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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 12, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes de in the military pages 8 and 9 g a funeral dynamics told Isle up Page 5 a super bowl infest Page 26 Shultz warns on appeasing Plo Page 28 the stars and types Yfe of a vol. 44, no. 238 thursday december 12, 1985 do 5ufwv d 8693 a . Will reduce troops if Spain stays in nato Madrid. Spain up the United slates agreed tuesday to reduce the num Ber of its troops in Spain after 1988, Assum ing Spain remains in nato and Spanish forces can replace them. In a joint statement issued after two Days of talks Arr. Rican and Spanish officials said that the adjustments will involve a phased reduction of the . Military pres ence in Spain based on the Assumption by the Spanish armed forces of specific responsibilities and missions currently undo rat in by .  the statement also emphasized the importance of the Atlantic Alliance to which Spain  talks on the presence of 12.500 american troops in Spain started in october at the re quest of socialist prime minister Felipe gon Zalez who has lied reducing american forces to continued membership in nato a ques Tion of controversy in Spain. Delegations led by american ambassador Thomas o. Enders and Spanish foreign affairs policy chief Maximo Cajal met for two Days then. Both sides agreed to Analyse the contribution of . Forces in Spain to Western defences. The delegations exchanged reports Mon see Spain on Page 28 inf nut ear group wins Nobel Pri Oslo. Norwa7lhfi-_- norwegian Nobel officials  1985 Nobel peace prize to internal cans for the prevention of nuclear anti War organization founded by soviet and american doctors. It  Only the second time the prize was Given to a soviet citizen and came one dec Ade Alyer soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov won his peace prize. Hundreds of Sakharov supporters pro tested tuesday s award because the soviet recipient hid once publicly denounced Sakharov. Norwegian Nobel committee Chaio Egil Aarvik  the physician pm nation for  then of fac and a future for us All  and our  h r to the Rostrum told medal diploma and a Woholo Yevgeny Chazov left and Bernard Lown display the Nobel Gold medal and diploma. Tor the organization they and five years ago cardiologists Lown of the United states and Yevgeny Chazov of the soviet Union at tacked the expansion of the arms race into space and called for a ban on nuclear tests. Critics of this year s award say Chazov signed a political attack on Sakharov in 1973. Soviet dissidents and hundreds of sakha Rov supporters demonstrated in snowy Cen trial Oslo streets As the soviet and american doctors received the prestigious prize. From the gilded Rostrum of Oslo festival Hall Aarvik said concerned with is also at a deeper level concerned win perhaps the most fundamental i see Nobel on Page 28 eyes Convent Ona arms reduction Pentagon facing further budget cuts by Norman Black Washington a if Congress passes a Bud get balancing Bill the Pentagon would rather Cut Back on purchases of conventional weapons than reduce funds for personnel readiness or Star wars a senior de it Csc department official said tuesday. But the official said the Pentagon is unclear How much flexibility it will have in reshaping the fiscal 1986 budget and now believes it is looking at a $15 billion to $20 billion reduction in its budget authority to meet the requirements this year. Thai s a stiff task when you re Halfway through the fiscal year said the official who agreed to Brief report ers on the Pentagon s budget on condition he not be identified. We Are facing the first negative real growth in de sense spending of Ronald Reagan s  said Pentagon spokesman Bob Sims who estimated the department faced a 3 percent to 8 percent reduction. The official requesting anonymity also said the de sense department is proceeding to plan a fiscal 1987 budget of $323 billion which would include a 3 percent increase after inflation. The official noted president Reagan and defense Secretary Caspar w. Weinberger had accepted u budget reduction plan earlier in the year that called for 3 per see budget on Pago 28 Forf Gordon says retirees must see civilian doctors fort Goroun a. A in a move intended to improve medical care for Active duty army personnel. Fort Gordon will soon require retired service members to visit civilian rather than military doctors and to pay for part of that service. The new plan expected to be implemented Al the Dwight David Eisenhower army medical Center by March 1, will mean that the base s general military Doc tors will care exclusively for Active duty sol Diers and their families. The changes affect most of the 3,500 families of retirees now served by the Cen Ter. Only those retirees currently enrolled in the Center s family practice system May continue to receive free doctor s visits. Retirees will still receive free hospitalization treatment by specialists a rays and prescription drugs at the Center which is located on the base in cast Georgia. We have Active military families who Are Here for about 18 months and they can t compete with retirees for the doctors attention said col. Lewis Harden the Deputy commander for clinical services. The doctors Are caught up curing for the More sick retirees who be been Here for 10 or is  Harden said. Under the plan military retirees and their families will have the option of being treated by civilian doctors hired by the army to work at the base or by civilian doctors of their Choice off the base. In either Case retirees who Are 65 or under will be billed for physicians fees through the civilian health and medical program of the uniformed services champs. The retirees will pay an an Nual deductible of s50 per individual or $100 per family plus 25 percent of All sub sequent doctors fees charged during that year. For example a Retiree whose family spends $200 on physicians fees in one year would pay si25. Retirees Over 65 will have to apply for medicare if they Haven t already and be billed through that Federal program. Harden said he knows that some retirees arc upset about the idea. However he said when the resources Aren t available the first priority is Active military the second priority is dependants of Active military and the third priority is retired   
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