After the announcement of a 20% wage increase The Socialists had requested a 20% wage increase seven months ago Gentlemen of the government, We agree that wages and pensions should be increased not by 10 percent, but by 20 percent, because your form of government is different; the Socialists together with it and with this will pull these back. But at the very least you should have had the courage to make this increase not at the beginning of October, but in September of last year, since we, the opposition deputies, had asked you insistently. There were over 100 million USD in diversions from the sales of ARKS surplus goods for investments, around 250 million lek in crisis. Rail transport for passengers — delays of VAT — 270 million lek detached. Undoubtedly it is important, among families plunged into misery by the regime of money, to cope and to be satisfied with the carelessness up to now, in order to overcome their crisis. However, the government closed off the flow of resources created only in October. But this change for the political opponent helps it more. This is a scheme for political consumption. Everyone says so, accusing either the opposition, or the sectors and former officials of enterprises, or professional youth groups, the bank and other institutions of challenging it. No one should think that this issue is being raised in the presidency of the youth, which will hit the police. Man in PS, Published in “Zëri i Popullit”, dated 3.10.1995

The social support base of the PS consists of the new owners, the former private holdings, the lower social strata, the propaganda of the PD calls them landowning farmers, the unemployed, the persecuted and the young, together with pensioners and others! in the discussion clubs of the second side. Page 7

The General Secretary of the Socialist Party, Gramoz Ruçi, is received by the Greek Foreign Minister Theodoros Pangalos Page 2

WILLIAM PERRY awards the order “Skënderbej” The American Secretary of Defense has ended his two-day visit to Albania and is returning to the USA, where he will meet President Clinton. He praises the defense minister from the countries of the southern Balkans. Mr. William Perry has in Tirana and in the field of sports functions ally to the American army and also to lead an American army. He awarded him the order “Skënderbej” for his services; it is given to foreigners, in recognition of the help he has brought to Albania as an ally of NATO.

At the European Shooting Championship Page 13

At the Congress of the Hungarian Socialist Party At this Socialist Party congress, it was made personal with European parliamentarians Today’s agreement concludes the state authors and the community in Albania of the country of emigrants. Pros of the use of institutions for the service of the side of Kosovo and of the sociality of the PS. He believes that with the losses in the November elections, the socialist democracy of Europe is excluded and Albania does not expect the coalition among the sectors of the PS of Italy, PASOK, PSV, the Hungarian SNSA, and the French social democrats, etc. At this meeting, among other things, it gave the fulfillment of socialist objectives; it left the government to the opposition. The deputy chairwoman of the Albanian Socialist Party has felt herself amid the ground of the boys’ level. Page 2

We will govern with dignity Page 2 Rrugëtim Gjata signed the next fax Page 2 Culture is neither right nor left; it is national Page 11 Do they again swear that some decorations will go to Mr. Berisha? Page 2 Tirana: Cooperation on the right to privatization Page 8 At the European Shooting Championship Albania third in Europe Page 13