Massacre in the military tunnel
Ammunition depot explodes: 27 dead
They had gone into the tunnel carrying torches in their hands. Explosions are still continuing
USA: "Freedom offered us the sanction in December '95"
America[?]
USA: "Freedom offered us
the sanction in December '95"
Washington: The environment we need does not suit us
Washington. The environment we need does not suit us
May Day: a "holiday" over ruins
May Day:
a "holiday"
over ruins
ANDREA STEFANI
Today is May Day. And probably it may be the saddest and most paradoxical Labor Day this country has ever experienced. At least in our century. Because today, here, alongside workers, owners, capitalists, and entrepreneurs are also celebrating. Together with them, the unemployed, looters of depots, traffickers, thieves large and small, the strongmen and the perpetrators of the uprisings, their factions and gangs, the leaders of political parties and of the pyramid companies, those who made March 1 possible and everything that followed it, are celebrating too. Because all of them, although with different interests, are united by success. All are winners, in different ways. At the expense of labor and the state, of order and freedom, of the vote and of rights, of law and civilization. They are winners because in Albania work has collapsed, and with it sacrifice, dedication, honesty, order, progress. The factories and businesses that, although they set something in motion, were nevertheless workplaces, have also collapsed. Money has collapsed, and so have the banks. Offices and the administration have shut down. Neither goods, nor capital, nor free people can move. Nothing works. Except the barrels of Kalashnikovs and theft. Thousands upon thousands of people have lost not only their jobs and income, but also their faith. Today it is hard to imagine how investment, trade, production, calm, order, administration, and the very reason for social life can be renewed. But who brought this misery to light? Who dismantled and ruined it? Who made work ridiculous and unemployment a triumph? This was done by armed rebellion, political hatred and blindness, the thirst for power at any cost, impatience toward law and the state, the delirium of destruction that presents itself as the revolution of the people.
Precisely because work has been trampled underfoot, today May 1 is a meaningless holiday, an empty ritual over ruins.
Fadilet Luiziu accuses the Government
TOMORROW IN THE NEWSPAPER
NASHITON [?] - New accusations by the former general of the Albanian Bank. He declared that he has been taken hostage and is being held in isolation. He is asking for President Berisha's intervention to save Albania's banks from collapse.[?]
Vlorë, the port will be opened
The decision arrives on Friday
The port of Vlorë is exploding [?] ... On Friday the decision for opening the port arrives. In overturned Albania, movement and trade are returning to the port of Vlorë.[?]
Shehu-Nano meeting: dead end
No result on the elections and the electoral law
FROM THE WORLD
England: Today the Blair-Major duel
England:
Today the duel
Blair-Major
London. Michael Stevens makes the chances of winning better.[?]
On page 7
SPORT
Cup: Partizani-Flamurtari in the final
Cup:
Partizani-
Flamurtari
in the final
TIRANE. On the field of the capital's stadium, the final of the Albanian Cup between Partizani and Flamurtari will be played today. The fans are eagerly awaiting it.
On page 6
TEPELENE
The newspaper is torn: colleagues protest
On page 3
ELBASAN
13 killed in hospital; the corpse is burned
On page 3
DURRES
The fišegjet epidemic: We are returning to Italy
The fišegjet epidemic:
We are returning to Italy
On page 3
GJIROKASTER
A friend is robbed: terror in the city
On page 3
"In 1979 the Pentagon abandoned us. Here is why..."
"In 1969 they were supposed to crown King Idris of Libya,
but..."
"In 1979 they were in the overturned amphitheater in Xhoxhi"
"Xhanel Musajeni does not hear it from there, so he has opposed it"
On page 5
ALBANIAN RED CROSS
offers soon No. 43 of
the Red Cross aid dated
20.5.1997
at 16:30, live on TV.
The RED CROSS thanks all
participants in its lottery
for their support.