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By ENKEL DEMI Yesterday, the television news reported that the Treasury is something of a treasure. The operation took a while. The Police, the Prosecutor’s Office, and SHISH found part of the Treasury in the village of Pezë-Helmës. The thief is a laborer who stashed the fortune in a hole in his garden. For three years he did not use even a single coin from the fortune, and now they have arrested him. There are others like this man who, instead of Kalashnikovs, found gold in a warehouse. The story is hard to swallow, but there it is. Berisha discovers dynamite in Parliament. The palaces of the robbers are to be blown up with dynamite. The Socialists are upset about this. Lufta Paja is not. The next day, Berisha explains the business with the dynamite. Following the popular saying, “the stick came from paradise,” he says he found dynamite in the Quran and the Bible. Deeming the properties of the left-wing robbers diabolical, he, as a man of God, takes the explosives into his own hands and wipes them off the face of this earth. This country has gone mad. People watch and listen. Politicians have turned into old men of winter telling tales about treasures, fingers, murderers, thieves, and jinn. A certain Pëllumb Dalti, from distant Matanesh, had a large handful of gold coins come into his possession and, as in olden times, buried them. The day after burying them, he had set off for “Partizani i Panjohur,” looking for manual work and living on credit. The tin can full of gold lay in the hole for three years; it was found and thrilled “Zëri i Popullit.” This is the truth that should satisfy all of Kërraba, Pezë-Helmës, the South and the North of Albania. And we are glad the gold was found. Fortunately for us, it was in neither the Governor’s nor the Minister’s hands, but somewhere in Pëllumb Dalti’s garlic patch. Mr. Berisha has returned to the holy books. After declaring on Easter Day that the antichrists are in power, he discovered dynamite—the modern stick—in God’s books. He has taken up the judge’s robe of God, its rod of punishment, and is seeking power in Albania. In this former communist country, where the protagonists of atheism have become religious, you can hear stories about religion—blue, red, green—at rallies, press conferences, and in Parliament. On this eve of the election campaign, when a found treasure has to be lost, when the palaces of the robbers must be uprooted in the name of God, there are only two possible solutions: either burst out laughing or go out of your mind. It is understood that people will find what suits them best, since this is a democratic country where freedom of expression does not direct the people’s imagination toward what is good. In this regime, it does not direct the people’s imagination toward what is good. In this regime, even the representatives of this people, who consume their parliamentary salaries thanks to the taxes we pay every day, are not excluded.

The real Treasury robber. His identity is revealed on page 5 photo R. Tash

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