European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 09, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes world monday August 9,1993 Pilot ejects from Jet before crash in Sweden from wire reports Stockholm Sweden a newly developed swedish fighter Jet crashed sunday during an air show watched by hundreds of thousands of  deaths were reported. The Pilot ejected safety before the Jas 39 % warplane hit a wooded area on Lan Holmen Island about a mile from City Hall. At least one person was treated for Burns the police said. The cause of the crash was not known. Witnesses said the fighter had nearly completed its Low level exhibition Over the City when it stalled at about 400 feet. Germans arrest 43 in raid Bonn Germany police have arrested 43people and seized Neo nazi propaganda As Well As weapons during a raid against rightist youths in Testate of Bavaria a spokesman said sunday. The spokesman said the suspected Ultra rightist were arrested during the night in the Small City of oozing he said weapons including Batons knives and tear Gas were found during the crackdown when several people and cars were cached outside a disco frequented by rightist youths. The spokesman said police also found a nazi Flag Uncle Neo nazi propaganda including publications of the banned nationalist front. Hezbollah holds rally Beirut Lebanon the pro iranian Hezbollah held a rally sunday in Beirut to commemorate the death of its guerrillas in last month s israeli attack son Southern and Eastern Lebanon. The rally which was held in the predominantly shiite Southern suburbs was attended by Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah and Abbas Hamadi a shiite activist who was released and deported fro Germany on Friday in his first Public appearance. Human sacrifice reported new Delhi India a 4-year-old girl was sacrificed by a Rural landlord before a tribal goddess in Northern India to Ward off evil spirits the pres Trust of India reported sunday. Tunu murmur was killed Friday in a Village 140miles West of Calcutta by a prosperous Farmer who wanted to propitiate the goddess the news Agency said. The child was ritually bathed in a Pond before he body was pierced by arrows and offered to the deity the report said. The Farmer was arrested. Italy lets dead out of tax Rome now there s one sure Way to escape italian tax collectors die. The Cabinet abolished Friday a regulation that said the dead were still responsible for the $50 annual health care tax in the year of their  minister Maria Pia Garavaglia who issued the order creating the regulation july 30, concede there was no Way to enforce the measure. She said she hoped family members and heirs would pay the tax which sought to bring in $19million a year from the deceased. Iranian to stars fired Teheran Iran the iranian state owned radio and television broadcasting co. Has dismissed two of Iran s most popular male television hosts for dancing with women at a wedding the Salam newspaper reported last week. The dancing episode prompted harsh criticism and demands in the conservative dominated parliament for a thorough investigation of the broadcasting company. Mahmoud Sahr iary and Java d Atash afro hosts of the 15-minute program after the /vvvy.s, which featured Lightheart Eil comedy and Short sketches were promptly dismissed. Sahr iary and Atash Afton. Reportedly had been videotaped with women dressed in Western style fashions at the wedding of Atash Frouz s brother. Bicyclist 104, killed Kuala Bumpur Malaysia a 104-year-old Farmer died after he was knocked Down by a truck while cycling police said sunday. Ismail Ahmad was hit while crossing the Road saturday evening police said. Foreigners in Russia face threat of inc by the Washington Post Moscow foreigners in Russia who for years had to contend with Kab harassment have a new thuggish adversary muggers kidnappers and murder ers whose assaults in the last few months have left a least some of them rethinking their involvement in this country. In the Lalk week alone a swedish businessman was shot to death by thieves ransacking his apartment a British businessman was found dead in his room at one of the City s upscale hotels the victim of dozens of Sta wounds. Also the russian partner in Moscow s most prominent american run restaurant Tren mos was shot in the head at Point Blank Range in what police said was a contract murder. If the russian government does not address the problem then you will see a curtailing of activity Here said Shelley Zeiger a new Jersey businessman whose company set up and operates the Tren mos. We Are looking at things a Little differently. We would have to be crazy not  foreigners used to complain about the tight Kab Security net that kept them under surveillance Day and night tapped their telephones and isolated them from the world around them. But they were Safe. Now those whose clothes cars and affluent lifestyles make them stand out As foreigners find they Are Vulner Able in the Gangland atmosphere that is overtaking Moscow and producing a nearly daily dose of gun Bat Britain to enlist civilian sleuths to foil drug Trade London up Britain s customs Force plans to recruit 100,000 civilian sleuths in a bid to create a Home guard that will Alert authorities to drug run ners skimming Over the English Channel. Thousands of copies of a 24-Page information Book let titled your coastal and Airfield reporting Book Are being sent to aircraft clubs colleges and neighbor Hood watch groups the Book contains More than 60 diagrams and names to help identify Smalt planes and fishing boats. It even comes with Blank forms so Amateur sleuths can re Cord of what they see. Customs officials Are concerned that a bord Erless european Community envisioned by january 1994 will weaken Security around Britain s 10,000-mile coastline. They privately acknowledge the plan is Likely to evoke an image of writer Enid Blyton s famous five child detectives running around with notebooks in their hands but stress the strategy is serious. Eventually we Are looking at a Home guard of 100,000 people from All walks of life willing to think about crime on Rural walks fill out forms and act As our front line a senior customs officer was quoted As say ing in the sunday times newspaper. Customs agents in the Southeast England port of Dover have already set up a Safe House where recruits get briefed on suspicious boats and planes and learn about new drug running methods used by professional gangs. Fast moving inflatables can Cross the Channel in minutes rather than hours and land at any one of hundreds of Bays or inlets said mile Millen a customs officer from Southampton in Southern England. Sheer Luck May ensure a plane circling a Field or a boat dropping packages at Dawn is spotted he said. According to the customs officers any glory for civil ians in catching a drug runner is Likely to be Low key. Smuggling is a grim business growing nastier every Day one unnamed customs officer was quoted As say ing. We do not wish to create any risk to our Public Al lies. For their own Protection we will not necessarily Tell them what we have found although we May Point to a Story in the local newspaper about a haul. The satisfaction As Enid Blyton s Young heroes always discover Dis stopping the bad  come ties and professional  growing concern about Security May not in itself be deterring foreign investment it has however become another line on an already Long list of risks that has made investment slow to arrive. According to the russian Interior ministry crime against foreigners this year Are running at nearly twice the rate they did in 1992. However the violence i Moscow this summer has not been restricted to foreign ers. Russian Bankers Casino directors restaurateurs and shop owners have also been killed in an unprecedented crime wave that has ended Moscow s Long Cov eted reputation As one of the world s safest cities. Officials blame the chaos of Post communist society for the upsurge in violent crime citing a combustible mixture of lost governmental authority a get Rich Quick atmosphere and the increasing aggressiveness of Well armed criminal groups demanding Protection Money or part ownership in businesses. Foreigners prove especially inviting targets. They Are a risk group because they have dollars an expensive things said Olga Shlyapnikova a crime re Porter for the Kommer Sant newspaper. The criminals Are often attracted by their clothes arid their  . Embassy officials warn american tourists and businessmen to be As cautious Here As they would be in any Large City. An information Sheet provided by the state department warns of pickpockets muggers armed robberies and assaults. Brezhnev s son in Law leaves prison Moscow a former soviet Leader Leo nid i. Brezhnev s son in Law was released from a ural mountains prison where he was serving a12-year sentence for taking bribes news reports said saturday. Commonwealth television said Yuriy Churba nov had returned to Moscow from a prison in Nizhni Tail a city80 Miles Northwest of russian presi Dent Boris n. Yeltsin s Hometown of Yekaterinburg. A former Deputy Interior minister Chur Banov was convicted dec. 30,1988, of taking nearly 91,000 rubles in bribes after a nearly four month Long trial that exposed corruption atthe highest Levels of the Chur Banov Kremlin. At the time during the Early years of glasnost and perestroika the trial was a Sensa Tion and it sent an important political signal that under former soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorba Chev no one was above the Law. The sum Chur Banov allegedly received was Worth a princely $145,000 five years ago. Now the same bribe would be Worth just $91. In a commentary in the supreme soviet legis lature s newspaper Rossinskaya gazeta the Inte rior ministry said Chur Banov appeared  compared to some officials today. No reason was Given for Yeltsin s Pardon of Kurbanov news of which took 11 Days to reach the prison newspaper reports said Chur Banov married Brezhnev s daughter Gal main 1971. He was often accused of using family connections to Advance his career and extort bribes in the Interior ministry which had control Over the soviet police Force. Commonwealth television said Chur Banov had returned to Moscow. His wife Galina reportedly lives outside the capital in the Moscow Region