Albania heading toward new elections The PD government machine has shown no clearer path to its possible collapse in the eyes of the people than through its recent actions. Although the opposition has been quite weak, it has nevertheless managed to impose even threats such as the one made by the secretary of the Central Committee of UGSH, Azem Hajdari, and it is ready to cross over with the same content. By leaving thousands of Albanian families without bread, by dismissing officials and workers from their jobs, and by forcing leave at a time when job cuts are being carried out without order or discussion, some people tied to the PD government have turned hunger strikes into a tool for hiding its inability to govern. The most striking thing is the spectacle that takes place daily in the capital. All these protesters know nothing other than to complain about the demon-ocracy, the slanders of the opposition, of the authorities and even of the government. The turmoil of the demonstrations never ends. No one thinks of turning to the government to ask where all these grievances come from. They repeat the same litany as once under the previous regime and lash out at enemies who do not exist. To make it even more dramatic, this picture of the situation becomes even heavier than the one staged by a crowd of shouters gathered by the PD on the "Dëshmorët e Kombit" Boulevard to challenge the suffering of the people, who are left without bread and without work, and who for a week now have been circling the square and the "Qemal Stafa" stadium, shouting the name of a party that for more than 10 years was something else entirely, prearranged and complete! This means that at the end of June we may have yet another rearrangement of power, into which the power of the opposition also enters without exception. As a result of this general crisis, the PD government not only is not correcting itself, on the contrary its mistakes are increasing, making it clear that everything has now begun to come to an end. The daily flourishing of protests, the most arbitrary suspensions of employment, the replacement of cadres with incapable and corrupt people from the north and from the countryside, provincial and sectarian influences ruling the roost, the destruction of the economy in general — all these appear to be signs showing that this party is approaching its end. But what matters is what will happen to Albania. Albania matters little, because, unfortunately, only the PD officials have remained such! Everyone has become disgusting monopolistic party loyalists. Why the same monopoly of power and party? The same army that, if another were at the head, they would call political police? The same taxes and costs? And what criticism does the PD government make of the country’s economic ruin? Why does it dismiss only those who cannot cheer, when it is making people take leave because they cannot keep them in any other job. A. PËRNGAJ

More than frightening, this fact is frightening for the future and for the year 1993. According to the public order authorities of the city of Krujë, every day in the city people are killed or ... because they do not believe in the other mouth. ... can it be bad? and vi[?]

In D[?]orovë, the birthplace of Asdren, the minister of education together with the others undertook the "assault" of Sudhivermesgjevit, who demands that on this 100th anniversary of the creation of the Albanian state, the outstanding Albanian poet who wrote the national anthem of the flag be properly honored. Perhaps the time has come for the poet not to be smeared with ar[?]ive, but for a drastic blow to be struck against every q[?]ndri, by attacking this bust in a vulgar way.

As we learned from several confirmed sources, the Soros Foundation, with its offices in the building of the University of Culture, with its center for two offices in this q[?]. According to a letter from O[?]k, the management of this institution ordered the Soros Foundation to vacate its offices, on the argument that among the four employees of this institution with an office there is one in one of its two offices. Gji[?]ithmonë the American women's center in Albania would take the place of the foundation. The Soros Foundation has signed a rental contract for several offices in the dormitory of the University of Arts, in the building of the former "Qyteti i Studentit", for three years with a warehouse. What is surprising is that the foundation has prepared to leave the offices if it comes to paying the new owners. At present the foundation has only a warehouse in the office. Tiranë on rent after solving the problems it has with the government. All these and the amount of the head?

As the public has been informed for quite some time, the General Directorate of Telephones, through the implementation of its order with the motive of restructuring, has begun cutting off telephones for subscribers, as well as in state offices and elsewhere. Meanwhile, the former Minister of Education, the well-known Albanian writer Teodor Laço, whose home telephone had been disconnected two weeks earlier by OZKSH and ONK[?] for the obligation of the managers and the verification that he holds, had been informed in time that there was no reason for this disconnection. Now Mr. Teodor Laço has filed a request for the telephone to be restored, but apparently no one from the communications authorities is taking his request into consideration. This has become an issue that directly affects citizens' rights, especially those known in culture and the media. A. PËRNGAJ

— The organizers in the two continents are being criticized by the association "Protest and Dialogue". — Day 10 of the strike in Shkodër and day 5 in Tiranë. READ ON PAGE 2