European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 28, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page so the stars and stripes saturday May 28,19bb soviet reforms fall Short Reagan says Helsinki. Finland a president Reagan underscoring a key theme for the superpower Summit said Friday Reform championed by soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev arc new and Good but that the Kremlin still Falls Short of meeting International standards on human rights and Freedom. Two Days before his arrival in Moscow Reagan said soviet practice docs not or docs not Jet measure up to soviet commitment under the 1975 East West agreement known As the Helsinki final act. The Senate gave Reagan a big or cum Mil boost Friday when it ratified by an overwhelming 93-5 vote the treaty outlaw ing medium Range nuclear missiles. The treaty was signed of the president and Gorbachev at their Washington Summit last news briefs december Reagan made his a Mariu in a speech Oan invited audience of about  people in the Aust rely Dubb cd Marble auditorium or filandia Hau where the Helsinki accords were signed by j5 nations including in soviet Union and United slates. Under the agreement the soviets pledged to provide More Liberty for their people and those in Eastern Europe. And yet 13yeans later Reagan said the cases of divid de families and blocked marriages remain on inc East West Agenda while russians trying to emigrate Are subjected Congress is moving with unusual Speed toward final approval of a $1.1 trillion Federal budget for the 1989 fiscal year thanks to a Little bipartisan cooperation. The House approved the budget by a 201-181vote thursday. Quick Senate approval is expected. The measure contains j299.5 billion in new defense spending is 8, 1 billion for International affairs and is 48 billion for Domestic programs the Pentagon s 18. 1 billion increase is below the annul needed to keep Pace with inflation. They also agreed to a 4 percent pay raise for military personnel and Federal civilian employees. Iranian boats attack freighter press copter Manama Bahrain a three iranian speedboats raided a maltese freighter Friday and left it burning in the Strait of Hor Nuz then tired at a press helicopter when it approached inc site of inc Mark shipping executives said. The press helicopter chartered by lbs television was not hit. Shipping executives had Laid a second ship was Hil but later retracted that report. Trie executives said the 18-Mcmbcr Crew of the 1 8, 000-ton Don Miguel abandoned ship after the h . Attack. An Oman warship sail ing nearby rescued them. Another Meese aide announces resignation Washington a Charles  of the Justice department s office of Legal counsel Friday became the latest aide of attorney general Edwin Mcnese 111 to hand in his resignation. Cooper said in a letter to Mccow that he will leave the department july 8, the resignation is wholly unrelated to the controversy of today the letter said in a reference to a Csc s Legal troubles and a recent series of departures by key aides 11 the Justice department. Mcnac wrote a idler Back to Cooper thanking him for your loyalty support and special Vole of  treaty from Paga 1 mined that  think we be closed All the loopholes we know about in this treaty and it s a much belter treaty than when it was sent1 to Congress said majority Leader Robert Byrd, s session had ended on 8 testy partisan note with Byrd threatening to Lei the treaty languish i republicans continued to seek what he saw As Debili Tating  of the treaty was considered certain be cause it requires a two thirds vote of the Senate or 67votes, and As Many As 90 senators had expressed sup port for it. But the possibility of delay remained  warned top senator that they risked Embarrass ing their own president by failing to deliver the approve treaty in Lime for the sunday Start of he Summit. This is no empty threat Byrd admonished senators. If we re going to continue to have Mickey House amendments Tike this the president is no going to have his treaty before he leaves the  Byrd and Senate minority Leader Bob Dole r-kan., informed a Cirjan of the decision during a Tele phone Call to Helsinki moments after the Vole. The two leaders accepted Reagan s invitation to come to Moscow next tuesday and bring the ratification documents with them. One amendment an attempt by sen. Malcolm Wal lop r-wyo., to make any soviet violation grounds for . Withdrawal from the treaty was Defeated on vote of 66-30. And a move by sen. Lurry Pressler r s.d., to require Reagan to certify at the Summit whether the soviets Ore living up to their human rights obligations also was Defeated 86-10. Any Effort to change that interpretation would have Obe approved again by the Senate before becoming valid said the amendment which passed on a vote of 72-27."the Senate has clearly made visible that it u an equal partner with any president in the making of trea ties Byrd said after the provision was adopted and i Hope that will be a sobering Impact on this president and on or. Gorbachev when they sit Down and discuss another agreement on limiting Long Range nuclear weapons. The provision grew out Ofa dispute with the Reagan administration Over while House efforts to redefine inc 1972 anti ballistic missile treaty to allow greater latitude for testing o Reagan s Star wan missile de sense  a Lew Houra after the vote on the Byrd Amend ment sen. Pete Wilson r-calif., came close to under mining the provision by proposing a change stipulating thai the United slates could not be bound by an interpretation of inc treaty that is not equally binding on the soviet  s proposal was killed tt-4f, and an angry Byrd sent the Senate Home for the night. The Vole was virtually a party line division. Two similar attempts by sen. Arlen Specter r-pfl.,were Defeated Friday by wider margins. The intermediate Range nuclear forces treaty signed by Reagan and Gorbachev in Washington on dec. 8, requires the elimination within three years fall nuclear missiles with a Range of 300 Miles to 3,400 Miles and would result in the destruction of 867 .missiles in Europe and 1,752 soviet missiles. White those numbers represent a relatively Small slice of each  s Tola nuclear Arsenal the pact is regarded As particularly important because it Breaks along drought in arms control agreements Between the two sides and sets the stage for Progress on a much larger goal massive cuts in each  s Long Range nuclear missile Fleet. Housing from Page 1 maim military communities showed housing surpluses Otaling Over 1,300 units. But because of errors in its surveys the army estimated a housing deficit of over1,000 units. The error resulted in planning for Over 600 unnecessary housing units according to the  Usa eur s process for estimating housing needs changed in january 1987, the Cao said that until inc errors contained in the army s base data arc corrected overestimates of housing needs Are  continue. Among the problems Are overestimates of the number of married service members and the count ing of non command sponsored families who Are not authorized to live in government housing. The g to suggested that the Pentagon direct usar eur to establish ils housing needs Al less than 100 percent of its anticipated needs. Ii also recommended that non command sponsored families at overseas locations be excluded from family housing requirement calculations. The defense department while not entirely agreeing with the Gap s findings said it concurred with the recommendations and already has directed it major commands to omit non command sponsored families from family housing requirements and directed Usa eur to plan at less than 100 percent of expected  also complied with another Gao recommendation that an Independent reviewer in this Case the army audit Agency and Engineer inspector general review unaccompanied personnel and family hous ing requirements. Move from Paga 1 and Environ Man Talbot parties. It is nut an easy political Issue to say Lei s have some fighter planes come Here " he said. Defense department officials said cur Lier this week that the 401st would be disbanded unless a new site was found by August. With the move to Italy in the works Carlucci said he would identify another Wing Likely assigned in the United Stales that could be deactivated to meet spending cuts. The nato ministers in a statement issued at the end of the meeting said they welcomed Spain s proposals to develop a framework for significant Span ish military contributions to the com Mon defense. Nato Secretary general lord car ringtone said the Alliance is seeking guide lines for Spain s future contributions Lothe Alliance. He said he Hopes some of these agreements for Spain to contribute to nato s defense will be completed later this year. On other topics Carlucci said he planned to meet with his soviet counterpart during the Moscow Summit to discuss the superpowers military Doc  and soviet defense minister Dmitri t. Yazoo first met on this Topi last March in Burn Switzerland follow ing indications from the Kremlin that i was putting less emphasis on offensive military  indicated that he had taken the initiative in arranging a second meeting he has agreed to such a meeting and we will have further discussions on this subject because we obviously want to learn As much As we can about the soviet doctrine Carlucci said. Carlucci was flying to the Hague Netherlands on Friday for talks with dutch government officials before going to Moscow on sunday