ALBANIA: By Remote Control

Albania (pop. 1,100,000) is the most obscure, backward and isolated country behind the Iron Curtain. The best place to find information about life inside the small Red satellite these days is neighboring Yugoslavia. After a trip to Yugoslavia, TIME Correspondent Robert Lubar cabled:

ALONG the marshy banks of Lake Scutari on the Yugoslav-Albanian border, red-kerchiefed shepherdesses tend their flocks, and on the lake, fishermen in shallow wooden canoes spear fish with steel-tipped lances. Across the lake it is possible to see the outlines of the Albanian city of Scutari (pop. 29,000). That...

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