European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 26, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday july 26, 1993 world the stars and stripes Page 11 kurdish rebels in Turkey Kidnap 4 French tourists from wire reports Ankara Turkey four French tourists were abducted by separatist kurdish rebels i Southeastern Turkey Security officials said sunday. The incident marked the second abduction of foreign tourists in a month and appeared aimed at bringing pressure on Turkey to halt an offensive against the rebels. The kidnapping also came amid a new wave of fatal rebel attacks on a train an army Post and villagers sympathetic to the  French tourists were led from a bus shortly after 8 . Saturday on the Highway be Ween the provincial Center of Van and the town of Tat Van about 690 Miles Southeast of Ankara said a Security official in Van. Three weeks ago rebels kidnapped two britons on a biking expedition near Tat Van. Troops Aid Monsoon Relief new Delhi India Indian troops sunday fanned out in Monsoon ravaged states to repair roads Bridges and levees after five weeks offloading left More than 2,000 people dead across South  also were sent to the Southern District of Comilla in Bangladesh to Rescue 100,000 people marooned on roofs and Trees a government spokesman  Many As 20 million people have Tost relatives Homes and other property in Bangladesh. Gorbachev makes plea Bayreuth Germany russian culture need foreign help to remain alive former soviet president Mikhail  said sunday appealing for support to repair crumbling monuments and to keep artists from leaving  spoke at a news conference before the opening of the five week Richard Wagner festival an annual extravaganza that draws opera fans from around the world to the bavarian City of  58,000 seats for this year s 30 performances of five Wagner operas Are Long  his Homeland undergoing painful economic change Gorbachev said help is needed for architectural monuments museums and libraries and talented artists Are emigrating while Many Heaters film studios music ensembles and teaching institutes Are threatened with closure. Siamese twins separated Rangoon Burma doctors successfully separated siamese twins sunday the second time the complicated operation has been undertaken i Burma. A 35-member team of surgeons Anaesthesiologist a nurses and technicians at Rangoon children s Hospital worked for More than five hours to separate 2-year-old female twins Aye Aye and i i Nyein state Media  Sisters were joined at the Chest and had two sets of limbs. They were born in August 1991. Abkhazia plan advances Tbilisi Georgia parliament gave georgian Leader Eduard a. Shevardnadze final authority saturday to approve a russian brokered peace plan to end the civil War in the Black sea province of  debated the plan but did not take a vote. That decision allows Shevardnadze As head of state to make a final decision on the proposal. Shevardnadze a former soviet foreign minister favors the peace  agreement Calls for an immediate cease fire to be followed by a gradual demilitarization of Abkhazia monitored by . Observers. Ethiopian hijackers give up Rome hijackers of an ethiopian airlines plane surrendered sunday to an italian Diplomat at Djibouti s Airport in Northeast Africa the italian foreign ministry  ministry said the plane was taken Over by ethiopian citizens who forced the other passengers to leave. The hijackers then demanded to speak to the italian ambassador to request political Asylum in  s ambassador to Djibouti Pietro Cordone spoke to the hijackers and persuaded them to surrender the ministry said. A ministry official said the two hijackers had requested political Asylum in Italy. Sunken russian submarine to be checked for radiation St. Petersburg Russia a a team of scientists set sail for the norwegian sea on sunday to investigate and possibly Seal two soviet nuclear warheads leaking plutonium 5,600 feet underwater. The warheads Are aboard the submarine Komsomol lets whose 42 Crew members died when it Sank in 1989, apparently after an Accident. The Koms molets lies under water about 112 Miles off Norway. Scientists said Little plutonium appears to be leaking. But they Are concerned that any leak could be deadly be cause the nuclear wreck is lying in relatively shallow water. Its. Right beneath a productive fishing area. Audit s in an area of exceptionally Strong Bottom currents said Charles Hollister 57, a member of the team and scientist with the Woods Hole oceanographic Institute in  submarine hit the Ocean floor hard detonating one or two conventional torpedoes. That explosion apparently did not Hurt the nuclear reactors that powered the vessel but did damage its nuclear tipped missiles said Yuri Kormilitsin the chief architect of the Komsi  expedition Marks the first time Russia has taken foreign experts to visit the site. Six foreign scientists from Norway Holland and the United states were among the 65 experts and Crew members to set sail Sun Day. During their two months aboard the russian facade my of science s advanced research ship Mstislav Keld ish the scientists Are to test for radioactivity surround ing the Koms molets. If they find elevated radiation Levels they May try to control the leaks by burying the boat under Sand encasing it in a Cement sarcophagus or salvaging the mis Siles scientists  also will try to raise the submarine s Lifeboat hoping that documents inside will provide clues on Why the vessel Sank. The 10-year-old Koms molets was designed to be the world s first deep water military submarine capable of operating at Depths three or four times greater than other . Or soviet  Koms molets lies among some of the world s most violent currents. Off Norway the cold Waters of the Arctic Circle meet and clash with the warm Waters of the Gulf Stream. Whirlpools Are a common sight the norwegian Seaway the setting for Edgar Allen Poe s epic descent into the maelstrom about a Fisherman sucked under by a Whirlpool who lives to Tell of it. Getting a leg up Franz the Newborn Giraffe is learning one of the hard lessons of life standing on your own feet. But thanks to his patient Mother Rosl he has a Long leg to lean on. The newest attraction at the Shonbrun zoo in Vienna Austria was Only an hour old when he was trying to get his bearings thursday. Busload of .-bound chinese face deportation from Mexico Mexico City up i mexican authorities detained 37 undocumented chinese nationals who were in a bus headed for the United states on saturday Mexico s Interior ministry said. The ministry said the chinese who were intercepted about 3 30 . In Tepic 420 Miles Northwest of the capital will be transferred to an undisclosed location in the South of the country and deported to China. The detention of the 57 came a week after the mexi can government deported 661 chinese refugees who had been stopped in three ships off the country s North Ern Pacific coast in their attempt to sneak into the United states. On Friday published reports said an other boat containing 380 chinese refugees had been detected off Mexico s Pacific coast. The ministry said the 57 were detained in a bus that was headed to the . Border. Three mexican citizens were also aboard. The 57 will receive food medical service and lodging until preparations to Deport them Are completed the ministry said. In addition to the boat containing 380 chinese that i reportedly off Mexico s coast Media reports said two other boats carrying chinese nationals had been spotted off Panama. The 661 would be immigrants deported More than a week ago were believed tto have paid members of an International smuggling ring for the trip to the United states. Mexico said it arrested 31 Crew members of the three ships that carried the 661 and would charge the with illegal trafficking of immigrants. One refugee was admitted to the United states to apply for political Asylum