European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 15, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes saturday october 15, 1994crime up but Japan considered Safe a Tokyo apr Japan recorded a record number of crimes inst year mostly theft but remained the safest developed nation the Justice ministry reported Friday. A total of 2.437 million crimes were registered by police in 1993, up 3.5 percent from the previous record in 1992, the ministry said in an an no a i report. The rate of serious crime per 100,000 people was 1,400 cases the lowest among developed countries surveyed in an International comparison based on 1992 data the ministry Sard. The Fate of serious crime in the United states was 5,660, the report  compared with other nations Japan a crime problem remains Small a a said Kazuo Endo a researcher in tie ministry a research and training  a. A a a. Japan a population is 125 million. The report said murder cases in Japan Rose by 0.5 percent to 1,233, robbery Rose by 12,7 percent to 2,466 and reported rape cases fell 7.1 percent to 1,611. Injuries from assaults fell by 2.9 percent to 18,306, and arson climbed by 23.7 percent to 1,754. 7. I  accounted for 65 percent of the crimes. Bucharest Romania apr a British couple was convicted and sentenced to 28 months in prison Friday for attempting to smuggle a 5-month-Bld baby out of the country. Hadrian Mooney 42, and his wife Bernadette 40, of Wokingham in Southeast England were not in the courtroom to hear the verdict v a a the Mooney arc pretty distressed a said British embassy spokesman Laurie Bristol. A they arc at the apartment they have rented and the Consul and their lawyer Are with them. We cannot interfere with the Domestic Legal system. We will con to nut to do All we  the couples attorney Iona Floca immediately filed an Appeal. A i think the verdict is unfair and hard taking into consideration what they did and their motivations a Floca said a the court granted a British embassy request that the Mooney remain free pending their Appeal but they Are prohibited from leaving the country. It is not Clear How Long the Appeal process will take. The couple acknowledged. Paying $6,000 for what they said they thought was a Legal adoption. They were arrested july 6 at the hungarian romanian Border As they tried to smuggle Monica Balaram out of the country. A the 28-Mbnth sentence was for charges of attempted illegal adoption. The Mooney Aiso received two year suspended sentences for illegally trying to take someone across the Border. A the couple was ordered to pay Legal costs amounting to the equivalent of $57. They Are to be expelled from Romania after their sentences Are served. Judge Madalina Buta sentenced the girls 17-year-old parents to one year prison terms which they Are to begin serving when they Are 18. Three middlemen who arranged the illegal adoption were Given 32-month sentences. Floca had pleaded for clemency arguing that the Mooney had tried to perform a humanitarian act in giving the child a better life. They have one 3-year-old romanian daughter adopted legally in 1991. But the prosecutor Camelus Pacuraru argued that the two should be punished suggesting that the infant was treated inhumanely. A they put her in a Box covered her in a Blanket and gave her a tranquil Izer a he told the court. The six week trial the first of its kind in Post communist Romania has stirred International interest. Thousands of prospective adopters flocked to Romania after the december 1989 revolution when it was revealed that More than 100,000 children were  institutions / 6 convicted of rampage at Buchenwald Wei mar. Germany apr a Ger Man court convicted six Neo nazis of rampaging at the site of the Buchenwald i Wicen Talion Camp and gave All but one of them suspended sentences thursday. I Lonias Schmidt 23, who the court said was the ringleader was sentenced to 20 months in jail. F 1 Ismias Bochin 23, who threatened to Burn a woman working at the site when skinheads rampaged there in july was Given a suspended 15-Monlh sentence by the juvenile court in Weimar and ordered to do 200 hours of Community work. A 19-Ycar-old was Given a six month suspended sentence and 100 hours of Community work and three minors got suspended sentences of four weeks. Two men were acquitted. The convicted were among 22 skin Heads who went to Buchenwald on a tour bus last july and threw rocks shouted nazi slogans and threatened the woman. Police picked up All of the skinheads in the Days after the rampage then released them. After Sharp protests police again arrested the eight who were later put on trial. Buchenwald is on a wooded Hillside overlooking Weimar 120 Miles Southwest of Berlin. Abdullah Span Dahlem . Bazaar Rhein main . Bazaar Avian o . 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