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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...
President Ramiz Alia is struggling to keep his government from suffering the same fate. Since last summer, persistent demonstrations have forced Alia to promise reforms, but they did not go far or fast enough for the students. Assuming emergency powers, Alia sent tanks into the streets to restore order. Yet he also offered fresh concessions to the protesters, including replacement of the Cabinet with a more reform-minded regime. Late last week, however, a police clash with demonstrators resulted in four deaths. Though elections set for March 31 suddenly seemed in jeopardy, the larger question was whether Alia could hang...
...December student demonstrations, belatedly inspired by the upheavals in the rest of the East bloc, forced concessions from the government of President Ramiz Alia, including promises of fair elections and economic reform. According to spokesman Polydoras in Athens, Alia is trying to rid himself of the Greeks before the vote scheduled for February because the ethnic group, which exceeds 10% of the population, is opposed to his rule...
That thud heard last week was the sound of Europe's last Marxist dictatorship landing on the trash heap of history. Following three days of student riots in Tirana, Albanian President Ramiz Alia summoned leaders of the demonstrations to his palace. Alia then abruptly canceled the Communists' 44-year monopoly on politics. He announced that henceforth rival parties will be permitted in the interest of "further democratization...
They could be right. Ever since last year's wave of anticommunist revolutions, Albania's Stalinist-style regime has wavered between digging in and opening up. At first it said it would remain faithful to the orthodox Marxism of longtime leader Enver Hoxha. But last May, Ramiz Alia, who came to * power after Hoxha's death in 1985, abolished restrictions on religious observance and granted citizens the right to travel abroad...