Loner Albania Opens Rail Link
Associated Press
HANI I HOTIT, Albania —
Albania, by choice one of the world’s most isolated nations, today opened its first railway link with the rest of Europe--a cargo line--with no immediate plans for passenger service.
Albanian and Yugoslav officials inaugurated the railroad by hoisting snifters of Albanian brandy in toasts to each other and to the parallel ribbons of steel at the border between their countries. Go-it-alone Marxist Albania broke with Yugoslavia in 1948, with Moscow in 1961 and Peking in 1978.
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