European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 30, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                If Side stripes g paychecks smaller for some Europe soldiers. Page 2 d Navy ships confuse Jet Alert system Page 4 d some newspapers dropping controversial cathy1 comic Page 6 g army sends subsidy for child care Page 9 the stars and stripes som a id 8693 Avol. 47.no. 195 sunday october 3d. 1988 Dod proposal to save foreign biases criticized Washington a a Senate sub committee chairman has lambasted a Pentagon recommendation that none of its More than 1,500 overseas bases be dosed. I find it ludicrous and beyond belief that the department of defense is living to Tell us not one could be closed said sen. Alan Dixon d-lll., chairman of the Senate armed services readiness subcommittee. Legislation signed by president Rea Gan last week authorized an Independent citizens commission to decide which of the nation s Domestic and overseas bases could be closed at a rings of $2 billion to arc outmoded 01 projected annual is billion. Dixon said Deputy by Fonse Secretary William h. Taft advise the armed services committee in a a Eccl letter that a Pentagon study being Lent to the commission recommends that i reign bases be closed. If us. Communities arc going asked to undergo significant economic social upheaval through installation Closi and realignments i believe they have a right to expect that our bases overseas will receive the same scrutiny As those in Illinois Alaska or Michigan Dixon said. Pentagon spokesman Fred Hoffman declined comment telling reporters we have sent a classified report on the subject to Congress. But As you know i can t discuss classified  Dixon also contended the recommendation was the wrong message to Send . Allies. He said it would discourage them from shouldering a greater portion of the Cost for their own defense. V for valor labourer Robert Martini places the Fin Ishing touches on the last Section of lie Vietnam veterans me Norta it Long wharf in new 1 liven . Thursday. The a shaped Monument stunting for valor will be inscribed with the names of 58 area men killed in the War. It will be dedicated nor. S. Sen. Alan Dixon used bases May be turned into drug centers Washington _ up some unused military fact Liliamay be turned into drug treatment  an administration program that would Call on the resources of the government s two largest departments. Officials acknowledged at a news1 Terence Friday that the memorandum of understanding signed by the depart ment of defense and the department or health and human services is essentially a starting Point rather than a fleshed Oul program. It Calls for the health department to identify areas where the need for expanded drug treatment capacity is greatest and the defense department then to see if it has any spare space in those areas that could be used As is or renovated. The actual centers would be operated along the same lines As existing Public drug treatment facilities typically run by slate and local health officials. The new program is an initiative of Jhc National drug policy Board a cab inc Mcvol group headed by attorney a neral Dick Thorburgh. Tuning Thorburgh and has Secre tary Otis r. Bowen at a ceremony where the agreement was signed was William Howard Tel in Deputy Secretary of de sense. They had no estimate on How Many see bases on Back Page Arctic activist favored eating 2 freed whales Toronto a an activist at tending a conference on Arctic cooperation said Friday the two whales that captured the world s attention off the coast of Alaska should have been eaten instead of freed. In my mind there s something wrong to save these two whales while you arc destroying the life of the human beings of the North a Taluk Lyng of the Greenland office of the inuit circumpolar conference said at a news conference concluding the three Day meeting. To my mind it s a degradation of human values he said. The native Peoples of the Arctic Region generally prefer the term inuit to Eskimo. Meanwhile in Barrow Alaska the two Gray whales stranded in Arctic ice for nearly three weeks apparently swam to Freedom Friday ending a million Dollar Rescue Effort watched around the world. There is no evidence of the whales in the immediate area Rescue coordinator Ron Morris said. "1 think the whales Are definitely  North slope Borough mayor George Ahmaogak said the whales were last seen Friday morning. Lynge noted the enormous resources a cooled to the freeing of the whales dubbed crossbeam and Bonnet by their rescuers from the Arctic ice. It s belter to eat them he said. The activist said environmentalists campaigns against fur trapping and Seal by Mizik in the Arctic have devastated traditional cultures in the Region. The conference sponsored by the government affiliated Canadian Institute for sea whales on Back Page by noes Fqy