Commissioner Rroka’s bodyguard is arrested; the commissioner, who fled in an unknown direction, is being sought Sarandë, the police station bodyguard wounds three police officers The cigarette route from Kakomeja is expanding. Smuggling routes buy off the police chief The bodyguard of commissioner Rroka is arrested; the commissioner, who fled in an unknown direction, is being sought

Conversations between the PD chairman and foreigners revealed The PD chairman asks the world not to include Albania in the “Marshall” Plan

USA, the first investment in Albania: telecommunications Ahmet Sead, NWT Executive Director: A telephone in almost every village A joint venture is being established between New World Telecom and Albtelekom; it will employ 2,000 people

abc It seems that Albania has now linked the fate of its economic development to Corridor 8. The sooner this Corridor is built, the sooner Albanians will feel the benefits of a port and a road that will connect the West with Asia, and will experience the benefits of thousands of businesses that will have to travel along this route. Therefore, there is no greater duty today than to follow the work, metre by metre, on the road leading from Durrësi eastwards to Pogradec. It must be urged to progress quickly, and the work must be carefully monitored to ensure that it is carried out to a high standard, as must all the other routes that cross Albanian territory and head east. A few days ago, we wrote that funding had covered almost all the sections from Durrësi to Pogradec. But work has not started on all of them. A few days ago, we also wrote that even where work is under way, the pace could be described, in transactional terms, as “slow”. This is happening because the foreign companies that have undertaken to build these sections of Corridor 8 are working with an extremely limited number of people; moreover, they work a maximum of 10 hours a day, whereas the importance of this Corridor calls for round-the-clock work. Above all, we wrote that the quality of the section now approaching Vorë, and of the one approaching Kavajë from Plepat, leaves much to be desired—so much so that if they built roads like these in their own countries, they would be kicked out. We were satisfied with what we had seen so far, but when we saw NATO soldiers working on various road sections, what we saw the private foreign companies doing seemed like a scandal. NATO soldiers were excavating and creating a roadbed with mountain stone and gravel, while the private companies were not excavating but laying a layer of river gravel. NATO soldiers laid a layer and levelled the stones, using smaller stones, whereas the foreign companies compacted and formed the surface with rods. After this, everything must change quickly, so that when the road is completed, there will be no need to take up pickaxes to carry out tests that could serve as grounds for a criminal complaint.