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- <text id=91TT0785>
- <title>
- Apr. 15, 1991: World Notes:Albania
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Apr. 15, 1991 Saddam's Latest Victims
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 31
- World Notes
- ALBANIA
- It's Not Over By A Long Shot
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Albania's communist Party of Labor had scant reason last week
- to celebrate its landslide victory in the country's historic free
- elections. Though the communists won a commanding 162 of the 250
- People's Assembly seats--against 65 for the opposition
- Democratic Party before runoffs in undecided contests--their
- victory ignited some of the worst violence the country has seen
- in more than a year of escalating unrest.
- </p>
- <p> In the northern city of Shkoder, a local D.P. leader was
- reportedly shot in the back by security forces as demonstrators
- surrounded the local communist headquarters to protest the
- victory. Two others were shot dead as the protesters surged into
- the building, burning party files and the portraits of communist
- Albania's founding father, Enver Hoxha. Another shooting victim
- died later. The port city of Durres, besieged last month by
- Albanians seeking any vessel out of their blighted country,
- braced for a new exodus. While communist leader Ramiz Alia
- remains the head of both state and party, he could have trouble
- continuing the concessions that led to free elections. Party
- hard-liners are in the ascendant, and last week's crackdown
- could even signal a return to the bad old days of
- Stalinist-style repression.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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