European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 23, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page Al the stars and stripes thursday. March 23,1989 Gorbachev signs decree gutting military Moscow Ai j president Mikhail Gorbachev signed a decree reducing inc armed forces by 500.000 persons within the a Cal two years culling conventional arms and reducing defense spending he official tas news Agency said tuesday. Gorbachev announced he cuts dec. 7 in a Tok sch to Lotf United nations he has Slid 240,000 men arc to he Cut from the european inc Alcor. Tie a ctr said the Culi Are being made to bring the armed forces into line with present soviet military doctrine giving a More defensive nature to their organizational Structure maintaining he country s defense capability at the level of reasonable and reliable sufficiency and continuing to scale Down defense spending the decree instructed local governing councils to Lake necessary measures to provide employment and housing for those discharged from military service i connection with the cuts Norway s ambassador his month said the planned soviet cuts include the reduction of up to 20,000 troops based in tic Leningrad military District which includes the Kola Peninsula. Ambassador Olav Buchert Johannes sen said soviet defense ministry officials disclosed the plans in a meeting with a norwegian parliamentary delegation Visi Ling Moscow the Leningrad military District is part of what the soviets refer o As the North Western theater of military operations the Pentagon s 1988 assessment of soviet military might says the soviets have 12 divisions 1,350 tanks 3.750 a Mored personnel carriers and infantry fighting vehicles 2,100 artillery units. 90 tactical submarines and 160 tactical air Craft in the. Northwestern theater. Buchert Johannessen snid the soviet military officials told the norwegian Law makers thai they arc still considering How Many troops will be Cut and from which divisions. Crash course Lna Curili r jut u of Thailand fucked by frequent shells from Vii in Nam is pins schoolchildren gather in bunk or in it Minui their class work under ices than Deal conditions As soon As the All Clear sounds they will return to their school in the Village of Aranyai Rathet to wait until the explosions St vietnamese give private Charity of to assist amerasian children , Thailand up Vietnam for the first Lime has Ai Liboria d a private american Charity to provide housing food and medical care to the half children fathered by americans during the Vietnam War a. . Doctor said wednesday. The vietnamese government has Given. Us Permis Sion to Cua Minc treat and immunize amerasian Chil Dren in to Chi Munh City formerly Saigon said or. Charles Mitchell medical director of the private Hawaii based foundation for arh Crasian children s emergency support. Mitchell who is also director of services at Maui memorial Hospital said it is the first time since 1975 that such permission has been Given to american medical personnel he said inc foundation has also been Given official permission la provide housing and food to the hundreds of homeless amerasian children living on the streets of to Chi Minn City Vietnam s capital. The group s founder and director. John Rogers of Honolulu is still in Vietnam trying 13 rent a building to shelter at least 50 amerasian Street children Mitch isaid Mitchell to returned earlier this week from his third in to Vietnam did he worked wish three Viet names doctors and ,nurses Ine treat and immunize 41 homeless am asians. I be said he completed a study of the health problems of am asians that. 76 percent have can line eng medical problems the afflictions include skin infections intestinal Paradies severe tooth decay malaria and heart prob lems Mitchell said none of the amerasian surveyed a been immune de. He said and most suffered from some degree of malnutrition. The cite kids never know where they arc going to get their next meal. Often they cat from garbage cans he said. He said Vitamin supplements were provided for most of them. All the costs of the program come from donations or out of the pockets of Mitchell and Rogers the doctor said. We. Anticipate spending 150,000 to this car but h is still hard to Tell because it is Jusi getting started Mitchell said before we could t do much but now that we Are Legal and officially accepted we can do much More he said. Mitchell said 20 percent of the organization s medi Cal supplies and treatment would go to needy Vietnam Ese. Mitchell has also agreed to. Provide medical training to vietnamese doctors As part of the health workers training school in to Chi Mph City. He estimated that there Are up to 30.000 Accra. Irani still in Vietnam other Cost Imalis have put the. Number at about 10,000. Mitchell said Many amerasian arc homeless and Mosi feel alienated from vietnamese society. Because. Of their parentage. L now nobody is doing anything at ajl for the homeless amerasian nothing at All he said. He said his organization is Independent of inc . Government but he Hopes that inc government will eventually join in efforts. To assist Amera Slans. The. United states has off Rcd to resettle All children of part american parentage and Congress has aligned funds for an amerasian transit Center about i 000 am asians have been brought to the United states Bui the program Bas been delayed by distrust and political conflict Between the two governments. World today artist s housekeeper sold paintings authorities say Athens Greece a a housekeeper left in charge of several Hundred paintings by a leading greek artist Nikos Hadjikyriako Ghikas sold and gave away More than 50 of inc works while the Painter was out of the country police said tuesday. Maria Namon nusa ii a 46-year-old yugoslav told police she sold 20 of he paintings loan Art dealer for 25 million drachmas �160,000 and spent the Money living it Susok who Lead worked for the artist since 1979, was being held pending trial said a police spokesman who requested anonymity. The works including Oil paintings lithographs and Pencil sketches had All been destined for the Bonaki. Museum a private museum in Athens. S. Korea wants investment of billions in car Industry Seoul South Korea up1 the government Hopes to see More than-$9.7 billion invested in the automobile Industry Over the next four years to make South Korea the world s fifth largest automaker by the mid-1990s, government officials said tuesday. Officials at he Trade and Industry ministry said the projected investment will be made on a year by year basis until 1992 to i Pant Auto production facilities and develop new technologies. During 1989 the government wants to see $2.5 Bil lion invested including $2,1 billion for expansion of facilities and $433 million for technology development the officials said. The total represents a 47 percent inc Casc Over last year. With inc. Investment South Korea s annual Auto production capacity. 1 87 by. The end of this year including. 1.41 million passenger cars the officials said. Current capacity is 1.71. Million units including 1.32 million passenger cars. Concorde to seek records on around the world trip London a a. British airways concorde Jet with some Well heeled passengers aboard will make the first All supersonic flight around the world beginning april i the or Ilijin airline announced monday. The three week trip covering 38,215 Miles in a planned total flying Lime of 3s hours and i minute could set More than a dozen world Speed records Brit t h airways Sard. The average Speed of the supersonic Jet will be ,091.3 Miles per hour the trip will Start in London on april 1 and finish there on april 23, the concorde aircraft part of Brit Isufi airways Fleet has been chartered by Lorraine travel Bureau inc., a Lour operator based in Miami. The forc is $39,000 per person based on double occupancy or $40,500 for a single passenger. The round trip fan on Normal concorde flight be tween new York and London for example is around $6,400, the fart for the special trip includes luxury hotels meals and sightseeing in most of the cities where the concorde will Stop on its Way around the world other cities will Only be fuel stops
