Word: hoxha
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...favor of those recently dead. As an intellectual and social system, America is clearly superior to Europe, which for the past 200 years has been an assembly line for destructive ideas, and for destruction. We don't have to take second place to the continent of Robespierre and Enver Hoxha...
...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...
...local D.P. leader was reportedly shot in the back by security forces as demonstrators surrounded the local communist headquarters to protest the victory. Two others were shot dead as the protesters surged into the building, burning party files and the portraits of communist Albania's founding father, Enver Hoxha. Another shooting victim died later. The port city of Durres, besieged last month by Albanians seeking any vessel out of their blighted country, braced for a new exodus. While communist leader Ramiz Alia remains the head of both state and party, he could have trouble continuing the concessions that...
...wave of popular revolt that has washed over Europe in the past two years, the Party of Labor of Albania seemed the best bet. Since coming to power in 1944, Albania's communists have gone to great lengths to avoid all compromising entanglements with the outside world. Enver Hoxha, socialist Albania's founder, rejected all contact with the West and broke ranks with communist allies in Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union and China when they deviated from strict orthodoxy...
Although the two major parties differ on the pace and scope of the change they hope to achieve, both say progress can come only through a market economy buttressed by massive aid from Europe and the U.S. President Ramiz Alia, head of the Party of Labor since Hoxha's death in 1985, made tentative moves toward reform early last year, when he pledged to break the stranglehold of party management and introduced limited price reforms. After a series of mass demonstrations in December, the government allowed the formation of opposition parties...