European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 9, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday. December 9. 19b7 the stars and stripes Page 5 Vienna arms talks get new urgency on reduction of conventional forces by Jim Anderson Washington hi1 the Summit treaty ban Ning medium Range nuclear miss pics gives new urgent 1 to breaking he lung standing stalemate in negotiations on reducing conventional military forces in Europe . Officials said monday. Bui inc Issue of defining and then reducing conventional forces is so Complex that president Reagan and general Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev will not directly Deal with inc Issue according to inc officials. Deputy assistant Secretary of state Charles Thomas said the most you can get from this kind of tit Mimi is encouragement from the leaders to get Ilie i Clung negotiations under Way tie negotiations which have been going on for 13 years and which were described by Thomas monday As stalemated arc being conducted in Vienna at the so called Mutual and balanced Force reduction talks. Thai bargaining is multilateral involving the 16 nato countries on one Side and the seven Warsaw pact nations on lire Cather while tire Washington Summit is bilateral involving Only the United sutus Anil the soviet Union directly. Therefore the two leaders will not be Able to make any decisions on the conventional Force negotiations without consulting their allies. As outlined by maj. Gen. William Burns a National Security Council arms control expert the nato and War saw fact forces Are approximately equal in number about 2.4 million military personnel for each Side with another4.4 million each in inc Active reserves. But bums sail at a news conference the balance is weighted dramatically on the Warsaw pact Side in terms of equipment. He listed some examples tanks Over 50,000 for the Warsaw pact and 22.000 for nato anti tank weapons 17,500 for the Warsaw pact 10,000 for nato artillery 46,500 for the Warsaw pact 13,700 Fornato. Military Chi parts have justified nuclear weapons in Europe As one Way of preventing that conventional imbalance from leading to an attack by the soviet Union and ill Eastern european allies. With the sign ing of the inf treaty Tuc Day. The United Stales and the soviet Union agreed in scrap i toil of about 3,5 10 nuclear warheads on Shorter and intermediate Range nuck a missiles. The United slates will still have nuclear warheads in Europe after the inf reductions Lake place. They arc bombs carried on . Aircraft committed to nato plus Jong Range artillery that can fire either conventional or nuclear projectiles. Thomas told reporters that inc . Position is that these dual capable weapons Are not up for neg Utia lion. The soviets have raised Llie Issue at several meet Ings in Moscow and Geneva according to officials. The geography involved also has to be taken into account in inc negotiations when . Troops Are Cut they arc removed to the american Side of Fth Atlantic at least .1.000 Miles away. When Sorivi forces Are pulled out they arc Only a few Hundred Miles from the most Likely scene of combat and could be moved Back in a matter of Days. Witnesses claim police shot handcuffed killer escond1do. Calif. A allegations that police shot the killer of a policeman in the head As he Lay wounded in Handcuffs on inc ground arc being probed in inc investigation of a bloody 13-hour siege officials said monday. We re going to conduct our Standard investigation and that would include any of those aspects said police it. Earl Callander. Whose department is conduct ing inc investigation into saturday s shoot out 3 an apartment building. Ean Diego county Coroner s officials said they had not ramps Clad their autopsy on the slain gunman Robert Gary Taschner. 37. Also killed in the siege was Deputy Lonny g. Brewer a 29-year-old member of inc sheriffs department s swat team who was shot to death. I messes and  s Mihir have raised questions about the actions of deputies during inc shoot out which was captured on to news videotapes. He was unmercifully killed said the gunman s Mother. Sally Taschner. They Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Dec. 9, 194"? Gen. Lucius d. Clay . Military governor Lold the United press that two american army captains stole rare jewish books and manuscripts Worth Between s3 million and 15 million from a military government storehouse in Offenbach Germany. Did t have 10 blow his brains out and have it on television witness Michael Spitsbergen a nearby resident said they Pul the Handcuffs on him and shot him in the head. I saw it  sheriffs department officials declined comment on the allegations. A a gov to news videotape appeared to show an officer firing award inc ground near where the gunman Lay restrained but in was t Clear if the shot Hil him. The officer appeared to stumble before his gun discharged and in was not Clear if the shot was deliberate. The siege began Early saturday when police responded to residents complaints that Taschner a gun enthusiast had fired a gun in his apartment. After Taschner refused to surrender the swat earn was called. About 10 . Saturday the swat Tram sobbed 12 War Gas Canni sirs into Taschner s apartment and followed up with an assault on the residence but were driven Back by gunfire. Brewer was killed in the assault and two other deputies were wounded. Six hours later deputies mounted a second assault using Lear gigs Aid con Cussion grenades that set Taschner s apartment on fire and forced him out. Wearing combat fatigues Tuschner charged from the burning apartment and Crof a parking lot firing an automatic Rifle As ii ran. He was almost on top of a Deputy be fore a police dog jumped him and he was Cut Down by gunfire. Puppy Puppy Champ a la Imp