European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 19, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside a tribes d canadians still fighting Trade Bill Battle Page 3 d electoral College ready to make it official Page 5 g education news in stripes ,. Page 8,9 d sunday s pro football results sports Page 21 the Sims and tripes authorized unofficial publication Fox the . Him cd Fonceil Good mor nirm vol. 47, no. 245 monday december 19, 198b Asi , d 8693 a . Experts to help rebuild smashed cities. Moscow a a team of Ameri can seismologists new to the soviet Union on sunday to help rebuild cities shattered by Armenia s earthquake As the soviets turn their Relief efforts from the Rescue of survivors to reconstruction. Tass the official news Agency said he group of 16 american seismologists included specialists in constructing Earth quake resistant buildings and organizing Rescue and rebuilding operations. Soviet officials All the Way up to presi Dent Mikhail s. Gorbachev have criticized the Flimsy five and nine Story apartment buildings constructed in the 1960s and 1970s that collapsed like houses of cards during the quake. Armenians whose senses have been dulled by grief continue to Hope More survivors can lie found under collapsed Homes and apartment buildings state run radio Moscow said sunday ii Days after the earthquake that killed an estimated 55,000 people. Related photo. Pane 3. Pravda the communist party daily re ported that in the first 10 Days following the dec 7 quake 15,252 people had been dug out alive from the ruins of armenian cities and Village where an estimated 300,000 people were left homeless. Bui judging by official Media reports at tempts by soviet and foreign Rescue teams to locale additional survivors in la Niakan Spiwak and other Northwest armenian cities crumbled by  becoming futile. In a 24-hour period thai ended saturday night Only one survivor was rescued and s9 bodies were retrieved from the ruins Tass said. No survivors Wen reported found Sun Day. Dutch television journalist Alexander Munninghoff who returned to Moscow sunday from Spitak said All foreign Relief workers had been asked to leave the City by tuesday apparently because the search for survivors astound. An estimated 15,000 people were killed in Spitak. Rudolph the red nosed mom Snow h a lot of fun when mom s there to Betsy a lift along Newbury Street in the make the going easier. Diane Juarez of City s Dah nto ii saturday during the a Boston kites her 4-year-old daughter son s Hist substantial snowstorm. Army Weighi no s h o Ter t o u r s i n e u rope option would help reduce Federal deficit Washington not the army is examining a plan to deploy units to Europe for Shorter hours rather than two years or longer defense department and congressional officials say. Under the plan families would re main at Home while the troops were away thus saving costs on transportation housing medical care schools and recreation. If the plan were Pui into effect a Bat Talion of 600 to 800 soldiers would take the place of a similar battalion that would return to the United states. The units would carry Only Light weapons. Tanks artillery and other heavy weapons would be left in place. The soldiers would live in Barrack Sand spend most of their time in the Field on guard or in training. Support organizations at Home stations would look after families while the soldiers were gone a they do now for some Navy and Marine corps unit this is one of the options being considered As the defense budget Conie Sunder increasing pressure for cuts to help reduce the Federal a Cicil. Congress could give final approval to such a change in troop deployments As pan of its annual review of the military budget. A variation on the plan has Bee scheduled for next Spring when Compa Nies of 200 maintenance troops from a Lional guard and Reserve units will be Fiu Vii to Europe for two weeks at a time. As each company finishes its Lour in will be replaced by another during a weekend Exchange. -. Senior army officials reportedly Are re sisting the plan arguing that it would erode military readiness because new troops would not be familiar Wilh the terrain and Battle  officers suggested that the real reason for the opposition is a fear that it would Lead to an eventual withdrawal of american troops from Europe. The thinking is that those units might be Dis banded and the size of the army reduced. ,. While intended primarily to Cul costs the proposal to rotate units would signal allies that they must do More for their own defense source said. 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Horn was referring to the soviet president s dec. 7announcement that the Kremlin will withdraw 50,000 troops and 5,000 tanks from East Germany Coccho reportedly urges gis from Europe Slovakia and Hungary. Bild quoted Horn As saying that in response the United Stales ought to announce a partial withdrawal of its troops from Europe. About 216,000 . Troops Are stationed in Western Europe according to the North Allaric treaty organization most of them in West Germany nato says Here arc about 2,200,000 soviet troops stationed in Europa. Nato has a collective troop strength in Europe of ,213,500, compared with 3,090,000 for the Warsaw. Pact according to nato. ". F