European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 28, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page the stars and stripes saturday May 28,1988 Congress moving quickly budget pass Washington a t _ _ with in Wal Speed toward final a toval of a $1.1 trilled a Federal budget far ihy/999 fiscal year thanks a ""1� bipartisan cuff  hdu5e\pproved the buds by a 201-181 Vole thursday Quick Senate approval is exp cled. \ the measure sent Ains s2jp.5 billion in new defense , by urn far International affairs and 5148 billion of Domestic programs for 1989. The Pentagon s sol Allhan increase is below the amount needed 10 jeep Pace with inflation. They also agreed Taw percent pay raise for military personnel a a Federal civilian employees. Iranian Biats attack freighter press Topper Manama of Bahrain a Warec iranian speedboats sided a Malicse freight Friday an left it big Jig in the Strait of Hormuz then fired at a pics  when it approached the site of the at fuck shipping executives Saioc the Ess helicopter chartered by lbs television ifs not hit. Shi Ping executives had said a second ship was i but later retracted that report. Tie executives said the is member Crew ofthc/18,000-Lon Don Miguel abandoned ship a fur the 8 . Attack. An Oman warship sail nearby rescued them. Illinois Bell hangs up fire hit phone system Chicago a Midnight was the switch ing hour for thousands of suburban Illinois Bell customers whose Telephone service a Cal up in Fiamos on Mother s Day. Al 11 59 . Thursday a technician punched a computer Button at the fire damaged Linsdale switching station hooking up half of Illinois Bell s 35,000 Hinsdale area customers to a new digital switching system. With that action these customers should Nave Normal service again 2vt weeks after the May 8 fire at the switching station a key part of the phone network for Northern Illinois Bell spokes Man Tim Bannon said thursday. Another Meese aide announces resignation w Hington a Chris Cooper head Olsch Justice  of Lega counsel May became in Ecksl aide of attorney general a win me Silt to hand in his resignation. A scooper said in a for to Meese that he will leave the . The resignation is wholly in Reatano inc cd rovers of today the Tetter Saidon a reference Arcese s Legal troubles and recent of do Hures by key aides at la Wuslick department a meesa Strote a letter Back to Cooper Ink Nimg him for your loyalty support and special vote of  syrian troops enter slums of Beirut to end fighting Beirut Lebanon a hundreds of syrian troops moved into Beirut s Southern slums Friday to end a three week Bloodbath Between rival shiite mos Lem  iranian backed Hezbollah or party of god and the syrian armed amal militia stopped shooting As the deployment  s move was expected to increase pressure for the release of in foreign Hastain including nine americans who Are believed to belied in the slums by shiite factions linked to Hezbollah. Hours after Syria announced thursday that i Stroops would move in gunmen ambushed a car Cany ing four syrian generals. All four escaped injury. About 900 soldiers wearing bulletproof vests Over their combat fatigues advanced on foot from Beirut s Airport Highway into the a Sobeiri and Shaiyah districts. A half hour earlier Shell blasts and staccato bunt of gunfire in the embattled slums resounded across Beirut. Police had no word on whal touched off the flare up which occurred despite pledge by both to. Lions to observe a  syrians advanced in three groups each made up of 300 infantrymen carrying machine guns and shoulder fixed penile launchers. The first group was followed by so lebanese police men carrying automatic Niles. The syrians set up four or five checkpoints along a  line Between the amal held Shaiyah neighbourhood and Hezbollah controlled a Sobeiri. Wailing women greeted the syrians As they move Din by showering Ihm with Rice in a traditional gesture of Welcome. Animals they re All animals animals killing Ani Mals a Man standing in front of his bomb thancred House shouted in English when he saw Western correspondents covering the syrian Advance. His House was seized by Hezbollah fighters during the final phase of the Savage Street lighting that erupted May 6. Police say 296 people have Bun killed and 1,000 wounded in the turf War. Move from Page 1 nato he said. Bui All this is very  no location has yet been determined for the base. Spokesman for nato s italian delegation said in gov eminent must resolve numerous issues associated with the move before a site can be chosen. About 12 Sites Are under consideration he said. The Issue will be discussed at nent week s Cabine meeting in Rome and then will go before the italian parliament soon after he  in Kesman said the invitation Likely will reach full debate in parliament with questions coming mainly from Italy s left Wing including its communist and environmentalist parties. It is not an easy political Issue to say let s have some fighter planes come Here " he said. Defense department officials said earlier 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 states 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 Spanish military contributions to the common defense. Nato Secretary general lord Carrington said the Alliance is seeking guidelines for Spain s future contributions to the Alliance. He said he Hopes some of these agreements for Spain to contribute Lonato s defense will be completed later this year. On other topics Carlucci said he planned to meet with his soviet counterpart during the Moscow sum Mil to discuss the superpowers Missry doctrines. Carlucci and soviet defense minister Dmitri t. Yazoo first Sci on this topic last March in Bern Switzerland following indications from the Kremlin that it was putting less emphasis on offensive military firepower Carlucci indicated that he had Token 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 be fore going to Moscow on sunday. Housing from Paga i Mainz military communities showed housing surpluses Otaling Over 1,300 units. But because of errors in its surveys the army estimated a housing deficit of Over 1,000 unit. The error resulted in planning for Over 600 unnecessary housing units according to the report. While Usa eur s process for estimating housing needs changed in january 1987, the Gao said that until the errors contained in the army s base data Are corrected overestimates of housing needs Are expected to continue. Among the problems arc overestimates of the number of married service members and the count ing of non command sponsored families who arc not authorized id live in government housing. The Gao suggested thai the Pentagon direct usar eur to establish its housing needs at less than 100 percent of its anticipated needs. It also recommended that non command sponsored families at Oversea locations be excluded from family housing requirement calculations the defense department while not entirely agreeing with the map s findings said it con cum with the recommendations find already hos directed it major commands to omit non command sponsored families from family housing requirements and directed Usa eur 10 plan at less than 100 percent of expected needs. It 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. Reagan from Paga 1 the signatory states have mustered the political will to keep on working and making  the address coupled with an official welcoming ceremony earlier at the presidential Palace marked the Only time Reagan ventured from the seclusion of government guest House where he is spending 3 i Days resting and preparing for the Summit. In Oiher developments a soviet source in Moscow declining to renamed publicly said Gorbachev plans 0 hold a news conference during the Summit the Firel time a communist party general Secretary will have held such a session on Home territory. Yevgeny Primakow a Gorbachev adviser accuse the United Sialei of violating a peace Accord by continuing to ship Amis to Afghanistan s anti communist Mujahideen guerrillas. Viktor Karpov. A top soviet arms control official called on the United slates to Speed up negotiations on a treaty to Cut Long Range nuclear arsenals by making Good on promises of Compromise. The White House said Reagan intends 10 raise the Issue of the vietnamese occupation of Cambodia with Gorbachev and said it Hopes reports of a possible troop withdrawal provide impetus for the talks. Accompanied by his wife Nancy the president will depart sunday morning on a 1 i hour flight to mos cow for his fourth Summit with Gorbachev since no vember 198s, they arc to meet a total of is hour from sunday afternoon until wednesday morning. The to will say Good Bye to each other thursday at soviet insistence the number of meetings was rut from five to four. Reagan professed to be unconcerned telling reporters at the Palace there Only had been four meetings at the Washington Summit lost december. I think we have to recognize that the soviet government has Normal business that has to be conducted and we hive to schedule accordingly. Thai s what we did in our Summit in our town Reagan said As he pined for pictures Wilh finnish president Mauno Koi Visio in a second floor Salon adorned with Silken drap eries and Crystal chandeliers. Reagan also was asked about reports that the soviets were blocking various dissidents from attending a planned meeting with him in Moscow on monday. He looked quizzically at Secretary of slate corp Shults seated to his right and replied we do the Best we  while House spokesman Martin Fitzwater said the . Embassy in Moscow has received assurances from the soviets they will not Block dissident and refuse Niki from attending the meeting. The event is on As scheduled and the people we wanted there will be there he added. Filz Waler said the guests were picked because they represent the problem that he Reagan is trying 10