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| | Novel Gun-Exchange Program in Albania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | It is offering residents amnesty and $50,000 worth of equipment to improve a leaky water-supply network, the Associated Press reported Aug. 31. |
 | | "People were surprised that handing over the weapons could bring money," said Fatime Goga, who heads the Ndroq commune, a cluster of 13 villages just west of the capital, Tirana. |
 | | Following the collapse of pyramid schemes in 1997, residents stole hundreds of thousands of weapons from army depots. |
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