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...numbers continued to rise, Western concern began to grow too. A victory by the conservative faction could turn the trickle into a flood. At week's end the Albanian parliament agreed to let all the asylum seekers leave the country without fear of punishment. Whether that will stop the flow for good is another matter...
...laws approved at last week's two-day session of the 250-member People's Assembly are something different. In its most symbolic decree, the legislature announced that for the first time since the Communist takeover in 1944, Albanians would have the right to travel abroad freely. Although many of the country's citizens are too poor to go anywhere, the previous restrictions rankled. The new ruling also apparently means that Albanian emigres will have the right to go home on visits, and thousands are already making plans to do so. In addition, the Assembly abolished a 24-year...
...Ministry of Justice, which had been abolished in 1966, and put an Alia aide in charge of it. Suspected criminals were granted the right to an attorney from the time of arrest, and the number of capital offenses was reduced from 34 to eleven. Says Nicholas Pano, an Albanian specialist at Western Illinois University: "Albania is serious about shedding its Stalinist heritage...
...Serbs, who account for more than 8 million of Yugoslavia's 24 million people, could be pushing the country toward disintegration. Milosevic has reasserted Serbian control over Kosovo, the historic cradle of Serbian culture and religion but today an autonomous enclave where 90% of the 1.9 million population is Albanian. In the process, he has touched off violent riots and alienated much of the rest of Yugoslavia...
...Belgrade half a million resentful Serbs chanting "Kosovo is Serbian!" demanded a drastic expansion of their control over the province and stiff retaliatory measures against the ethnic Albanian majority. The spiraling unrest drove Raif Dizdarevic , leader of Yugoslavia's collective presidency, to dispatch paramilitary units and tanks into Kosovo while banning all public gatherings. The unrest also exacerbated the rift between Serbia and the republic of Slovenia...