Yesterday Chinese President Jiang Zemin received President Sali Berisha Berisha officially acknowledges in Beijing the $28 million debt The Albanian President invites Jiang Zemin to Tirana and greets Ten Hsiao Pin Yesterday at 09:30 in the Great Hall of the People, the reception ceremony for President Berisha by Chinese President Jiang Zemin, who is also First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party photo Reuters Red China, with more than 1.2 billion inhabitants, after the great thaw in 1978, yesterday received the President of the “little brother,” Albania. Having set off on Sunday and traveled 8,000 kilometers, Berisha and the delegation he heads arrived yesterday early in the morning in the Chinese capital. Thus, as of yesterday, Haxhi Lleshi is no longer the last president to have set foot on Chinese soil. It should be said that since 1962 no Albanian head of state had visited China, for reasons now well known. From our correspondent in Beijing, Aleksandër Frangaj page 3

They “stole” Gjebrea’s shoes and Gjoka’s glasses page 18

After the legal deadline expires they turn to the Court The Ministry of Justice asks the Government for a solution[?] page 5

The number of protesting bakers increases Meksi: We will tap state reserves “First of all, the government has taken all measures to ensure, as usual, supply through the state reserve to all producers of flour and bread. Second, with the decree abolishing customs duties, supply from abroad is also possible within the possibilities they have to maintain the level...” The day before yesterday in one of the bakeries in the capital foto A. BABANI page 2

Kakavijë, frontal attack on smuggling Customs duty: 120 thousand USD page 7

Figures and comments from the American survey in Albania 27% read “Koha Jonë”, 15% RD, 12% Gazeta Shqiptare and 9% “Zëri i Popullit” Albanians have definitely decided to live in capitalism. 73% of those interviewed in the survey by the American Republican Institute said that in capitalism, the country is on the right path. This survey was conducted by asking 1,000 people in all cities and in 150 villages of the country. page 3

Last night in Frankfurt, for France ’98 20 August - 10 September ’97, three matches in 20 days After a meeting lasting almost 7 hours at the premises of the German Football Federation in Frankfurt, where the Germans and Portuguese would not yield, the dates of our group’s matches for France ’98 were determined. Present were Vogt, Oliveira, Bajko, the coach of Northern Ireland, and the general secretaries of the football federations of Ukraine and Armenia. Our national team will play its first match in Tirana after almost 10 months, on 9 October 1996, when it will face Portugal. “We could not accept any kind of match for the first five months of this year because of the second phase of the reconstruction of ‘Qemal Stafa’ stadium,” Eduard Dervishi said to “KJ”. One month later, Albania will host Armenia again in Tirana. The special thing is that we will play two matches within four days in Tirana against Ukraine and Germany. But even worse, within 20 days, from 20 August to 10 September 1997, the national team will play three matches in a row. The dates are indeed suitable, but we could do nothing. It will be difficult,” coach Bajko said last night, A.DOSTI Here are the dates of our national team’s 10 matches for France ’98: 9 October 1996 Albania-Portugal 6 November 1996 Albania-Armenia 14 December 1996 N. Ireland-Albania 29 March 1997 Albania-Ukraine 2 April 1997 Albania-Germany 7 June 1997 Portugal-Albania 20 August 1997 Ukraine-Albania 6 September 1997 Armenia-Albania 10 September 1997 Albania-N. Ireland 11 October 1997 Germany-Albania

Only in ’95, about 100 speedboats seized by the police page 6