Wednesday, March 14, 2012
World BRIEFINGS
ALBANIA RIOTS CRUSHED: Albania, Europe's last Stalinist bastion, usedtroops and tanks to crush anti-communist riots across the Balkannation, but diplomats in Tirana, the capital, predicted moreviolence. "There is relative peace here at the moment, but thingscould flare up again," one diplomat told the Reuters news agency.The riots were the latest signs of widespread political discontentmade worse by shortages of food and other goods. LATIN SUMMIT BEGINS: Central American presidents opened a three-daysummit in a push to halt fighting in El Salvador, promote regionaldisarmament and revive sagging economies. The presidents of CostaRica, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemala, …
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