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- <title>
- Jan. 15, 1990: World Notes:Albania
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Jan. 15, 1990 Antarctica
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 43
- World Notes
- ALBANIA
- Revolution By Balloon
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> The avowed aim of exiled King Leka I, as he calls himself,
- is to overthrow the communist government of Albania. As far as
- the authorities are concerned, that is so much hot air. Now the
- would-be sovereign, who lives in South Africa, intends to make
- use of that very commodity to further his ambition.
- </p>
- <p> Leka, the son of Albania's first and last native-born
- monarch, King Zog, told the South African newspaper Business
- Day last week that he plans to launch a blitz by balloon,
- attaching leaflets advocating revolution to helium bags and
- floating them over his homeland. With the rest of Eastern
- Europe changing so swiftly, he said, the time is ripe for a
- softening of the last Stalinist holdout on the Continent.
- </p>
- <p> Smuggled out of Albania by his parents days after his birth
- in 1939, Leka boasted in the 1970s of training an emigre army
- to harass the government, which deposed his father in absentia
- in 1946. Today, he says, "we hope negotiation will prevail."
- He adds that he is prepared to renounce the throne, if the
- people will it. An idea worth floating, anyway.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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