European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 23, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes q transportation strikes affect some areas of Germany Page 2 0 Union wows warfare against pan am Page 3 o . Hockey team loses to West Germany sports Page 21 a Nimberg High school s cosmetology lab daily Magazine 1utmkiiid unofficial  i Thi . Mio porch Good morning t vol. 46, no. 309 tuesday february 23. 1988 d 6893 a Navy Secretary Webb quits Unab a to support car acc or his Pentagon budget proposal James h. Webb 0 Norman Black a military writer Washington Navy Secretary James h. Weib said monday the administration has sacrifice its goal Ofa 600-ship Fleet and he submitted his resignation to president Reagan. Webb. In his Tetter of resignation and in a meeting with reporters said he decided to leave because he could not support the fiscal 1939 Pentagon budget proposal crafted by defense Secretary Frank c. Car Lucci. Webb also strongly criticized Carluci As a bureaucrat who was not providing cad Wiship 10 the Pentagon. Referring to the internal budget debate that led to last week s submission of the fiscal 1989 budget Webb wrote to Reagan on three separate occasions the uniformed and civilian leadership of the Navy department provided the Secretary of defense with proposed cuts totalling the amount required to Eccl the budget Rcd Clion but which also would preserve inc cherished goal of your administration to rebuild our Navy to a minimum of 600  because those recommendations were rejected by your Secretary of defense i am unable to support him personally or to defend his amended budget during budget deliberations on Capitol Hill Webb concluded. Consequently i find it necessary to resign from my position As Secretary of the Navy this budget cutting is not being done according to a strategy Webb said in a meeting with reporters in his Pentagon office. This building needs to he Ted. It needs  needs some vision. I m saying that if 1 had a piece of advice to give to Secretary Carlucci it would be to spend a lot More Lime with the top leaders in this building. He s been spending a lot of time with the stale department and a lot of time on inc Hill. I think they see Webb on Back Page kidnappers re ease faced Higgs message Beirut Lebanon a a pro iranian extremist group monday released a videotaped message from a kidnapped . Marine colonel calling on president Reagan to meet his captors demands. The 70-second Tope from the organisation of the oppressed on Earth was accompanied by a typewritten arabic slate men reiterating the group s claim that inc hostage it. Col. William r. Higgs was a Cia agent the arabic statement also warned Lebanon s Mains Tream shiite moslem militia amal. To Stop searching for Higgins 43. Of Danville ky., who was abducted wednesday near the Southern port City of Tyre. Amal. Which continued its search monday has taken into custody Doicus of members of Hezbollah Lebanon s most Radical shiite group. Hezbollah which is believed to lie the umbrella organization for pc iranian groups hold ing most of the 24 foreign hostages in Lebanon on Sun Day declared support for Higgins captors. Hezbollah and amal militiamen dashed in a brie firc figlus sunday. No casualties were reported in the half hour shootout in the Southeastern Village of Ein Al Tinch. In the videotape delivered monday to a Western news Agency in Beirut an unshaven Higgins appears to be Reading from a statement. The statement by Higgins says Reagan has to take responsibility for the crimes he has committed against the oppressed people in the  i the statement Higgins then lists the same de mands his captors made when they first claimed responsibility for his abduction Friday in a statement that called the colonel a Cia spy. , and . Officials denied the spying charge. The demands its Given by Higgins arc Israel s withdrawal from the self proclaimed Secu Rity zone it carved out in Southern Lebanon when the bulk of its army withdrew from Lebanon in 1985. End ing a Ihrck year invasion. The release of All detained lebanese and Palestin Ian Mujahed Cen or holy warriors from the Shlam detention Camp in the Security zone and in israeli jails. An estimated 300 detainees arc believed held at Khiam. An end to what they Call . Intervention in see kidnappers on Back Page driving through Rio floods a bus makes its Down hooded Street in Rio it Janeiro Broil is tur a Nival reins continue to plague the Are. At lust 80 people hive Ltd As Homos hate been stept by and building he collapsed. See Lorles p�r3. ., soviet negotiators get nuke pact deadline Moscow a the United Stales and soviet Union monday gave their arms control negotiators one month to Complete the key provisions of a new treaty to sharply reduce their strategic nuclear weapons. The decision was taken As Secretary of state George Shulli wound up l