European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 29, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes the Battle of Verdun daily Magazine d comics for kids coming soon Page 3 q Senate oks Dod budget Bill Page 5 d Dallas Downs lakers Page 21 Uno ficut publication port la a. Amid d Porcis vol. 47, no. 42 sunday May 29,1968 Good morning d 8693 a nuke arms control pact unlikely at Summit talks Helsinki Finland a prospects for agreement a the Moscow sum Mit on nuclear arms control dimmed saturday As president Reagan prepared for his talks with general Secretary Mik Hail s. Gorbachev. Two senior . Official said a prospective Confidence building measure due to be approved in Moscow this week had fallen through. They also told reporters that ton other arms control measures May not be completed during Reagan s talks with Gorba Chev. Assistant Secretary of state Rozanne l. Ridgeway said die soviets had turned Down 0 . Proposal for  of missile lest launches. And it. Gen. Colin Powell the presi Dent s National Security adviser said two agreements on monitoring underground nuclear test explosions were not Likely to be ready for Reagan and Gorbachev to approve. The first Deal with trying out . And soviet measuring devices at test explosion in july and August. The joint experiments in Nevada and at Semipalatinsk apparently will proceed in july and August but Powell said that a few technical issues have to be  the second protocol deals with so called peaceful test explosions. Powell raid negotiators were having difficulty reconciling the see Summit on Back Dana nato to upgrade forces push for Warsaw pack cuts by David Tarrant staff writer with Senate ratification of the superpower nuclear missile treaty nato s next step will be to upgrade its conventional forces and seek Sharp reductions in War saw pact conventional forces according to top military experts. But the Alliance must undertake this task in the midst of economic and political trends that favor spending less on defense these officials concede. Conventional forces defense intelligence Agency director it. Gen. Leonard h. Perroots said recently Are becoming increasingly important in the Era immediately following the intermediate Range nuclear mis Sile treaty and we can see no scenario no scenario we cry we would fight our main adversary in a position where we Are not inferior in numbers. And i m not suggesting at All that we should try to match him one for one. We can t and will not but we should not cavalierly accept the fact or perhaps Sug Gest that the inequities arc not important. It s Damn important is the Quality of their conventional forces becomes  Den. John Galvin the current nato commander in Europe who favored the treaty said it is critical for nato to move toward conventional arms reductions with the Warsaw pact taking the greater cuts. The soviets have indicated a willingness to do that Galvin said in an interview with the stars and stripes in april. We feel that it will be easy to show that the soviets arc much larger in the Warsaw pact than we Are in nato and we should try to reduce the Warsaw pact forces and especially the soviet  but Galvin said until the soviets reduce their forces he would adamantly oppose proposals to with draw . Forces in Europe. "1 think we need to first of All maintain our forces Here because. To unilaterally reduce immediately before negotiations would just not be smart at  unilateral troop reductions by nato also might tempt a Surprise attack by flip soviets Galvin said. We need to keep the minimum Force necessary to defend the Alliance and to defend Western Europe. That minimum Alliance is dependent on a relationship Wilh the other Side. If they can come Down then we can see what we can do about the size of the Force the Warsaw pad currently enjoys immense advantages in equipment a situation considered critical enough by former nato Europe commander Gen. To unilaterally reduce immediately before negotiations would just not be smart at All Gen. John Galvin Bernard Rogers to prompt his opposition to the new inf treaty. As outlined by Perroots during 9 press conference in Bonn in May Warsaw pan military production continues unabated. In virtually every component of warfare production the Warsaw pact continues to out produce  comparison of nato and Warsaw pact ground forces when fully reinforced which includes North american nato reinforcements and Warsaw pact forces located West of the ural mountains shows tanks the Warsaw pact continues to produce 3,000 tanks a year and to have More than 53,000 in its Overall inventory is. Almost 26,000 for nato. Forty percent of the Warsaw pact Armor Force is of late generation t-64, t-72 and t-80 woks. Many of these tanks Are equipped Wilh reactive and laminated Lank see nato on Page 3 nato Warsaw pact ground forces comparisons Wail Taw 1moo artillery mortar mrs 44,000 armoured personnel a 34,400 carriers fighting vehicles  1,100 attack Hullm plus 1.mo nato and Warsaw pact figures include Bath in put in Europe and fully reinforced boreas. Inf treaty s of setting disarmament in motion by William j. B Artman Washington Buret Washington with ratification of the inter mediate Range nuclear forces agreement Between the United Stales and the soviet Union Friday the Art of disarmament a three year process will begin almost immediately. Following he 93-s Senate Vole. While House chief of staff Howard Baker swiftly boarded a plane to mos cow carrying the treaty documents which arc expected to receive final signatures from president Reagan and soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev on wednesday. One month after the signing soviet and american missile expert can begin inspecting each other s nuclear Sites. The treaty allows for 20 inspections in each of the first second and third years of the 13-year inspection period followed by is inspections in each of the Cit five years and 10 in each of the final five years. Unlike the on site inspection program however re Moval of the missiles from i hair launch Sites is nut regimented. However sources familiar with the on site inspection Agency said each Side will carefully Monitor now Many missiles the other Side has removed. And they said neither Side Likely will go too far in removing blocks of the weapons unless the other Side is prepared to even things up. Both the missile removals and the on Sile inspections will be enl remely visible to those bases in see treaty on Page 3