- He is a smuggler. If he does not end up in prison this year, next year it is all but certain - Zhulali has done far more than any traitor to the nation The slaughter of Çakalli was carried out in one of Sali Berisha's office rooms interview with AD deputy Arben Imami page 5

The parliamentary vote motion. There is a legal basis The Head of the Presidency treats the affairs of Parliament as if they were the affairs of his own home photo A. BABANI page 4

34 people sentenced to death in 5 years - Former President Alia pardoned 5 people, Berisha 8 (1.2)

- Sentenced to 15 years in prison The duo T. K [?]ysi and A. M [?]n B. were given sentences for the kidnapping of several underage girls whom they raped on an uninhabited plot of land. The verdict was handed down by the Shkodra Court. The suspects were found to be 40 years old from Shkodra, while their friends were sentenced for exposing the case to different prison terms. 12-14 rapes were committed by them. The testimonies, "One of them is in Brussels!", "Earlier from those billiard players!" Kërce[s] and us two from Gjinas! page 8

"I had not given the order for the cigarette shipment" Tirana, Lika defends himself. Other corruption does not exist, in my 27-year conscience. This is how Deputy Xhemal Lika stated yesterday, who agreed to testify regarding the accusation brought against him for false declaration concerning aid for business declaration. Considering it slander and denigration initiated through publications and insinuations made in the print media, Deputy Lika categorically denied having had any knowledge of the aid sheet for business declaration. Sticking to the view that he had never been involved in illegal trafficking, Lika added that he had been pardoned by the majority. Is there also a provocation? ... Lika said that he had been fabricated, trying to argue the alleged guilt, Lika said that he had never been involved in trafficking either. He had never had the right to act with the companies mentioned in this affair. If you look at it, it was not he who worked, and not with the army. When asked in the proceedings, he said that if they had asked him to go to other places with cigarettes, he had not known that it would involve illegal activity. Speaking about the accusation recently brought, Lika declared that the suspicions against him are fabricated and inferior interpretations. Their aim, according to the deputy, is to damage his image as a deputy and as an honest man. Accused as the instigator and transporter of cigarettes by military plane bound for Italy in November 1992, Deputy Xhemal Lika said these are slanders. I do not know what these insinuations are, but according to him they are not honesty. He added that as an honest businessman he has always worked with correctness and in relations with the state. At the moment, it was almost enough that he was given? and under accusation. Mark Marku states that one for the export of cigarettes, known as lawyer of (?) Marku called on the justice authorities to launch a full investigation into the deputy's past and his public activity. Marku, when asked whether he could have been involved in trafficking and whether he had no knowledge. According to Marku, this stance of the deputy shows that he has strongly stirred the opposition. Z.D. the blame lies with the opposition photo A. DHIMITRI