European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 26, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday july 26, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 9germany to keep Mig-29s in its Arsenal Bonn German apr the German defense ministry has decided to use soviet built Mig-29 aircraft inherited from former East Germany As part of its operational Force a ministry spokesman said thursday. The United German military took Over the 24 Mig-29 fighter jets along with other military equipment once owned by former Ernst Germany when the two nations United last year. After testing the Mig-29s, the military said the planes proved to be reliable High performance aircraft said a ministry spokesman who requested anonymity. A a we be already had them in operation for some time a the spokesman said. In addition to the soviet built Jet fighters that were once faced off against nato the German military will also be operating about 700 soviet built armoured personnel carriers acquired from the former East German army the spokesman said. A the personnel carriers have been modernized and modified for our use a he said. A these decisions were made As Cost saving moves because of budget restraints a the spokesman said. He said the Mig-29s,Are being operated by former East German pilots who were already trained on them. A the units operating them Are commanded by Western German officers and they get along very Well with the pilots flying the  he said there were no concerns about obtaining spare parts for the Mig-29s because the former East German military also had on hand enough parts a to keep them operating for the next couple of  German hospitals facing staffing crisis Berlin apr hospitals in Western Germany Are raiding the East to recruit nurses creating medical staff shortages in former East Germany that verge on the catastrophic health officials said. Hundreds of nurses at two East Berlin hospitals went on strike wednesday to demand wage parity with their Western German colleagues and protest staff shortages that have saddled them with More work and longer hours. A a if the wages done to reach the West Levels soon there will be no end to these mass departures a said Ingeborg Grasse head nurse at berlins Charite clinic. The growing crisis has been front Page news in Germany this week and politicians who Nave been preaching to East germans to practice free Market principles have been helpless to Stop the exodus of health workers. Some labor experts have warned of a a brain Drain of skilled people who Are tired of waiting for the depressed Eastern regions wages and living standards to Rise to Western Levels. About 350,000 Eastern germans most of them highly skilled now commute to jobs in the West. At the Charite clinic 348 of the 1,598 nurses have left for hospitals in Western Germany since 1989, including 116 so far this year Grasse said. Another 30 have Given notice to quit and 70 have said they plan to leave soon she said. Nurses in Eastern Germany make about $850 a month about 40 percent less than the average wage in the West. Dieter Wostenberg director of medical clinics in the Northern City of Schwerin said 40 of the City a 800 nurses have quit in the last four months. The Mig-29s Are not a replacement for the Jager 90, the european fighter aircraft program still in its development stages the spokesman said. Germany Britain Italy and Spain Are jointly involved in developing the Jager 90. The Cost of Germany a one third involvement in the project is estimated at about 6.9 billion Marks $3.7 billion. A final decision on whether the Sger 90 will actually be produced for military operation is not expected until 1992, the spokesman said. Insiders look at soviet weaponry Gen. Colin l. Powell chairman of the joint chiefs of staff chats with a soviet Pilot while sitting in the cockpit of a soviet Su-27 single seat fighter. The two held the discussion at Lubinka an air base located about 50 Miles West of Moscow which Powell visited As part of his we Klong stay in the soviet Union. Suspect reported in Italy s summer mystery Case Rome apr a Young neighbor of a murdered countess has been officially notified he is a suspect in the Case that has gripped Italy As this years a summer mystery a news reports said thursday. State radio said investigating magistrate Cesare Martellino refused to either deny or confirm the reports that Roberto Jacono who lived near the fortress like Villa of the countess had received the notice. Police said Alberica Filo Della Torre had been bashed in the head by her own wooden clog then strangled on july 10, while her two children Ages 7 and 9, played in another room in the House in the posh Rome suburb of Ogiata. The murder with no apparent motive quickly became this years Giallo do estate or summer mystery in italian a Staple feature of italian newspapers during the news doldrums of summer. Last years Giallo was the stabbing slaying of a 21-year-old computer operator As she worked alone in a Rome office. That murder captured the Public a heart because the woman was working while most others were on vacation. The crime was never solved and seemed to put the pres sure on investigators to find the murderer of the countess. Investigators want to run Dan tests on spots of blood found on a pair of Jaco not a pants which appeared to have been recently washed and put away in a closet without being dried italian newspapers have reported. Under italian Law official notice of being a suspect is required before police can conduct tests to determine if the blood belongs to Jacono the countess or somebody else. News reports said the children report edly told investigators that Jacono had been invited to come Over the morning of the murder. Jacono after giving a newspaper interview last week said he was under stress and checked into a Rome Hospital. He was still there thursday according to hews reports. Early in the Case Jacono 30, was tagged by the press As a Likely suspect because he underwent repeated questioning. News reports described him As an a a ungrateful sex drug addict who had been helped by the countess and allegedly tried to get Money from  Call East bloc missiles an ancient Issue Moscow apr the soviet foreign ministry on thursday shrugged off . Concerns that soviet supplied missile systems still in Eastern Europe violate the 1988 intermediate Range nuclear forces treaty As a an ancient  foreign ministry spokesman Vitaly Churkin questioned Why the White House has raised the Issue of the missiles in Czechoslovakia Bulgaria and Eastern Germany just prior to the superpower Summit. Churkin said the missile systems were delivered Long before the treaty was signed. A they done to have nuclear warheads. They Are the property of these countries. Therefore they Are not subject to the treaty Quot he said adding that the dispute was a an ancient  in Washington a spokesman for president Bush said tuesday that the administration was pressing for a full accounting from Moscow on the missile Issue. A this is not a new Issue but it is a real outstanding Issue and we continue to press it Quot White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said. Bush and soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev meet in Moscow next week and Are expected to sign a landmark strategic arms reduction treaty called Start which has been nearly a decade in the making. Richard Boucher Deputy spokesman for the state department said thursday that the Issue concerns soviet delivery of 72 ss-23 missiles a 24 each to former East Germany Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria. A we continue to believe that All ss-23s should be destroyed and we be conveyed that belief to All concerned governments a Boucher said. The 1988 missile treaty called for the destruction of All Short and medium Range land based missiles in superpower arsenals including the soviet ss-23 Battlefield support missile. Churkin said All soviet treaty obligations were met