TEPELENË — - All the collectives of Tepelenë’s economic enterprises have pledged to complete their six-month targets three days ahead of schedule. According to information held by the emulation staff, with the exception of the construction enterprise and the automotive fleet, which are wavering in keeping their pledge because of shortages in the supply of fuel, tires, cement and iron, the other collectives are working in a mobilized manner to successfully complete the period’s targets. As always, at the forefront are the coal miners of Memaliaj, especially the collectives of shafts 3, 4 and 5, which have exceeded their extraction targets. The mine, too, has its own example: the fleet is not keeping up with the removal of coal from the bunkers, and the miners are forced to empty it into open yards, considerably reducing its quality. “We,” says Hate Dauti, director of the food enterprise, “will produce and prepare industrial goods to the value of 1 million 200 thousand lekë above the target; while in terms of physical output, among other things, we will produce 300 quintals of cheese, 80 quintals of butter and 30 quintals of jam above the plan, and exceed the export target by 150 thousand lekë. I stress that we are exceeding the export target, as are the other enterprises that have such targets.” Workers and management staff of NPD, NFP, NRSH, the municipal enterprise, NGRD, SPMT and several other enterprises—including those of the assembly, pykëres, PTT and land improvement—also speak optimistically about completing the six-month period ahead of schedule. Hy sen Gjyli, director of the wood-processing enterprise, regards successful completion of the first six-month period’s targets as essential for the successful management of the enterprise under its own accounting system, which begins on July 1. This enterprise completed its six-month targets on June 16. The district’s agricultural economies have also set several indicators to exceed, including grain production and the delivery of milk, meat and eggs. Economies such as those of Salarie, Progonat, Maricaj, Nivicë, Qesarat, Damës, Dragan and Dukaj had completed some of these targets by June 15, while egg production for the six-month period has consequently exceeded the target by 50 percent. JORGO ZHONGA Moments from the work of assembling machinery at the bakery being built in Tepelenë. (Photo: Dh. Kokoli)

Medlinë It is an experience of life, as ancient as the very life of the Albanians... as deep as its roots... Because it is life itself that brought the Albanians there, with longing and with love... It has been like a popular statistic, to grasp the profound movement in the days our nation is living through in general... Albania in particular. And this planetary message from Paris has become specific in the great new days we are living through today. This time no longer tolerates slippage; it does not accept anonymity, mediocrity or closeness as a way of concealing inability. It no longer tolerates brandishing one’s biography as a shield for incompetence, or waving one’s decorations when it was someone else who earned them and you are the one waving them. It is a time that invites you to be yourself, to raise your voice—not to sit whining as a quarrelsome complainer, a fault-finder and a petty opportunist, but to raise the voice of your own work, your ability and talent, your contribution as a creator of society’s and your nation’s good, the nation to which you belong—a nation that rightfully took its place at the Homeric table..., a nation that has never needed others to teach it how to live and think. Our time invites you into a vast, boundless sea, where all the fields of life open out, and, as a song says, set everything in motion...

Medlinë What about Dedë Gjolulin, teu Sokolin, Hodo Sokolin, Isuf Kazazin, Hal Mosin, and so many others, whose names I do not see on any street, in any school? And yet it was from them, too, that I drew inspiration! Our Party, to which we have bound our lives, will mark half a century next year. Then what of that school named “The Party’s 10th Anniversary”? And in that same neighborhood, names such as Sheh Shamia, Isuf Tabaku, Daut Boriçi, or the national teacher and legendary martyr Hajrulla Kastrati left indelible traces in the history of our people. Our time no longer tolerates pseudo-historians who obscure more than they affirm; scientists who receive titles and honors for things useful to no one except narrow circles; articles and writings whose titles alone are enough to read; some novel, ponderous and uninspiring; some play in which the self is moralized, and whose “heroes” seem to have descended from heaven, because they have no flaws and are endowed with goodness, the wisdom of Zeus, morality, advice and exhortations that they dole out to everyone, everywhere. There are directors and actors who resort to banality, even rising to... Our time invites you to be honest, to seek the virtues and traditions that have sought and continue to seek the right to exist and the place that belongs to you in society. Among the immortals is Vasil Shanto, just as the epic national liberation struggle is inseparably immortal in Albanian history. But when, in a city like Shkodra, a school, a factory, a plant, an agricultural cooperative, a neighborhood, a block, a street, a cultural club, even a nursery school are named “Vasil Shanto,” isn’t that a little too much? All the more so when Oso Kuka is left without a single decoration? If Vasil Shanto himself were alive, he would say: “Wait a moment—where are Mahmud L’Mustaf Bushatlliu and Gjon Muljo, Gjon Muljo, Gjon Muljo, Gjon Muljo...?” ...their work serves up things that are artificial and out of step with the times, although we know that vulgarity and banality have never made true art in this country. You read a volume of poetry and sometimes get the impression that all the poems you have read are in it, in great number, under some grand-sounding name; you see a portrait or landscape and it looks like an ordinary photograph; you read a song lyric and feel you have read a hackneyed quotation; you hear a singer and cannot make out the other part. Sometimes there is a reminiscence, and a technique so refined—what is it all for? Sometimes, when I read a volume of poetry, or one author writing about another in the pages of magazines, let alone newspapers, I wonder: are they doing it for embellishment, or to display something? They are done for the sake of appearance, for the music of those very things against which this creative work must stand. That is why our time makes demands of us! (Continued on page 3)

FIER Total industrial production for the six-month period is expected to exceed the target. The light-industry enterprises are expected to exceed it by around 5 million lekë. The cotton collection and processing enterprise has already fulfilled its targets; the collective of the handicraft enterprise is meeting its targets well ahead of schedule. The same is true of the food enterprise collective, which has already achieved an industrial production surplus of 1 million lekë. The six-month targets have also been exceeded by the Ballsh food enterprise, where, as they told us, great care is being taken in collecting and processing agricultural products. Retail turnover in cash has exceeded the target. The surplus for the six-month period will reach 5 million lekë. What has contributed most? Increased sales of food products, particularly livestock products. Milk, for example, has been sold in quantities 18 percent above plan; cheese, 9 percent; eggs, 2 percent. In transport, the surplus in ton-kilometres is expected to be 6.8 percent; in construction, despite some difficulties, the volume of construction work will be completed as planned. The six-month export target has also been fulfilled. By the end of the period, the surplus will reach around 13 million lekë. The main contribution comes from the oil-processing plants exceeding their targets, as well as from the fulfillment of targets in other indicators, particularly in agriculture. Meanwhile, there are significant shortfalls in the oil-extraction sector, especially at the enterprises in Ballsh, Patos and Sheqishtë. Good experience in particular sectors is not lacking. The relevant enterprises and the general directorates of oil and gas should now carefully consider this experience and the actual possibilities, both for carrying out this year’s tasks and for planning next year’s indicators on as sound a basis as possible. VANGJEL STEFA

- 22 enterprises have failed to meet the targets for the period, creating a deficit of 31.3 million lekë in industrial production. During this period, the plan targets at the economic enterprises of the Durrës district are not being met regularly or with the high sense of responsibility that the times demand. We should note some achievements in maritime transport measured in ton-miles, in revenue from foreign transport and from the export fleet, in greenhouse construction, in goods turnover, etc. In addition, quite a few enterprises have fulfilled their targets for the period, including the chemical enterprise, UMB, the wine factory, NSHMN, NN-Porti, the furniture factory, the construction materials enterprise in Kavajë, etc. More than 50 enterprises have met their targets. But this picture also has another side (Continued on page 2)

TODAY’S INTERVIEW A few days ago, a scientific symposium was held in the capital on the subject: “Our Country’s Non-Metallic Minerals: Their Geology and Technology, and Their Economic Assessment for Exploitation and Export.” To learn more about this symposium, the issues it addressed and the achievements in this field, editor Viron Gjyshmana spoke with Simon Poreçi, Deputy Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce of the People’s Socialist Republic of Albania. - What were the reasons for holding this symposium, and what were its main objectives? The symposium’s main objectives were to identify the country’s potential mineral resources in non-metallic raw materials; intensify exploration work for known minerals and new ones; and organize and give concrete form to research and design work, first and foremost for those minerals about which we have more complete knowledge and which can quickly and significantly benefit the economy through short-cycle products sought by foreign markets. Another key objective was to find the most appropriate approaches to the technological study, beneficiation and processing of these mineral raw materials, in view of the growing demands of our industry for them. A further objective was to deepen the foreign-trade bodies’ understanding of how to identify and find profitable sales markets, to learn about world-market demand for these non-metallic raw materials, and to explore opportunities for cooperation in processing technology. I want to emphasize that, despite the large number of non-metallic minerals in our country and the considerable quantities of many of them, we currently import 8 million dollars’ worth of such materials, even though we have the capacity to export around 15 million dollars’ worth annually. - What concrete steps are being taken to exploit these raw materials in our country? In recent years, our research institutes have intensified work on preparing projects for factories, production lines and installations to extract and beneficiate these raw materials. - What conclusions did the symposium reach, and what was its significance? The symposium pointed out that what has been done so far in the non-metallic minerals sector is not enough. Many views were put forward on improving the work, both quantitatively and qualitatively, in the areas connected with the discovery, exploitation, use and export of non-metallic raw materials. The symposium stressed that, although some minerals are available in large quantities and are of good quality, their introduction into economic circulation has lagged behind. Accelerating their entry into economic circulation calls for comprehensive, interdisciplinary solutions. The main thing is to improve and further refine our forms of management and organization in keeping with the demands of the times, so as to bring non-metallic minerals into use as quickly as possible, thereby reducing imports and increasing exports. Another suitable and profitable way to achieve this economic circulation is to expand cooperation with foreign firms. But this cannot be accomplished on the basis of restrictive concepts, excessive bureaucratic practices and outdated methods; it must be guided by the question of what best serves the economy, the country’s progress and the people’s well-being. This requires scientific and technical competence, modern economic thinking, practical action and perseverance, as well as cadres willing to take on tasks and responsibilities.

Yesterday, Foreign Minister Reis Malile received Jean-Jacques Indermyl, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Swiss Confederation to the People’s Socialist Republic of Albania, in connection with the forthcoming presentation of his credentials to comrade Ramiz Alia, Chairman of the Presidium of the People’s Assembly of the People’s Socialist Republic of Albania. (ATSH)

WATER TRANSPORT ON LAKE KOMAN. (Photo: L. Lika - ATSH)

PRISHTINË, June 19. — At today’s meeting of the Constitutional Commission of the Assembly of Kosovo, the proposal by the Presidency of the SFRY to adopt a new federal constitution was rejected by a majority vote. As the Yugoslav news agency TANJUG reports, the Albanian members speaking at the commission opposed approval of this initiative by the Yugoslav Presidency, considering it a further step toward abolishing the autonomy of the Albanian people of Kosovo, who are an indigenous people in their own lands. In their arguments, the Albanian speakers clearly and unequivocally called for the question of Kosovo and its population to be directed toward self-organization and self-determination, within the community of nations and nationalities living in Yugoslavia. The Albanians of Kosovo, they said in the Albanian members’ discussion, must decide for themselves about their status. This applies to Kosovo and, in this context, to the future constitution as well, since, as they said, “Kosovo is not a Turkish pashalik.” The Albanian members of the Constitutional Commission of the Assembly of Kosovo also proposed that the Provincial Assembly adopt the same position on this issue at its next meeting. (ATSH)

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THE DEMANDS MADE OF THE BRIGADIER AND THE BRIGADIER’S DEMANDS 1, 2. BATIN 1, 2, 3. THE KEY TO SOLVING THE KOSOVO PROBLEM — FULL AUTONOMY WITHIN THE FEDERATION 14.