07/08/1999
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Gazeta Shqiptare

7 August 1999

TAXES: HERE’S HOW THEY CHEAT US EVERY DAY

FALSIFICATION OF INVOICES On page 5

Poçi: Clinton will come in September

“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 On page 7

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 On page 2

Police kill a carpenter

SCANDAL / IN THE NAME OF READINESS On page 16

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.” On page 14