European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 30, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes re army Steps up plans to shield copters from radio Waves Page 2 q Marine corps bans Golf parties in Wake of scandal Page 4 d a Day to remember America s War dead Page 5 d pistons beat celtics take playoff Lead sports Page 21 and stripes Tab unofficial l. 47, no. Monday May 30, 1986 Summit hits possible signing of More poofs appears. To a i Ilin Lime in in a , Finland a presi Dent Reagan s Summit with soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev i unexpected snap saturday on the eve of their talks As . Officials said Prospect had faded for signing three secondary arms agreements and the soviets harshly Erit i cited . Aid to afghan rebels. The pre Summit uncertainty emerged As Reagan made final preparations for his trip to Moscow on sunday and the presidium of the supreme soviet ratified inc medium Range arms control treaty. . Officials said chances had evaporated for signing an agreement on and Vance notification of ballistic missile tests by the superpowers. Moreover they said two lesser arms control measures May not be ready for signing As had been hoped. Although none of the three agreements would have been considered major arms aside from the arms Agenda officials said they did not Spect announce Cable Progress on differences on human rights and regional disputes. In a development Hal could further Dampen the climate of the Reagan Gorbachev meetings the soviets hinted sat urday that they might halt their with on arms control issues particularly i View of the failure of the superpowers to conclude a treaty to curb strategic nuclear weapons. Bels. The foreign ministry statement car ried by the Tass news Agency and in evening news show Eremya look rum at 08693 a snags unlikely the lavish supplies of . Arms to Paki Stan intended specifically for the Anil government afghan forces the United Stales has been supplying afghan rebels Wilh an estimated 1500 million annually in arms and other Mili tary supplies channelled through Paki Stan ii has pledged 10 continue to do so us Long As the soviet Union keeps up it military support of inc afghan govern , Reagan was described As upbeat rested and very Well prepared see Summit on Back Page nato to upgrade forces push Warsaw pack cuts by David tar stuff writer with Senate ratification of the us Pewowar nuclear missile treaty nato s next step will be by upgrade it conventional forces and seek Sharp Rcd Chiovin War saw pact conventional forces lop military cup essay. But the Alliance must undertake this to skip the midst of economic and political trends that spending less on defense these officials concede. Conventional forces. Defense intelligence a. Director it. Gen. Leonard h. Per tools said Are be coming increasingly important in the Era immediately following the intermediate Range nuclear missile treaty and we can Sec no scenario no scenario where we would fight our main adversary in a position where we arc Noi inferior in numbers. And i m not suggesting at All that we should try to match him one for one. We can l and will not. But we should not cavalierly accept inc fact or perhaps Sug Gest that the inequities arc not important. H s Damn important As the Quality of their conventional farces becomes better Gen. John Galvin inc current nato commander in Europe who favored the treaty said it is critical for nato to move toward conventional arms reductions Wilh the Warsaw pact taking the greater cuts. The soviets have indicated a willing ass to do that. Galvin said in an interview with the stars and stripes in april. We feel Hal it will be easy to show that the soviets ire much larger in the Warsaw pact than Wear 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 Lov i of draw . Forces in Europe. I think we need to i outfall maintain our forces Here because. To  reduce immediately before negotiations would Jost not be smart at  pm unilateral troop reductions by nato also might tempt a Surprise attack by the soviets. Galvin said we need 10 keep the minimum Force necessary to defend the Alliance and to defend Western  minimum Alliance is dependent on a relationship with the other Side. If they can come Down then we can see what we can do about the size of the Force. The Warsaw pact currently enjoys immense advantages in equipment a situation considered critical enough by former nato Europe commander Gen. Bernard to to prompt his apposition to the new inf treaty. As outlined by Perroots during a press confine Warsaw act military production Conj Wes United. In virtually every component of wave urdu us need to keep mini sum Force necessary to defend tha Alliance and to  Europe.1 ten. John Galvin lion Thoj Sursaw  out produce  Aji Parison of nato Anoff Warsaw pact ground Fordjr when fully reinforced. Whf includes North Korican nato  Warsaw pact res located West of the ural mount pcs shows tanks the Warsaw pact continue vol Prepuce 3 000 tanks a year and to have More than Sloop in its Overall inventory is. Almost 26,000 for Nowd. Forty percent of the Warsaw pact Armor Force is of the Gen a ration t-64, t-12 and t-80 tanks Many of wisc tanks Are equipped with Reade Amin Alc nato Warsaw pact ground forces comparisons  arms by Mormur Mills 44.00o armoured Porson nol .,34,400 carriers   1,300 attack helicopters 1,150 nato and Warsaw pact Liguras include both in place in Europe and fully reinforced forces. Inf treat approval sets disarmament in motion11 Washington wifi ratification of the inter mediate Range nuclear facts agreement Between the United states and the soviet Union Friday the act of disarmament a Threa