European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 14, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday december 14 1993 i world and stripes r Page 9top mafia drug trafficker receives 24-year sentence from wire reports Florence Italy a a court sentenced a top mafia figure to 24 years in jail sunday after convict ing him of directing drug trafficking in Northern Madonia is accused of leading a drug ring supplying Florence and two smaller Northern italian cities. He was arrested a year ago. Investigators maintain that Madonia is a top lieutenant in the Corleone crime family.3 killed in austrian Blaze Graz Austria a fire on monday devastated an apartment House inhabited mostly by foreigners killing three people and injuring 14, some seriously. Police and fire department officials in Graz about 90 Miles South of Vienna said there was no indication of arson. Preliminary investigations led them to believe that the fire was Laid by a homeless person seeking in Turkey claims 17 Babeski Turkey a seventeen people mostly teen age students died and four were injured in a Highway crash 90 Miles West of Istanbul the Anatolia news Agency said. A car entering the expressway from a Side Road hit a truck throwing the truck into the opposite Lane where it was rammed by another car and a minibus carrying students the Agency found in rubble. Kuala Bumpur Malaysia a a note with the scrawled words a i am still found monday in the ruins of a luxury apartment building that collapsed saturday a senior official said. Tracker dogs brought by a French Rescue team pinpointed a spot near the shattered second and third floors where the note was found police inspector general Hanif Omar said. However no voice could be heard from the spot. One person was killed and 54 Are missing. Gore pledges Aid to help kazakhs dismantle nukes Alma Ata Kazakhstan apr Kazakhstan a parliament endorsed the nuclear nonproliferation treaty on monday and vice president Al Gore quickly pledged More than $84 million in . Aid to help the former soviet Republic dismantle its nuclear Arsenal. At a ceremony in Alma Ata Gore and kazakh prime minister Sergei Tereshchenko signed agreements making the Central asian nation eligible for technical and financial assistance in dismantling its 1,400 warheads. The parliament vote on the treaty came after a morning meeting Between Gore and president Nur Sultan a. Naza Bayev who then left to make an emotional Appeal to his supreme soviet asking it to approve the treaty while Gore was in the kazakh capital. The ratification also cleared the Way for Gore to invite Naza Bayev to a february meeting with president Clinton in Kazakhstan Gore was travelling to Moscow for four Days of talks. He was to arrive just two Days after the russian elections in which voters endorsed a new Constitution but gave Strong parliamentary backing to opponents of economic reforms espoused by president Boris n. Yeltsin. The agreement with Kazakhstan ultimately Calls for the warheads to be transferred to Russia and Dis mantled in accordance with the limits in Start i a the strategic arms reduction treaty a negotiated before the december 1991 collapse of the soviet Union. But Kazakhstan has not committed to a timetable. One obstacle to a timetable is agreement Between Russia Belarus Ukraine and Kazakhstan on the division of proceeds from the Sale of enriched uranium from the dismantled warheads. The United states has agreed to buy the uranium but wont sign a contract until Russia negotiates a payment plan with the other nuclear states. The bulk of the new Aid in Kazakhstan a $70 million a will be earmarked for missile silo destruction the officials 1,400 warheads Are for 108 soviet ss-18 missiles on kazakh soil according to the officials. In addition to the Money for silo destruction the United states will provide Kazakhstan with emergency equipment and clothing to respond to nuclear accidents. It also will provide training and equipment to Violice against Export of nuclear materials and $5 Mil Ion for a program designed to inventory Kazakhstan s civilian nuclear programs and guard its materials against misuse. The Money comes from a $1.2 billion fund established by Congress to help dismantle some of the former soviet unions nuclear Arsenal. Barbara Bush Heads to Croatia new York up former first lady Barbara Bush do farted monday on an Airlift re if Mission to Croatia to bring medical supplies to the former yugoslav Republic As Well As to Bosnia and Herzegovina s War torn capital Sarajevo. Her trip is being sponsored by Amer cares a Charity which has designated Bush As its a Sambas Saor at a portion of the cargo of Medicine and other supplies Bush is carrying on her plane due to arrive today in split Croatia will be loaded onto a military transport plane for do livery to besieged Sarajevo. Amer cares said that Bush will hand deliver supplies in Croatia. But if conditions can assure her safety she also will go to Sarajevo. Friends Don t let friends drive . To help fight against Neo nazis Fri says Bonn Germany apr Fri director Louis j. Freeh vowed monday to take action against american Neo nazis who assist German fellow travellers the Justice ministry said. Freeh was in Bonn to talk with government officials about stepping up Ger Man-. Cooperation in fighting drug smugglers and others involved in organized crime. Justice minister Sabine Leutheusser Schnar Renberger raised another Issue increased collusion Between american and German right Wing extremists. German newspapers say that new links have been uncovered Between the Kun flux klan and Neo nazis in this country and that klan sympathizers in Germany May be plotting anti foreigner attacks. But the Justice ministers biggest concern was apparently a nebraskan dubbed the Quot farm Belt Fuhrer a Gary Lauck an idol of German Neo nazis and their most important supplier of propaganda. Among Laucks publications is a third Reich glorifying newspaper called is kampf Ruf which Means Quot nazi Battle in the past German Justice authorities have voiced frustration to . Officials Over Lauck saying he has fanned right Wing fanaticism in Germany. It s illegal to print Neo nazi propaganda in Germany. But Lauck is protected in the United states by the first amendments free speech guarantees. The Justice minister emphasized to Freeh Quot the importance of permanent cooperation Between Germany and the Usa in the struggle against rightist extremism and xenophobia Quot the statement said. Freeh Quot promised strengthened efforts in this area by . Justice authorities Quot the Justice ministry statement said. But the statement did not say How that would be done. It Wasny to immediately possible to ask Freeh who is on a two Day visit what he had in mind. The . Embassy in Bonn said he would not be speaking to reporters until inches toward completion Geneva apr a 116-nation Effort to overhaul the rules of global Trade moved closer to completion monday As negotiators reached a whole string of compromises. Quot i believe we re on the Edge of concluding an agreement Quot said Peter Sutherland director general of the general agreement on tariffs on Trade ga1 1the Geneva based body sponsoring the Trade liberalizing talks that face a wednesday deadline he urged the United states and the european Community to Iron out final disputes Over the aircraft and film industries saying it was a scarcely conceivable these could torpedo seven years of talks. The mood of optimism Rose by the hour at Gattys Lakeside Headquarters despite the continuing .-ec rows and Tough problems in the wider talks. Veto re ration i at wily. C0s1kvtz amp gun .3
