European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 17, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes tuesday january 17,1989 Carlucci decries Dod budget cuts Washington a defense Secretary Frank c. Carlucci sunday said it would he devastating to the Pentagon if the Bush administration decided to accept automatic cuts mandated under the Gramm Rudman deficit reduction Law. Carlucci also repeated the Reagan administration s refusal to comment on the possibility of . Military action against suspected Poison Gas Plant being constructed in Libya. I think the stories along those line shave been very much exaggerated the Pentagon chief said on Abc s this week with David asked if the United states is planning to bomb the libyan Plant Carlucci said i m not going to answer a question based on military contingency such answer might Well put our peo ple in president Reagan in his final budget sent to Congress this past week requested $315.2 billion a 2 percent increase after inflation for National defense in the 1990 fiscal year beginning oct. 1. But there has been speculation that if the administration of George Bush and Congress fail to reach agreement on reducing the Federal budget deficit the White House might be willing to accept automatic spending cuts imposed under the Gramm Rudman legislation. Asked about this possibility Carluc isaid it would certainly be devastating to the defense department based on preliminary estimates we d have to take something like $26 billion out of the de sense department. Our Force Structure is Down to about the minimum you can get and still main Tain our rotation schedules he said. Scouts of those dimensions would really mean laying up ships getting rid of peo ple taking away Carlucci contended that Reagan s re quest for 2 percent real growth in defense spending was not out of line with the improved atmosphere of .-soviet re lations. On the contrary i think one can make a very credible Case that the new relationship with the soviet Union has come about because we have been negotiating from a position of strength he said. And when you re on the verge of Success you Don t suddenly throw i your bargaining he vast Brief czech police scatter protesters for 2nd Day Prague up hundreds of police backed by water Cannon and tear Gas charged into a Public Square for a second Day monday and scattered thousands of workers on the 20th anniversary of the suicide of a dissident student. The police apparently attacked the worker when a group of them tried for a second time to place Flowers at the site in Wenceslas Square where Jan Palach set himself on fire in 1969 to protest the soviet led invasion of Czechoslovakia. Dazed and surprised workers scattered As police Paddy wagons and water Cannon roared into the Square bringing hundreds of riot police. Police officer speaking through a bullhorn or dered that the Square be cleared and when some refused to leave the officers fired tear Gas and charged. There were no immediate reports of injuries but a human rights activist said it was believed several arrests were made. The incident occurred a Day after riot police used tear Gas and water Cannon to disperse thou Sands of demonstrators who gathered in Wences Las Square to Mark Palach s death. Official polish television said in its evening news program that More than 90 people were arrested in sunday s demonstration and activist sources said about 20 organizers of the memorial service were detained before the ceremony began. Panel from Page 1 issuing permits for air shows like the one that has been staged annually at Ramstein. After the aug. 28 Accident critics charged that the ministry is too lax in ensuring that such air shows pose no threat to civilians. A special committee of West Germany s parliaments currently investigating the Ramstein disaster. Shu Fez praises soviet Progress As Fie arrives to sign rights pact Vienna Austria a praising the soviet Union for its Progress on human rights Secretary of state George Shultz arrived monday to wrap up the most ambitious human rights Accord of the 1980s. Shultz called for the dismantling of the soviets radio jamming transmitters and renewed the . De Mand that the soviets tear Down the Berlin Wall. Recalled action on the Wall one of the acid tests of Kremlin intentions. The Secretary and other foreign ministers Are i Vienna to sign the East West human rights and Security Accord a 35-nation review of the 1975 Helsinki agreements. The 50-Page document took More than two years to negotiate and was formally adopted on sunday. It contains landmark commitments on human rights and set the Seal on new nato Warsaw pact talks on conventional arms control that Are due to open in Vienna in March. Shultz flew to Vienna from Washington on his final diplomatic Mission after 6 /2 years As state depart ment chief. He was to speak monday to foreign ministers reviewing the Vienna Accord. Listing human rights improvements As his proudest achievement Shultz credited the soviets and their East european allies with adopting much More open societies than they had in 1975, when the agreement to Foster East West understanding was signed. Shultz told reporters As he flew to Vienna that real Progress has been made particularly in the last two or three however he called on the soviets to dismantle the giant transmitters that had jammed Western radio broadcasts for years. Late last year the soviets an their East european allies stopped interfering with radio Liberty and radio free Europe broadcasts. Jamming has stopped and we Don t want to see it instituted Shultz said. Therefore Shultz said we think that the facilities by which you Jam ought to be dismantled so that you can t Start it up Bee from Page 1 Ca located 3. Where is the Rai Niest spot in the contiguous 48states? 4. Which countries have More land area than the United states 5. Name the four oceans. 6. The present Day horse was introduced into the Western hemisphere by people from which country 7. What devastating storm has a funnel shaped Cloud 8. What Type of fencing ended the open Range of the american West 9. What is Iceland s most important Export 10. Name two of the four states with names begin Ning with a that do not Border Canada. School level Competition for fourth through eighth graders is already under Way in Many areas. Some 83,000 Public and private schools across the nation were invited to participate and 25,000 accepted the offer according to the National geographic. The top 100 geography students in each state will then be chosen from school winners through a written exam. State championships will be held april 7. The to student in each state will come to Washington for the National championship May 18-19. The answers to the quiz questions above Are 1. North Dakota. 2. Northern and Western hemispheres. 3. The olympic Peninsula on Washington state s Pacific coast. 4. The soviet Union Russia is not acceptable can Ada and China. 5. Pacific Atlantic Arctic and Indian. 6. Spain. 7. Tornado. 8. Barbed wire. 9. Fish. 10. Maryland Massachusetts Mississippi and Missouri. King from Page 1 civil rights As Well As for absolute Equality for All in Washington Bush commemorated the Holiday with a glowing tribute toking in a speech to about 300 prominent Blacks. He lived a hero s life. He dreamed hero s dreams. He left a hero s indelible Mark on the mind and imagination of great nation Bush told members of the inaugural afro american committee. Looking ahead to his inauguration on Friday Bush said what becomes of Martin Luther King s dreams is up to must not fail him. We must not fail in South Africa . Ambassador Edward Perkins marked the Holiday by unveiling a Bronze bust of King on a Bushy plot of land in Pretoria where the . Embassy is to stand. In Boston Massachusetts gov. Michae Dukakis invoked King s memory when he announced an executive order that will Barthe state from buying goods and services from companies that have dealings wit the South african government. In Groton conn., 51 demonstrator were arrested on charges of disorderly conduct at the electric boat shipyard a they protested the construction of Tri Dent nuclear submarines. The demonstrators Many carrying pictures of King and citing his belief in non violent pro test said the demonstration was held in Observance of his birthday. Elsewhere around the nation planned observances of the King Holiday included the swearing in of the first Blacks on the Dallas county Ala commission in More than a Century. The ceremony was scheduled for Selma where King began the 1965 Selma to Montgomery March that resulted in passage of the voting rights act. The Liberty Bell in Philadelphia Wasto be symbolically tapped monday and Church and school Bells were being run Gin Michigan. Golfers were to tee off in a suburban los Angeles tournament Bene fiting King s Southern Christian leadership conference. The Observance at Ebenezer Baptist Church capped a week of remembrance in King s Hometown. At the Church Sun Day King s widow urged Bush to hold True to his Call for a Kinder gentler nation and to impose strict sanctions against South Africa. In addition Coretta Scott King said inner annual state of the dream speech that the United states must do More by providing education and economic assistance directly to Black South african who Bear the Brunt of suffering in that troubled i think we ought to take the presi Dent elect at his word and hold him to his Call for a Kinder gentler nation where peace and Justice Are in fact a reality she said. But a Kinder gentler nation will require Kinder gentler mrs. King spoke before an estimated1,200 people at he Church where King and his father were co pastors. It May have been her final state of the dream address As president of the King Center a memorial and policy Center in Atlanta. On saturday she announced that her27-year-old son Dexter Scott King would assume the presidency april 4 the 21st anniversary of King s assassination at a Memphis tenn., Motel in 1968. Monday was the fourth year for the King National Holiday. In 1983, after considerable debate Congress named the third monday in january As a National Holiday honouring King whose actual birthday was sunday. Most states also observe Martin Luther King or. Day As a state Holiday. Among the few that Don t is Arizona where rallies were planned in Phoenix and Tucson and where prospects Are Uncertain for a measure that lawmakers plan to introduce this year
