World IN BRIEF : ALBANIA : Students Go Hungry Over School Name
Protesting Albanian students and faculty members began a hunger strike to press their demand that the name of late Communist founder Enver Hoxha be removed from the university in Tirana, the Albanian state news agency reported. It said that 720 students and teachers were taking part in the fast, which began on the 13th day of a boycott of classes. Ben Ruka, a reporter with the opposition newspaper Democratic Revival, said the protest was begun after the deadline that students had set for the communist government to agree to a referendum on the name change. President Ramiz Alia, who succeeded Hoxha in 1985, has followed a cautious program of reforms but has refused to dismantle Hoxha’s personality cult.
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