Noise in Durrës: “Why should only Tirana be paid?” Alimçaqi complains: Malaj stole my secrets VEFA ultimatum: 3 days’ deadline Creditors threaten: Otherwise, we’ll occupy the properties Kamberi returns to Tirana. First meeting with the Government’s man: Here I am. M. Leka’s return is also expected For the first time, Durrës takes to the streets in protest over the pyramid schemes. In Tirana, creditors ask one another: “Have you seen anyone who got any money?” TIRANA - VEFA creditors in Durrës take to the streets in protest. “If money is not distributed to the people of Durrës too, then we will block VEFA’s properties in Durrës, starting with the maritime agency.” To respond to Alimçaqi’s ultimatum, a delegation of creditors has set off for Tirana, together with Haxhi Ballgjini, head of VEFA’s Durrës branch. Creditors suspect that including only Vlorë and Tirana on the lists for money distribution shows that VEFA has no money. But creditors from Tirana and Vlorë have not been any luckier either. Many of them had gathered by VEFA’s counter to see whether money would really be distributed. They say no one has been seen leaving the counters. VEFA employees say that of the 57 people who were supposed to receive money, 10 did not show up, while the others have been paid. To defuse tensions, the counter grilles at VEFA had been greased. On page 3 Major operation yesterday at midday. Extradited to Tirana The first day after the sensational attack “Zani is innocent” — Interview on page 4

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The protests yesterday in Kosovo Photo (REUTERS) PRISTINA - “Hello Eu- siese, who were the first rope, ëhere are you?”. With to help the wounded. this call, the University of Although the exact number Pristina students began of injured people is not yet their large, peaceful rally known, it is thought that yesterday. It seems they are there are many. the only ones who think that According to the students’ the time has come for the internal sources, the rector denied rights to be joined in of the “parallel” Albanian voice and action, and for a university, Ejup Sta[v]ovci, “no” to be said to ... and his deputy Ahmet Gelsi were detained by the police, while the leaders of the Independent Union of Albanian Students were arrested after being beaten with rubber batons. Many students, school pupils and their family members were also questioned. After the rally ended, the slogans left here and there along the streets travelled by the union members and all their supporters could clearly be read: “Stop discrimination and Apartheid.” “Free 1 October had been announced days earlier, but no one except the union members had declared support for this date. Both Rugova and representatives of the United States called for postponement and waiting. here and there: “Stop discrimination for ...”, “Stop discrimination against ...”, “Stop apartheid”, “Free the university premises, etc. Seven years ago, Albanian pupils were expelled from the places where they studied. The long wait and repeated demands, which fell on deaf ears, had a limit, and it seems the union members have just crossed that limit. Although they know how the Serbs will react, the students are ready to continue gathering and marching peacefully through the city, determined to take what belongs to them. ... nobody. They want to return to their classrooms, lecture halls, schools... October 1 union members agreed with asked for postponement and patience. Meanwhile, in defiance of the signatures, the thirty-thousand-strong crowd, entirely peaceful, once again felt the Serbian baton on their backs. Many students were beaten, along with their respected professors. The excessively enraged police did not wait long, but split up the crowd, tearing down every banner and sign. Police forces also blocked the rectorate building. Many students of the Faculty of Medi- also experienced police violence— The protests yesterday in Kosovo — Photo (REUTERS)

Major operation yesterday at midday. Extradited to Tirana FIER - The kingpins of Berat and Fier have fallen into the hands of the special forces. Their major operation took place yesterday at midday, on the outskirts of the oil city. A special escort transported to Tirana the men accused of a series of crimes. According to the police, the kingpin of Ura Vajgurore, Zarif Bregu, is the perpetrator of the June 16 massacre, in which nine people were killed, including five police officers. Meanwhile, Fier’s wanted man had been stealing vehicles for months along the Patos-Ballsh road. Two police operations to capture him failed, while in another the officers fell into a trap. A decision on their detention is expected today, while reports of crimes committed by them have begun to increase at police stations. On page 5

The first day after the sensational attack TIRANA - “I expect more bullets,” Hajdari declared as he left Parliament. Hundreds of Democratic Party (PD) supporters accompanied him to the entrance of the Assembly, where he delivered the statement he had announced. “I call for the establishment of parliamentary commissions to investigate several political attacks,” Hajdari said, while his son placed a bunch of flowers at the site of the attack on his father. “I will decide whether to return to Parliament after consultations with the parties of the Union for Democracy,” Hajdari confirmed. On page 2 Hajdari in Parliament yesterday Photo (P. Ilo.)

Unexpected controversy over the saint’s nationality FROM A NATIONALIST PARTY The Romanians complain: Teresa is ours Unexpected controversy over the nationality of the saint TIRANA - “Mother Teresa is Romanian” — at first glance, a joke, but the Romanians seem to have joined the other Balkan countries in their claims to take something from Albania. A deputy from Romania’s ultra-nationalist party wants to take something from us that we have been proud of for a long time. Just one statement from him was enough for the news to be published at lightning speed by all the news agencies. Described as the scoop of the day, newspaper staff immediately began working to review their archives and correct an error that had stood for nearly 87 years, but perhaps later they changed their minds about putting too much faith in the whim of a Romanian party. “Mother Teresa really was born in Skopje, but to a Romanian family, not an Albanian one” — Nicolae Llonchuescu, after making great efforts, has discovered the truth about the origins of the great saint. In Bucharest, all the members of the ultranationalist party “Greater Romania” gathered and celebrated this fact at length, considering it their greatest achievement. “The saint belongs to us; she was born to Romanian parents” — the evidence has been lined up, but none of it is convincing. According to them, Gonxhe Bojaxhi was born in Skopje to Romanian parents. Her surname matches that of many other families who now live in the country of 23 million. They have offered an adapted version of her name, which does not differ much from the original: “Agnes Caniga Bo-ianqi” — this is the name they will now publicize widely as their property, attributing to her all the merits the great saint earned during her 87 years of life. It is true that Mother Teresa came to Albania only three times, but everyone knows she is of Albanian origin. Here the Romanians insist again: “She visited Bucharest in 1991 and founded one of her charitable homes.” The Romanians seem to have remembered rather late to concern themselves with Teresa. On September 5, she closed her eyes and was buried in Calcutta, the city where she had asked to rest, without trying to deny her origins or ask for a change in the people who want to assign her a different origin. The Romanians pleaded with her yesterday, but it seems that others will take up this whim, all the more so among the clergy of the Albanian state, in time to find such things.

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