European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 10, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 b the stars and stripes sunday january 10,1993 Marj Al Zohoury Lebanon a braving heavy rain and fog a helicopter saturday flew red Cross representatives to meet with 415 palestinian deportees stranded in a snowy tent Camp in Southeast Lebanon. The International committee of the red Cross was the first Relief Agency to visit the palestinians since Lebanon barred Aid workers from helping the men three weeks ago. Israel expelled the men from the occupied West Bank and Gaza strip on dec. 17 in retaliation for the slayings of six israeli troopers. Lebanon and Israel Are locked in a standoff Over who is responsible for the suspected Muslim fundamentalists. Under fire for expelling the palestinians Israel offered a Concession thursday and agreed to let the red Cross visit the tent Camp to assess the deportees needs but not to deliver supplies. The deportees rushed out of their tents shouting a Malta he Akbar a or a god is great a As the helicopter landed in the no Many a land Between an israeli occupied enclave and Forward lebanese army positions.�?�1 sure am glad you Are Here a Abdul Aziz Rantisi the deportees spokesman said in English As he greeted the red Cross delegates. A i was about to lose  then through a bullhorn he told the deportees in arabic Quot we shall now meet with the 1crc to Tell them that our plight cannot end except with our return to our Homes. Medicines food water and Protection from the cold Are temporary solutions for a prolonged agony.�?�. Bad weather had postponed the red Cross trip originally scheduled for Friday. Gerges comninos a red Cross Delegate and or. Cordula Wolfisberg a red Cross physician trudged through a snowstorm Friday blankets the isolated tent Camp of palestinians deported by Israel to Southeast Lebanon the Snow toward the Camp. Spokesman for the . Interim Force in Chest infections because of the cold. Comninos said they had come to assess Southern Lebanon. The red Cross visit came As . Envoy the menus medical conditions. The tent Camp was covered saturday Chi Maya Gharakhan was visiting Israel to a third red Cross Delegate stayed at by 10 inches of Snow. Many of the tents mediate the crisis. Ghareman met Friday . Headquarters in the Border town of were flooded with water. With foreign minister Shimon Peres in Tel rats an a quran to coordinate with the physicians at the Camp have said some Aviv and planned to meet with prime min peacekeepers said Timur Goksel of the deportees were suffering lung and ister Yitzhak Rabin  expands probe of sex prime minister Milan Italy apr investigators have widened their probe of former prime minister Bettino Praxi  Kickback corruption scandal spreads news reports said Friday. Rai state television also said investigators would soon ask a parliamentary commission to begin procedures to remove the socialist leaders immunity from prosecution which he now enjoys As a parliamentarian. Rai along with the italian news agencies Ansa and a i reported from Milan that Praxi had received format notification for a second time in less than two months that he is being probed. On dec. 15, investigators informed Praxi one of Italy a most influential Power brokers that he was under investigation As part of what has been dubbed a operation clean  the scandal has widened since last february with the arrests of scores of top politicians industrialists and other business leaders in Northern  local politicians kickbacks to obtain Public works contracts became a virtually unchallenged Way of doing business in the Milan or Axil a Power base according to reports of suspects testimony. Such contracts allegedly included the enlargement of Milan a subway system Ana the construction on its soccer stadium. Similar scandals have tarnished politicians from North to South including Venice Florence and Reggio i Calabria. Most of the first to be caught up in the scandal were from Praxi s socialist party. Since then however other parties including the Christian democrats and the former communists have been involved. Friday s news reports said that investigators widened their probe of Praxi after receiving information reportedly from others recently questioned by magistrates. The reports said the latest notification for Praxi said he was under investigation for suspected involvement in corruption and possible violation of Laws regulating party finances or Axil a lawyer Enzo Logiudice was quoted by Agi As saying his client was a completely extraneous to the alleged violations. Reporter who covered mafia murdered on sicilian Street Rome apr a reporter who specialized in the mafia was fatally shot As he was driving Home and journalists saturday blamed the murder on organized crime. Giuseppe Alfano 47, apparently stopped his car for someone on a quiet Street about 100 Yards from his Home in a town near Messina Sicily late Friday evening news reports said. The gunman fired shots through the cards open window at Alfano a reporter for a sicilian newspaper. Mafia figures were trying to silence Alfano for something he knew or to intimidate other reporters from writing about mafia activity journalists and authorities said. Threats and acts of intimidation like burning the cars of reporters Are common against journalists in some mafia Ridden cities in Sicily. Some re porters have stopped signing their articles. Alfano lived in and covered the town of Barcelona Pozzo i Gotto for la Sicilia a Catania based daily. The town has been rocked by Asi Cious War Between Mafla factions for control of the drug Trade and Public works Money state television reported that a Fanon a last piece which appeared in the paper Jan. 5, was about the fourth mob murder in the town in a week. A Malfano worked in a zone at risk Quot said la sicilians editor Domenico tempi. A i m convinced that Alfano. Could have known something that could have Hurt the mafia a he said adding a to make a mistake about the mafia is to  Alfano had worked As a journalist for 20 years and began covering bar Beltona in August 1991.breakthrough in s. Africa May restart multiparty talks Johannesburg South Africa apr the government said saturday that multiparty talks on ending apartheid should resume soon following a breakthrough with right Wing Whites and conservative Blacks. The announcement by Roelf Meyer the governments constitutional development minister raised Hopes that Black White political talks which collapsed last june could Start again within weeks. Serious differences remain Between the country a More than 20 political groups which Range from White supremacists to Black militants. But if the talks resume and go Well Blacks could join an interim government this year and the first election to include the 30 million member Black majority could be held by the end of 1993 or in Early 1994. Meyer spoke after two Days of meetings that included two key groups the conservative party the leading right Wing White group and the inkatha Freedom party a conservative Zulu based movement. Pro apartheid Whites such As those in the conservative party refused previously to take part in negotiations and demanded a Whites Only Homeland. Inkatha meanwhile Felt it was being shunted and pulled out of negotiations last year following agreements reached privately Between the White government and the african National Congress the largest Black group. But the conservative party inkatha and several smaller groups said in a joint statement saturday that they would participate in a a multiparty planning conference designed to pave the Way for a return to full scale negotiations. Meet for gave no Date for the planning conference but the government has said it wants to reopen negotiations in february