“They told me at the embassy”
The Minister of Public Order said yesterday on TVSH
Very soon, American President Clinton is expected to come to Albania,
while the visits of Albright and Cohen have been cancelled for security reasons.
Poçi stated this confidently, referring to official sources at the American Embassy in Tirana
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Gjinushi: This coalition has cliques
“Çeka is no man”
“Whoever is a man should speak
at the table; in the coalition
there should be no working
with cliques,” declared the
Speaker of Parliament Skënder Gjinushi in an interview with “Gazeta”.
The PSD leader identified three
key achievements, beginning
with ’97, the year when the
whole country was out of
control
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Police kill a carpenter
SCANDAL / IN THE NAME OF READINESS
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Cartoon: a hunter with a dog in the sights of a target; On page 16
Wilson, the American ace of the Albanians
He safeguarded our borders at the Paris Conference
SPECIAL FEATURE / Who was the US President
If in 1924 the deputies
of Tirana’s Constituent
Assembly had approved the
reasoned proposal of
Faik Konica, Shëngjin
or Saranda would today be
called “Wilson Ville”. The idea of
the Albanian ambassador in
the US, to give one of the
two coastal towns the name
of America’s 28th president,
only a few days after his
death, was defended in
Konica’s letter addressed
to the then speaker of
parliament with one
single phrase: “With the death
of the former president,
the defender of small
peoples and the savior of
Albania disappeared.”
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