* Norbert Burger; Neo-Nazi Convicted of Terrorism in Italy

Norbert Burger, 63, a neo-Nazi convicted in Italy for waging a terrorist campaign for the return of the Italian South Tyrol. Burger escaped conviction in several sensational trials in Austria and West Germany in connection with terrorist activities in the Italian territory, which was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire until the end of World War I. Burger, a former instructor at Innsbruck University, founded the extreme-right Democratic Party in 1961. The party was outlawed 17 years later because of its neo-Nazi views. Though he spent more than a year in jail pending an Austrian trial on terrorism charges in the mid-1960s, he eventually went free in 1965 after the court in Graz ruled itself incompetent to try him. In 1979 an Italian court tried and convicted Burger in absentia for terrorist activities and sentenced him to life in prison. The sentence was never carried out. On Saturday near Vienna of unreported causes.