A 30-year-old man from a town in the South dies
The fifth case. Digestive syndrome, loss of sight, the body rotting: this is the virus’s toll
TIRANA - AIDS strikes again and causes a death. A 30-year-old man from a small town in the South died just a few days ago. Infected in Greece, he had been living with the virus in his body for five years. Digestive syndrome—from 80 kilos he fell to 50—rotting of the body, salmonella fevers circulating in his blood, loss of sight: this is how the disease of the century completely destroyed him. This is the fifth AIDS-related death, and, like the four before it, he died within a short time. The first was a young man from Vlora, then a girl from Shkodra, then another from Pogradec, and finally, at the end of 1995, a young man from Durrës.
The victim had been infected in Greece. His wife stayed by his side for five years, until the very last day. Her tests came back negative.
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Elections: here is the parties’ “salary”
PD and PS get the lion’s share
6 million each for the two big parties. Ten times less for the others
ELECTIONS IN GREECE
Shkodra train: tragedy averted
THE WATERS [?] PUT THE TRACK AT RISK
LEZHË - Tragedy was averted in a matter of seconds. The train on the Shkodra–Tirana line departed at its usual time, 5:30 yesterday morning.
But as it was approaching kilometer 72, the locomotive [?] suffered a serious track fault. Numerous recent [?] landslides caused the high-water channels to burst; the gravel had been washed away and, as a result, the track had collapsed. The rails too were ... covered with water. This is what the passengers report. It immediately slowed down, and the carriages, packed with people, passed through—albeit with considerable difficulty—without any consequences. This was yesterday’s incident on the Shkodra–Tirana railway line. “We have taken all the necessary measures to repair this area,” inspector Bekim Arapi told Gazeta Shqiptare, and it has been decided that work will continue throughout the night so as not to disrupt daytime passenger transport. Nevertheless, fortunately, a situation was averted that could truly have had an indescribable outcome.” i. ra.
Minority: empty houses and streets
The deserted lanes in Derviçan
Minority: empty houses and streets
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The elections in Greece
Today’s voting dilemma: Simitis or Evert?
ATHENS - Today, the vote for Greece’s future. According to the polls, both the PASOK government and the opposition New Democracy Party are polling only a few points apart.
During the election campaign, Simiti tried to imitate his predecessor, PASOK founder Papandreu, but did not pay too much attention to the issue of relations with Turkey. As for Evert, he devoted himself to the campaign, which began with Simitis’s great fanfare about an easy victory for his party. Today, the Greek people will decide which party they prefer.
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Elections: ... The money pot
PD and PS get the lion’s share
TIRANA - “The money isn’t enough for us; we’re asking for more.” Yesterday, the parties’ finance offices sounded the alarm after collecting the money the state allocated to them for the election campaign.
The PD will put 6.4 million lek in its coffers, while the Socialists have collected 6 million new lek. The other parties received considerably less. Melo has withdrawn only 645 thousand lek, while the Republicans have collected around 541 thousand. “The sums are truly insufficient,” said the parties’ chairmen and leaders. The intensive campaign, costly propaganda, services, travel and other things that require money are factors that call for a much larger sum.
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Confederation announces: “Strike on October 4”
Again, bread compensation
TIRANA - “If the Government does not respond positively to our demands for full compensation for bread, as well as on other issues, then we will go on strike again.”
It is the Confederation of Trade Unions of Albania which, gathered for a national[?] event, has renewed its determination to secure the fulfillment of the demands publicly announced during the September 16 strike.
It was Confederation chairman Kastriot Muço who, in one of the halls of the National Historical Museum, presented the demands the Confederation has submitted to the Government. Among them, alongside the demand for full compensation for the costs resulting from the liberalization of bread prices, are demands for increases in wages and pensions. If the Government does not take these demands into consideration, the Confederation of Trade Unions of Albania has warned that it will organize a nationwide strike on October 4.
Miss Europe ’96: the beauties are ill
INTERVIEW BY SHFRATI WITH MISS ITALY
The European beauty queens
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Superfidale cross
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Two Newspapers in one
Shines in Durrës
Lushnje, scandal... [?]
Tirana first in the figures too
Bayern establishes its hegemony
ALBANIAN NEWSPAPER Sport
The day [?] of violence
Interview
On pages 5–8
Two Newspapers in one
