Today Albania mourns the 14 victims REPORTAGE / Helicopters, divers, searches ... Everything from the scene of the tragedy The shock of a parent beside her daughter’s coffin (photo: Hektor PUSTINA) LIOENAS - The tears and cries of despair of a mother dressed in black, the noise of helicopters, opened the macabre “scene” of yesterday morning’s tragedy. On the shore of the lake, the ministry, senior officials of the Ministry of the Interior, divers and relatives of the victims. At 7.30, the first boats and helicopters that transported the special diving forces set off toward the island where 13 students and their teacher Edmond Mato lost their lives the day before. First one boat set off with Musaraj and Cikuli, who were in Liqenas - a village about 40 kilometers from Korçë - in the early hours of the morning. Behind them, the fishermen’s boats left in groups. The helicopters take off and land every 10 minutes. Everything has now moved to the lonely island - about a mile and a half from the shore - whose beauty was yesterday stained by the macabre death [?]. The whole country hurts and everyone’s hopes are fixed on the rocky “fortress” where preparations for underwater searches have begun. There are 10 divers carrying oxygen tanks, wearing their equipment and getting ready to search. Armand Mero on page 7

FOOTBALL / The Durrës team are defeated by “Partizani” Celebration in the capital: “Tirana” champions once again TIRANA - “Thank you, Partizan”. Silence, tears of joy and then indescribable enthusiasm on the field of the City of Students. Tirana has been declared champion for the 1995-1996 season and, in the end, Tirana has set records and given the championship “checkmate”. In the final stretch the blue-and-whites did what the Durrës team had dreamed of for 34 straight weeks, but their rivals achieved it exactly when they needed to. In an atmosphere somewhat unusual for a championship match, the “Tirana”-“Apolbel” [?] match began. The field, which would have been fit for a sports agricultural societies match, immediately fell under the weight of a field where the championship team would emerge. The match began and ended in a midway atmosphere. On pages 5-6 Captain Minga raises the cup

The sambists are forced to intervene For about 12 minutes play is interrupted Scenes of violence yesterday in the stadium On page 6

“Many documents have disappeared” The Tirana Prosecutor’s investigations into the embassy events in Tirana in July ’90 are suspended. The investigation group that had been following the case, after being so bewildered for 5 months, has been forced to close, perhaps temporarily, most of the voluminous file. The major gaps in the documentation of the archives of the Ministry of the Interior. On page 3

Kadare: “We are losing moral values” Meeting of the distinguished writer with intellectuals from the capital TIRANA - “A confident tone, at times harsh and penetrating. For two hours straight, Ismail Kadare spoke in a reflection on his own country. Freshly arrived from Paris, the writer analyzes Albanians, their moral crisis, the fierce political struggle between the left and the right, and the loss of values in the most cherished spheres of art, Kosovo’s laughter, and relations with domestic and foreign opinion. The whole piece is extended, now seen through the ‘eyes’ of the Nobel that has caused a stir among Albanians. “I reject all the slanders that have been spread, especially by a country that does not respect writers. Here, dozens of letters from Albanians arrived in Stockholm asking for my non-award of the Nobel Prize, and they contained slanders of every kind. These things leave me baffled; I understand nothing else.” There was also little room for politics in the conversation. No attempt to soften the extreme tension between the left and the right in the country. “Each side accuses the other of everything that has been done in the past, while forgetting that some of them were active participants in what we have left behind. This is Kadare - he himself is involved in politics and has caused a series of unforgivable phenomena.” And according to him, in the name of certain narrow interests of one side or the other, the writer continues to sow hatred toward the country’s writers such as Migjeni. No country in the world glorifies writers who were collaborators of fascism, but it is not understood why Migjeni, the greatest creator in prose and artistic work, has also been set aside. This is absurd.” Kadare also focused on the moral psychology of Albanians. “Today we are experiencing a historical fatality,” he stressed. Migjeni considered this for everyone a symptom that cannot be justified by the upheavals or social difficulties the country has gone through or is going through. “The histories of states are always linked. Greece, for example, has had a tragic history, but the Greeks are not as traumatized as we are. We have no reason to feel inferior. We have had and still have beautiful things in the Balkans, a nature that foreigners admire, and a rich country. There is no reason to lose humanism, discipline, culture. I have the impression that Albanians tend to lose their moral references, and this is a hemorrhage that is not easily cured.” Arlinda Causholli

ECONOMY / The CPI is published Now vegetables, fruit and vitamins are even more expensive During April prices were 1.5 percent higher Now vegetables, fruit and vitamins are even more expensive On page 3

From the World Trial of the criminals: The Hague accuses Slobodan Milosheviç On page 2

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The boatman: “It wasn’t my fault” On page 7

TURKISH COLLEGE “Mehmet Akif Ersoy” organizes the entrance exam for the admission of students for the 1996 - 1997 school year, which will take place on Sunday, 2 June 1996 at 10:00. Any student wishing to take part in the exam must appear in person together with the documents listed below for registration: - 2 photographs - Birth certificate accompanied by a photograph - Report card for the eighth grade or a certificate of average grades signed by the school principal. Registration will continue until 30 MAY 1996 at the address: Turkish College “Mehmet Akif Ersoy” (former electrical secondary school) Tirana. Tel: 042 348 95.