European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 24, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 10 the stars and stripes a world alleged key mafia figure nabbed by police in Sicily from wire reports Palermo Sicily a keeping up pressure on the mob police have captured a fugitive Boss who was considered in line to take Over the leadership of the sicilian mafia. Salvatore Cangimi 51, wanted on charges of mafia association was stopped by police As he drove through Palermo at Dawn thursday. The mafia leadership has been battered by a series of strikes particularly the arrest in january of Salvatore Quot Toto Riina the mob s Quot Boss of Bosses who had evaded capture for 23 years. Escobar anniversary noted Bogota Colombia a Colombia marked the one year anniversary thursday of the spectacular jail escape by drug Boss Pablo Scobar who remains at Large despite full time work by 3,000 soldiers and policemen to track him Down. Although the special unit has not yet found him it claims to have virtually dismantled his Medellin Cartel. Since the escape july 22,1992, the unit has killed 145 suspected Cartel members and arrested 1,314 others. A 3.000 said to flee Iraq Geneva a More than 3,000 people have fled apparent military offensives in iraqis Southern marshes and arc escaping into Iran at the rate of 150 per Day a spokeswoman for the . High commissioner Tor refugees said Friday. Spokeswoman Marie Okabe said an additional 15.000 shiite muslims were reportedly waiting to Cross the Border into a Remote part of Western Iran. Supplies of food and water were said to be Short in temperatures Topping 115 degrees fahrenheit she said. Okabe said refugees interviewed by Unher officials said they had fled shelling and artillery attacks by iraqi president Saddam Hussein s government forces. However details were sketchy. S. Korean workers of pad Seoul South Korea a workers at South koreans largest automaker approved a new contract Friday by a narrow vote cuing a 36-Day dispute that was considered a major test of president Kim Young same a new government. The approval was expected to ease tension at six other factories including the worlds largest shipyard where 40,000 employees defied a government crackdown and walked off their jobs Friday. The contract provides for a 4.7 percent pay increase As Well As additional housing and other financial benefits. Autoworkers had originally demanded a 16.5 percent raise and a bigger voice in management. N. Korean soldiers defect Seoul South Korea a about 70 North korean soldiers suffering from hunger and harsh treatment from the military fled to China last month to escape their communist regime a report said Friday. It is the largest reported escape from the closed and regimented Northern regime since the end of the 1950-53 korean War. In a dispatch from Beijing South koreans National Yon Hap news Agency quoted a source said to be Well informed on North korean affairs As saying the defections occurred june 15. Italian scandal suspect reportedly kills himself Milan Italy apr Raul Gardini one of Italy a Best known industrialists whose name was linked to the country a vast corruption scandal committed suicide Friday news reports said. The 60-year-old Gardini shot himself at his Milan Home and died in route to polyclinic Hospital italian news agencies said a Hospital spokeswoman Silvana Castalia confirmed his death but said she had no further information. He was the second leading business figure in Italy reported to have killed himself this week. The former head of the state Energy conglomerate en1, Gabriele Cagliari was found dead in his prison cell in Milan on tuesday. Gardini Gardini a yachting enthusiast who sponsored Italy a americans cup Challenge last year was notified in february that he was under investigation regarding the controversial Sale of a stake in a giant chemical group. Gardini is the former head of the agro Industrial giant Ferruzie Monte dision. Gardinik a death came hours after news reports that a former chairman of Mon Edison Giuseppe Garofano told of prosecutors that Gardini ordered him to create a slush und to pay off politicians. Garofano is being held in preventive detention in Milan after being extradited from Switzerland last week. More than 2,000 politicians businessmen and Public officials have been arrested or placed under investigation in the 17-month-Long corruption scandal that involves kickbacks to political parties and politicians for Public works contracts and Otner favors. The handsome Silver haired Gardini took Over the Ferruzzi trading company controlled by his wife a family in 1980 and turned it into Western Europe a biggest Grain exporter and Italy a second largest a Nate sector Industrial concern after Fiat. But he was ousted and started his own owns interests in the mainly in Italy and France. Liberal democrats opening up race for Dart chief in Tokyo apr stung by demands within the a a a a a. Pm e race for party Leader for an end to Back room dealing Japan a Liberal of crafts decided Friday to make the race for party wide open and scheduled Public speeches by each candidate. The decision came a Day after Kiichi Miyazawa announced he would resign As party president and prime minister at a party caucus taking responsibility for the Liberal democrats loss of a parliamentary majority in elections last sunday Junior legislators then pulled off an extraordinary Victory by persuading the party caucus to choose Miya Zawar a successor by secret ballot instead of the usual Back room negotiations among party Power brokers. The newly elected parliament is expected to meet aug. 2 to choose the new prime minister. Miyazawa said he would stay in office until a successor is named. The party said Friday that the secret ballot a involving All Liberal democratic party members of parliament and one representative from each of the party a 47 regional divisions a will be held next Friday. Anyone with the support of 20 party lawmakers May run and All the candidates will give a Public speech the Day before the vote explaining their reasons for running it said. The decision to make the procedures open was hailed by some As a sign that the Liberal democrats would attempt political Reform from the inside out. Quot this is an incredible level of Intra party democracy a said Shumpei Tsukahara a former labor minister. Quot for the lip its  but chances for the new lip Leader to become prime minister were jolted by the pledge of two new conservative parties to support an opposition candidate to become head of government. That could give the opposition enough votes in parliament to Ena the Liberal democrats 38-year lock on Power. Miyazawa was forced to Call sundays elections after losing a parliamentary vote of Confidence for failing to enact measures to euro corruption. A his party remains by far the biggest in parliament winning 2z3 of the 511 seats in the More powerful lower House. It has sought to build its own coalition to keep Power. But leaders of two parties the Japan new party and the Saki Gake Pioneer new party moved Friday toward joining a non lip coalition with a plan for a Quot political Reform  the parties announced specific proposals to clean up corruption including a tightening of political funds Laws and said they would join a coalition government with _ pc party that agreed to the 5 oven _. S a except the apparently since Japan new party Leader Mori Hiro Hosokawa ruled out such an Alliance thursday. Hosokawa also said his party would support the candidate selected by five opposition parties that Are working toward a coalition even if the five parties policies did not agree with his own. He predicted that a non lip government has a 70 percent Chance of being formed. In terms of policy the anti lip groups could be expected to adopt strict controls on political funds and overhaul the electoral system. They also might begin work on decentralizing the Powers of Japan a  broadcasters vow to Cut violent Content London apr worried by growing violence in society British television is vowing to show less crime and brutality. The British broadcasting corp. On thursday announced revised guidelines for programmers. The same Day the Independent television commission told commercial to companies to Cut the amount of violence they televise and said they will be monitored to ensure they comply. Companies who ignore the 1tc guidelines can be reprimanded or in the worst cases fined although the amount of the fines was not stated. The bbl included no enforcement provisions but the private network could simply edit out offending segments or censor entire programs. The number of violent crimes in Britain has soared in recent years though it has not reached . Levels. . Programmers Are grappling with similar issues. The four . Broadcast networks hoping to Block government interference have agreed to air parental warnings before certain shows. Quot what we Are seeing is a Public revulsion against violence in society which is feeding through to a desire for greater sensitivity by to program makers and the makers of films and videos a said David Glencross 1tc chief executive. The commission established by parliament regulates Britain s commercial Independent television network. The bbl is funded by License fees paid by viewers. The it guidelines Tell programmers to consider carefully in each Case whether violent scenes Are justified. They say programmers should consider How the accumulation of violent scenes could affect viewers. The it guidelines also say programmers should avoid shows that appear Quot to promote violence As a solution to prob Ems or  they say a violent images Are becoming increasingly available to news editors Quot and that to news bulletins should take p be into account the time they Are to be shown. The it guidelines say there is no proof that violence on to encourages violent crime but that a caution is required in the television portrayal of violence Given concern about the level of violence in society and the possibility of behaviour or attitudes being influenced by what is shown on television. A broadcasters should therefore be especially vigilant about the amount of violence in their programs Quot the it guidelines say. The bbl guidelines say viewers should be Given More information about what programs contain before the programs Are aired so that they can switch them off if they wish