European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 19, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a a a the stars and stripes thursday april 19,1990soviet military hit by ethnic tensions London apr the ethnic tensions in the soviet Union have spread to the military causing problems recruiting soldiers from areas of unrest Jane a defence weekly said tuesday. The authoritative Magazine said Many ethnic groups were reticent to join the armed forces and nationalist cliques within the military caused fights and disciplinary problems. A the multiethnic mix of the soviet armed forces is increasingly in doubt As the military finds itself trapped Between nationalist pressures within and outside its ranks a Jane a reported. Since nationalist protests began in december 1986 in Kazakhstan ethnic riots have occurred in the soviet republics of Azerbaijan Armenia Georgia Uzbekistan and the Baltic states of Lithuania Estonia and Latvia. Initially protests focused on assigning ethnic draftees outside their own republics but Jane a said it now includes recruitment Boycotts. Jane a quoted ground forces commander in chief Gen. Valentin Varen Nikov As warning the military a cannot and does not remain aloof from the Peoples concerns problems and  the British Magazine which has wide contacts in military matters also quoted a report in the soviet army newspaper Krasnaya zvezda which said the azeri popular front in Azer Baijan had told its members not to evade conscription but to join the army and learn combat skills a for the struggle to free  a the army is proving no More successful than the communist party in managing tensions a Jane a said. In Lithuania since the Republic declared Independence on March 11, the republics legislature halted Spring conscription and Many ethnic lithuanian soldiers  of soviets rally to support 2 embattled anti corruption probes world today first women inducted into cypriot military Nicosia Cyprus apr Cyprus inducted the first women into its armed forces wednesday. The 125 volunteers will Start two months Basic training in Greece later this week before returning to non combat positions on the Mediterranean Island split for almost 16 years by a sectarian War. �?o1 think it was Long overdue. We Are lacking in numbers terribly and need More permanent soldiers a defense minister Andreas Alo Eftis said. Unlike the cypriot males who draw 12 pounds $25 a month during their compulsory 26 months in the army the women will draw salaries of 280 pounds $588 monthly. That was an inducement for Many to sign up with More than 750 competing for the first places. The women will go through the same combat training As male conscripts but will work in army Headquarters radar computers and other Back up  leaps to her death playing wonder woman Seoul South Korea apr a 7-year-old girl impersonating wonder woman jumped from the eighth floor of an apartment building and was killed instantly police said tuesday. First Grade student Chong son a was killed sunday after she and a Friend were accidentally locked out on a fire escape while playing at their apartment building and Chong offered to get help police said. Police quoted the Friend identified Only As Kim As saying Chong liked to imitate the television character wonder woman and Felt she could leap from High buildings and survive. Saying she was going for help Chong took off her jacket climbed onto the fire escape railing and leaped to her death police  Arabia gives amnesty to 7,681 inmates Riyadh saudi Arabia apr the government said monday it had freed nearly 7,700 inmates including All political prisoners As a Goodwill gesture marking the holy month of Ramadan. There is a not a single political prisoners in the kingdom according to an Interior ministry announcement broadcast by state run Riyadh radio because King fahd had declared amnesty for 7,681 prisoners. The gesture was made possible by benefactors who donated about $87 million to help pay the Public and private debts of some prisoners the ministry  held after hijacking soviet Jet to Lithuania Moscow apr a mentally ill Man who claimed to have a bomb hijacked an Aeroflot jetliner to Lithuania wednesday but he was arrested without incident when the aircraft landed in the republics capital officials said. The Hijacker wanted to help Lithuania by turning Over the state owned Jet to the Baltic Republic said Man Jonas Misukonis Lithuania a internal affairs minister. No explosives were found after police took the Man into custody in the capital of Vilnius said Valery Kolsin spokesman for the soviet ministry of civil aviation. No injuries were reported among the approximately 70 passengers aboard flight 2443, which was in route from Moscow to Leningrad when the hijacking occurred. American japanese and cuban tourists were among the passengers Vilnius radio said. The number of Crew members was not immediately known. The radio said the Man identified As Igor Kalugin claimed to have acquaintances in Lithuania. Moscow apr soviets rallied tuesday by the tens of thousands in Moscow and Leningrad in support of two embattled prosecutors whose anti corruption probe has become a lightning Rod for popular resentment of communist party privilege. About 10,000 people gathered in the Shadow of the Kremlin and journalists said at least As Many met in front of the former czarist Winter Palace in Leningrad As the supreme soviet parliament in Moscow considered lifting the legislative immunity of the two Telman Gzlyan and Nikolai Ivanov. The two gained Fame uncovering a Trail of bribery and corruption in Uzbekistan that led to the son in Law of the late president Leonid i. Brezhnev. Populist communist Leader Boris n. Yeltsin criticized As incomplete a nearly yearlong investigation of Gzlyan and Ivanov by a legislative committee and urged the legislators to keep their immunity intact. The supreme soviet made no decision tuesday and was expected to continue its debate on wednesday. Gzlyan and Ivanov did not attend the session. They reportedly were in the armenian Republic where they were nominated for vacant Congress posts in the event they Are stripped of the legislative seats they now hold. Ivanov also has tied the name of conservative politburo member Yegor k. Migachev to his corruption probe. The Tass news Agency said the two in a newspaper article accused soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev of a turning a Blind Eye to the  soviet officials accused the two of abusing their Power and making unjustified Public accusations against senior leaders in an Effort to increase their popularity. Riding a wave of popularity Ivanov was elected to the National Congress of Peoples deputies from Leningrad and Gzlyan was elected from Moscow last year. Tass quoted soviet National prosecutor Alexander Sukharev As saying Gzlyan and Ivanov Are guilty of detaining 50 people illegally for periods of up to several years. They also were accused of threatening detainees and their families to obtain  girl freed Luciana and Imerio Iachella Are happily reunited with their daughter 8-year-old Patrizia on her return Home wednesday to St Allavena near Verona Italy. The joyfully waving youngster had been held for 78 Days by kidnappers. She was freed when members of an elite police commando unit stormed a Seaside hideout near Genoa. Five kidnappers were arrested. The girls abductors had demanded up to $16 million but no Ransom was paid. Her father is co owner of the Carrera jeans and sportswear company. Patrizia was seized Jan. 29 As she walked to a supermarket near her Home to buy Candy