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<text id=91TT2768>
<title>
Dec. 16, 1991: World Notes:Albania
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Dec. 16, 1991 The Smile of Freedom
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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WORLD, Page 53
World Notes
ALBANIA
A Setback for The Old Guard
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<p> Despite their landslide victory in Albania's first free
elections last spring, the old communist rulers have had trouble
holding on to power as the wave of reform sweeps over Europe's
poorest and most isolated country. Reincarnated as the Socialist
Party, they were forced by a rash of strikes to enter into a
coalition with the opposition Democratic Party in June. Last
week Democratic leader Sali Berisha charged his governing
partners with "attempting to create a neodictatorship" and
pulled his seven ministers out of the 21-member Cabinet.
</p>
<p> In a further sign of communist disarray, the widow of
Enver Hoxha, the Stalinist who founded and presided over the
original dictatorship for 41 years, was arrested on charges of
corruption. Although bringing to book Nexhmije Hoxha, a powerful
figure in her own right, was high on the opposition's agenda,
the arrest came too late to keep the government together as the
Democrats demanded that elections be held as early as next
month. Given the social unrest exacerbated by drastic economic
reforms, the Democrats are confident that this time they will
oust the communists once and for all.
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