European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 14, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse                                In Price european edition ripes army Navy air Force of he. Armed fat in Florop North Africa and them Del Sotl flu Matt 3s9 Cut the May reduce it tit Europe to a level f on maintained before crisis tact fett to Force journal and reported. Would follow the in att rust the demobilization commitments will reduction but another Factor they said is that the idea of maintaining troops at Home with Jet transports for movement overseas has gained a notch Over keeping Garrison forces abroad. Additionally the Pentagon i charged with a major responsibility for stopping the Drain on uj9l Gold reserves. Less american overseas would mean Lee dollars spent  demobilization announced by president Kennedy wednesday will return to civilian life 145,000 men now in uniform including 110,000 who were called up to bolster the strength of the army. The remainder Are in the air Fossee and Navy. The strength of the army is Tobe still further reduced from us last reported total of 1,102,515 men on March 1 to the 990,000 me requested in the administration s budget for the year starting july la top defense official told news men it would be foolish to suppose Oil on Page 9$, cot. I boost approval ise we Jan Wottom Feo cwt the time blow 1852, totalling tall ill would pc isto effect by cotti6 end Law toy  Ken Toti. Added 183amouat a fwd by of part and in Omen i the Flatt four Lour Teri of service " have to a Moreno increase had been them by the Penta Chat pro it tee also directed i that fee allow All rank above am Marine sergeant. Airman Navy i Petty officer fee paid directly to the of hit wife a it. That such rank tto hav to allot a Porpa to order tothe Benefit. Mendt River is a a  Rogr a largest allotment of Money was for the air Force Asu Ual. It Wax Given s19,1tt,634,000. An in crease of $25tl34,000 Over what the president requested. Besides approving the l#ntli4j Sli. Milia in of Cut on , St be Seball  r a is s o " 061 it 2 4 i a wite late i ten Alim ill c Tod to nuo. A 8mi at National of 411 h a i Al i ot�-4 s i Mallwin Jim a trivia set ? Mui out orc we to. Us mar Jou Haud Given death penalty by French court Paris a a special High military court has sentenced sex Gen Edmond Jou Haud to death. Jou Haud 57-year-old former chief of staff of the French afr Force had been charged with armed re Volt against France and with in citing algerian europeans to terrorism As a Leader of the secret army organization the nine Man court deliberated two and a Quarter hours  the verdict was read in the crowded courtroom there were cries of Algerlee Francale Al Geria is French from critical of the judgment. There is no Appeal from the ver dict however president Charles de Gaulle can commute the sen tence if he so  clemency by de Gaulle Jou Haud faces the Guillotine traditional method of execution in France which dates from the French revolution. Jou Haud was stripped of his army rank after spearheading the ill fated revolt of the gent ral i Algiers last april. Otherwise he would face a firing squad in accordance with military tradition. Laos rebels on offensive Vientiane up pro communist laotian rebels have launched an offensive Over the last 72 hours which threatens the provincial capital of Atto Peu in southernmost Laos. Inland Kaiser refuse to follow Price boost new York a United states steel corp. Friday rescinded the steel Price increase it initiated tuesday. The decision was made in an announcement released  Worthington . Steel president said the Price decision was made in the Light of competitive developments today and All other current circumstances including the removal of a serious obstacle to proper relations Between government and  steel Industry ranks had broke wide open earlier Friday with the refusal of two big producers to go along with a Price increase and a backdown1 by Bethlehem the no. 2steelmaker, from a boost previously announced. The action came As the Kenned administration worked furiously on plans for possible court action i response to the Industry Price jump and sought at the same time Touse its own steel buying Power As a crowbar to pry the ranks  Pentagon announced military buying will go to those who hold the line. First came an announcement from Inland steel co., the eighth ranking producer that while i believes an increase is needed it will not Mke one in he National interest and for competitive  Kennedy advised of that told newsmen Good Good very Good the president s brother . Robert of Kennedy rushed out of his office and asked a re Porter if he had heard the news. Slamming his hand on a doorframe he exclaimed i m very pleased. They la ail have to  a few hours later Kaiser steelcorp., not one of the real giants but a major Factor in West coast steel announced it will not raise prices now though it May have Todo so later Only minutes later , 2 producer announced it was pulling Down the new Price sched Ules put into effect thursday be cause we must remain compete cont. On pairs i?4. Col. T weather partly of audur with in own. Prattjr Etc Udy tit it a to oust to a air Wrt thir Russia rejects ban plea London soviet Premier Nikita s. Khrushchev rejected a last Chance Anglo american Appe Alfor a ban on nuclear tests under International safeguards. He said the soviet Union refuses to allow unhindered espionage Over it territory. Moscow radio broadcast Khrushchev s unyielding reply in a note to British prime minister Harold Macmillan who joined presiden Kennedy monday in the Appeal. In London diplomats said Khrushchev s reply made it almost inevitable that the United state swill begin its series of atmospheric nuclear tests in the Pacific Aroun Christmas Island later this month. Khrushchev declared the Anglo american decision to test nuclear. Weapons obliges the soviet Union toot on Page 94, col. St Kudsi again Syria head Damascus. Syria the syrian army Friday freed presi Dent Nazem Al Kudul from a prison Hospital and renamed him head of state. The reappointment of the &7�year-old president ended two week of political confusion that followed our d eat March 28 and another army uprising five Days later. The announcement of the presi Dent release was made in Che name of maj Gen  Zah Reddin syrian army commander Over Damascus radio. The broadcast said Kudal would announce his plans for a future government in & radio address saturday. Released will serve As adviser Washington up presi Dent Kennedy has released Gen Lucius d. Clay ret from his duties As the president s personal to preventative in Berlin. Clay will remain however As special adviser on the Berlin problem. After a 70-minute meeting with Lay the president reread this statement while there is still no Settle ment of the differences among  Powers Over Germany and Berlin and while the defense of the Freedom of West Berlin a nudes a matter of the highest concern to the United states Gen eral Clay has reported to me that the morale and Economy of the City Are such that his full time pres ence As my personal representative is no longer required the president said that Clay achievements in Berlin Are too Well known to require comment other to an to say that i am glad he will remain in service on Callas my adviser on matters relating to Berlin in this capacity the president said. Clay will return to Berlin at frequent intervals in future months and in Case of emergency he is Only eight hours away fro the City the president said he ind Clayhan had a thorough discussion of the situation in Berlin and of his own role in  Clay will go Back to Berlin Stutt Day to Cremati. In the City for a other few  he emerged from Hii meeting with the president Day told reporters that much of the tension Over Berlin had now  but he warned that this u a interlude the problem remains to be  added. I still would not say there is a solution to Berlin 4ft sight