http://www.mcclear.net/albanians_&_culture.htm added the demands concerned with the democratic developments and the need for the establishment of an alternative students' organization (Alia). The occasion became a demonstration with a call for the end of the dictatorship. Their demands received widespread support in Tirana and attempts to quell the disturbance by the security police failed. [Alia] made the critical decision to send Dr Sali Berisha, the country's leading cardiologist, to act as the PLA's mediator with the radical and increasingly restive student body in Tirana University. It is clear that by this stage Alia was the only member of the leadership capable of making decisions-- for which the Central Committee, despite its frequent meetings acted largely as a rubber stamp. Berisha, who was to become