European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 02, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                At Page 10 the stars and stripes world i i tuesday nov met 2,1993 japanese offer russian four that includes Mig flight from wire reports Tokyo the latest drawing card for tourists Drussia is hours that incorporate Jet flights in obsolete supersonic Mig fighters once the Pride of the soviet air Force. The travel company nisso Ryo Kosha said monday that one of its tour packages to Russia includes a four minute flight at 2vi times the Speed of sound in the Moscow area the Kyodo news service said. Aviation tourists can choose from the Mig-23, Mio-29 or Mig-31 versions of the mighty Jet aircraft. A tour including a flight on a Mio-23 will Cost around $10,000. The Price escalates according to the Power of the flying machine. Report on Russia Bleak Moscow figures released monday showed Russia s Economy Stilt in the grip of crisis with Gross Domestic product Industrial production and investment falling and few flickers of recovery insight. The inter fax news Agency carried figures from a government report that show Russia experienced an 11 percent drop in Gross Domestic product a 17 percent fall in Industrial production and a 10 percent reduction in capital investment compared with the same period last year. The Gap is the total value at retail prices of All the goods and services produced by a nation s Economy the report will be presented today at unexpanded session of the  kuwaitis to pay for services Kuwait kuwaitis will have to Start paying for Public services now and might have to pay taxes in the future the finance minister says. Nasser Al Rowshan told the local daily Al is Wassah that the country needed to privatize the Public sector and encourage foreign investment in kuwaiti businesses to boost the Economy an overcome the $5.2 billion deficit caused in part by " losses sustained during the persian Gulf War. He said kuwaitis should be willing to give up some of the welfare  _ health care and education Are provided free to citizens. Electricity water and communication services Are heavily subsidized. 2 Arab leaders May meet Doha Qatar egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and libyan Leader Moa mar Qadhafi Are to meet in a week to discuss . Sanctions against Libya a newspaper reported monday. Qatar s arabic language daily Al share said the two leaders will meet in Libya to discuss the outcome of egyptian contacts in connection with libyan West  Mubarak recently had talks in the United state with president Clinton and in France with president Francois Mitterrand. Dubai sets satellite service Dubai United Arab emirates emirates Dubai television will inaugurate a 24-hour satellite service dec. 6 to become the first arabic language station to reach both the european and american continents officials said sunday. Riyad Al Shuaibi information adviser to the government of. Dubai one of the seven Sheik Doms confederated in the United Arab emirates described the plan As a landmark development in the history of Arab  he said 14 million arabs on both sides of the Atlantic will be Able to pick up Edv. Mother slain after wedding Sydney. Australia the Mother of a Bride was fatally shot by her sex husband shortly after the daughter was married monday police said. Witnesses said Wayne Jones 45, approached the wedding party As it posed for a photographer in a Park minutes after the marriage ceremony was held in Launceston in Tasmania state. They said he opened fired with a .38-caliber revolver hitting Jennifer Mcgrath 42, in the Chest. She died in the City s Hospital. Mark Johns 24, a brother in Law of the Bride was shot in the Chest As he and other relatives grappled with the gunman. Jones was charged with murder and attempted murder. Marc or Trio i starts f6r boys accused of killing i Preston England a two 11 year old boys who allegedly skipped Schoof to Kidnap a child went on trial monday for abducting and murdering a toddler who strayed from his Mother at a crowded shopping mall. The boys who were 10 at the time of the crime sat Ona specially raised dais in the Middle of the court room so they could see wit Nesses Over a railing that runs in front of them. A so a worker sat next to each of the two boys who will be identified in court As child a and  the parents of child b sat immediately alongside the Dock. The children Are the youngest Ever charged with murder in  trial will make very sad Reading listening and viewing judge Michael Morland told journalists before the trial began. The crime haunts those who watched the tragedy unfold on  Security videotapes broadcast around the world showed a Small Blond boy who wandered away from his Mother outside a Butcher s shop in Liverpool. An older boy took the trusting 2-year-old s hand an followed a Friend onto a Busy Street. 7 " two Days later on Valentine s Day James Bulger body was found 2vv Miles away near a Railroad track. In addition to abducting and murdering James the two boys Are charged with attempting to abduct another 2-year-old boy earlier the same Day. They have pleaded innocent to All charges. At their first court appearance in february angry crowds pelted police vans carrying the boys with Stone Sand eggs. The trial was moved to Preston 30 Miles North of Liverpool a faded port City. There was no violence As the boys arrived monday. James Bulger a Security videotape shows James Bulger 2, being led Way by youth in Liverpool shopping mall the dead boy s Mother Denise Bulger is pregnant an was not expected to attend the trial. Her husband Ralph was expected. Teh is the youngest age at which children can face Crimi Nal charges in Britain. The nine men and three women of the jury must decide whether the boys intended to commit their crimes or whether a prank went horribly wrong. The trial is expected to last two to four weeks with writ ten or Oral statements from 100 witnesses. German investigators charge 2nd blood firm in aids scandal Berlin up a second German company has been charged in connection with supplies of blood plasma that was possibly tainted with the aids  addition German hospitals have begun reviewing records to identify patients Given the  prosecutors in the Eastern state of Sachsen an halt filed charges against pharma Dessau Over the weekend. The charges were filed after problems were found with certificates confirming that the plasma had been tested for his which causes aids. Last week German authorities closed another blood plasma supplier us plasma of Koblenz. The Western Ger Man company is suspected of illegally mixing several sup plies of blood before aids tests were carried out. Two senior us plasma employees arrested last week were questioned by investigators throughout the week end but the state prosecutor s office refused to release father details on the Case. Meanwhile hospitals throughout Germany Are review ing records for the past several years to identify patients who might have received possibly tainted blood plasma. A Hospital in Tougau in the Eastern state of Sachsen used 87 units of us supplied blood plasma in the last four or five weeks the Sachsen Interior ministry said in statement. The Hocut clinic in the state of Hessen said it had used1,800 units of us blood plasma in operations involving 400 to 500 patients Between january 1990 and february 1991. Bui the association of hospitals in the state of Nic Dersa Cheit warned that checking All records from past years would be extremely expensive. The association said such a study in Niedersachsen alone would Cost about $52 million. . Student released from egyptian jail of of a a j a a Cairo Egypt a a medical school graduate from Michigan who was jailed in Egypt for almost five years As a . Spy spent his first weekend of Freedom Back Home Savouring Raspberry Jam an doors he could open. We still can t believe it. There have been so Man broken promises Samy Wasses Mother Beba said from her Home outside Detroit. Family and friends surrounded Wassef on sat urday his first full Day of Freedom. His Mother said his breakfast request was Raspberry Jam a delicacy beyond dreams in prison. The family said Wassef was freed after moves bythe Clinton administration and sen. Carl Levin d mich., including talks during egyptian presiden Hosni Mubarak s visit to Washington in late october. Wasses ordeal began in 1988, when he was arrested at Cairo University where he1 had just completed his medical studies. Nine months later he was convicted of espionage in a 90-minute trial in which no defense witnesses appeared and he was not Al Lowed to speak. The conviction was based on a signed 253-Pageconfession in arabic a language Wassef 26, does not read. The University conducted us classes in English. He said he was coerced into signing the document by being shown pictures of prisoners being tortured. Prosecutors said Wassef a Christian sold information to the Cia including reports from English Lan Guage papers about Muslim fundamentalist activities on Campus. He said he was working for an English language Magazine in Cairo. Selling such information is not in itself illegal but i Harge. Against Wassef said he had placed him self in a situation where he could cause damage to  on oct. 5, prison officials told Wassef he would be pardoned if he would thank Mubarak for the humanitarian gesture. Wassef said he did t really be Lieve he was being released until Security men came to take him away and fellow inmates began fighting Over his possessions