European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 6, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes world monday december 6,1993polls give big wins to leftists in Italy Rome apr leftists beat Back a Challenge by Neo fascist candidates including the granddaughter of dictator Benito Mussolini to capture the mayor s posts in Naples and Rome exit polls showed sunday. The predicted victories give the left momentum going into National elections expected next Spring and creates the possibility the former communists could govern Italy for the first time. An estimated 8.3 million voters in a country of 57 million people on sunday chose mayors in 129 cities including Genoa Trieste and Venice. Alessandra Mussolini the actress granddaughter of dictator Benito Musso Lini lost to Antonio Bassolino 46, a longtime official of the sex communist party and its successor the democratic party of the left the polls showed. The 30-year-old Mussolini ran on the ticket of the Neo fascist italian social movement Psi. The poll showed Bas Solino with 54 percent and Mussolini with 46 percent. Voters in the capital elected Francesco Rutelli 39, a greens politician backed by former communists and other leftists Over the National Neo fascist Leader Gianfranco Fini 41, according to exit polls for state run television. Rutelli won by about the same margin the polls said. Both cities had been led by communists in the Early 1980s. If the results hold up the election shows a enormous support for his party Fini  without doubt a new political chapter is opening for  Mussolini also called it a Victory. An Independent with leftist backing Coffee magnate Riccardo Illy was predicted the Winner in the Adriatic City of Trieste. Northern league candidates lost in Genoa to Adriano Sansa a leftist backed prosecutor and in Venice to philosopher Massimo Cacciari also supported by a leftist coalition. The voting was an important civics lesson for italians after electoral reforms that ended proportional balloting for parties and forced them to choose Between individual candidates. Thanks to nearly two years of scandal the centrist parties that governed Italy in a series of weak coalitions were virtually shut out in a first round of balloting nov 21. That left Stark choices the Neo fascist italian social movement or separatist and conservative Northern league to the right and coalitions anchored by the a communist democratic party of the left across the spectrum. The first direct mayoral elections were in june and produced a Northern league mayor in Milan. Under reforms passed this year voters will directly elect a three quarters of  reach Accord a a. A a. U a in Gatt dispute Brussels Belgium apr top american and european Community negotiators Are to resume talks today in an Effort to surmount years of wrangling Over farm subsidies and open the Way for. The world s biggest Trade Deal. French Premier edouard Balladur was scheduled to hold last minute talks sunday with the eco a Trade chief sir Leon Brittan and Peter Sutherland director of the general agreement on tariffs and Trade the organization that oversees world Trade. The United states and France have been locked in a Battle Over reductions in government pay Eft of Farmers. France opposes an Accord reached last year Between the United states and the dec to pare subsidized farm exports. But the giant trading partners appear on the verge of an agreement that would end the dispute by allowing the 12-nation dec a slower phase in period for the subsidy trims. In return the United states would be Able to sell More of its farm products in Europe. The trans Atlantic farm dispute has been the major obstacle to conclusion of the 116-nation Uruguay round of Trade talks which after seven years of negotiations must be concluded by dec. 15. Some economists estimate that a successful conclusion to the talks which Are sponsored by Gatt could pump an extra $270 billion into the world Economy by sweeping away barriers to exports. . Trade representative Mickey Kantor was due to return to Brussels today for negotiations with Brittan to try to wrap up a Deal covering not Only agriculture but also movies tariffs on manufactured goods financial services and a Host of other areas. . Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy who saturday met with Sutherland at Gatt Headquarters in Geneva demonstrators try to Force their Way through barricades saturday at Gatt Headquarters in Geneva. Some 3,000 banners protested against a proposed Gatt Deal which they say would Rob them of their livelihoods. Also was expected in Brussels for talks with his dec counterpart Rene Steichen. Quot a we want a global Deal and i Hope we will have it on monday a French foreign minister Alain Juppo said after Kantor and Brittan held two Days of bargaining last week. In Geneva some 3,000 Farmers demonstrated saturday against a proposed Gatt Deal which they contend would Rob them of their livelihoods and destroy Rural traditions. A if the Gatt Deal is signed we think More than half of French banners will disappear a demonstrator Daniel Lon Chambon said. France Europe a biggest agricultural producer has backed its Farmers and insisted on changes to a provisional Deal worked out a year ago that would have slashed subsidized dec farm exports by 21 percent Over six years. Pope says he s feeling better Vatican City a acknowledging Public concern about his health Pope John Paul said sunday that he a feeling much better and doing what doctors order. The latest flurry of concern Over the 73-year-old pontiffs health came a few Days earlier when the Vatican moved to dismiss suggestions made on italian television that linked an illness suffered by the Pope in 1981 to the aids virus. His studio s windows thrown wide open on a sunny warm morning the Pope was in Good spirits As he appeared to the tens of thousands of people gathered in St. Peters Square for his traditional sunday Public appointment. John Paul began his off the cuff remarks by noting that some in the crowd had met him during his visit to a Parish a year ago. John Paul told the crowd that some probably a came to see if the Pope is  a Well i must Tell you that in a much better a the Pope said. A thus Well be heading toward a holy Christmas a the Pope added. The Pope had surgery to remove a Bowel tumor described by his doctors As benign in july 1992. Last week on an italian talk show discussing aids an italian journalist said that a virus suffered by the Pope after he was wounded in a 1981 assassination attempt was similar to the human immunodeficiency virus which causes aids. The next Day the Vatican irked by Media speculation Over the Popes health dismissed the suggestions linking the 1981 illness to his. The 1981 illness was a by Tome Lovirus the Vatican said. Vienna s mayor injured in 5th letter bomb attack Vienna Austria a mayor Helmut Zilk was injured sunday in the fifth letter bomb attack in Austria in three Days Media reported. The austrian press Agency and state run Orfi television both reported that the 66-year-old Zilk had been injured by a letter bomb at his Home. The extent of his injuries was not immediately Clear. But Apa said he had been rushed to a Vienna Hospital and was expected to undergo emergency surgery. Zilk returned to Vienna from Zurich Switzerland on sunday evening and was opening his mail when one of the letters exploded Apa reported. It was the fifth letter bombing in three Days and Zilk was the fourth person to be injured. Three people Werb injured Friday when the first letter bombs surfaced. On saturday and sunday two letter bombs were detected before they were opened. Earlier sunday Interior minister Franz a Duchnak announced that a fourth letter bomb had been discovered in Southern Austria that one like the previous three was addressed personally to someone involved in Austria a immigrant Community raising fears that right Wing violence was on the Rise. There was no immediate reaction to the attack on Zilk but austrian political leaders had earlier condemned the bombings and renewed warnings against the Rise of right Wing radicalism. Woschnak said sunday that he would Convene a special session of the governments anti terrorist unit in response