European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 23, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes wednesday november 23,19bb Dod spending must be realigned to shrinking budgets lao  a r Washington up the  reduce spending plans to get its programs in line-1 with shrinking budgets and May even have to rethink inc scope of . Commitments worldwide a congressional Agency said monday. The general accounting office in one of a number of presidential transition reports Laid out the Challenge facing Percsi Donl Clcil George Bush the Pentagon an Congress. Defense budgets doubled Between 1980 and 1985and have steadily declined since then. But the Gao noted that the defense department s 1988-1992 i year plan would Cost $200 billion More than Isle Jota to be available for defense spending. The 1989 defense budget is about  an the Gao said As have Many analysts in and out of government that the  will Likely have to live with constrained Orno growth budgets for sometime to come. Layman Dod needs to balance strength with  the Peijun Jsn it said must adjust its propose programs and spending patterns to recognize current  defense planners the Gao said icons Only at efficient production Afrand the " tense Secretary should  to the Var ious Osmose agencies to in Surji Ner program stability Long vre i Fly r  in managing weapons programs. Defense  Wust rethink the viability . Worl dmm  current Levels of . Alj a Burden sharing sail e rising costs of our  in absence of increased Burden sharing May simply be unaffordable. Any  should consider Force Structure Lions the lao said. In addition the Gao said policy Maken should look at military manpower and compensation systems including the retirement program. The Gao said retirement benefits and other com pc salons take up 26 percent of the defense budget and that most servicemen leave the military Between 41 and 45 years old. Ii is becoming too expensive to recruit train an retain highly skilled personnel and then have them retire at the Peak of their careers said the report. The report also recommended thai the defense Secretary carefully consider inc Lone term costs of adding new weapons systems. It noted that four battleships were ordered reactivated during the Early 1980s, at Cost of about ii billion and the three now Back in service Are operating at about $150 million a year requiring Large Crews when there arc personnel Short Ages. A. Among inc other major Points made by the Gao in looking for ways to Cut defense costs it i important not to shortchange the readiness and sus Tam ability of . Forces. ,j0 in the weapons procurement area there should be Fer Caler program stability. The Pentagon should in  of its procurement slam Fandray More intention to weapons testing conducted by Independent Teyf agencies. The  do a better Job of managing the inventory of five Tai lion different items thai it keeps in Stock and in particular pay attention to reducing its stocks of unneeded secondary items which in 1988 were valued at $28.9 billion or 31 percent of the total inventory. Ethnic albanians continue Yugoslavia protests by the los Angeles times prist1na, Yugoslavia thousands of ethnic albanians took to the streets monday for the fourth straight Day of protests against continuing serbian pres sure for increased control Over the Serbi an Home province of Kosovo. Police did nothing to Stop the Albani ans As they marched twice on communist party Headquarters and rallied in soccer stadium to demand the reinstate ment of two albanian leaders forced to resign under serbian nationalist pres sure  rising albanian backlash to the serbian nationalist movement recalls a albanian outburst in 1981 in which nine news Brief persons were killed in rioting and hundreds of albanian youths were jailed. Serbian nationalist Leader Slobodan Milosevic and his supporters have Bee mounting Large demonstrations for much of the last year campaigning for changes in the 1974 yugoslav Constitution which officially takes two regions of ser Bia Kosovo and Vojvod Ina and makes them autonomous regions thus giving the two areas greater control Over serbian economic and political matters. The serbs of Kosovo charge that they arc being brutally repressed by the ethnic albanians who Are a majority in the autonomous Region and the serbs would like to see the Region come under More direct control of the Federal government. The 1974 Constitution was engineered in part to Case fears of serbian Domi Nance in the yugoslav Federal balance which includes six republics As Well Ashe two autonomous regions. In october Milosevic look his Light to inc National communist party and received at least a temporary setback when the Central leadership closed ranks against him. After regrouping his forces however Milosevic has continued to press for the installation of his own handpicked Lead ers in Kosovo where serbs Are in the minority. On thursday he succeeded in forcing the resignations of  Vlasi the Alba Nian politburo member in Kosovo and. Kazusa Jasari the Kosovo communist party Leader. The resignations inspired the list Large demonstrations Here since 1981and have confounded even the Kosovo communist party Leaden. They seem unsure How to respond tothe increasing flood of protests in inc streets of this City of about 100.000, the capital of the poorest Region of Yugoslavia where unemployment is running at 50percent. V the parly s Central committee i planning a meeting for later this week but no one Here monday could predict what the party leaders will do next. Body of on a ssi s he d pending tests f o r d rugs Buenos Aires Argentina up Argen Tine authorities have ordered the body of Christina Onassis held in Buenos Aires pending new medical tests examining the possibility the shipping heiress died of a drug overdose. Buenos Aires judge Juan Carlos Cardinal said monday that medical experts so far have not found any evidence that Onassis death the result of Ancic Essof fluid in inc lungs was drug induced. He said further tests were nevertheless no Essary to remove doubts. Another magistrate Federal judge Alberto Piotti of the san Isidro District which includes theluster of vacation Homes in tort Guitas town ship outside of Buenos Aires where Onassis died said monday the body has been interdicted until an investigation has determined whether drugs caused the death. Piloti who in his Federal capacity has Juristic lion Over my drug cases told the news Agency Noticia Argentina a that iwo witnesses had re ported sighting a Container of pills near the body but thai this element was not found by police " Bush from Page 1 Brady a longtime Friend of stay on As Secretary of the Treasury a Post he has held since August when James a. Baker Iii resigned to Bead Lac bjj5h Campaign Effort. Bush named Baker As his Secretary of Safter the election. The Day saying thai Darman s would be perhaps the difficult Job Bush said that his Choice for the bomb Post had the requisite experience in government to bring detailed knowledge of Federal programs to the Job and was experienced in working with Cong res Bush aides said that the budget director s past would have Cabinet rank a decision thalis up to the discretion of each administration. I Darman 45, has been closely associated with Baker first in the while House and then at inc Treasury where he served As Baker s Deputy on Capitol Hill bothj9arman and Baker have Lon been viewed As prawn Ranisis especially in budget Mai lers and Darman has been a participant in negotiations with Congress Over budget and Trade issues and a 1983 measure to ensure the solvency of the social . A styled where budget cuts might come to reduce the deficit Darman told reporters monday Iha Tjie bad read extremely clearly the vice president s lips on this. Social Security is not to be  Bui he did say thai costly  programs such As medicare and  prime t8el of a big Reward in terms  budget savings in naming Darm of Bush said that he was Demon Strating his  to the deficit problem As a top priority of Huyid ministration to reassure jittery do Mesic Andhiv Crescas financial markets. He Sai Ethe was under no illusions about the simplicity Michaels. Dukakis the Democrat he Defeated in the presiden tial election and said he would like to meet with his former rival. Aides said that no meeting has been scheduled. Snow from Page 1 Bavaria s first major snowfall coincided nicely with the opening of ski season atthe armed forces recreation Center s three recreation areas. Skiers have been skiing on theut spic in Carmich Panen Kirchon for Al least two weeks but the 30 inches of new Snow that had fallen on Germany s highest Mountain by 7 . Monday should make the skiing there even belter. It s snowing so Nard you can barely see across the Street 1 arc spokesman Harry Connors said monday  s almost like a  army officials curtailed movement of some non essential military traffic Mon Day by declaring red Road condition sin Goppinger Munich sch Sobisch Hall and some Stuttgart military sub comm Nitiss. German traffic reports warned of several closed roads in the Billy Schwabish Hall area. The snowfall also prompted the s6thfield arty come the army1 penning ii missile organization to Call off exercise Carbon Archer a Day earlier than planned. The command Post exercise in volved2,000 to 3,000 sol ditto but no missiles in a Man Euver area Between Heilbronn and command headquarter ajl Schwabish pm find spokesman maj. Jerry Hart said. Come two 10 Oil Ftp it Flatt a Mai Curth Bow ton in a Wii India Yeti own in gun Gin