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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 21, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d firefighters gaining ground across Northwest Page 5 d Torrejon Little leagues lose opener sports Page 21 d . Defense contractor sues Israel Page 28 the stars and tripes authoiii1cd unojhc1al pitl cation p0 vol. 45, no. 125 thursday August 21, 1986 fax 8693 a other cuts in Dod budget May Active-dut1 by Norman Black a military writer Washington spending for defense programs could be Cut an additional 5.6 percent and thousands of  could be dismissed if Congress stands by its deficit reduction budget formula officials said tuesday. The 5.6 percent Cut in military spending for fiscal 1987, which begins oct. I would total roughly s9.7 billion. About 1200 million of that would come Fig the automatic elimination of Cost of for military retirees leaving j9.s billio other Pentagon programs. Of the reduction would Polk to programs equally and Tui could Lead  Active duty strength As Well w  new equipment training  such As military housing and i research programs including the presi Mili Dent s  program. This year the Pigram Rudman Lary salaries and Star wars a has now lapsed How Etc Man la l. Could be forced pm Bini Osands of Soldier Ore Marin mermen from Active duly if the Cut Becoja mryt 51ph g. Penner the director of the congressional budget office said the cuts to the Pentagon budget certainly. Would result in More than a Cou ple of Hundred thousand people  such dismissals would amount to More than 9.5 percent of the nation s 2.1 million Active duty Force. Pentagon officials who requested anonymity said tuesday that Pennor s estimate might actually be too Low. This year Gramm Rud Roan specifically barred any say they la permit military Insp Stockholm  the soviet Union told the 35-nation Stock Hosip air ii conference tuesday that it is prepared to acc Jip Galory on Sile military inspections. Soviet ambassador Oleg a Ginevsky we could. Agree to the conduct of on Sile inn Lions was regarded As a breakthrough at the the final session of the 32-Monlh-old us i Ginevsky and the chief  Robert l Barry agreed in opening state tuesday that a document should be Readyjr a session s sept 19 deadline. Barry  a comprehensive agreement can be re in washing Tonj lne department Deputy spokes Man Charles filman said the United slates welcomes Ginevsky Mic acknowledgement that on site inspection que Peary activities is an essential component of or Neil. The United sum Mats allies have maintained that an  regime including on site an integral part of any Stockholm e said. Estem Diplomat said a soviet turnaround on then site control Issue could have heavy implications or East West disarmament talks and could be and impetus to such talks he Karolj Taviel policy change on mandatory on Sile  a new  on Sile  advanced at the Confer ence specified that  demand Access to another s territory on bed quota basis to Check on unannounced troop move Lac a. Ginevsky said the soviets  such inspections if a quota system were adopt Ciul he rejected proposals that All troop movements in lid of garrisons be subject to checks. U.s., Egypt plan secret exercise Washington a the . Aircraft Carrier Forrestal was steaming toward the Eastern Mediterranean wednesday in route to a Small military exercise with Egypt Pentagon officials said. Details of the exercise Are classified secret no the request of the egyptian government and at least one Leader in nearby Libya is calling for egyptians to attack americans involved in the exercise. Sources who agreed to discuss the exercise Only if not identified by name said the earner left port in Cannes France sunday and had joined two smaller warships for the voyage eastward to Egypt. The officials declined to provide any substantive details about the exercise beyond saying it was naval in nature and would not involve any ground troops egyptian military leaders in Cairo refused to discuss the  Pentagon sources grudgingly acknowledged that an exercise had been planned after news reports of it emanated from Libya. The official libyan news Agency Jana said tues Day that a Deputy libyan Leader had urged egyptians to attack . Service members participating in Mili tary exercises in Egypt later this month. The Agency monitored in Nicosia said maj. Abdul Salam Jalloul was speaking during a banquet in the libyan capital. Tripoli monday night. My . Bombers attacked Tripoli and Benghazi on i i april 15 in what president Reagan called a reprisal for i terrorist attacks against americans that he said were i financed by libyan Leader col. Moa mar Qadhafi. I Call on the egyptian people the officers and sol Diers of the egyptian army and the National forces to attack the american troops and seek revenge Jalloul was quoted assaying. The Pentagon officials said the egyptian govern intent had requested that . Officials refrain from i discussing the upcoming exercise. I the discus r ire of military bases. But the sources said base closures arc a possibility in 1987. Congress has Cyl to Settle on a fiscal 1987 budget for Star wars Bui the House figure just matches this year s total. A ?.6 percent reduction on lop of the cuts by contemplated by legislators would dramatically research Effort. \ time to make additional culs to other parts"3nbmkjiudgrt that would lower the projected  to replace a key Section of the Law that he a Dawn earlier this summer by the supreme court. The projections were based on a. Jointly tuesday by the president s office of i mint and budget and the congressional budget officer the report estimates the fiscal 1987 deficit at roughly $163.4 Bill Ion. South Africa is nazi like Jackson says Gaborone. Botswana a . Civil right activist Jesse Jackson said tuesday the South african government is Hitler s and Sta Lin s successor and he urged the United Stales to assist South Africa s Black ruled Neit Borj. Jackson in a speech to More than 2.000 peo ple at the University of Botswana said the United states should provide Aid Trade development and defense against the state aided terrorism of  Jackson a Black Baptist minister is on a tour of Southern Africa that included a three Day visit to communist Angola. In tuesday s speech he said Angola needs to be free of South Africa Jonas Sav Imbi and sub  the United Stales and South Africa provide Aid to Sav Imbi whose National Union for the total Independence of an Gola is fighting a guerrilla War against the government of president Jose Eduardo Dos Santos. Jackson criticized the United states for never having sen l a pies Ideal to Southern Africa and for not granting most favored Nalion status to the nations in the Region. Most of the countries Are heavily dependent on South Africa. He also called for economic sanctions against South Africa and compared its apartheid system to an octopus. We must go for the legs of the octopus he said. On wednesday Jackson was in route to Mozambique. Jackson portrait of an air Force judge daily Magazine  
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