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...Tirana, the capital, only two non-satellite legations remain - Italian and French - and their members are under constant police observation. The country is overrun with Russian "experts...
When an attempt was made to bomb the Soviet legation last February, Shehu put Tirana under nightly curfew, ordered his police to shoot on sight anyone seen in the streets, set up secret courts to dispose of suspects. Shehu, known as "the butcher," commands a well-equipped army of 70,000, whose main function is maintaining internal order...
Albania's Tito-built Communist Party, still loyal to Stalin, summoned its leaders to a crisis conclave this week. As 360 delegates converged on Tirana (pop. 30,800), it looked very much as if Party Boss Enver Hoxha was being superseded by Party General Secretary Mehmet Shehu...
Last week, Albanian anti-Communist emigres in Rome reported a hair-raising story of Shehu's Stalinesque qualities: at a central committee meeting in Tirana several weeks ago attended by an unnamed Soviet colonel, a complaint was made by Vice Minister of Industry Abedin Shehu (no kin to Mehmet Shehu) that Albania was not getting from Russia the military help it needed "to defend itself from Yugoslavia and Greece." In the course of a committee wrangle over this, Abedin Shehu was accused of Trotskyism...
According to the emigre Albanians' story, Mehmet Shehu pulled out a revolver and killed Abedin Shehu on the spot. The next day Radio Tirana reported that Abedin Shehu had committed suicide. "As a result there have been many arrests. In Tirana four buildings in Dibra Street have been converted into prisons...