European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 28, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday ma/28, 1938 the stars and stripes Page 3 nato ministers set up new panel to study sharing of defense costs Badavi Tarrant suit writer Brussels nato defense ministers completed a two Day plan n ing session Friday by kiting up a com Friis Storr 10 review ways the Alliance can better share its defense burdens. Nato s determination to equitably share the Cost of defense was underscored by an Alliance decision on thursday asking Italy to accept 72 . F-l6s being removed from Spain Secretary general lord Carr Irig ton said the Alliance also agreed to fund the relocation. These two decisions were in my Vic an impressive demonstration of Alliance re Scilva in sharing the responsibility and resources of our common defense Carrington said. The nato commission on Burden sharing is scheduled to report is findings in december Carrington said. The defense ministers in a final communique re leased Friday noted that the Issue of Burden sharing is made More difficult because of budget constraints faced by Many nato nations. We recognize thai serious challenges lie ahead particularly in the provision of the necessary resources. They will require n renewed Effort by All of us to make available the necessary resources and to search on a collective basis far new and innovative ways to make the Best use of these  the Issue of Burden sharing has gained considerable momentum in the United states marked by a growing congressional Effort to make America s allies spend More for their own defense. However . Defense leaders in the United Stales and Europe have been calling for an end to so called nato bashing regarding funding considerations and european allies insist they already carry a consid Erable portion of nato s defense Burden according 10 a report published this month by the eur group the 12 european nato nations. The report lists european contributions to nato a including 95 percent of the divisions 90 percent of the manpower 90 percent of the artillery 80 percent of the tanks 80 percent of combat aircraft and 65 percent of the major warship. The european allies maintain about 3.5 million men and women on Active duly with a further 3.5 million in Reserve units the report said. The equivalent figures for All . Forces arc 2.3 million on Active duly and and 1.5 million in Reserve units. In actual dollars in 19b7 the european allies spent $138 billion on defense 34 percent More in real terms than in 1970. The report noted that the United Stales spent More both in absolute terms 1288 Bil lion in 1987, and in relative terms 6.5 percent of its Gross National product compared with the european average of about 3.5 percent. But the report slated that such numbers reflect the . Role As a world Power and also do not include other non monetary burdens borne by the european allies including loss of income from targe amounts of real estate donated for defense purposes. While the United staid bean a larger defense Burden than us allies in Western Europe a considerable portion ii spent outside of the West european Alliance according to a previous report published by the West German defense ministry. The German report also said that the Large increases in . Defense spending mainly have benefited Amer ican strategic nuclear and naval forces whereas the european defense budgets almost exclusively serve nato purposes. Camington characterized the two Day meeting As useful and successful and said other actions taken by the ministers included approval of the 1988 Force goals a document prepared every two years that stipulates the conventional Force requirements for each member nation of nato. The i9b8 Force goals incorporate the conventional defense improvements action plan formulated in May 1985, Carrington said and direct National resources to those areas where additional Effort will provide the greatest return for the collective defense of the Alliance Starling on a trial basis a conventional Arma ments planning system to determine How the military requirements of the Alliance can Best be met by nation Al armaments programs and to improve joint or cooperative armaments programs. The ministers also expressed Hope thai the super Power treaty eliminating ground based intermediate Range nuclear Force missiles would Lead to further Prog Ress in Pursuit of arms control stirring up the past �43 Pettlo by Slavi Max non mounted troops Tanj in formation outside the newly a noted Turley Barracks in Mannheim West Ger Many during a historical re enact ment ceremony to commemorate the Barracks lung history. Is. Army officials dedicated the bonding which Here renovated at a Cost of 59 Mil lion with a ceremony recalling the Bise s past. Blast forces site change for .-Cuba forum Miami a the second anti Cas Tro terrorist bombing this month forced a forum on .-Cuba relations out of a downtown hotel thursday and some cuban exile leaders say such incidents must end the 3 , blast thursday injured no one but demolished a garage door Tore away part of a Concrete Wall and blew out the windows of a car at the Home of Maria Christina Herrera in Coral Gables. Herrera a Miami Dade Community College professor who Heads a group advocating dialogue with Castro s Cuba sponsored a forum thursday afternoon an the future of .-cuban relations. The forum s site was moved after the bombing. This is a cowardly attack she said in her damaged Home. This is an attack on Freedom democracy and Freedom of expression the right to do whatever you want in a civilized  the Sheraton Brickell Point hotel where the meeting was to take place pulled out after the bombing. University of Miami president Edward t. Foot agreed to let the University serve As hos for the event instead in the interests of academic Freedom said a school spokeswoman Conchita Ruiz Topinka. The event went off without incident at the University s faculty club where Secu Rity guards screened everyone who at tended. The Fri and Coral cables police were investigating the Case. No one claimed responsibility for the attack but authorities had few doubts about its motivation. She feels that a new approach should be used toward Cuba said Fri special a it George Liscynski. She has Proba Bly made some enemies in the Community and has become the victim of a terrorist  the bombing was the second this month apparently aimed at protesting closer relations with Cuba. On May 3, a pipe bomb blew in inc door of the Cuba museum of arts and culture after a show featured some cuban painters. Congressman goes to War Over medals for Black is Washington not rep. Joseph 1. Dioguardi is battling the army and Navy Over whether a Black Soldier who fought in world War 1 and a Black Sailor who served in world War ii should be awarded inc medal of Honor 10 Correct a historic  Dioguardi . Said 1.5 million lacks fought in those wars but not one won the medal of Honor. Black service men were awarded medals of Honor in the korean War and the Vietnam War. In a letter. Assistant Secretary of the army Delbert l Spurlock or. Insisted that a Lime limit for such awards five years after the combat action has run out and showing preference for one sol Dier Over several thousand others would be inappropriate. The Navy agrees. In the world War i Case set. Henry Johnson who served with the 36�th in Fantry a Reti Mcnol of Blacks from new York that was attached to a French Divi Sion drove off 12 germans and Al though wounded saved a soldier1  was awarded the Croin do Guerre and died in 1930. The world War ii Case involves sea Man Dorrie Miller who served aboard the battleship West Virginia when the japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. He manned a machine gun eve though he was a mess Steward the Only duly in inc Navy open to Blacks at the Lime. Miller won the Navy Cross. He was killed in action in i9j3