Word: albania
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...Democracy seems to be breaking out in the most unusual places," he said, citing Mongolia, Nepal and Albania as examples...
...chosen in 1990 by the parliament, won the nation's first direct presidential election last month against an opponent who accused him of trying to impose an "alien" system -- a market-oriented democracy. But economic reforms have been introduced only halfheartedly, just enough to cause inflation and rising joblessness. Albania, long isolated even from the rest of the communist world, held democratic elections last year, but its government has been unable to forge any economic system to replace the shattered communist structure. The country is the only one in Eastern Europe threatened not just by food shortages but by outright...
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...
...that is not possible, Moynihan says, the agency should shrink its budget, a classified figure that is currently between $25 billion and $30 billion a year. "Downsize, downsize," Moynihan advises. "Don't look for silly, quasi-cold war tasks like 'Find the narcoterrorists' or 'Steal the economic secrets of Albania...
...does, however, increase the risk of a full-scale civil conflict and the possible involvement of countries with national minorities living in Yugoslavia, including Hungary, Bulgaria and Albania. Such an upheaval might also drive thousands of frightened refugees across the borders into Austria and Italy...