A long six months ahead
WITHIN a few days, some 6,000 well-meaning soldiers from a bevy of European countries, led by Italy with France close behind, are due to arrive in Albania to help ensure that the inhabitants of that sad country do not starve or run out of medicine. By the end of July (the date has already slipped from June), a general election is expected to lead to the removal of Albania's beleaguered president, Sali Berisha, and to the installation of a new government. Thereafter, the hope goes, post-communist Albania will have to be reinvented. Better luck second time.
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