Following publication of the sensational news about the loss, without a trace, of “200 million dollars,” state bodies have been set in motion. Three audit teams have been formed at the same time to uncover the truth: one from the General Bank, one from the Ministry of Finance, and one from the General Directorate of Investigations. We hope these audits will establish responsibility as soon as possible and will not consign the resolution of a financial matter to the Greek calends. The people need the truth to come out into the open and will not accept the stale, Enverist-style statements made by Mr. Niko Gyzyari. The newspaper’s editorial office has received the following from well-informed sources—[text continues beyond the frame] Information: Dhimtër Gazhga lives in Greece. He not only enjoys excellent health, but spends as though he were a genuine king in Greece’s most luxurious hotels and restaurants. In keeping with international rules, since we are dealing with a financial scandal, it would be in the interests of the country and the economy for His Excellency Dhimitër Gazhga, former “star” of the Albanian bank and favourite of the former prime minister, etc., etc., to return to Tirana. THE OBSERVER

“It turns out to be true that death cannot be escaped, and not even the gods can save you from it, however divine they may be, when the final moment arrives.” No one can deny that among the countless former members of the former PPSH there were many honest and tragic people, powerless to oppose the national disgrace of the Stalinist regime. It was the pressure of this not-insignificant group, as well as of those intellectuals who openly threw away their PP membership cards, that led to the creation of the “Tower of Babel”—the creation of the Socialist Party. But the Red Deity, not by race but by cannibalism, the Envero-Stalinist Deity, once again confused the Socialists’ tongues. The visit of Mr. Baker to Albania served as the pretext. Before the traces of the plane belonging to the honoured guest from the USA—the temple of world democracy—had disappeared, scandalous shameful acts emerged from the bosom of the SP. Professional anonymous figures (like mafiosi with turbans on their heads), nameless and hidden among crowds of revolutionary-vigilant-sniffing collectives, mentioned to the guest the value of the gift (demonstrating that they know well certain customs of primitive life, when at the end of a wedding the gift is placed before the guest, on the table, in front of everyone!) and demanded that Prof. Dr. Sali Berisha give them a kind of “roundabout” account of who had invited Mr. Baker to their Albania. That was not enough. From the bunkers of the South, the former PPSH committees spread the news that the DP headquarters in Tirana had been burned by “popular anger, even though Baker did not help us”; meanwhile, another DP leader, Dr. Gramoz Pashko, was reminded (despite the fact that he is now in a frozen state by parliamentary decision as a member—[text unclear]) that he should not stand with his head bowed at a conference without a jacket, even though it was universally known that he had not been a Nazi: what do I care about other people’s shame? I have my own shame, because I belong to the same people as them!... Mr. Baker’s visit to Albania marked the death of Stalinverism and opened the European horizon for us. This was one of the rare heroic visits that carries out a killing without being called criminal, and whose real value does not need the passage of time to be understood. Those who spied on the great statesman were anonymous; those who respected him have names. Better this way! TEODOR KEKO WHERE WILL YOU END UP… AT THE DOOR… (Photomontage by Artur Loka) May you live another hundred years, Comrade Stalin! «A hundred?» he said with a laugh, narrowing his eyes a little. «That’s too little; in Georgia we have old people who are 145 years old and still alive.» «Another hundred, Comrade Stalin—that is what our people wish you, another hundred on top of the age you’ve reached!» I said. «Tak harasho!» he said, half joking. «That’s good, I agree.» We laughed. (Oh God, he would still be alive), (From the book «With Stalin» by E. Hoxha)

Nearly 2,000 residents of the city of Gjirokastër filled the steps of the sports palace on Friday to meet the chairman of the Democratic Party of Albania, Dr. Prof. Sali Berisha. At this meeting, Gjirokastër gave the Party leader a worthy and enthusiastic welcome. After praising the democratic tradition of the people of Gjirokastër, Dr. Prof. Sali Berisha stressed that today Enver Hoxha was Stalin’s friend. He wrote books about Stalin at a time when Stalin’s monstrous crimes and those of the Stalinist regime had been exposed and condemned in the Soviet Union and throughout the world. During the long decades of his hated dictatorship, Enver Hoxha made every effort to establish in Albania the same Stalinism as that of the Russian steppes. This is another reason why there can be no progress, freedom or democracy in Albania without condemning Enver, Enverism and their still-toxic dangers. Speaking about the position of the Sta—[text continues beyond the frame] Further information: …te Secretary of State of the USA, James Baker, in Albania. Baker’s visit, said the Democratic Party leader, was a political visit that further opens the way for Albania to join all international economic and political organizations. At the same time, it provides further encouragement for the democratic process in Albania. The very fact that Baker came is an expression of the USA’s confidence in the democratic processes in Albania, as well as in the Democratic Party and its role in advancing and establishing democracy in Albania, and in the further progress of the democratic process in Albania. A number of participants at the rally expressed their anger at the openly Enverist stance taken and maintained by Radio Gjirokastra. “Today, more than ever,” said Dr. Prof. Sali Berisha, “it is time for intellectuals, and first and foremost journalists, to declare their support for democracy and Albania’s progress. Positions that run counter to democratic aspirations—[text continues beyond the frame] … made every effort to establish in Albania the same steppes-of-Russia-style stability. freedom and democracy in Albania without eradicating Enver, Enverism and their still-toxic dangers. Speaking about the Democratic Party’s position on land and the countryside, its leader stated that the land would be given to the peasant as private property. At the same time, every effort would be made to ensure that agricultural specialists from the cooperatives were not thrown out onto the streets. They should be given every opportunity to have a model agricultural farm. Dr. Prof. Sali Berisha also spoke about the successful visit… … a file on state leaders, members of parliament or other figures in political life, so that we can choose the cleanest people to lead the state, with not the slightest suspicion hanging over them. By pursuing a policy of national reconciliation, the Democratic Party aims to prevent a bloody class war, which cost the Albanians and Albania so dearly, from being replaced by a new class war. … the Enverist line maintained and still Prof. Sali Berisha, it is time for intellectuals, and journalists first and foremost, to speak out for democracy and for Albania’s progress. The people will never forgive positions that run counter to their democratic aspirations, especially now. On the way to Gjirokastër, Dr. Prof. Sali Berisha held a meeting in Tepelenë with activists and members of the presidium of the Democratic Party in Tepelenë. RD Correspondent

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Last night, Tirana remembered with sorrow its sons and daughters whom the Enverian one-party regime forced, on July 2 of last year, to leave their ancestral homes, their parents and their closest relatives, to seek refuge in foreign embassies and other countries. More than 5,000 of them achieved this goal, but dozens of others were massacred in prisons and buried dead or alive. To remember the victims of the Enverian dictatorship in «Skënderbej» Square, young people from the capital, following the dictates of their hearts, lit candles. Candles were also lit in all the families of refugees in Tirana and other cities in the country.

In Kukës, President Ramiz Alia held the newspaper «Rilindja Demokratike» responsible for an «unrestrained accusation», for slander and for an outright fabrication. The president made a futile effort to travel all the way to Kukës to make the above statements. He could have made them in Tirana, or somewhere much closer. That, of course, is his right. But we cannot help noticing our dissatisfaction with this, the truth being that the president seeks to implicate this People’s Assembly and its positions as well, in keeping with a familiar, outdated style of propaganda. The first principle of democracy is pluralism, the honest confrontation of opinions, regardless of hierarchy and other complexities. The president, who has been advertised as the «standard-bearer» of the party that is the «standard-bearer of democracy», tried to make others speak for him. He wanted others to dance to his tune. First, we must remember that the article published in «Rilindja Demokratike» contains no direct accusation, no slander and no unrestrained fabrications about the president. The article does not describe him as a murderer or as the direct author of the Shkodër massacre. Such an accusation would require direct evidence. Such evidence may be found or concealed, regardless of the fact that they deny any connection. But when it is stated that the Shkodër massacre was «the first act of the president», this does not also mean that «neither near nor far, neither directly nor indirectly, the President has any connection—in other words, has nothing whatsoever to do with the events in Shkodër». Such an absolute claim by the president, which goes to extremes, places him beyond any responsibility whatsoever. To be realistic, Mr. Alia, for such a massacre, carried out by the political mafia in power in the state of which he is head, he cannot be free of all responsibility, however slight the moral responsibility may be. The massacre carried out on April 2 in Shkodër was a brutal attack mounted against democracy; it was open state terrorism by the state apparatus of violence, over which the president has the right to exercise his authority. Thus, he cannot be entirely without responsibility for the tragedy of Shkodër, for the national mourning that covered the country as a result. Our president, Mr. Alia, presents himself as entirely ignorant, denying any connection between himself and the treacherous and barbaric killings carried out in Shkodër on April 2. This is a familiar position, one he has taken before. We need not go very far back. President Alia knows nothing even of the shocking events of July 2 of last year, in front of the embassies. Nothing about the mass exodus through their gates and across our land, sea and air borders. Nothing… BASlKIM TRENOVA (Continued on page 2)

On the occasion of July 2, a historic day for the people of Kosovo and for every Albanian, the Democratic Party of Albania, expressing the will of all patriotic Albanian democrats, sends you its greetings. July 2, when the people of Kosovo, through their freely elected representatives, declared Kosovo a Republic, is a source of inspiration and courage for every Albanian to fight for the resolution of our sacred national question, to end subjugation and bring the brutal occupation of Kosovo by Serbian chauvinists to an end, to put an end to Miloševićian chauvinist terror, to ensure that our brothers in Kosovo and Kosovo itself enjoy all the rights enjoyed by the other Republics of Yugoslavia, and finally to remove the barriers that obstruct such natural human contact between Albanians on the two sides of the same Albanian trunk. Brothers and sisters, you will always have us by your side, always supporting you in defense of the great and just cause, in defense of the freedom, dignity and honor of every Kosovar in Kosovo and of all Albanians living in every region of Yugoslavia. As we fight in Albania for the final destruction of Stalinism, definitively…

WHERE WILL YOU END UP… AT THE DOOR… Photomontage by Artur Loka

… Sali Berisha an «indirect» account of who had won Mr. Baker over of the South, the former committees of the PPSH, came the explosive news that the PD headquarters in Tirana had been burned by «popular anger», megj? Baker had not helped us, while another PD leader, Dr. Gramoz Pashko, recalled (regardless of by Parliamentary decision as a party member) the promised WHITE CHECK. It is enough to make one feel sorry that the Red Deity rose again to tangle the socialists’ tongues and cry out to them: What is this Baker? Where is the friendly visit of Father Stalinver?… But, may Mother Nature grant it, the Deity could not tangle the Albanian people’s tongues (as in the old days!). This people understood more clearly than any anti-kalemxhi, anti-orator, anti-meeting that the US WHITE CHECK for Albania is the green light that opened for our country immediately after Mr. Baker’s statement about bringing the hungry, ragged and bloodied Albanian people into flourishing Europe. This high intellectual level poured the Albanian people into the streets of democratic Tirana like a sea, to welcome the honored guest. This high intellectual level made this people, hardened by the quantities and thousands of years, weep like a mother after giving birth to a child. Mr. Baker’s visit marked a magnificent birth for the Albanian people: the triumph of democracy! This terrifies Stalinver the mountain. Faced with the people’s court, this two-headed monster without a heart felt that Mr. Baker’s visit would finally take away his perverse life, because the magical American spectrum of social progress does not touch, and does not allow Stalinver to replace bloody political power with economic power, as certain «kind-hearted» little socialist countries do. After this shameful campaign against Mr. Baker and the distinguished leaders of the PD, only one fact could be more damning: that Stalinver is not Albanian! This troubles my soul and does not let me make use of Brecht’s mournful saying when he…

On Sunday, a meeting was held in the city of Peshkopi with activists and leaders of the Democratic Party in the district of Dibër. According to the reports presented by the heads of the Dibër branch, Safet Gjylani and Gjurush Mati, and from the discussions, it became clear that the Democratic Party is currently the leading political force in Dibër. By now, nearly 4,000 people in this district have been issued membership cards, and the work is continuing. The Democratic Party has also spread widely in the villages. At present, of the 208 villages in the district of Dibër, sections of the Democratic Party have yet to be established in only 15; even in most of these 15, Party cells have already been formed. In practice, today in the district of Dibër no problem can be resolved without the participation and involvement of the Democratic Party. Many problems and concerns were raised at the meeting. The delegates of the presidium, Azem Hajdari and Napoleon Roshi, spoke to those attending the meeting in particular about the new land law, which, at the insistence of the Democratic Party and its MPs, will soon be passed by Parliament. It was explained that within a very short period it is impossible to remedy all the injustices, devastation and plunder inflicted on the countryside by the 47-year one-party regime. But one very telling fact emerged at the meeting: wherever the Democratic Party is stronger in the countryside, the problems farmers have faced over the division of land have been resolved fairly by… (Continued on page 2)