European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 24, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tin shafts and 8tiwc8 world from lavish to Low key an elaborate float from a Samba school left lakes part in a carnival Parade tues Day morning at the Samba Rome Arena in Rio do Janeiro Brazil. Meanwhile folks in Querbach near Schweinfurt Germany keep their p"1" j1"" pm pc the Village s Manl Fasching Parade sunday had one Small band and 40 children. Raises doubts about Aeroflot Security Moscow a after a Hijacker smuggled two grenades aboard an Aeroflot Jet last weekend questions arc being raised about whether the russian air line one of the world s largest is an easy Mark for air pirates. Is it Safe to Trust Aeroflot today will not a person travelling say from Perm to Vor Kuta find himself in Stead somewhere in Pakistan the itar Tass news Agency asked monday. Russian officials indicated monday that they would ask Sweden to extradite 27-year-old Tamerlane Musayev who hijacked a Domestic flight saturday in an at tempt to get to the United states. Brandishing the grenades he forced the plane to Fly first to Estonia then to Sweden where he surrendered after learning that the Tupoljev Jet did t have the Range to reach the United states. None of the 72 peo ple aboard was injured Russia has begun criminal proceedings against Musayev and his 26-year-old wife Marina As the first step toward demanding their return to face air piracy charges. But statistics indicate that if anything the threat of a hijacking in Russia is disappearing. The daily newspaper Izvestia said saturday s hijacking was the first in Russia this year. Three hijackings occurred in the former soviet Union last year and 13 in 1991, Down from a Peak of 33 in 1990, the paper said. A major reason cited for the decline is that citizens now can travel abroad legally if they have the Money to pay for it. Also last year Security forces remained Active at rus Sian airports confiscating 1,694 guns 15,011 knives and clubs 850,000 rounds of ammunition 107 grenades three artillery shells and several tons of explosives and flammable substances Izvestia said. Yuri Moiseyev Deputy head of Security for the rus Sian transportation ministry assured itar Tass that Aeroflot meets International Security standards. However Musayev said he had no trouble getting Gre Nades aboard the flight from the siberian City of Tyumen to St. Petersburg formerly Leningrad. He said in Sweden that he simply paid a $54 bribe to Airport employees to avoid Security checks. They let you take the bag through another Entrance and no one knows what is in it narcotics weapons or something else the swedish National news Agency to quoted him As saying. Itar Tass said an unidentified Airport employee was arrested in Siberia in connection with the hijacking. Airports across the former soviet Union have fallen into disrepair As the Economy has worsened and govern ment subsidies have dwindled. A Ray machines and Metal detectors sometimes Don t work. Bribery and corruption also appear to be rising. Aeroflot employees like most russians have had their salaries eaten away by 2,000 percent inflation. They have responded ingeniously creating a Gray mar Ket in semiprivate services. Travellers now pay extra to use waiting rooms to squeeze aboard already full planes even to get Coffee or Tea on some flights. Cuban election lacks speeches banners opposition Havana Cuba a cubans vote today in an election without opposition. But president Fidel Castro has led a Vig Orous Campaign calling it a Battle that will defy the United states. Castro is urging cubans to cast a yes vote for every candidate. To do so he says Means defending the holy Trinity fatherland revolution and  his Call for Unity is about the Only Issue in a Campaign that bans Campaign promises and individual politicking in which every candidate agrees with the communist party program. There Are no Yard signs no Soapbox speeches. Many of the candidates screened by party affiliated organizations Are almost unknown. It is the first direct election for parliament since Cuba s 1959 revolution. But none of the 589 candidates for the National legislature or the 1,190 candidate for regional assemblies faces opposition. The candidates have made no promises of a better life. Cubans Are being squeezed Ever tighter by rationing and shortages that have made luxuries of soap and meat government newspapers and television exhort cubans to Mark a Box at the top of the ballot giving the vote to All the candidates listed in their districts. Voters can also select individual Candi dates or omit some. Failure to gain 50 percent of votes cast Means rejection. Voters can also cast Blank or spoiled bal lots which Many see As a protest vote. Parliament president Juan Escalon Asaid 15 percent of voters cast such ballots in december s local elections when there were two or three candidates for each Post. This is the moment we much show the enemy our strength our Unity Castro said last week. We need this Victory to Send a message to the  a time of crumbling communism Castro has cranked up the old time socialist rhetoric for the elections. He has crisscrossed the country in re cent weeks with a Zeal and style longtime Havana residents say Barken to the1960s, when he drove his own jeep across the City and presented his arguments directly to the people. Swedes find sunken sub Stockholm Sweden a after years of raising cold War alarms about mysterious underwater intruders the Navy has finally found foreign submarine in swedish Waters. But it s a wreck from decades ago. Commander Bjorn Borg said tuesday that re Mote controlled photos last week showed the submarine on the sea Bottom near the Baltic is land of go ska Sandon. Borg said the submarine was believed to be German British or soviet from world War 1 or11. He said the Navy might hold a memorial serv ice for the Crew at the site but probably would not try to lift the vessel. Sweden has Long complained that foreign sub marines often violate swedish Waters. China to build nuclear plants in Iran Beijing up in a Deal that could renew fears of chinese military involvement in the Middle East China has agreed to build two nuclear Power stations in Iran for peaceful purposes an official newspaper re ported tuesday. The state run Liberat Ioji daily said the contract to build two 300-Mcgawatt nuclear Power stations in Southern Iran was signed sunday and represented the biggest single overseas nuclear project China has eve undertaken. Both sides stressed that the two countries cooperation in building nuclear Power stations is for the peaceful use of nuclear Energy and completely for peaceful purposes the dispatch from Tehran said. The contract would Mark at least the third cooperative Effort on nuclear Power Between Iran and China. China and Iran signed a contract for one 300-Mega Watt nuclear Power station during the visit of iranian president Hashemi a Sfanjani to Beijing last septem Ber that agreement aroused fierce criticism fro m the United states with Washington accusing China of pro Viding Tehran with nuclear technology that could be used for military purposes. Close Beijing Tehran relations and chinese sales of targe quantities of weapons to Iran during the 1980s Iran Iraq War have aroused concern among Western leaders. The United states repeatedly has said that nuclear weapons technology has been included among chinese weapons sales to Iran