European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 14, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday of camber 14, 1993 i world the stars and stripes Pago 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 convicting him of directing drug trafficking in Northern Italy. Giuseppe 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. Force 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 warmth. Crash 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 alive was 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. . Aid convoys reach besieged bosnian cities Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina a . Relief convoys arrived in the besieged cities of Tula and Srebrenick on sunday and a third line of trucks with 78 tons of food reached the Edge of Sarajevo. Even As the Convoy approached Tula a government stronghold in North Central Bosnia fighting was reported nearby. Sarajevo radio said 50 serbs were killed and 23 captured when government troops pushed two Miles into serbian territory during fighting saturday about 15 Miles East of Tula. The 10 thick that reached Tula originally were destined for Gorade a Muslim enclave in Eastern Bosnia but were rerouted after bosnian serbs refused saturday to let them through to the 60,000 hard pressed people there. T Gorade has seen Only two Aid convoys since nov. 7. Most people there Lack adequate food and shelter according to . Officials. The town is surrounded by serbian forces who reportedly have stepped up shelling. Bosnian radio reported that More than 1,000 shells fell there saturday killing two people. A a it a Clear that the bosnian serbs Are living to starve the population out of the enclave a said Peter Kessler a spokesman for the . High commissioner for refugees in Zagreb  that originated in Belgrade reached Pale on the outskirts of Sarajevo and Sre Renica another hard pressed Eastern enclave said Candace Lekic a spokeswoman for the Unher in the yugoslav capital. Another 100-vehicle Convoy was to leave the croatian port of split for Nova Bila held by croats in can trial Bosnia. British . Troops will escort the Convoy through Muslim held areas croatian television said. _ Sarajevo Airport was reopened to Aid flights sunday after being shut Down for several hours the night before officials said. Flights had been halted because three shells hit the Airfield. Unher spokesman Ray Wilkinson said in Sarajevo that the Convoy bound for the City left behind a snip ment of 80 tons of fuel Oil after serbian authorities in Belgrade tried to halve it a he did not elaborate on Why the Agency decided to leave All the fuel behind instead of bring the reduced amount to the freezing City. Peace talks Between Bosnia a warring factions arc to resume dec. 21 in Geneva but the Muslim led government is expressing doubts that serbs will give in to european demands that they give Back territory to muslims. Luzon quake kills 1, injures 2 Manila Philippines apr an earthquake struck the typhoon devastated Southeastern Island of Luzon killing one person and injuring two others officials said monday. The quake which hit at 1 15 . Sunday was entered about 155 Miles Southeast of Manila and caused scattered damage the officials said. It measured a preliminary 5.3 on the Richter scale. The quake damaged the pub lie Market in the town of Sipo cot knocked the Crucifix off the roof of a Catholic Church and damaged the newly constructed Biol Institute of science and technology building. Last week two typhoons battered Southeastern Luzon and the Central Visayan islands killing 230 people. Friends Don t let friends drive drank defiant i invites guerrilla chiefs to Libya azizia Libya apr Moa mar Qadhafi who claims to have broken his tics with terrorists appeared before 20,000 admiring citizens sunday night and invited two of the worlds most wanted men to Libya. Qadhafi invited palestinian guerrilla Bosses Abu Nidal and Ahmad Jabril to visit during a speech denouncing punitive . Sanctions. The sanctions were imposed to Force Libya to turn Over two suspects in the dec. 21,1988, bombing of pan am flight 103 Over Lockerbie Scotland. The disaster kilted 270 people. Qadhafi also invited leaders of the Irish Republican army to. His country so he could advise them not to carry out terrorism libyan television reported. Libya is accused of supplying semtex explosives and other arms to the Ira in its fight to oust Britain from Northern Ireland. The invitations were Qadhafi a a most overt gesture of Defiance against the United nations. He has signalled recently that he May be preparing to terminate Libya s membership in the organization which he accuses of being a puppet of the West especially the United states. A they have destroyed the credibility of the United nations and made fun of it a he told the crowd. A the United nations has been turned into a piece of paper with which the West wipes their stinking noses and  he has made similar appearances almost daily for weeks railing against the . Security Council decision to in crease sanctions after dec. 1. The government organized crowds always exhibit vociferous support for him. The latest sanctions include a freeze on some libyan financial assets and a ban on the Supply of refinery equipment. The Council stopped Short of Banning Oil exports libyans main Export. The restrictions were in addition to diplomatic air and arms sanctions imposed in april 1992. On saturday night in jan2ur, a nearby town Qadhafi heard speakers Brand an opposition Leader living in Egypt a a traitor spy and stray dog Quot the official news Agency Jana reported. The Man Abdelmoneim Taher Al hound a former foreign minister and member of Qadhafi a a ruling revolutionary Council had urged the Council to ban Oil exports. Both Abu Nidal whose real name is Sabri Al Banna and Jabril Lead factions that Long ago broke with the Palestine liberation organization s mainstream Fatah movement. They have been implicated in some of the bloodiest terror acts of the last 25 years. A both have had on and off ties Over the years with Qadhafi whose 24-year-old regime appears on the list of terror exporting states compiled by the United states. Some investigators link Jib ii with the 1988 bombing of the pan am jetliner Over Lockerbie. But the United states and Britain have indicted two libyans whom Qadhafi has refused to turn Over for trial in either of those  t /\r.? inventor a us a a. �?~.t.2 3�oo