Ziso Lluci is confirmed by Belgrade as Parliament’s representative PBDNJ—the governing-coalition party—had sent its own man to the congress of the Serbian Socialists page 2

ALEKSANDER ÇIPA “A famous boxer once left us this saying of his: ‘A return to the same duel is always fiercer.’” This sentence gains coherence when referring to the electoral atmosphere being promoted by the two main forces in Albanian politics. In recent hours, their two leading protagonists, Nano and Berisha, have reintroduced into this atmosphere the new vocabulary of old fierceness. At the Democrats’ leader Berisha’s rallies, the words “thieves, criminals, common thugs, traitors,” and so on, continue to stir the growing crowds’ enthusiasm; they are mostly directed at the leaders of the majority. Yesterday, meanwhile, the Socialist leader Nano, appearing in Ballsh, though inside a hall filled with supporters, marked his own start in the same lexicon: “fool, criminal, hooligan,” and so on—words that, it is understood, he has selected for his fierce opponent, Berisha. The two names that, during this decade of Albanian politics, have generated and distributed more political energy than anything else have thus entered the newest chapter of their clash. The next campaign, conceived separately in their minds, promises no change in its appearance or course. As such, it threatens not only the normality of everyday civic life, but above all the institutional state itself. As in the familiar electoral rounds of previous Marches, the opposition led by the Democrats has begun directing its accusations at the Interior Ministry. On the other hand, Socialist leader Nano repeats at a meeting his call for “Berisha’s elimination and his being sent to prison.” Thus, both leaders repeat the same thing in this latest reappearance of the decade; the years keep repeating the decade’s mistake: using the state for campaigning, using their authoritarianism precisely for these electoral rounds! And as the days move toward autumn, both leaders rush toward aggressive words, toward the harshest jargon used in contemporary political discourse. For a large category of citizens, this reappearance of theirs, with its now-familiar appearance and effect, is reflected as a feeling of fear. (The same feeling as that of shops that urgently pull down their shutters when they sense a vandal mob approaching.) Nano and Berisha have ushered in the return of the old battle in a new round. In this reappearance, both are engaged in a fierce clash over change, which they have only projected as something [?]. Finding themselves in this classic ring, the two most talked-about names in politics are very likely to bring us costly fierceness. In their return, conflict has taken the field sooner than the parties’ banners have been unfurled...

3 million for the 250 million Keidi KOTE -Ilir Meta, Stalin and Lenin -Sultan Novruzi, Sultan Berisha and 22 March -Mentally ill people with immunity pages 30–31

The clocks move forward by 60 minutes. Under a government decision yesterday, 24:00 on the evening of 25 March will become 01:00 on 26 March. From this moment on, all official schedules will be coordinated according to the new time. The time change in Albania was first introduced in 1972, following the experience of several years in some European countries. Since then, Albania has also responded to time changes in various European states. The idea of switching from solar time to legal time by advancing the clock hands by one hour was first put into practice by the countries of the European Common Market in 1966. The reason was to save energy by making use of the longer daylight hours. Later, however, since applying this method in only some countries caused chaos in the schedules of trains, planes and other cross-border activities, other European states also began observing legal time, including Albania. Since then, the number of countries changing their clocks has grown year by year. For several years now, the time change has encompassed all the countries of the old continent. At present, there is no European country that does not apply this change, which is considered a necessity.