Albania celebrated the 50th anniversary of the liberation of the Homeland from the Nazi-fascist occupiers and celebrated Flag Day. The entire Albanian nation celebrated this great day in its history. Albania celebrated the 50th anniversary of the liberation of the Homeland from the Nazi-fascist occupiers; it celebrated Flag Day. The entire Albanian nation celebrated this great day in its history. Days like this convey great messages: alongside honoring the radiant deeds of those who fell for freedom, and alongside contempt for those who sold out this ideal, they convey a message of peace and a prosperous nation, looking toward its future. In the face of this great obligation, the divisions provoked and desired by the concepts and practitioners of national division and the infamous class struggle seem petty and miserable. They seem petty and miserable, but they are deeply reprehensible. All political forces must close their doors to such individuals, whether alone or organized in groups; in the name of the long ordeal of suffering endured by generations who lived through it, and in the name of the future of younger generations, the rule-of-law state must become a barrier that prevents and punishes them. Albania is living in a different era, that of democracy. Just four years after the start of the democratic processes have been enough to prove to us the effectiveness of the principles of political pluralism, a market economy, freedom of movement, and so on. Above all, individuals enjoy the freedoms granted by a civilized society. We want to do many things well; rightly, we want to move faster and make up for lost time. But the main thing has been achieved: Albania is on the right path, advancing toward freedom and democracy, on the path tested by developed civilization. Those who contribute to this noble purpose are to be honored; those who try to obstruct it are petty, mean-spirited, and reprehensible. History will not forgive them.

— PS OFFICIALS EXTOL E. HOXHA NDREKE GJINI The leaders of the PS have finally decided to take off their reformist masks. Their activity is demonstrating this more and more each day. This is also borne out by the writings of the top communist figures at “ZP.” After declaring loudly, and with utterly shameless distortion, that everyone who voted against the constitution voted for the PS, nostalgia for communism surged awake in their souls, burdened by grave sins. And unfortunately, it is being stirred up (or, more accurately, dictated) through directives, while also hiding away in order to lead a simpler life [?] The Homeland from the Nazi-fascist occupiers constitutes the prologue to an openly unconstitutional activity, incorporated into the structures of the state. This belated champion of communism holds the mandate of district council chairman after receiving orders from the PS leaders; openly violating the laws in force, he openly provokes in his speech by calling Enver Hoxha a legendary leader. Hamit Gjini is well aware of the official position on this matter and of the laws adopted by the People’s Assembly. He does this consciously and with a predetermined purpose, thereby laying bare the essence of the political strategy of the party he represents: the communists in Albania. That this speech is not an isolated incident or the delusion of one individual in a position of power, a PS representative, is clear from the entire history of its leadership, especially since the referendum. Operating with typically communist slogans, it is seeking to create an atmosphere of psychological terror and total insecurity. In their unrestrained campaign, PS leaders, by condoning things to the point that officials of the democratic government are called “enemies of the people and collaborators with fascism,” are revealing the emptiness at the heart of their destructive politics. This criminal political history, abruptly revived recently with slogans and open calls for the return of communism, not only openly reveals the true, unmasked face of the PS leaders and expresses their intention to bring back communist violence; it should also be a real concern not only for ordinary people at large, but also for the competent bodies responsible for enforcing the laws. After loudly declaring, and speculating with complete abandon, that everyone who voted against the constitution had voted for the PS, nostalgia for communism suddenly surged in their souls, burdened with grave crimes. And unfortunately, the population is being dictated to (or, more accurately, controlled) through directives and the basic structures of this party, which are in power in some communes and municipalities. This political strategy, also displayed at anniversary events organized by state structures, constitutes serious legal violations, which must be reported and condemned without hesitation. The case of the speech delivered by the chairman of the Tepelenë District Council, Hamit Gjoni, at the solemn meeting marking the 50th anniversary of the liberation of In the presence and at the urging of PS deputies, they raised their fists, shouting hysterically for E. Hoxha. These are the shouts and raised fists of 6 November at the PS headquarters, which, it seems, some PS leaders raised again yesterday at the meeting organized by the nostalgics to supposedly commemorate the war, but in reality to honor E. Hoxha. Wake up, people, don’t sleep; wake up now, as you hear their murmuring, because it will be too late when the living dead sink their teeth into you. Let those who declare that communism is dead, once and for all, and that the struggle against communism is demagoguery, wake up. But here they are: the living dead, looking for Enver Hoxha. They are not asking for the return of the dictator’s fanaticism, but for the return of the dictatorship itself. Wake up, people, and see that they are the same ones, even though the shadow of death has fallen over their faces. They are the same living dead. E. PALOKA …revived, openly provokes with his speech, calling Enver Hoxha a legendary leader. It is not that Hamit Gjoni is unaware of the official position on this issue does these things knowingly and with a predetermined purpose, thereby revealing represents. With this communist act, Gjoni definitively demonstrates the falsity of all the statements by PS leaders about this party supposedly distancing itself from the PK and the PP, supposedly reforming itself, and so on. This speech, delivered at a solemn meeting by a state official representing the PS, should serve as a strong warning to all Albanians, because it sums up the ultimate aim of the PS, which is trying at any cost, and through every flirtation, to bring back the dictatorship.

Greece withdraws its veto On Monday, Greece withdrew its veto against the loan the EU had granted to Albania. On Monday in Brussels, the Foreign Ministers of the Twelve approved the granting of a loan of 35 million ECU (43 million dollars). The first tranche will amount to 15 million ECU (about 18.3 million dollars). According to AFP, citing diplomatic sources, the second tranche will be disbursed in the second half of 1995. RD CORRESPONDENT

PDSH Secretary General Tritan Shehu and Vice-Chairmen Ali Spahia and Tomorr Dosti met with Balli Kombëtar leaders, Vice-Chairman Hysen Selfo and gentlemen Xhevdet Libohova and Muharrem Xhaferi. PDSH Secretary General Tritan Shehu and Vice-Chairmen Ali Spahia and Tomorr Dosti met with leaders of the Balli Kombëtar, Vice-Chairman Hysen Selfo and gentlemen Xhevdet Libohova and Muharrem Xhaferi. As the National Council also determined, Mr. Shehu emphasized in his remarks, our idea is that the PD is open to dialogue and to expanding cooperation with other political forces, particularly those on the spectrum of the Mr. Selfo, praising this first introductory meeting, emphasized the support the BK has given and continues to give to democracy in Albania, as well as its awareness of the difficulties of reform and its objections to it. Mr. Shehu emphasized that political forces must carefully address the figures of the Anti-Fascist War, with a realistic and objective assessment of their activity during that war. National—[?], Mr. Shehu said in his remarks—our to expanding cooperation with other political forces, especially those on the right. Despite some differing views, there are many issues that unite us, Mr. Shehu said. There are many areas in which our cooperation can be expanded, at the heart of which are the national question and the ongoing struggle against communism. …a climate of psychological terror and total insecurity. Both sides expressed their goodwill, which now exists, toward expanding cooperation in various fields, as well as continuing contacts and meetings so that the dialogue already begun may continue. PDSH spokesperson SOKOL BALLA

On the occasion of November 28, the National Holiday—the 50th Anniversary of the Liberation of the Homeland and the 82nd Anniversary of the Proclamation of Albania’s Independence—congratulatory telegrams continue to arrive for the President of the Republic, Sali Berisha: from the President of the Republic of Independence of Albania, the President of the Republic, Sali Berisha continues to receive congratulatory telegrams: from the President of the Republic of Finland, Marti Ahtisaari; from the Regent of the Kingdom of Jordan, Muhamed Bin Talal; from the Central Committee of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea; from the King of Nepal, Birendra; from the President of the Republic of Cyprus, Glafkos Klerides; from the President of the Republic of Mauritania, Kasam Utem; from the President of the Republic of Seychelles, Frans Albert Reno. President Berisha has also received congratulatory telegrams from representatives of political parties and associations of Albanians living in various countries, from leaders of international organizations, and from friends and well-wishers of Albania. Press and Information Office attached to the President Malta’s, DR. Ugo Mifsud Bonnici; from the President of Syria, Hafez Al Asad; Albania.

■ Britain, Messrs. Dejvit Smajli and Rexhinald Hibert, former members of the British missions in Albania during the Second World War. Thanking them for taking part in the commemoration honoring the British servicemen who fell in Albania, President Berisha noted their contribution to the common struggle against the Nazi-fascists and emphasized that the ties forged in this war for freedom are important foundations for the present-day friendship between the two countries. ■ Ms. Madalena Barbieri and lawyer Bruno de Julio, former members of our partisan formations during the War for the liberation of Albania from the Nazi-fascist occupiers. Welcoming them for their participation in this war, the President praised the importance of the participation of the Italian partisans, not only for the contribution they made, but especially for strengthening the friendship between the Albanian and Italian peoples. Press and Information Office attached to the President

They are looking for Enver Hoxha A rain mixed with a strange chemical substance would soak the cemeteries of a provincial town somewhere in the USA on a night no different from any other. Soon, above the graves, bodies would begin to stir; still half-rotten and not yet reduced to clean skeletons, they would rise, spreading a muffled murmur and a fetid smell through the cemetery. Weak and moving awkwardly, they began to wander through the town. Little by little their murmuring became clearer: they wanted blood to drink and the living brains of human beings. They were the dead seeking to awaken—the living dead who rose on an ordinary night while all the citizens of the provincial American town slept. These scenes are part of a horror film based on the screenwriters’ and director’s imagination. I would make no exact [?] comparison at all; faced with these scenes, I would bring up some nostalgic wounds, and yesterday in

Albanians have closed the tragic chapter of fratricide and political confrontations and are opening a new chapter, that of tolerance and unity, unity within pluralism, which is real and not demagoguery like your loudly trumpeted monolithic unity was — DUKAGJIN HATA The pathological “myth” of the “class struggle” is being revived once again by the leaders of genocidal confrontation, who are echoed by the leaders of the communist opposition. Through “ZP,” old communists are displaying, without a façade, their backward identity as falsifiers of history, as grotesque masks of an era that remains outside their principles of violence and dictate over what is written and over Albania’s present. After calling 29 November “the greatest celebration in history” and tallying up the victory with communism and Enver Hoxha at its head, the unscrupulous scribblers, under the heading of editorial pieces, anathematize their violently victimized nationalists, who shed their blood on the altar of freedom, in the coarse language of Bolsheviks. “The shame into which the Balli Kombëtar and Zogist supporters wanted to plunge Albania,” as “ZP” puts it, must be understood otherwise, as you would know if you were realistic: a large number of them fought with weapons in hand against Nazifascism, and many of them wanted to liberate the country even later, during the years of dictatorship, from an unprecedented political genocide. The National Committee of Veterans and those who direct it from behind the scenes know very well how the Albanian Communist Party used the war of liberation from the Nazi-fascist occupier as a springboard to establish political autocracy, division and bloody rule, eliminate opponents, and impose totalitarianism in Albania. Such leaflets as “Generations’ Constitution,” etc., which the old fossils at “ZP” continue to label with their mindset of divisions and extreme discord, are divisive in their role, even if quite episodic, in imposing themselves on new political minds. We tell the desperate scribblers at ZP to show more ethics and, above all, more courage in facing the truth. We know your pardons cannot undo the martyrdom of thousands of Albanians, communists and Ballists, Zogists and nationalists; we know the ghosts of the dark war disturb the sleep of the veterans and prevent them from taking up their compromising positions. But history, misinterpreted for 47 years, cannot be written by a man with leadership and a crisis, a man whose hands drip with blood from the “witch hunt.” Gentlemen, Albanians have closed the tragic chapter of fratricide and political confrontations and are opening a new chapter: that of tolerance and unity, unity within pluralism, which is real and not demagoguery, as your loudly trumpeted monolithic unity was! You, who undermined the Mukje Agreement and other acts of wartime unity, cannot keep dictating the sinister messages of your speech. You apparently think that you had turned the country of tolerance and understanding into a land “with little branches,” of institutional crime and pathological anxieties. Your parodies and anecdotes are irritating; they are salt rubbed into the unhealed wounds of tens of thousands. Without remembering that political cooperation exists, and without feeling any pain over the ideological stages—nationalist and Ballist, partisan supporters of “revolutionary” violence and class confrontation—you continue to uphold the “class struggle.” Although the communists have run out of fuel, you have not lost hope of returning to the throne, of crushing the freedom we hold so dear for the sake of your wicked dreams.

BLEDI KASMI The results of the referendum held on Sunday and Monday in Norway indicate a victory for opponents of Norway’s accession to the EU. They received 52.1 percent of the votes. Ninety-two percent of voters took part in the referendum, indicating a very high turnout in Norway. Conceding defeat, Norwegian Prime Minister Harlem Brundtland said the government would respect the referendum result in favor of “no” and confirmed that she would not resign. Meanwhile, the diplomacy of European countries has reacted with regret to the “No” vote in Norway. “The Norwegian people face the risk of living alongside a large economic group whose rules they must respect without having the right to express their views,” noted the Minister for European Affairs, Alen Lamszor. Commenting on the results of the referendum, European Parliament President Klaus Haensç stressed: “It is a misfortune that the Norwegians said ‘No,’ and first of all this is a misfortune for the Norwegians.” Disappointed by Norway’s decision, Swedish Prime Minister Ingvar Karlson said: “I was eagerly looking forward to cooperation with Norway on a number of issues, including environmental problems, unemployment, and also work on and guidance of the enlargement of the Union to include European countries. In light of the result of this referendum, the European Union stressed that one of the reasons that influenced the victory of ‘No’ was the limited interest of young people in the main EU states, while the result presents the referendum as decisive, with people wanting a ‘No.’”

■ President of the Republic Sali Berisha received friends from Great Britain, Messrs. Dejvit Smajli and Rexhinald ■ President of the Republic Sali Berisha received friends from Italy, Ms. Madalena Barbieri and lawyer Bruno de

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