European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 21, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Paga 8 the stars and stripes tus5day, july 21,1987 on death Row a photo owner Sami Ashur of Haifa is nil huge his Sinh ing pet rambo on sunday. The 23-Mnnth-old cer Man Shepherd who has bitten seven people has been ordered destroyed by the health ministry. A Legg Lator is lobbying far rambo s life and a change in the Law requiring the death penalty for dogs that bile world today soviet consumer goods criticized As old fashioned dangerous Moscow a an economist close to soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev scorn by criticized soviet consumer goods ranging from cars to shoes Tor being shoddy old fashioned or simply dangerous to use. In an interview with the weekly Magazine Ogo Nyok Abel Agan Begyan said the government is forcing Down the Price of outmoded and poorly made goods in order 10 make them uneconomical for factories to produce. Soviet factories arc responsible for meeting assigned production targets often making it unappealing to interrupt the constant production of Standard goods to modernize or innovate. Aea Begyan head of the economic department of the soviet Academy of sciences criticized soviet produced food products shoes television sets cars and workmanship on new apartments. The interview was published in the latest weekend edition of Ogo Nyok. His criticism was especially harsh for the Volga car an intermediate size Model by Western standards that has been a mainstay of soviet production for Yean. It does t correspond to any safety requirements of Modem automobiles. At the same time it does t meet the ecological demands required of Auto transport. It pollutes the environment to a significantly higher degree than permissible for a Model of its class he said. Our volgas have a wildly High consumption of Gas and  therefore he said few other countries Are willing to import volgas. Bui. He said makers of the Volga insist that overseas they re just picking on our cars. Radios televisions refrigerators and other Good produced in the soviet Union in the years just follow ing world War ii were not particularly fashionable but they were sturdy Aga Begyan said. However the Quality has dropped sharply since then and some products such As television sets arc simply dangerous he  is a terrible business. More than 2,000 limes a year color television sets catch tire in Moscow alone. Together Wilh them a Home Burns he said. In t it realty a crime to produce and Market a television set constructed so thai it raises the danger of fire he , he said apartments built before the War and just after it were simple and not particularly comfortable but they were warm. Now inc Quality of workmanship is so poor thai the first concern of a resident receiving the key to z new apartment is to fix it he said. The soviet Union produced 788 million pairs of leather shoes in 1985 compared to 300 million produced in inc United states he said. They have shoes in their stores up to the neck co any taste and not particularly expensive. Formally we also a cup to our necks in shoes the shelves Are breaking. But roughly speaking there s nothing to  he said. These shoes lie around because they re not very comfortable they re not fashionable they re not at Tractive. If someone buys them it s Only because in Eris nothing else. And if they buy them they never Wear  the meal and fish soviets eat have lost much of their nutrition by the Lime they reach the table and the Supply of fruits and vegetables is far from adequate he said. The government is forcing without any discussion or debate Price cuts of up Lojo percent for goods that arc of Low Quality or outmoded design he said. The factories thai produce them Are losing income and the workers Are losing the bonuses they get for meeting production quotas. This kind of economic pressure must have its results he said. Another Pilot program was started Jan. I to demand higher Quality products from about 1,500 factories goods that Are no of High Quality arc not counted toward la factory s production figures. The program threw some of the factories into Shock he said. I has improved the Quality of production somewhat but is an administrative solution that cannot solve the whole problem he said. New Laws approved by the communist parly Cen trial committee and the supreme soviet the nominal parliament in june Are aimed at shifting the Moscow based ministries and slate planning committee to Long Range planning rather than detailed production assign ments for individual  inc same Lime they envision giving local manag ers More Freedom to decide to to meet the targets that remain while requiring them to account individually for their profits and losses. China facing shortage of silkworm cocoons Beijing a China s famed silk Industry is facing a shortage of silkworm cocoons and some Facto Ries have been forced to shut Down. The official Xinhua news Agency on monday re ported a shortage of the cocoons and silk since inc beginning of the year. Sonic factories in the cities of Shanghai Beijing and Tianjin As wel.1 As Shandong and Liaoning provinces have had to Stop  cocoons bought by the state dropped 21 million pounds in 1986 from inc previous year while Domestic and world demand for silk product in creased the report said. Damage to More than 148,200 acres of Mulberry Trees in the past two Yean in 12 provinces and Low Sale prices have Ted to the decline in cocoons the re port said. Silkworms feed voraciously on Mulberry leaves before spinning their cocoons. German official denies plan to ship nuke waste Cologne Germany Cap a ranking parliamentary official denied monday that he German government hoped to ship nuclear reactor waste to China for storage. Rinhard pc incr head of the parliamentary Cam Mil acc on environment and nuclear reactor Security was responding to comments made sunday by the head of a major German nuclear equipment  Barthelt chairman of or Afewerk Union a producer of nuclear Power plants told a radio inter viewer sunday that China was ready to store nuclear waste in inc Gobi desert in return for deliveries of nuclear Power plan by German companies. But Gochner in an interview with the Cologne express daily newspaper monday said inc German coalition government would not consider such a move. American woman wounded in shoot out in Lebanon Beirut Lebanon up an american woman was wounded during a shool out Between rival Mili Tiamen in the Southern lebanese City of Sidon the Independent newspaper an Nahar reported monday. The newspaper identified the woman As Babaia Pisacani 36, the manager of social and health programs for in International Council of churches in Southern Lebanon an Naha said Pisacani who was driving her car near an american missionary school late saturday night was wounded in inc militiamen s Exchange of  was struck by two rounds and taken to Ham Moud Hospital in Sidon 24 Miles South of Beirut. Hospital sources said Pisacani was in Good condition. Salvation army Leader for Britain turns 104 London a Britain s salvation army commissioner who still turns out in a Black uniform to prod and help the poor celebrated her 104th birthday monday. Catherine Bramwell Booth is the granddaughter of Wil Liam Booth who founded the worldwide Evang Diklic an welfare organisation in 1878 in inc slums of London s East end. The commissioner is the eldest of seven children of Bramwell Booth who followed his father As the army s Leader an died in 1912. Bramwell Boob who added her father s name to Hen never married. She is the Best known salvation army activist in  seen in her Black uniform and Black and red hat she preaches and gives frequent radio and television inter View. She has written nine books including a volume of verse. South West Africa gets 1 St snowfall in 24 years Johannesburg. South Africa a Snow fell in Southern South West Africa for the first Lime in 24 year sunday Doung the Railroad to the Atlantic town of Lude rii7, authorities said on monday. It came Ai part of the second cold wave to hit South Africa during what has been one of the harshest Winters in recent years. Radio broadcasts warned thai heavy Snow was expected in the mountains of the Southern Cape prov Ince the Eastern Transvaal and the Orange free state. The Maloti mountains in Lesotho were blanketed in Snow and Light Snow was seen monday on table Mountain the plateau that overlooks the coastal City. Three people died in car accidents caused by heavy downpours in the Cape town Region police Laid. Up to s inches of rain full in some suburbs Over die weekend