WORLD IN BRIEF : ALBANIA : Relations With U.S. and Soviets Planned
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Albanian leader Ramiz Alia has dropped decades of opposition to diplomatic ties with Moscow and Washington in a major break with the isolationist past of Europe’s last orthodox Communist state. But Alia made clear that Albania will not follow other East European countries in abandoning one-party Communist rule. Addressing the ruling party Central Committee in Tirana, the state and party leader said Albania had never had a phobia toward the two superpowers and that the renewal of ties is now on the agenda.
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