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- Dec. 24, 1990: World Notes:Albania
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Dec. 24, 1990 What Is Kuwait?
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 45
- World Notes
- ALBANIA
- Goodbye, Stalinism
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> 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."
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- <p> One day later, at a mass rally, a brand-new Democratic Party
- was formed. Its program, organizers said, would call for basic
- human rights, a mixed-market economy and parliamentary
- democracy. The fledgling party will now try to sell that
- program to voters unaccustomed to choice, in time for national
- elections scheduled for next February.
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- </body>
- </article>
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