European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 6, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Q Dodds pushing aids education Page 2 g sandinista contras continue talks Page 3 q More letters to Santa Claus Page 8 authorized unofficial publication for tool. 46, no. 232 sunday december 6, 1987 amed forces 08693 a Pentagon must Cut $30 billion Navy faces biggest cuts Magazine says Washington a the military services have until monday to come up with More than $30 billion in defense Cuis for next year to comply with the deficit reduction plan worked out by the White House and congressional leaders according to a published report. Internal budget directives to the services sent nov. 23 by Deputy defense Secretary William h. Taft Tell the Navy to absorb the largest of the reductions $ ii .6 billion followed by the air Force. $10.5 billion and the army $9 billion. Aviation week reports in its dec. 7 Issue. It is up to the services to decide where the cuts should be made but the orders Rule out new programs and direct the services to emphasize terminations of defense machinery production As a Way to Cut costs the Magazine reported. Taft also called for serious consideration of reducing troop str nah the Magazine said. The services responses arc to be Given to defense department comptroller Robert w. Helm. He told the serv ices in a nov. 25 memo to ignore the pending fiscal 1988 appropriations action As Well As military and civilian pay raises since those and other factors will be incorporated later As the Pentagon budget process unfolds. Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci has said that no matter what the services propose he will make the final decisions on the cuts. Carlucci also said he does t expect the Pentagon will be Able to Complete the Job of revising the fiscal 1989 budget submission until february or March. Such submissions generally Are completed and Given to Congress in january. The White House and congressional negotiators agreed nov. 20 to reduce the budget deficit by $76 billion Over two years with about $30 billion in cuts in fiscal 1988, which began oct. I and $46 billion in fiscal 1989. Congress has no it l Given final approval to the plan that incorporates both budget cuts and increased revenues. President Reagan had sought $332 billion for de sense in fiscal 1989, which begins let. I. 1988. But under the deficit reduction Compromise the Pentagon would get $299.5 billion. The reduction targets in the Taft memos reflect reductions of about 10 percent in what each of the three services had sought for 1989. For the Navy. Tall ordered the requested 1989 Bud get level of $108.7 billion to be reduced to $97.1 Bil lion for the air Force the level will go from $107.2billion to $96.7 billion and for the army the level will go from $84.7 billion to $75.7 billion. $-1 bomber ready foxy Var Mission say Sac Lear tier Sheryl Louie. Holding daughter Dana Waves to her husband aboard the destroyer Kidd As it docks at Norfolk Friday. The Kidd returned from six months deploy ment in the persian Gulf where it was escorting tankers. Story on Page 28 by Dave  . Bureau Raf Fairford England -5 Man who Heads the command that the by bomber said Friday the plane ready to go to War and a restrict Boilow level flying is just a peacetime to  Gen. John t. Chain jr.,  the strategic air come is Pended Low level flights for the a meter a sept. 28 crash killed three Crew a bars. That plane ran into Birds at Ajna level. The restrictions Annly for training Chain said. This is just a off Cezime safety  Odds of it crash caused by a Bird strike happen org again Are  Chain Udo said he does not want Torisk any Unis people during peacetime Irain Jaid he expects the problem a vulnerability to Bird strikes to be fixed labout a month. Re by in t plagued with any he said. The people that write about it Don t know a Damn thing a planes. Most of them have i in the military and none of have been in the air  Chain said there arc problems with the plane which is designed to evade Detec Oion by flying Low but Many of them Are Bernel in its High to cow nature. He said military air Craft iliac Pas Sengpr Pubes mus face such Phil cams. All Waman shave to push state of the Art Are going to have growing pains Chain said. The b 1 is about where i would have pc i was Ever Spica Gocr dieted it to be Long a con associated with  however Chain voiced his sure with the plane s electronic measure system. It s not what we bought and paid i and that makes me mad. It s the Only see bomber on Page 28 2 . Students killed in English car bus crash Swindon. England a a mini bus carrying 13 american College Stu dents Friday collided with a car on an expressway killing two students and in Juring the others authorities reported. Identities of the victims were withheld until relatives could be notified and police declined to say what College the Stu dents attended. Wiltshire county police inspector Ste phen Chandler said the americans were travelling West on the m-4 expressway in a rented minibus when the Accident occurred Between Swindon and Newbury in Southern England. The car. Whose Driver escaped injury also was travelling westbound in dry weather shortly after Nightfall. Chandle said. The cause of the Accident has not been determined. The two dead a Man and a woman and All of the injured were students said David Pokora general manager of swin Don s Princess Margaret Hospital. Nine of the injured were women and four of the Hospit i eur victims were in Senous com Dixon. He said