European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 29, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d paychecks smaller for some Europe soldiers. Page 2 o catholics to play Host to lutheran service Page 3 d auditors claim defense contractors overpaid Page 5 q army sends subsidy for child care Page 9 f ripes authorized unofficial publication for Thiu. A�m�0 Good morning vol. 47, no. 194 saturday october 29. 1988 d 8693 a Short Range nuclear changes of d with belgian abstention the Hague Netherlands a nato defense ministers ended talks Friday with a Call for modernizing Short Range nuclear weapons but Belgium refused to endorses report laying out proposals for the program. I see no hesitation said . Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci. We arc going ahead on a step by step basis toward  however belgian defense minister Guy co Csc told reporters that his nation s Center left coalition govern ment abstained from endorsing the ministers report. Mrs. Dukakis slips Kitty Dukakis tap Stumbus thursday while appearing at a rally with her husband in Evergreen Park 111. And is quickly helped to her feet she was apparently unhurt. See related Story Back Page assuming any commitment now would be Prema Ture he said. The Issue is controversial in Europe where the front line weapons would Likely be targeted in a conflict. Despite Belgium s abstention Carlucci and the other defense chiefs of the North Atlantic treaty organization said Friday in i hair final statement that he Alliance needed the Short Range nuclear arms. Their statement made no mention of Belgium s hesitation. The Short Ranee weapons have received new Atten Tion since the United states and soviet Union signed treaty in december to eliminate All intermediate Range land based nuclear missiles. Most nato nations want to extend the Range of Short Range or tactical weapons up to the treaty limit of 300  the foreseeable future nato requires Diversi fied survivable and operationally flexible nuclear see nato on Back Page senator profess bid to save overseas bases from closure Washington a a Pentagon study recommending that no overseas . Military bases be close Dis ludicrous and beyond belief he chairman of the Senate armed services readiness  said Friday. Sen. Alan Dixon dial said he fears the report to a special base closing commission will Lead to a rubber stamp of the military services closure recommendations rather than an unbiased Independent Analy  related Story Back Page Pentagon spokesman Fred Hoffman declined to comment. We have sent a classified report on the subject to Congress Hoffman said. But As you know i Cun t discuss classified  legislation signed by president Reagan this week authorized the Independent citizens commission to decide which of the nation s Domestic and overseas bases Are outmoded and could be closed at a projected annual savings of 12 billion to 55 billion. Dixon said Deputy defense Secretary William h. Tan in informed the armed services committee in recent letter that a Pentagon study being sent to the commission recommends that no foreign bases be closed. The study finds that the present overseas base Structure is required to support . Forces abroad and current operational plans Dixon quoted Taft s letter As saying. Dixon opposed he base closing legislation when the Senate considered it saying he feared Only Domestic bases would become closure targets. "1 find i ludicrous and beyond belief that the department of defense is trying to Tell us. Not one could be closed he said. The american taxpayer deserves considerably More for his and her Money than this report  Dixon said the recommendation also would discourage . Allies from shouldering a greater portion of their own defense. The Over 1,300 . Overseas bases constitute a sizable percent of the . Military budget he added. Yet when we arc trying to trim costs the department of defense is saying this Large chunk cannot be touched. Already the Pentagon is seeking to protect its sacred cows at the expense of the us.  rescuers ready to end efforts hoping whales really free now Barrow Alaska a two whales trapped for More than two weeks by encircling Arctic ice apparently swam to Freedom before Daylight Friday after Days of efforts to free them by eskimos and icebreakers an official said they were last seen at 11 45 . They were looking Good North slope Borough mayor George Ahmaogak said after talking by radio to eskimos who had gone to open breathing holes for the whales. The last sighting was about an hour before Sunrise. I feel great. I feel like i got no More Burden said Arnold Brower the senior whaling Captain who directed the Eskimo Rescue efforts of culling breathing holes in the ice with Chain saws. Brower said he is confident the two California Gray whales swam to the open channels in the ice leading to ice free water. He said he is sure they did not die. A third whale disappeared a week ago and was presumed dead. As night fell thursday in sub freezing temperatures rescuers had left the whales in a breathing Hole just 330 Yards from open water a distance that Federal whale Biol Ogist David Withrow called essentially one Long  the whales1 condition appeared worse after they struggled through the slush and ice left in the soviet ice Breakers Wake wednesday night and thursday. Both bled from multiple but superficial cuts. The icebreaker Vladimir Arseniev and its companion ship the Admiral Makarov had remained nearby and offered to lend further assistance by cutting a second path through the ice off the Northern Alaska coast. The snips then planned to depart for their Home port of Vladivostok. Rear . Sigmund pc Casto of the National oceanic and atmospheric administration said he soviet Crews were ready logo  we re Here until those whales depart from the area Ron Morris the Rescue coordinator said before the whales disappeared Early Friday. The whales were caught in the Arctic ice for nearly three weeks by an Early freeze. The mammals plight triggered a massive Rescue Effort involving Chain saw wielding eskimos and the soviet ice Breakers that captured worldwide attention rescuers though that after the icebreakers broke a Channel to open water wednesday the whales would re sume their migration. But the pair lingered and parts of the Channel re froze