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...SALI BERISHA, Albania's Prime Minister, calling on India's government to send Mother Teresa's remains to the country where she was born...
...This is the greatest and most distinguished guest we have ever had in all times.' SALI BERISHA, Albanian Prime Minister, on George W. Bush, who visited the tiny Balkan country on June 10-the first sitting U.S. President to do so. Albania marked the occasion by renaming the street in front of its parliament building in Bush's honor and by issuing a commemorative series of postage stamps...
...Albania, as two rivals struggle for power in the streets, the U.S. hopes its stern words will calm the clashes. But officials fear that if former President Sali Berisha returns to power, he might bring Albania into the Kosovo...
...ambitions of a former president have plunged Albania's capital into chaos, and Western leaders are understandably nervous. Three people have been killed and 14 wounded since Sunday in gun battles between government troops and supporters of ex-president Sali Berisha. Berisha, who was voted out in 1997 after the collapse of a moneymaking pyramid scheme plunged the country into anarchy, claims the current government assassinated one of his key aides. "Berisha's been trying to get back into power ever since his ouster," says TIME Central Europe bureau chief Massimo Calabresi. "The death of Adem Hajdari is his latest...
Amid the breakdown of normal commercial life, shortages of food, fuel and other vital commodities began to grow acute. What could restore order was beyond anyone's guess, although Berisha's resignation seems to be the indispensable start. The Democratic Party leader has been a lightning rod for public rage since the January collapse of more than a dozen get-rich-quick investment schemes that lost the life savings of somewhere between 50% and 90% of the population. Most Albanians believe that Berisha was in cahoots with the operators who ran the pyramid swindles...