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...Livena and dropped up to three bombs on the town, causing an unknown amount of damage. Although the government denies its forces are attacking civilians, crew members of a military jet that defected to southern Italy on Tuesday said they had been given orders to bomb civilian targets. President Sali Barisha has launched a major security operation to quell the unrest, which has seen the southern cities of Delvine, Vlora and Sarande spin out of government control. But although the crackdown has included an escalating campaign against local journalists -- the independent Koha Jone daily has had its offices partially burned...
TIRANA, Albania: Less than 12 hours after the country entered a state of emergency amid widespread violence, Albania's parliament re-elected the man who pledged to use an "iron fist" to end the chaos. Thus President Sali Berisha enters his fifth year as leader of this often forgotten Eastern European nation, which has been gripped with unrest since mid-January when failed pyramid schemes left thousands destitute. Under the state of emergency, declared Sunday evening, people cannot gather in groups of more than four and must stay off the streets between 8 pm and 7 am. People caught outside...
...trouble holding on to power as the wave of reform sweeps over Europe's poorest and most isolated country. Reincarnated as the Socialist Party, they were forced by a rash of strikes to enter into a coalition with the opposition Democratic Party in June. Last week Democratic leader Sali Berisha charged his governing partners with "attempting to create a neodictatorship" and pulled his seven ministers out of the 21-member Cabinet...
...because he can move a spoon up a wall with his bare will. The teenager is eager to escape his wastrel uncle Merdzan (Husnija Hasimovic), who practices Tai Chi and chases every village female over twelve. Perhan is desperate to pay the hospital bills for his crippled sister (Elvira Sali) and earn enough money to marry his girlfriend Azra (Sinolicka Trpkova). He must do it quickly, before Merdzan can get his lecherous hands on her. "Make sure her feet don't see more sky than earth," Perhan warns Grandma when he hires himself out to the richest, meanest...
...Roth's books have sold well, but he has never really been controversial or had his apartment examined in gossip columns ("the smart East 80s ... very solid, no patterns"). Now that Alexander Portnoy has made him a celebrity, he is dodging fame with SalI ingeresque determination-which, of course, only draws more attention to him. He used to answer the phone, "Benito Cereno here."* Now he doesn't answer his phone at all, and he tends...