European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 17, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes v world thursday february 17,1994 russian officers to learn about Western business from wire reports Brussels Belgium the european Union executive Agency announced tuesday the Start of a program to help train 16,000 russian army officer sin Western management and marketing skills. The Agency said the project is designed to improve the qualifications of 400 teachers who will work with the officers in 15 centers throughout the country. The teachers will have courses in management and marketing including the principles of a free Market Economy and modern teaching methods. The program will Cost $13.3 million Over three years. " police raid Neo nazi Sites Berlin German police on wednesday carried out 15 raids seizing illegal Neo nazi propaganda. There was no immediate word on whether any arrests were made. Berlin police said in a statement that they had raided 13 locations in the German capital adding that the other two searches took place in the neighbouring Brandenburg state and in Bavaria. Authorities seized an unspecified amount of Neo nazi hate materials printed by the outlawed groups National offensive and nationalistic front. Holocaust concert set Vatican City Pope John Paumi and Rome s chief rabbi will attend a concert in the Vatican on april 7 to commemorate the holocaust. Gilbert Levine will conduct the Royal philharmonic orchestra and the sistine Chapel choir in a program that will include German composer Max Bruch s Kol Indrei Beethoven ninth symphony and works by american composer Leonard Bernstein. The concert Aims to unite the hearts of those who listen to its music As they recall horrible events that must never be forgotten to ensure they Are never repeated the Vatican said tuesday in announcing the event. Among those attending will be rabbi Elio Toff of Rome top cardinals diplomats and several people who survived nazi Germany s attempt to exterminate european jews London buses test cards London London transport minister Steve Norris on tuesday launched an 18-month trial of an electronic ticketing system on the City s buses. More than 200 buses operating in the Harro District of Northwestern London have been fitted with a smart card Reader that validates bus tickets. Government officials said the trial will be the largest of its Type in the world. Smart card is at the forefront of electronic ticketing and transport operators All Over the world Are taking a keen interest in the benefits it can bring Norris said. The card which looks like a credit card i expected to Speed up the boarding of buses. The card which is read by an electronic Reader As the passenger boards the bus does not even have to be taken out of its Wallet. Ransom Money missing Moscow police have recovered Only $1,500of the $600,000 that kidnappers apparently threw from a helicopter Over a russian Forest six week Sago a newspaper said tuesday. On dec. 26, the government paid $10 million . Currency to kidnappers who had taken a dozen children hostage in the Southern City of Rostov. The four kidnappers fled in a helicopter after freeing the children. In an Effort to throw police off their Trail they threw handfuls of new $100 Bills out the door while flying Over the caucasus mountains. When the kid nappers were captured dec. 27,police recovered about $9.4 million of the Ransom. Authorities concluded that the missing $600,000floated Down in the rugged wooded mountains. Police appealed to citizens to return any Cash the found but the newspaper Komsomol Skaya pravda quoted a detective in charge of the Case As saying mat Only 15 Bills had been turned in. The government which borrowed the Ransom from private Banks has promised to repay the missing amount. Is a � so a a 5. A \ w in Wev a Al  a it a an. An aircraft baggage Container shows Only a few popped rivets after a controlled explosion in London. A British company says the Container can withstand an explosion equal to the one that destroyed a pan am Jet Over Scotland in 1988. Baggage Container built to take major blast on Airliner firm says London a a British defense contractor has developed a baggage Container it says can withstand a blast equal to the one that destroyed a pan am Jet Ove Lockerbie Scotland killing 270 people. Royal ordnance already has replicated the locker Bie bomb for trials using the hulls of 747s, company spokesman Andrew Jeacock said. A controlled explosion in one of the new containers produced Only three popped rivets on the aircraft body. The Container slows Down the effect of the explosion by four times Jeacock said. Royal ordnance which sent the containers to Lon Don s Heathrow Airport on monday for loading tests said they could be fitted in some air planes by the endow the year. Tests will begin March 1 at los Angeles International Airport. The company began developing the containers after pan am flight 103 exploded Over Lockerbie on dec. 21, 1988, killing All 259 people aboard and 11 on the ground. British investigators determined that the blast was caused by explosives packed into a radio cassette re Corder and placed in a suitcase which was loaded Inone of the Boeing 747 s baggage containers. Jeacock said the Force of a blast is vented through the material of the new Container with additional pres sure absorbed by the Container s hollow base. The Interior of the baggage Container become slightly spherical in a blast he said. Jeacock refused to discuss the nature of the material. Jeacock said the Container meets the practical requirements for a wide bodied plane and could be modified for other aircraft. It is the same shape As existing containers so it would t require new handling meth ods or equipment and is within existing weight require ments. Durability tests continue. Royal ordnance plans to License other companies to produce the containers. Jeacock expects the Price to be about 25 percent higher than the most expensive containers now available. We believe that a lot of the Cost will be offset Blower insurance premiums Jeacock said. He Esti mated the extra Cost to Fly a Boeing 747-400 from Lon Don to Hong Kong would be $7.35 per passenger. Airlines won t need any approval from regulator bodies to use the containers Jeacock said. It s up to the flying Public he said. A British airways spokesman said if the containers met All the necessary criteria the airline would begin to use them voluntarily. Cost is not the Issue he said. However Tim Neale a spokesman for the airline transport association in Washington said Cost re Mains an Issue even if the increase is Small. Purchasing new containers for a whole Fleet of air planes would require a significant investment and air lines Are finding it harder to pass such costs on to Pas sengers in today s tight Market he said. Two libyans suspected of planting the bomb aboard flight 103 have never been charged. The United nations has enacted sanctions against Libya to pressure Libya into extraditing the men for trial in Scotland or America. Egypt warns foreign Media on reports Cairo Egypt a As Egypt s Battle with mus Lim radicals intensifies the Interior ministry warned tuesday of possible Legal action against foreign report ers Over what it considers overblown coverage of extremist attacks. A. The warning underscores Egypt s Effort to reassure tourists about safety following Radical threats against foreign tourists and investors. Tourism a major foreign currency earner in Egypt has been hard hit by the militants fight to replace Egypt s secular government with strict islamic  300 people have died in extremist related Vio Lence in the past two years including three foreigners. The statement carried by Middle East news Agency was the first strongly worded warning to foreign correspondents about the extremist Campaign. It accuse foreign journalists of failing to observe standards of precision and objectivity that would be applied in their own countries. The Interior ministry will Tak Elegal measures against such reports it said without specifying the action to be taken. The ministry is responsible for police and Security. Also tuesday a Small bomb exploded in the Alexandria Kuwait Bank in Cairo breaking Glass but injuring no one Testate run Middle East news Agency said. Witnesses said the Bank building contained an american express office. Gunmen killed a police lieutenant and wounded an aide in syut a militant stronghold 200 Miles South of Cario police said. The Radical islamic group claimed responsibility in a fax sent to a Western news Agency. Military prosecutors demanded the death penalty for All 15 defendants charged with trying to assassinate prime minister Atef Sedki last november