana-Athens What will happen? TIRANA - Will policy between Athens and Tirana change now? Karolos Papulias, the head of Greek diplomacy, will not cease to be someone who “looks after” Albania. The post has been offered to Dhimitër Panglos, former Minister of Transport and one of the “opponents” of former Prime Minister Andreas Papandreu. But what does Greece lose with Papulias’s departure from the Greek government? “A man in love with Balkan matters,” newspapers immediately wrote, commenting, among other things, on the care this personality had shown toward Albania. Kostas Simitis, Greece’s new Prime Minister—an economist known only in his own country—seems to have decided to make major changes to the cabinet led until now by Papandreu. Simitis is opposed to the political or economic projects of the former number one in the Greek government. Although PASOK has been his sole political inspiration, the Greek press has consistently regarded them as strong opponents. But what will the effects of this change be on Greek-Albanian relations? According to Greek press analysts, Simitis has always sought to pursue a European policy and, in this context, has been very little involved with the problems of the Balkans. But Papulias was very close to this region, and according to all media reports, he will no longer be Greece’s Foreign Minister. Arian Çani

More than 40 percent of those surveyed support the President The candle flame ignited the gas

The quarter-finals: both teams win away “Olimpiku” and “Shkumbini” triumph on their home grounds. Two away wins for the league leaders “Teuta” and “Tirana”. From England to France, the latest from the national leagues. National leagues on pages 9–10 Yesterday, from the “Olimpik”–“Partizani” match (photo: H. Pustina)

The darkness caused by an electrical fault and his lack of experience using the gas stove sent the boy Ilir Zela to hospital . A small candle flame caused an explosion that brought down the walls of the house, and the boy was rushed to hospital in serious condition. The Zela family, who moved from the villages of Lushnjë, have lived for three years in a new but still unfinished house in the city of Kuçovë. On page 3

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Conference in Durrës yesterday. Lists of candidates and delegates to the congress TIRANË — “There are splinters in the Socialist Party, too.” The unusual statement was made by Servet Pëllumbi himself, the current leader of the largest opposition force, who implies that someone is joining his party. On page 3

Three assassinations in two years. In March 1919, the Prince of Mirdita falls into an ambush. In 1920, Abdyl Ypi and Sali Nivica are killed . On page 11 Cena Bej Kryeziu

He falls from the Castle during filming GJIROKASTËR - Colonel Bunker “kills” a soldier. During the filming of sequences for director Kujtim Cashku’s film, a soldier acting as an extra fell from the battlements of Gjirokastër Castle, from a height of five metres. After receiving immediate medical assistance, the soldier-extra from Konispol is out of danger. It happened late on Friday night. As the filming location for “Colonel Bunker,” the Albanian-Polish co-production, had moved to a city in southern Albania, the film crew and the “papriritat” were not without mishaps. One of the soldier extras, while filming, slipped from the high battlements of the old Gjirokastër Castle, causing panic and terror among the members of the “Cashku crew.” With several fractures in different parts of his body, he is now hospitalized in Gjirokastër Hospital and, fortunately, is no longer in danger of losing his life. A.I.Pe

/ Prosecutor’s Office: “They violated the constitutions of 1946 and 1976 by committing genocide against the population”

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Assassinations in history

We would like to clarify to readers that in the article dated January 19, entitled “From the fire in Dhërmi, the millionaire Lab,” Thoma Duni, the wealthy Albanian who returned to his homeland, was described as being of Lab origin. His relatives wish to emphasize that Duni is actually from Dhërmi and, as such, belongs to the Himariote region, not Labëria.