European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 13, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday january 13, 1993 world the stars and stripes Page 11russian children suffering from Long ago nuclear tests from wire reports Moscow a russian children Are suffering genetic mutations cancer and other diseases caused by nuclear tests conducted by the soviet Union More than 30years ago a news Agency reported monday. Russian scholars studying the effects of nuclear tests held in Semipalatinsk Kazakhstan reported diseases of the Centra nervous system in children who live in the neighbouring Altai Region of Russia. They also recorded an unusually High incidence of cancer and Low life expectancy in Altai according to the itar Tass news Agency. But the worst effect is genetic mutations caused by radiation it said. _ Quot it is not that our Region is contaminated a said professor Yakov Shoikhet the head of the group. A the people themselves. The environment has turned into a disease  a total of 598 nuclear tests were held in Semipalatinsk the main soviet testing grounds in ? Eastern Kazakhstan about 1,860 Miles East of Moscow until it was closed in 1991. A Algeria executes 2 soldiers Algiers Algeria a the government has executed two rebel soldiers the first of 47 people sentenced to death in the past year for alleged roles in Muslim fundamentalist attacks. _ the soldiers had been implicated in an attack last february on a naval repairs facility near Algiers in which 10 people were killed seven soldiers surprised in their sleep a police officer and two  phone system lags Moscow a russians telecommunications system is at a third world level with Only about one in four families having a Telephone according to figures cited monday during a legislative debate. Russia even ranks last among former soviet republics in the number of telephones 28 phones per 100 families the itar Tass news Agency reported. The figures were released during a discussion of a draft Law on. Communications. The measure would seek to loosen the governments communications monopoly by encouraging alternative services while maintaining Central control of the Industry itar Tass said. According to the . Census Bureau 94 percent of All american households have Telephone service. Hundreds pay Tri b Ute to Ballet Star Nureyev Paris a r against the grandiose backdrop of the Paris opera family friends and generations of Fol Low dancers bade fal Tewell tuesday to celebrated Ballet Pioneer Rudolf  principal dancers of the Paris opera Ballet served As pallbearers during the multilingual 45-minute tribute to Nureyev who died Jan. 6 after a Battle with aids. French culture minister Jack Lane delivered a Eulogy recalling the High Points of the russian born stars career from the time he discovered dance at age 5 to a will s last Public appearance oct. 8, when his la Bayadere premiered in Paris. Lang who mentioned Nureyev s infamous temper praised him for a confronting death with the same lucidity and Valiance which dominated his  a you chose to be buried in French soil a latin concluded. A dear Rudolf we love  the several Hundred mourners included opera pres ident Pierre Bergg who fired Nureyev As artistic director in 1989 and former Ballet partners Ghislaine thes mar Carla Fracci Serge Peretti and Nina Vyr Zubova with whom Nureyev made his debut in France after defecting to the West in 1961. A a also present were actress Leslie Caron and Francois Leotard a former French culture minister who accompanied Nureyev to the soviet Union in 1977 his first trip Home a to visit his ailing Mother. Friends stood at the Bottom of the staircase below the Oak casket flanked by Floral arrangements a Small Pillow bearing the insignias of the coveted commander of arts and letters medal a Frances highest award for achievements in the arts a was placed two Steps below the closed coffin. The service included excerpts from Alexander Pushkin a Eugene onegin in russian lord byrons Manfred in English Michelangelo a rime in italian and Arthur Rimbaud a Genie in French. There were musical selections by Bach and Peter Lulich Tchaikovsky. Hundreds of fans converged around the opera House during the service snarling traffic for More than an hour. Police cordoned off the area so that the Small cortege a including Nureyev a two Sisters Rosa Francois and Lazida of Grapova two nieces two nephews and a few friends a could head directly to the russian cemetery in Sainte Genevieve Des Bois a suburb South of Paris. The cemetery is the final resting place for More than just Pray and Bear it pallbearers carrying Rudolf Nureyev s coffin leave the Paris opera after the Fri neral tuesday. 3,000 exiled russians. Nureyev was to be interred next to a czarist general. American choreographer Carolyn Carlson who danced with Nureyev in 1977, told reporters that he will be remembered As Quot the performer of the 20th  a with his presence he transformed the Paris opera a she said after the service. A with his chutzpah he transformed the world.�?�. Nureyev is regarded As having elevated the level of classical Ballet in France he broadened the repertory of the Paris opera Ballet and took the company 10 the United states for the first time in 30  army men in Tokyo Pray while holding ice blocks in cold water Pozo Inari shrine. Ten people aged 31 to 85 took part in during the 38th annual ice water bathing event at the Tep sunday s event believed to contribute to Good health smuggling route Marj Al Zohoury Lebanon apr in another apparent step to Force Israel to take Back its palestinian deportees the lebanese army on tuesday blocked the main smuggling route to the deportees Camp. The lebanese government earlier barred International Aid groups from reaching the deportees through lebanese territory saying the More than 400 Muslim fundamentalists Are Israel a responsibility. Israel which deported the men dec. 17 for alleged islamic fundamentalist activities refuses to take the approximately 400 men Back and has blocked Aid shipments. Aziz Dweik a spokesman for the deportees said about 55 lebanese soldiers were on the Hills overlooking a dirt Road linking the Camp to the lebanese Village of Libbya six Miles to the South. A the soldiers prevented a Batch of deportees dispatched to fetch food stocks from reaching Libbya Quot Dweik said. He called the blockade a Surprise and said it would harm the menus ability to survive in their tents in freezing weather. An official with the army command in Beirut said lebanese army patrols had been stepped up a to prevent supplies from reaching the Camp through lebanese territory the official who insisted on anonymity said the patrols continue. A Israel expelled the men after six israeli troopers were killed in a 10-Day period in december. All of the deportees Are from the israeli occupied West Bank and Gaza strip. The Deportee in charge of supplies Ali Abu Kweit said the men had stocks a for a few More Days if we lighten our  but reporters said there appeared to be enough food and fuel to hold the men for at least a week