High school students were boating: one teacher also disappears The incident occurred around 3:30 p.m. The bodies of the victims lost in the waters of Prespa have still not been found. Mystery over the causes. The students had gone on an excursion and lost their lives on the return boat ride from the outing. Last night special units from the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Defense landed on the shore of the lake. Divers immediately began searching to recover the bodies On page 5

Small business continues to dominate the new private initiative. Of more than 56,000 enterprises, around 44,000 have only 1 employee In Albania more than 56,000 private activities Here is how the new business is born 10,000 more during '95 In the new private initiative, small business continues to dominate. Of more than 56,000 enterprises, around 44,000 have only 1 employee TIRANA - Official statistics have announced the rates of “birth” in Albania’s private business world during 1995. And it turns out that over the 12 months of the year that has just ended, its dimensions expanded by another 10,355 activities of various sizes. The structure of the private business world has hardly changed and small business continues to be dominant. On page 7

DURRES Strikers to Berisha: "Intervene with the Turks" On page 5

KORÇE He had killed at the border: 6 years in prison for the soldier On page 5

BERAT The river victims: the bodies are not found On page 5

SHKODËR "San Valentino" first winner On page 7

The accused want acquittal "Show the evidence, then we’ll defend ourselves" Kukës, had been removed with secondary school Police with false certificates 20 complaints at the Prosecutor’s Office The accused want acquittal “Show the evidence, then we’ll defend ourselves” TIRANA - The accused of genocide are asking for acquittal and for the case against them to be dismissed. Meanwhile, Deputy Prosecutor Arvizu only yesterday learned that the charge against him was only crimes against humanity and not genocide. Yesterday they were supposed to explain themselves before the investigator, Aranit Çela. Officials Ramzi and Rra-[] Mino, but their defense ordered silence. On page 5

Yesterday’s decision of the Central Commission The leader of the PSD permanently out of parliament. "He broke the law" TIRANA - Skënder Ginushi is left out of the proportional list. This time it was the Central Election Commission that placed yet another “stop” stamp on the political autobiography of the number one of the Social Democrats. No less harshly, the supplementary lists were used for the first time in Albanian political history, beneath some of whose members, since yesterday, the bells of the elimination warned about by the Convention for the Verification of Official Figures have begun to ring. But the 17 members of the Commission did not want to remain only within the limits of verifying the documentation of parliamentary candidates. On page 3 Central Election Commission above Gjinu shi

After the Union Resolution, optimism in the PS “As soon as we come to power, Nano will be tried while free” “Nano will be tried while at liberty, once we come to power.” This is the latest decision of the Albanian socialists; their leader, Fatos Nano, has been regarded as one who has suffered no harm. So clearly, the desire of the country’s largest opposition party to turn its attention to the imprisonment of their leader has been revived even more strongly, and it seems that this was due to a letter from the Secretary General of the World Parliamentary Union, Pierre Cornillon, addressed to the vice president of the PS, Luan Hajdaraga. On page 3 Fatos Nano

In the Democratic Union TIRANA - The European Democratic Union is reconsidering the Kosovo issue. It was a resolution approved at the end of the meeting that reviewed “strong support for a solution to the Kosovo issue.” A participant in the Thessaloniki meeting, the secretary for foreign relations in the PD, Albert Brojka, explains to Gazeta Shqiptare the support that the PD found in the Union, of which it has been a member since March. "What exactly does the CDU resolution on Kosovo say and how was it received?" “The resolution approved at the end of the meeting was considered the most concrete and the harshest in tone toward Belgrade. On page 3

The work of the famous writer under the label of the Elbasan publishing house Kadare entrusts his works to “Onufri” The house obtains publishing exclusivity ELBASAN - Kadare’s works, among other things, will from now on bear the inscription “Onufri”; these days our famous writer has granted the Elbasan publishing house “Onufri” the exclusive right to publish his works. “This publishing house - Kadare himself said after the decision was taken - has a sufficient dose of idealism and carries a concept that does not conflict with my tastes.” He stated this after the discussion and promise made to him by the president of the publishing house, Bujar Hudhri. From now on, his new works, together with the best books published so far, will be signed by “Onufri”, also collecting the related rights arising from this agreement. After the release of “Dialog me Alen Boskenë”, the novel “Shpirti”, about 300 pages long, is currently with this publishing house. The reader will have this novel in hand in the autumn of this year, at the same time as it will also be released to French readers through the Paris publishing house “Fayard”. The president of “Onufri” has stated - at the improvised press conference between him and Kadare - that this event will remain a marked day for the publishing house he leads.

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