Who will create the Albanian Right-Wing Front Republicans: We want a right-wing front with PDD -Kalakulla: “I suspect that PR is a Trojan Horse for PD” Who will create the Albanian Right-Wing Front The right-wing front in crisis Republicans: We want a right-wing front with PDD -Kalakulla: “I suspect that PR is a Trojan Horse for PD” page 3

Pentagon scenario for a possible inter-Balkan conflict After a bloody confrontation on their own territory, 400,000 Kosovar refugees will go—mainly—to Skopje, with some going to Albania Pentagon scenario for a possible inter-Balkan conflict Washington does not rule out war in Kosovo After a bloody confrontation on their own territory, 400,000 Kosovar refugees will go—mainly—to Skopje, with some going to Albania page 2

Meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea concludes page 3

Intellectuals with crippled morals left at a crossroads, Communists mentally degraded and spiritually ruined, former State Security residents left without security, grassroots agitators whose base slipped from beneath their feet, professors without works, chairmen without cooperatives, writers without books, monarchists without a king, generals without ranks, Ballists without brains, a chorus of dreamers without dreams, supported unstintingly by poets of aligned currents, by countless thieves and thugs who discovered America, by semi-illiterate compatriots who discovered Albania, by sexual maniacs who gained the freedom to rape delicate sex, by notorious idiots who unleashed their abstract hands at rallies, by shrunken, sanctimonious hypocrites, by unreasonable spiteful people whom the Albanian race produces in abundance—a rare conglomerate of liars usurped in very little time the idea of Democracy, while elevating the cult of a political formation whose first leader was acknowledged, ever more deafeningly, to be a party secretary left without an organization. Interview with Edi Rama page 5

Tirana: “The Peshkëpi massacre trial” -The hostage of the Greek terrorists is freed in the courtroom Tirana: “The Peshkëpi massacre trial” 30 months in prison for the defendants -The hostage of the Greek terrorists is freed in the courtroom ’ 30 months in prison for the five servicemen involved in the Peshkëpi massacre. This was the decision handed down yesterday by the Tirana Military Court for the five Peshkëpi servicemen charged with abuse of office and violation of guard-duty regulations. The trial concerning the bloody night of 10 April this year, when two Albanian servicemen were killed and three others wounded by a Greek terrorist commando, was brought to an end yesterday by the panel of judges presided over by Mr R. Shkëmbi. After hearing the Military Prosecutor’s closing arguments, which sought four years in prison for the five defendants, and the defense arguments of their lawyers, who sought acquittal, the court ruled: P. Ndini, A. Guma and S. Selfo were each sentenced to eight months in prison. Y. Meranë, former head of the Gjirokastër Police Commissariat, was sentenced to six months, with one year suspended. The sentence was different for Qemal Stojka, the former hostage of the Greek terrorists, who was credited with the time spent in pre-trial detention. While the handcuffs were removed from the latter’s hands in the courtroom, three other figures in the massacre trial—Ndini, Guma and Selfo—will have to remain in their cells for another five days. Z. DULE

He wants to be buried near the border Metropolitan Sebastianos, a name often mentioned by the Albanian media and government, died the night before last. For decades, Sebastianos led the region most extremist in Greek nationalism and played the most negative role in the troubled course of Albanian-Greek relations, especially in recent years. Although the Church in Greece is separate from the state, Sebastianos nevertheless was the man who almost monopolized the handling of relations between Athens and Tirana. A quick review of the facts leaves one convinced that the two events that triggered the greatest crises in these relations—the expulsion of the Greek priest from Albania last year and the bloody incident at Peshkëpi in April this year—were undoubtedly linked to Sebastianos and his ranks. Although he had been bedridden for a long time, even a month and a half ago he again commented on relations between the two countries, with a statement that left neither the press nor the Greek government indifferent. In October, Sebastianos had demanded that, after every mistreatment of the minority by the Albanian authorities, Greek tanks should enter southern Albania and carry out reprisals. Greek government spokespersons had then described the statement as extremist and distanced the government’s position from it. In May, Karolos Papulias had “addressed” Sebastianos with the following words: “In Greece, freedom of thought and expression is indeed guaranteed; however, when these harm the national interest, they must be put in their place.” Sebastianos’s death should normally also mark the end of a very dark chapter in relations between Albania and Greece, but no one can be certain of that. ROBERT GORO