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President Bill Clinton appointed Madeleine Albright, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, as Secretary of the Department of State, thereby also appointing the first woman to this senior post in the American administration in the entire history of America. At the Oval Office ceremony, Clinton swore Republican William Cohen into the highest defense post, former National Security Adviser Anthony Lake as CIA director, and Samuel Berger as Lake’s replacement. President Clinton’s choices appear well judged, since senators from both sides said that Madeleine Albright as secretary of state, Republican Senator William Cohen as secretary of defense, and Anthony Lake as CIA director would easily secure Senate approval. President Bill Clinton’s appointment of Czech-born Madeleine Albright as Secretary of State was applauded, among other things, as a historic event for American women. “What I saw today shows definitively that the ice has been broken,” declared Ellen Malcolm, the woman chair of “Emily’s List,” an organization that raises funds to help women have the opportunity to be elected to political office. Meanwhile, the U.S. president himself was moved as he declared that he was “very proud to have the opportunity to appoint the first woman in the history of America as Secretary of the Department of State of the United States,” adding that this was not an attempt by her to find a job, but “the best combination of qualities to serve the nation at this moment in history.” The daughter of a VLADIMIR PRELA (continued on page 5)

Clinton embraces the new Secretary of State, Albright, the first woman in U.S. history to rise to such a post photo REUTER

No response to the most basic request a newspaper newsroom anywhere in the world could make: to have a telephone installed. Neither Tirana Telecom, nor the General Directorate, nor the ministry, nor the prime minister, and finally not even President Berisha, will respond to the official and public request being made by the journalists of “Koha Jonë” to have their telephone numbers restored. In the end, there is only silence, which signifies the authorities’ obstinacy in refusing to hear the voice of protest of the 42 journalists of “Koha Jonë”. It has now been made public that Albania’s largest newspaper has been working without a single telephone number since 14 April. Meanwhile, the newspapers aligned with the authorities have three or four telephone lines each, and some ministers even have a telephone in the bathrooms where they wash at night after the filth they perpetrate during the day. And, ironically, every night RTV advertises, “Telecom brings telephone lines to every family”; yet “Koha Jonë” works without a telephone and with power cuts every afternoon. Nevertheless, on Monday, at 11:00, the journalists of “Koha Jonë” will go out to protest at the gate of the Presidency, precisely where the President comes and goes with three mobile phone numbers in his car. NIKOLLË LESI