Mobilization of the security forces for the opposition rallies The PS, PSD and PAD protest inside the courtyards of their party headquarters Commission: “Here is how we handled the complaints” Could the PD allow areas for the right-wing parties? Shehu: “If the opposition enters, we will appear in all areas; otherwise, we will see how to proceed” Yesterday Kapidani and a German expert explained the procedures for verifying the ballot papers On page 3

: Essays: Literature or politics? TIRANË - It is the beginning of June. The first weeks of this month remind many of us of the period of essay writing: the examinations that marked the transition from one stage of school to another. This period has had very little, if any, prominence in the media teeming with politics. There’s nothing you can do about it. Elections are always a time packed with important events, which leave no room for the problems of everyday life to be reflected in newspaper pages or on television screens. If only that had been all, it would have been half the trouble. This time we wanted to highlight another problem: the connection between school and current politics, starting from a very simple fact: the compulsory essay topics for the eighth grade. Two of them were worded more or less as follows: “Demo- “Democracy” and “A bunker at home”. Both got the pupils thinking, prompting them to write what they had more or less read in the newspapers their parents bring home, first and foremost to please the teacher, of course. “Democracy”, “dictatorship”, “bunker”, “party”, “parliament”, “government”, “opposition” are all genuinely important subjects; we simply cannot understand what they have to do with literature, which is something that should first and foremost cultivate young people’s feelings, and not merely teach them to memorize such concepts. And, frankly, we may be wrong, but topics like these remind us of times gone by, when the cultivation of militant feelings was demanded, rather than that of cultured young people. Everyone knows the consequences of this kind of schooling—shaped by a social reality different from today’s. The school society needs today should, among other things, explain political systems and the history of their country to young people, but this should not be done through a written essay topic, or, more precisely, by having them “eat” it. sa baz.

Sports Gazette England, what a disappointment A draw at Wembley Albanian transfer market: Prenga to Vlora On pages 9–10 From the England-Switzerland match, 1–1 (Photo: REUTERS)

Police raid: 4 people arrested The operation also took place in Tirana: 750,000 counterfeit drachmas Durrës, fear of meat? Stop food

Carries out its penultimate explosion

Durrës Two kilograms of pure cocaine and a veritable counterfeiting laboratory have fallen into the hands of the Durrës police following a 24-hour operation extending as far as Tirana. Four people have ended up in jail, and a batch of counterfeit money intended for Albanian currency markets, passports, international driving licenses and insurance policies were found in their homes during Thursday night and the early hours of Friday. On page 12 Durrësi

Durrës, fear of meat? Albanian food products have been declared “undesirable” for Italians. Meat, cheese and other by-products of Albanian origin cannot cross the border. The Epizootic Aphthous disease, discovered in several districts of the country, has led the Italian authorities to take a firm stance and refuse entry into Italy to these products. On page 12

On page 11 The car market in Durrës

Carries out the second-to-last explosion in the series of nuclear tests China, the only nuclear power that has not yet given up nuclear testing, carried out a new explosion yesterday. It subsequently announced that this was the second-to-last explosion. The one that follows is expected to bring their series to an end and mark the beginning of China’s observance of the moratorium on nuclear tests. On page 2

“Scorching” forecasts for ’96, too TIRANË - “Scorching” forecasts for this summer. While 1995 turned out to be the hottest year in the last 150 years, now 1996 is promising extremely high temperatures. All the signs point to the thermometer readings continuing to rise. The Institute of Observations, the famous Washington Peak Observatory, has published these days the planet’s trends for “awakening every night to the rays of a sun, ‘sunnier than ever.’” “We are basing this on some forecast data,” say the specialists at the prestigious Institute — the average temperature reached its maximum record in 1995. At 15.29 degrees recorded over its 12 months, 1995 was the hottest year observed since 1900, when the ongoing weather observations of the twentieth century began. Temperatures had fallen because of the Pinatubo eruption, but in 1994 a rise in heat was recorded: 15.23 degrees — the average kept rising — in 1994, 15.39 in 1995, and possibly even higher in 1996 if this year’s temperature is only just getting started. The record temperature in 1995 is also quite alarming because it was recorded without the influence of natural phenomena, which often contribute to raising it. El Niño, or the warm-water pool that appears once every four years in the Pacific Ocean, has not yet appeared, and consequently all the waves reaching its coastline have been minimal. This summer, all the data from the mild winter seem to want to “dress” our planet in a heat it has never experienced before. Experts refuse to describe... On page 12 Switzerland. 47 years old, with a preliminary application and in good financial circumstances

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Matura: A special topic for the final grade On page 12