05/11/1998
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Gazeta Shqiptare

5 November 1998

PENSIONS: WHERE WILL MAJKO FIND 24 MILLION?

OPINION PENSIONS: WHERE WILL MAJKO FIND 24 MILLION? On page 7

CONSTITUTION: SOCIALISTS PAIR UP FOR THE CAMPAIGN

POLITICS CONSTITUTION: SOCIALISTS PAIR UP FOR THE CAMPAIGN On page 3

40 women massacred

They fall victim to the sex trade The tragic toll of trafficking in women. The perpetrators of the crime are their Albanian “owners”

OSCE warns of unrest in Tirana

The Constitution Run postponed . The OSCE warns of incidents during the referendum process on the Constitution. In an official statement, the OSCE Representation in Tirana says that the “run for the Constitution” has been postponed, concerned that an incident could occur on the appointed day. The statement says that this decision was taken after the PD criticized the OSCE for repeatedly raising the issue of participation in the constitutional process, including the referendum. On page 2

State: Patients with sexually transmitted diseases will receive free medication

. Sexually transmitted diseases, like many infectious diseases, will be treated free of charge. Minister Solis is supporting the doctors’ work. The cost of treatment is not high enough to weigh heavily on patients’ pockets. The elimination of fees for this category of diseases is seen as one way to make patients “reveal the diseases they are carrying in their bodies,” health specialists say. The number of people affected by these diseases is several times higher than the number recorded in hospital files. The diseases can be treated in several dozen [unclear]. We have had quite a number of patients with diagnoses we had never encountered before. “Doctors know of four cases. On page 11

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The Anti-Nano Front

. Skifter. The antipathy toward former Prime Minister Fatos Nano, both within his own party and among other factions outside it, appears to have begun to take shape. Sources within the PS say that certain party figures, working together with other individuals in the smaller coalition parties, have begun to devise joint strategies to remove Nano from the position of party chairman. The source emphasizes that the current Prime Minister, Pandeli Majko, has not become involved in this Byzantine campaign, but there are so many people dissatisfied with Nano that they have no difficulty gathering into an Anti-Nano front. This front includes party activists who were also dissatisfied in the past with Nano’s “de-militantizing” policy. It also includes socialists who, although they helped Nano to