The weapons of adults in these years, Albanians have taken with their own eyes? [?] outburst. Once again, brooms, bombs, pistols, Kalashnikovs have been fixed, even in the streets. The prime ministers at this point in time in the Interior Ministry offices and in the arenas? [?] near them have stirred up guesses and rumors [?] and controversies: Who will our future bosses be? In short, a situation has arisen from which the leading figures have slipped away, and these voters? Crime, in its bloodiest, most dizzying form, has split into children and adults. We have always thought that adults should be at the forefront, while criminalization is harder to write hymns about—hymns we would never have wanted to write. The great WHY has not been told to us throughout the long afternoon, filled with reports that smelled of blood... Alongside political life, which must impose strict measures against the bloodthirsty perpetrators, discussions are still being uncovered? [?] partisan-political. It is not that these should not take place, but other times have also proved that distraction cannot be tolerated during the times Albania is going through. People are now tired of the string of coffins, of the tears, of everything that brings violence to mind. This should have served to bring all sides to the table to fight crime, which today has become as savage as in its best days, not to recover in order to stage displays of strength, both by one side and the other. We cannot afford the luxury of distraction. We have tried it before and it had many consequences. Changes were made at the top of the police because of the distraction, but what changed as a result? The same situation, the same tragic events. The tactic, now familiar to everyone, is being applied for the umpteenth time: changing police leaders, both at headquarters and in other towns... [?] around the country. The complaints are repeated, both by those who have left and by the newly appointed: the former because they leave behind part of an undertaking already begun, while the latter understand nothing about the weak points of the city’s police. Police chiefs have been replaced, but everything has remained unaccomplished? [?] Someone said that police operations in the capital were normal—checks in bars, at intersections and even in the outskirts—whereas today hangings or brawls? [?], just a few meters from the Government Headquarters, have become an entirely normal phenomenon. When Tirana faces these surprises every day, it is no longer news when something similar happens in Vlora, Shkodra or Kukës. This is not criticism of those trying to do their job for law and order in Albania, but simply a presentation of the facts, so that we may hope they are nothing else. Caricature? It is not important to understand that nobody is dealing with this. And who could explain it to us better than those themselves—whether, and why, things remain broken, or whether it is only the beginning of their tragic...? [?] One? [?] the charge. This could be one thing. One of the heads of a police station in the south once? [?] said: “People had lost faith in the state and justice, so they take the law into their own hands? [?]” They are taking justice into their own hands, so replacing the chiefs in this atmosphere, deciding? [?] something mad, one? [?] at this time, a time when nobody remembers this? [?] Albania?

LOCAL ELECTIONS / Small parties to the President: Don’t sign TIRANA - Meidani has a... [?] request before Parliament. The “Law” on local elections is not quite right. The President is now undecided about the local-election law. On Meidani’s desk were the law passed by Parliament on Wednesday and the small parties’ request that he not sign it. One provision of the new law sets out how parties are represented on the Central Election Commissions, where it appears that the highest electoral body will be dominated exclusively by the PS and PD. This is because the law says the allocation will be determined by taking into account only the percentages from the last local and general elections, in which, as is known, the socialists and democrats had the highest percentages. Objections immediately came from the PD and the other opposition parties, and it appears that the coalition has decided to share the decision-makers on the CEC. Today is also the final legal deadline for the head of state, who, according to sources at the Presidency, may pass the new law on Friday.

The minister speaks about party funding TIRANA - Arben Imami opposes the PD and PS... TIRANA - Arben Imami opposes the PD and PS over the rejected law on party financing. “The PD and PS found common ground,” said yesterday, in a raised voice, the man responsible for the Constitution and Minister of Legislative Reform, Imami. According to analysts, the politicians will break up? [?] and see themselves in prison in 10 years if Serbia insists against the law after its passage through the Council of Ministers. Imami and Godo

Tragic attack in Durrës: 3-year-old girl killed Smuggling raises its head and takes revenge; bomb in Gjirokastër Tension flared at midday right beside the Government building. Law and order: appointments expected GJIROKASTËR - The terror of trinitrotoluene explosions has returned to the South. Four kilograms of TNT exploded one after another at 02:00 at the bridges of Deriviciani and Goranoça, located on the national road. The explosions opened two craters and shook the supports of one of the bridges. However, vehicle traffic was not blocked. Yesterday the police reported a criminal car and the attackers, who are being sought. Police estimates? [?] so far point mainly to a pre-planned attack by smugglers, intended to paralyze police movements in the coastal area, where the goods are unloaded. A day earlier, a police van had been hit by bullets and grenades. Experts say this is a criminal act, about which there is now substantial concrete evidence. DURRËS - They targeted the house with a grenade. The little girl of the household was killed. Tense hours in Shkozet. At around 22:30 on Wednesday, several people threw a hand grenade into the home of Man Kuca, and the explosion apparently killed? [?] a girl, Ledjana Kuca, three years old. The incident, which ended in her bed. Gji? [?] took place in District 14 of Durrës, which is part of the industrial area of Shkozet. In the place where the buildings of the former Chemical Enterprise still stand, a block of buildings has been constructed, inhabited mainly by people who came from the northeastern areas. The two-storey house of the Kucas is also there; they moved to Durrës from Bajram Curri 3–4 years ago. For reasons that are still unknown, the people who remain a mystery threw a grenade into the bedroom of Ibrahim Kuca (Man’s son), who is married and has children, around midnight on Wednesday.

Families report them missing. Interpol is also investigating TIRANA - Around 40 reports of missing girls have arrived at the Interpol office over the past month. Their families wait anxiously every day for good news from the blue uniforms. According to specialists at the office, the missing girls mainly end up in prostitution networks in Italy and Greece. The violence inflicted by their exploiters prevents these girls from leaving the streets and seeking to return to their families.

TIRANA - Criminal proceedings against 150 smuggling companies. The anarchy of a year ago allowed many imported goods to cross border checkpoints without paying customs duties. These companies now owe the Customs Directorate 135 million lekë. The smuggling companies are being brought to justice.

Albanian-Serbian dialogue begins BELGRADE - Rugova is in Belgrade today, where talks with Serbian leader Milošević will begin. It was the first meeting between the two leaders since the agreement was reached, and many things have changed since then, especially in the south of the Albanian province, where the dead are countless. The meeting, however, was arranged by the international community, and its mediator, Holbrooke, viewed it with cautious optimism.

TIRANA Gazette TIRANA - A burst of Kalashnikov fire in the direction of Hana. Everyone turned their heads in fear, while one of the government officials’ bodyguards even put his hand on his belt? [?] But it was only a man on a motorcycle, who apparently wanted to demonstrate his strength and also the reaction of the Prime Minister’s Office.

VLORA Gazette VLORA - “By May 15, the place where the speedboats will be moored will be found” - police chief Rebani Memushi confirmed yesterday to the Gazette that plans to control the speedboats will soon be implemented. According to him, every watercraft will be required to be registered.

SHKODRA Gazette SHKODRA - A meeting of all the trade unions in the district will be held in Shkodra today. The meeting is expected to discuss Shkodra’s social and economic problems. The organizers confirm that the issues will be among the most complex and certainly among the most important.

LEZHË - Police officers who operate wearing masks are living in fear of retaliation. They say they are summoned? [?] as witnesses by the Prosecutor’s Office during the investigation and court proceedings. One police employee, who is assigned to the sixth group, says that in their operations to catch criminals they routinely use black masks.

TIRANA - Family doctors. Previously, we had only seen them in foreign television films and had read about “biohazards.” TIRANA - Family doctors. Previously, we had only seen them in foreign television films and had read about “biohazards” for them. But times have changed, and people are now voicing their concerns; at last they have begun to appear. Albanian family doctors. The Albanian Ministry of Health said yesterday that it does not know exactly how many family doctors the city of Tirana needs.

LUSHNJE - The attackers of a young man named? [?], who had been found murdered in the Martyrs’ Cemetery, have been arrested. Local police managed to arrest the people who carried out the attack? [?] on Xh. Xhumara, 29, from the village of Karbunarë, and R. Koshari, 34, from the village of Koshare. The two people in handcuffs are accused of murdering 20-year-old Arfend Rriben, who died from several bullets in the darkness of the evening a few days ago.

THE AGREEMENT TIRANA - Signing with the IMF gives the Brussels aid the green light to come to Albania. TIRANA - The signing with the IMF gives the Brussels aid the green light to come to Albania. What is legally complicated? [?] is the uncertain situation in the region, a conflict that world diplomacy is taking too long to extinguish. Apart from the security situation—and not only the part that depends on the Albanian Ministry of the Interior—Albania has a great deal to do economically. One thing is clear: economic expansion; by 2001, we will have a stable economy.

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