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...Husker Du was regarded as the loudest, grungiest, most health-hazardous band in the land. It the meantime, the Minnesota trio has taken off to a major label, college popularity and musical mediocrity. But now there emerges a new contender for the ramshackle throne abdicated by Bob Mould et alia, a contender going by the name of Squirrelbait...
Although Hoxha died last year, his isolationist policies still guide the current leadership, at least on the surface. In a speech to the Albanian Communist Party Congress earlier this month, Hoxha's handpicked successor, Ramiz Alia, 61, said, "Our party will apply his teachings with courage and wisdom." Yet even before Hoxha's death, Albania had begun to crack open its doors, and today there are signs that the eagle may be ready at long last to spread its wings...
Albania's economy cannot improve, however, without an opening to the outside world. Toward the end of the Hoxha era, Tirane began to accept that fact by increasing diplomatic contacts. Albania now has formal relations with 104 countries, double that of the late '70s. And at the party congress, Alia called for further increases in foreign trade. A key step in this direction came earlier this year when the Albanian stretch of a 40-mile rail link, for freight trains only, was opened between the town of Shkoder and the Yugoslav city of Titograd. The Albanians have also made deals...
Apparently in an effort to strengthen such contacts and introduce some internal reforms, Alia has reportedly brought more pragmatic men into the party leadership and has hinted that he may introduce labor incentives. The hard-line Hoxhaists, who still dominate the regime, are likely to resist such changes. For Alia, who is thought to have only four strong supporters on the 15-man Politburo, it is a time to tread cautiously...
Professor Dershowitz in discussing the award by the Kennedy School to Attorney General Meese states, inter alia, that it is unwise for a President to appoint a crony as attorney general...