European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 29, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 10 the stars and stripes world wednesday december 29,1993haitian fire ravages pro Aristide slum part a Prince Haiti a a fire roared through a slum that is a stronghold of support for exiled president Jean Bertrand Aristide on monday destroying an estimated 200 shacks. A radio station reported 10 people dead. Stunned residents of the cite Soled slum said the Blaze was set by members of the front for the advancement and Progress of Haiti which supports the military that ousted Aristide in a 1991 coup. But the group denied responsibility. The fire began before Dawn just hours after a mob killed two of the fronts officials. The mob hacked off the arms of  and set him afire and stoned another official to death said Emmanuel constant one of the fronts leaders. Issa was treasurer for the front in cite Molcil a slum where families crowd into cardboard dwellings roofed with Zinc. The shacks destroyed in the Blaze housed an estimated 1,500 people. All were jammed into a 600-by-600-foot area. Privately owned radio Tropic pm reported the death toll at 10. Another Independent station radio Metropole earlier reported that four were killed. After Aristide was overthrown the military massacred scores of his supporters in the slum. Aristide a roman Catholic priest was popular among Haiti s impoverished people. Residents told of How armed men doused the shacks with gasoline and lighted them then fired their weapons in the air As the flames spread. The fire department never showed up they said. Slum dwellers look Over the ruins of about 200 shacks destroyed in a port a Prince fire believed to have been deliberately set Mia s daughter meets with vietnamese officers Hanoi Vietnam apr a Florida professor on a patrol into the past visited a vietnamese air defense regiment tucs Day that shot Down her missing fathers aircraft More than 25 years ago. Searching for clues to his Fate and believing he May still be alive Patricia of Grady Parsels made a Pica to a new postwar generation of officers in the regiment a i. Speak to you As a daughter of a Soldier because no matter the difference of the politicians the soldiers fight the War. My son and your sons Bear the. Greatest Burden of  sitting at her Side was her 11-Ycar-old son Eamonn. During most of the hour Long meeting he coloured with crayons in his Walt Disney Book. The officers showed of Grady Parsils documents saying her father air Force maj. John of Grady died four hours after being captured of injuries suffered when he parachuted out of his downed aircraft april 10, 1967. But she refused to accept their conclusion saying that she had seen the documents before and that the crash site was inconsistent with them. Col. Tran Bien vice director of the Vietnam office for searching for missing personnel told of Grady Parsels that he had a brother who was missing in action. A funny a he said Quot in a vice director of the office and i  help. I lost my brother. You lost your father. We All lost  of Grady Parsels wast4 when her father was shot Down along the Vietnam Laos Border 600 Miles South of Hanoi. She also visited the Region last easter. She arrived in Vietnam on Christmas Day accompanied by Jane Duke Gaylor the Mother of a missing american. On Friday. Gaylord a son Charles Duke a civilian project director disappeared in the Central Highlands of Vietnam in 1970. The 72-Ycar-old Gaylor is on her first trip to Vietnam. She originally is from Houston but moved to Al Dorado kan., in 1990 to be near her Only relative a sister Betty bean. Her second husband Garland Gaylor died three years ago. Of Grady Parsels celebrated her 41st birthday in Hanoi on sunday. She teaches psychology and special education at the University of South Flor they Are to return to the United states Ida in Tampa and Sarasota. Mobster s confession to priest stirs debate in Italy Over secrecy Rome apr a mobsters admission during confession that he helped kill Italy Stop mafia prosecutor is stirring National debate Over whether a priest should violate confessional secrecy to help fight organized crime prosecutors want the Rev. Paolo Turturro of Palermo to reveal the name of the mafioso linked to the fatal bombing last year news reports said monday. Turturro among a growing number of roman Catholic priests who encourage people to oppose the sicilian underworld shocked churchgoers listening to his Christmas eve Sermon by making Public the gangsters admission. The sicilian priest did not give the Many a name and apparently has decided not to reveal it the newspapers said. The May 1992 bombing which ripped apart a Highway outside Palermo killed anti mafia prosecutor Giovanni Falcone his wife and three police bodyguards. It also triggered an unprecedented Public outcry for the government to crack Down on the mafia. In one of several sweeps against the mobsters since sicilian prosecutors last month ordered the arrest of 18 suspects in the Falcone killing. Ten of the suspects were already in jail for other cases five were arrested and three remain at Large. Two of those charged have been freed because of Lack of evidence. It was not Clear whether the Man who confessed to the priest dec. 23 was one of the suspects at Large. The priests Parish in a neighbourhood considered the turf of local mobsters is near Palermo Suecia done prison where hundreds of mafia Bosses have been jailed. A a we re evaluating the priests declarations with greatest attention even though we re perfectly aware of the difficulties Well run into because of confessional secrecy a Giovanni Tinebra the sicilian prosecutor investigating the Falcone assassination was quoted As saying by the italian news Agency Ansa. Italy recognizes that priests Are not allowed to reveal what is told to them in confession and does not require them to testify about know ledge gained that Way. Another outspoken priest Luigi Cintli who helps drug addicts said it was too Early to judge whether Turturro did a Good thing or not. A to talk about this encounter and the confession a without absolutely naming the person who confessed his sin a can be a service to the fight against the mafia a precious signal a a Ciotti said in an interview with la Stanita. The Church recently has stepped up its opposition to the mafia. Pope John Paul it in May went to Sicily and delivered a thundering denunciation of the mob urging mafiosi to repent or face the judgment of  least 75 journalists killed in 93, group says Brussels Belgium apr the International federation of journalists said tuesday that at least 75 journalists died in the line of duty in 1993, including 13 who were killed while reporting on the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It said it was investigating the deaths of 17 other journalists around the world. The if said the 13 confirmed deaths in Bosnia made that War the most lethal assignment for journalists in 1993, followed by armed conflicts and civil disorder in Georgia nine death Algeria and Turkey eight deaths each and Somalia six deaths. _ Quot Many journalists Are the victims of tragic accidents some Are the targets of violence and others Are brutally assassinated a the if said in a year end report. It said it has confirmed the deaths of 75 people that were directly related to their work As reporters editors photographers or camera operators. It said More than 20 journalists Are reported missing in Bosnia alone. A in some cases especially in latin America it is difficult eve�4aiind a motive for a killing a the if said. It added that it was investigating the deaths of 17 journalists because of doubts these were directly connected to their professional work