The notice reaches the Finance Directorate in Tirana on Friday. The Customs Directorate informs the Commander of the Forces “Alba” involved in smuggling? Accusation by the Vlora Customs Office: “We will report it to the Court” According to Director Visha, Italians from the international mission brought in 2,400 kilograms without customs clearance TIRANA - Fiscal scandal involving the Italian soldiers of Alba in Vlora. The accusation: goods were smuggled through the port of Vlora. The date of the scandal is 3 July, the day when, with the help of soldiers from Italian units, 2,300 kilograms of ice cream were brought through the port of the rebellious city without paying customs duties. The witness and protagonist of this unprecedented event is Sajmir Visha, the new director of the Vlora Customs Office. Visha told Gazeta Shqiptare that force was used to remove him from the sight of the Alba personnel, and then to prevent him from entering the port for two days in a row. Visha also said that he had prepared and was ready to submit a criminal case concerning this incident, even though two military dignitaries from this contingent had apologized to the “fiscal dignitary.” Alba mission forces in the city of Vlora

Andrea Stefani The distribution of positions in the new government and its administration is emerging today as one of the greatest concerns in the camp of the victors of 29 June. The numerous candidates who will manage portfolios are vying with one another in the pages of newspapers; rather than informing, this creates a characteristic fog of rumor. But that is not all. The proposals and candidates being discussed for the same positions point to an intense phenomenon that expresses either the winners’ sense of responsibility or their greed. Time will make that distinction. But that does not deprive us of the right to ask: why all this rivalry over the distribution of office chairs? The landscape in the camps of the victors and the defeated is more contrasting today than ever before. The courtyards and corridors of the headquarters of the victorious parties are packed with eager crowds. Among the victors, along with sympathizers and activists, there are now also quite a few new faces. Meanwhile, there is silence at the headquarters of the defeated. The former... [to be continued in the adjacent column] ...now the state can begin to create those mechanisms that would ensure that those in power do not abuse its name. The essence of the crisis, which is leading to the disintegration of the Albanian state, is the abuse by powerful officeholders and politicians of the weak and fragile institutions of a still-forming order. Clashes between opposing ideologies or political strategies seem to be merely a mask for this abuse. Personal or clan loyalties took the place of institutional accountability. Parliament was abused, reduced to a feeble echo of the executive; justice was abused, in many cases turned into its opposite; political rivalry was abused, transformed into warfare. The abuse of financial institutions was the ground on which the insatiable greed of the pyramid schemes’ tragedy was nurtured. But while institutional abuse is perceptible and tangible, the abuse by individuals through their positions has remained invisible. The people lost their money; the state was undermined by illegal activity, by smuggling and various movements, vanquished is invit[?]... [text cut off at the upper edge] ...

LEKA, FEAR OF THE INVESTIGATION Leka Zogu and Minister Ngjela yesterday at Rinas Airport, moments before departure On page 2

Ceka Vlora, takes revenge on father-in-law and brother-in-law Korçë Grenade

VLORE / “No to division” VLORE - Zani Çaushi declared yesterday that he has no reason to be against the Public Salvation Committees. “I was not against the Public Salvation Committees even when they offered us money, and besides, the struggle against Berisha has united us,” he said yesterday in an interview with the newspaper. “I am not a bandit, as I have often been called, but a member of the armed people, who voted overwhelmingly for the left.” Speaking about the conflicts between groups, he said that it is others who shoot at the apartment-block barracks, where, in addition to machine guns, there are also two flags: the national flag and that of the PS. “I do not want war,” he says, “but I am not afraid of it either.” On page 3

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Vlorë, takes revenge on his father-in-law and brother-in-law VLORË - A family massacre. After a quarrel that would normally have ended in divorce, the husband comes after his wife even to her parents’ home, where he carries out the monstrous massacre. He does not spare even his two-year-old child, who is struck by bursts of automatic-gun fire. Then I. H. shoots his father-in-law and brother-in-law as well, causing their immediate deaths. Only his wife survives, wounded. After the massacre, the triple murderer has disappeared without a trace. On page 5 Vlorë.

KORÇË - A grenade nearly killed a grandfather and his grandson as they were returning home. - A grenade nearly killed a grandfather and his grandson as they were returning home. Unknown persons attacked the elderly man and the little boy accompanying him; fortunately, they escaped death. A year-old boy was seriously injured and taken to hospital, but is now out of danger. At least in the afternoon, an 18-year-old attempted to kill his cousin while under the influence of drugs he had taken; he was arrested by police moments later. On page 5

TIRANA - The Albanian survivors of the Otranto tragedy, who may be living in Italy, are meeting to arrange for their lawyer to assist them. After lawyer Colucci’s request to the Italian embassy for a visa for inspector Krijimi Peci, the authorities have not granted it. “After the protest and several procedures,” Peci tells the newspaper, “the representatives of the Italian embassy, who said they were authorized by the ambassador’s signature, asked for a visa at the embassy.” The embassy stated that today’s newspaper could obtain visas for people who need to take part in the Canal case without authorization from the Italian judicial authorities. The same thing happened at the Italian embassy, on the ambassador’s part, who said that he communicates only personally about the cases. “We cannot find an Italian lawyer for this request,” he says. “The lawyer Colucci’s regime is required to make the request to the Italian government.” The injured Albanian party has the right to choose its own lawyer, just as the Italian party has chosen its own. The text was published in one of the Italian newspapers on behalf of this party. “Thus permission from the Italian authorities has proved impossible,” he concludes.

TIRANA - Thousands of young people protested yesterday in Tirana and in front of the embassy district against the violence and racist actions of the Macedonian police. In Gostivar, in Pristina–Gostivar–Tirana–Ioannina, thousands of students marched for about an hour and a half along “Dëshmorët e Kombit” Boulevard, heading to “Skënderbej” and finally to the embassy district. Here, the demonstrators burned a Macedonian flag, shouting, “Down with Gligorov, down with the Macedonian police, freedom for our people.” Then a group of representatives of the demonstrators were escorted to the Macedonian embassy to meet with diplomats. But in their “absence,” they burned the Albanian-Macedonian flag in front of the embassy district. The group that had gathered in Gostivar and Tetovo and the surrounding area, and the protests yesterday in Dibër, supported and condemned the violence of the Macedonian police. The Tirana Students’ Association organized a demonstration in front of the Macedonian embassy and other foreign missions. At 12:30 noon, people from the city and Albanian areas of Kosovo and Macedonia, as well as many students and young people, gathered in front of the square at the University of Politikanik, carrying hundreds of red-and-black and Macedonian flags. At a slow pace, the crowd of students formed a procession and crossed the entire central boulevard in a long column. Throughout the march, the students—among them politicians from various parties, including Pandeli Majko, Ndre Legisi and Azem Hajdari—shouted against the violence being inflicted on Albanian towns in Macedonia. Holding flags, they shouted in support of the independence of Kosovo, Macedonia and Çamëria. To the rhythm of patriotic songs, they crossed Skënderbej Square, where they stopped to observe a minute of silence in memory of the victims who fell in Gostivar during the Macedonian police attack on the municipal building to remove the Albanian flag that had been placed there. “Vlora is with you,” “Shkodra is with you,” and “Long live our flag” were among the many chants with which the demonstrators applauded the protesters. The demonstration then dispersed in front of the embassies, where the police did not allow them to enter and block the diplomatic entrance. Shouting against the violence and demanding the release of their compatriots arrested by the Macedonian police, the demonstrators burned a Macedonian flag and then dispersed. At yesterday’s protest in front of the Macedonian embassy in Tirana (Photo: Plator Ilo)

LA PAZ - Che Guevara had almost become a legend—one of the closest myths to Cuban leader Fidel Castro—but now, nearly 30 years after the date of his killing, he is a “victim.” In the Bolivian forests, he has become one of the rarest finds; the skeleton of the man who would “export” the red revolution into the green jungle was viewed yesterday with great curiosity, as if it were prehistoric. The discovery was made by an Argentine anthropologist.

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