European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 29, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday june 29, 1994 world the stars and stripes Page 11 russian thieves steal $5 million in Platinum from wire reports Moscow a thieves using Skeleton keys 1 broke into a chemistry Institute in St. Petersburg and stole 11 pounds of Platinum Worth $5 million a news Agency reported tuesday it was the third Case of theft of precious metals in St. Petersburg this month and came at the Start of a major crime crackdown the itar Tass news Agency reported. The thieves had easy Access to the Laboratory at the Institute of chemistry and spectral analysis which was not guarded at the time of the robbery the Agency said Syria held israeli to says Munich Germany a israeli navigator Ron Arad sought by the israeli government since his plane was shot Down in Lebanon in 1986, was held by syrian troops at least until 1989, and the Kremlin knew about it German television reported monday. According to the Ard television program report the soviet unions Kab espionage Agency wanted Syria to Swap Arad for Marcus Klingberg a top soviet spy jailed in Israel and asked the East germans to explore ways to get it done. Report said it has obtained a Stasi translation of a Kab document dated March 3, 1989, about Arad. Tide of haitian refugees strains resources . Says port a Prince Haiti apr the interception of 1,330 haitians on the High seas has stunned . Officials and taxed americans ability to handle the refugees . Authorities say. The haitians picked up monday combined with 7s6 haitians apprehended Over the weekend nearly equal the 2,239 intercepted in All of 1993. The surge which is expected to continue could dramatically increase pressure on the Clinton administration to resolve Haiti s festering political crisis quickly. . Coast guard officials who stationed about 15 cutlers and patrol Craft  after the new policy was announced hinted that the new Clinton policy caused the refugee tide. The policy which took effect june 16, allows boat people a hearing aboard a . Vessel to see if they Are fleeing persecution from Haiti s military installed government and May deserve Asylum. Refugee advocates say there is no reason for haitians to stay. They have been suffering repression and economic Devasto Hisaji since a 1991 coup ousted elected president Jean Bertrand Aristide. A people Are just totally discouraged. They just done to see any future a said the Rev. Rene Giroux a Canadian roman Catholic priest who works in a port a Prince slum. A they have no jobs the Cost of living is killing them and they re living in an absolute  .-led economic sanctions aimed at restoring Aris tide to Power have banned air traffic and most financial dealings with America. The administration also is poised to revoke . Visas of All haitians. Tens of thousands of haitians have fled their troubled Homeland since Aristides ouster. The coast guard has intercepted 47,844 at sea. . Embassy spokesman Stanley Schrager said the new refugee surge a is hard to believe. We re very concerned.�?�. The increase will complicate efforts to give boat people offshore hearings. Quot certainly that s going to Strain our resources a Duke Austin spokesman for the . Immigration and naturalization service said in Washington the haitians were being transferred to the . Hospital ship Comfort off Kingston Jamaica for processing. The ship can hold about 1,000 people Anu Austin said 400 of the 786 people intercepted Over the weekend remained on the ins run ship. Along with the haitian outflow the ins and coast guard Are handling the biggest exodus of cuban refugees since the Mariel boat lift of 1980. As of monday 3,665 cubans had been rescued in 1994. A most haitians captured recently have been in Small boats unlikely to make the 600-Milc sea journey to Florida. But the haitians May not be trying to evade the coast guard anymore since their chances for political Asylum have increased fivefold under Clinton a new policy. Sikhs order professor to scrub floors a Ira Val master Amritsar India a a sikh religious court monday ordered a .-based professor to clean shoes and scrub floors for seven Days for challenging the authenticity of the holy Book of sikhs. The punishment was handed Down to Parshura Singh professor of sikh studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Singh had pleaded guilty to a religious misconduct.�?�. Thirty sikh scholars and five High priests of the holiest sikh shrine the Golden Temple questioned Singh for eight hours in a closed door hearing before arriving at the verdict. 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