European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 16, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes Cost cited to equip 3 dive in War Washington us tire United Stales must spend bet Wren jul mid s7 Billian for additional planes and supplies if in wants Tii use three extra divisions to rein Force nato in a european lire con Gressional Dudel office snid file study on nato forces considered he Rule of three divisions added to the Active army since bringing us to till strength to Iii and their possible use As reinforcements in the North Ter Mim Plain the cd patted location of a ohm must if such items an tanks and artillery arc Mil propositioned in Germany is they Al ready arc for other reinforcing co analysts snid the extra units probably  be Able to got into the Bailie in time to prevail loss or slratikii1 territory hat i mils to Edrinn and Hutch options Given chos study Jive options for Congress in its consideration of next years budget and the in nato a resident Cimurs billion defense spending Pirn to submitted next week is pegged it Percy no increase in pro Grams Lor european defense and he Al ready has announced plans to station More troops in the study said there were some draw backs tit increasing spending by to billion Over the next five could be u it said most european Turcus Are less ready than units Are in the face of an intense and that expanding american role still further could be pro Viding a disincentive to europeans to make improvements in choir own the plan Calls for doubling production of the new Pmj Battle tank when it starts in putting he additional tanks in new stockpiles in it also would pro vide in additional Wing of fi6 in creased ammunition supplies and a new us Headquarters in North a cheaper alternative s3 to billion would provide additional fibs and tank lulling Aid Light but the study said this would neglect portions of ground defense lines thai arc relatively another aimed at reducing spending on nato until allies improve their own suggested deactivating the three new divisions and cutting Back aircraft and ammunition it would save an estimated billion to but the co study said there was Little likelihood Congress would wont to go entirely in that january 1978 former president ill hard Nixon joins political figures and friends con verging on Washington to Honor the among the mourners memory of the late Hubert u was he California Resi dents first visit id Washington since he resigned the presidency in at right is a Nixon Jack who accompanied him on the a Capitol services Honor Humphrey t continued i rom Page i i his greatest the presidency he sought so Mondale said that he achieved something More rare and valuable than that lie became his country Mon Dato Carter and Mondale both spoke of Humphreys Early advocacy of civil rights for Black the Issue that split the democratic party in Twenty years Humphrey led that divided this time Over the War in in a presidential Campaign that he barely Nixon Defeated and in was Humphreys death that led the resigned presi Dent to return to Washington for the first time since watergate and its aftermath forced him from the White Nixon flew to Washington from an Geles saturday on a commercial and planned id return on Ilia action clears Way for Egypt Israel talks Jerusalem Ull american intervention ended an Agenda crisis Between Egypt and Israel sunday and cleared the Way for the opening of their foreign ministerial talks and Lite resumption of the stalled military1 negotiations in but the two sides stuck to their previously stated Public Xis item on matters of sub such us the extent of an israeli withdrawal from decoupled territories Anil the future of the i May say we will now Haw a no Short period of direct negotiations Beldun the committees to establish prime minister Mcna hum begin told reporters after speaking with visiting Congress begin said the United states was instrumental in reaching a Compromise on he Agenda item for the foreign ministerial talks dealing with the occupied West Bank of Jordan and the Gaza with the help of your great Amassa he we now have agreement on an Agenda for the political in will Convene at 11 an israeli amendment tacked onto an american proposal broke the deadlock on the palestinian Agenda conference sources an israeli source described ii As matters relating to the future of the West Bank and the termed by diplomatic sources As a vague but comprehensive Compromise was arrived at after Secretary of stale Cyrus Vance pm toned his departure to Israel for the Start of the he will arrive monday eve egyptian foreign minister Kamel arrived in Israel within hours after the israeli Compromise was relayed to Cairo via the embassies in Israel and was with him at the serv Carter said that he had known hum Percy Best since entering the White and that when i needed him during that he Humphrey provided support and the advice of a Wise and honest that was Carter despite their differences during the 1976 Campaign and my own harsh spoken under pres sure and in with Humphrey considering one last Campaign or the democratic Carter had said that the Minnesota senator was a and was too old to be he quickly Humphrey did not enter that at critical times in our he government denies wiretapping Strauss Wesl Germany a Federal agencies were not involved in bugging a Telephone conversation Between former defense minister Franz Josef Strauss and the chief editor of his righting party Organ the Wesl German government said the committee of state secretaries responsible for the intelligence chaired by Giancoli cry chief Manfred established after careful investigation of All evidence available to the com that there is no indication of participation by Federal agencies in the illegal phone mini Liering a state ment from the government information office it said the committee asked those in conservative opposition Leader Strauss and Baye Murier editor willed to do All in their Power to help the  Clear up the sports in Brief Buenos Aires up Mario Drui la a Lotus won the Argentine grand prix world Champion mid Lauda finished second in a followed by Patrick detail scr in an Al Ftp United san pcs has been blessed by great people who just by being themselves give us a vision of what we arc at our Best and of what we might Carter said in his Hubert Humphrey was such a and in closing he asked that this service be a cel in a that what in even As we mourn his we celebrate because such a Man As Hubert Humphrey was among the Joy of ills memory will last far longer than the pain and sorrow of his Humphrey died Friday night of cancer at his Home in his body was flown to Washington on saturday for final honors at the the funeral was to be held in Minneapolis on with Carter and Ford among those in Atten Humphrey body was to lie in state at the Minnesota capital until Roy Rogers undergoes open heart surgery up 1 1 singing Cowboy actor Hoy underwent open heart surgery saturday and 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