European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 08, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday August 8, 1993 world the stars and stripes Page 9 Russia to help boost Force As raids plague Tajikistan from wire report Moscow russian president Boris n. Yeltsin and Central asian leaders decided saturday to Send More troops to War torn Tajikistan and warned Afghanistan that they might carry out military action to Stop Cross Border raids by islamic rebels. Tajikistan will receive additional military economic and humanitarian Aid including troop reinforcements from Russia Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan the leaders said in a  document was issued at the end of a three hour Kremlin Summit devoted to Tajikistan and it volatile Border with Afghanistan the site of recent fierce raids by anti government rebels backed by afghan Mujaheddin. Britain raises postal rates London stamp prices for first and second class letters will Rise 1 Pence 1.5 . Cents from nov. 1, Britain s postal system has  proposals submitted to the Post office users National Council the Price of Inland first class Stamps would Rise to 25 Pence 37.5 cents and second class Stamps to 19 Pence 28.5 cents. Price increases also were planned for larger packages and overseas  any increase in prices is unwelcome we need the Money to invest further in the network so that we can continue to improve our service to customers the Royal mail s managing director Peter Howarth said last week. Put behind bars of soap Piacenza Italy a big hearted italian judge Friday sentenced a filthy Vagabond to a thorough scrub when the Man appeared in court on charges of stealing a shirt. Even from the distance of the Bench there was no mistaking the odor coming from defendant Ernestine Ersi a 38-year-old homeless  stench from Erst was so Strong that police used an ambulance to haul him into court from jail where he had been held on shoplifting charges. Judge Carlo poll Orsi took one look at Erst s torn and matted clothes and gave him his Freedom but Only on the condition that he submit to a  heading for the tub at a local Charity in the company of the police Ersi shocked the court by declaring that he was a graduate in electrical engineering adding i prefer the life of a  .-bound chinese halted Beijing chinese Border police have seized freighter carrying 139 chinese allegedly lured on Board by promises of Good jobs in the United states. Each was charged $2,500 for the trip an official newspaper reported  was the latest in a series of High profile attempts by aliens to reach the United states. Las month 659 chinese in three Leaky vessels intercepted off Baja California were flown Home bythe mexican government. Georgian Cabinet resigns Tbilisi Georgia Leader Eduard , who warned that War and economic upheaval threatened the very survival of his country assumed the Post of prime minister after Georgia s  resigned. Shevardnadze the former soviet foreign minister is already head of state and parliamentary  now May either nominate a new Cabinet or ask for parliamentary approval to remain prime minister. ,.the Cabinet resigned Friday after parliament rejected its proposed National  resignation capped months of turmoil Over the Farling Economy and a costly War with separatists in Georgia s Northwestern province Abkhazia. Wrestling with life Span Tokyo the fatter a sumo wrestler the Shorter his life. Japanese researchers said last week that the connection is heart disease the bulk that wrestlers add for competitive prowess also hurts their health. Senior wrestlers in the most prestigious makuuchi division weigh an average of 337 pounds. The heaviest tips the Scales at 568  the past decade they have lived 65.5 years on average More than 10 years less than the average for All japanese men said researcher Akio Hoshi of Jun Tendo University s medical department. Russian nuclear vessels reportedly pose Hazard the former soviet Navy was not provided with Ade quate resources to safely store thousands of tons of radioactive waste generated every year from nuclear powered vessels Ries said. This led to leaks from submarine bases As Well As the deliberate and massive dumping of radioactive waste in the Arctic Waters by the Northern Fleet he said. According to Greenpeace Russia s nuclear Fleet no produces a total of 700,000 cubic feet of liquid radioactive waste and 210,000 cubic feet of solid waste annually. The soviet Navy also lacked the resources to decontaminate dismantle and store reactors from nuclear powered vessels being decommissioned pics said. An unidentified British nuclear Engineer who has advised the russians in this Field was quoted As saying the russians Don t know How to decommission these vessel Sand just leave them rotting or dump them at  a1992 Greenpeace study of soviet submarine accidents identified at least 121 incidents or accidents Between 1956 and 1991 involving nuclear powered submarines. At least10 accidents involved serious damage and danger to the nuclear reactor and actual reactor meltdowns occurred twice in 1979 and 1985, according to a 1993 study by the environmental group. London a Russia s nuclear powered sub marines and icebreakers pose a greater danger of nuclear accidents than its atomic Power plants according to Jane s intelligence review. Naval reactors Are More Accident prone because their design is often More dangerous and they suffer from poor maintenance writes Tomas Ries an expert on Post soviet Security at the graduate Institute of International affairs in Geneva. An article by Ries in the review s August edition say Odds also Are higher of an Accident on a nuclear vessel because there Are far More reactors on ships. Russia operated 228 nuclear submarines and seven nuclear icebreakers in Early 1993, containing a total of 404 nuclear reactors according to a russian govern ment report obtained by Greenpeace. The nuclear submarines often carry nuclear weapons which can amplify the scale of an Accident pics wrote. He noted the Case of the Koms molets submarine that Sank in the norwegian sea in 1989 with its nuclear reactor and two nuclear tipped torpedoes. These reactors Are More Accident prone because of alack of funding and maintenance Paul Beaver senior publisher of Jane s publications said in an interview Fri Day. Freed a Modi met by family in Lebanon Beirut Lebanon a Abb Shamadi arrived Here Friday after being granted Early release from the German prison where he had served More than five years for kidnapping two germans in a attempt to free his terrorist brother. There had been widespread speculation that Abbas who belongs to the iranian backed Hezbollah or party of god was freed As part of a Deal with the Bonn government that led to the release of two Ger Man hostages in Lebanon in june. But Federal Justice minister Sabine Leutheusser Schnar Renberger repeated the government s longstanding denial on Ger Man National television Friday insisting there was no  had an emotional reunion at Beirut Airport with his older brother Abdul Hadi Hamadi who Heads Hezbollah s Security apparatus. The brother burst into tears As they hugged one another. One of Hamadi s Sisters her husband and other relatives were also at the Airport. 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