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Albanians buy safety from Serbs with cigarettes 

Albanian villagers living near the border with Serbia are paying Yugoslav army reservists in cigarettes to let them work their land without being shot at, an newspaper said on Thursday.

An elder of Shishtavec village told daily Koha Jone local farmers were afraid to work their fields or gather fodder for their livestock because of the threat posed by Serb snipers.

``The reservists asked the villagers to give them cigarettes if they wanted to work their land close to the border and cut grass from the meadows,'' Dylejman Nela was quoted as saying.

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The [Serb] reservists asked the villagers to give them cigarettes if they wanted to work their land close to the border and cut grass from the meadows.
Dylejman Nela, an elder of Shishtavec village. Bombing Serb cigarette factories may have unexpected benefits. Quoted in <i>Albanians buy safety from Serbs with cigarettes</i>

Albanians Try to Take Over Kosovars' Crime Network 

But evidence of the corruption's scale can be gleaned from a mammoth disparity between declared tax and customs receipts and the consumption of certain import goods in Albania.

In 1998, reports Tirana journalist Sami Neza, Albanians smoked an estimated 8,000 tons of U.S. and Western European cigarettes. The total amount officially checked through Albanian customs was 11 tons. [This graph only]

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Saving the Refugees: Tobacco, Tar Heels -- but not home 

The tobacco factory, like so much of Albania's industrial production, had fallen victim to the country's opening to the West 10 years ago. Who would buy Albanian cigarettes when they could smoke Marlboros instead? The countryside is dotted with these derelict buildings. The town of Shkoder, though, could find nowhere else to house the Kosovars who keep arriving in such numbers.

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DAVID & PENNY MCCALL: David Mccall, 71, and Joan Mccall, 57, Die in Crash 

He also used advertising to promote social causes. . . He created anti-tobacco advertising. [This graph only]

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DAVID & PENNY MCCALL: U.S. philanthropists die on refugee aid mission 

The McCalls -- both longtime board members and benefactors of Refugees International -- were on a trip to aid the refugee effort when a driver lost control of their four-wheel-drive vehicle in heavy rain on a mountain road near Kukes and it fell into a ravine. . . In 1962, he co-founded McCaffrey & McCall, which drew such illustrious clients as Mercedes Benz, Exxon, Tiffany, J. C. Penney and Norelco. . . But despite his mounting riches and prominence in New York's business community, McCall was something of a liberal renegade.

He refused tobacco advertising, friends said. [This graph only]

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