European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 23, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page Zub. The stars and stripes sunday april 23.1989 soviets begin e. Europe troop pullouts Budapest up1 the first Sovil troop pullouts from Eastern Europe Are beginning with the withdrawal tuesday or the i fill tank div from Nisku Shatas in Central Hungary. Sovil and hungarian military officials have disclosed. The 88 units of the soviet army Sla to lond in Hungary will be reduced by one fourth a decrease of 0.000 soldiers by the end of 1990, col. Gen. Matwei Burlakov commander of the soviet news briefs Southern army group told a news con Ference.  another four withdrawals to the soviet Union Are expected this year. They include a tank training regiment a fighter regiment a chemical weapons Battal Ion an air defense missile regiment and other Independent units wifi heir full weaponry. Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev announced last dec. 7 during a speech to the United nations in new York that there were plans for a unilateral reduction by about 500,000 troops Over the net few years including 50,000 from East Germany Czechoslovakia and Hungary. The troop withdrawals from Hungary the first of the planned pullouts will be completed in 1990 with the removal of the airborne tis Sauli units of tool air port near Budapest and the non commissioned officers school. The withdrawals will leave 66 soviet units which will stay in Hungary until the year 2000, by which time the soviet Union has pledged to withdraw All its troops in foreign territories. The pullback includes More than 450 of the total 1,300 soviet tanks on Hun Garian soil plus More than 200 Minc Fauna hrs and guns Over 300 vehicles and other military equipment. Jordanians protesting Price boosts attack police Salt Jordan al1 rioters threw rocks at police and looted buildings in further unrest fun eled by Price increases and the government appealed for an  violence that has claimed at least cig i lives. Because of the rioting. King Hussein on a state visit to Washington cancelled his trip to Britain Sci for saturday and decided to return Home the jordanian embassy in London said. The unrest began tuesday in the South in response to Price increases of 10 percent to 50 percent on gasoline cigarettes heating Oil and other com modifies. The rioting spread o Northern Jordan on Fri Day. In sail a cily 12 Miles North of Amman demonstrators called for the ouster of prime minister Zaid Rifai whom they blame for austerity measures and declining living standards. On Friday troops banned moslem from at tending weekly prayers in mosques in troubled Southern Jordan cities in an attempt to prevent More unrest. The government announced the Price increases april 16 As part of an agreement with the International monetary fund to reschedule Jor Dan s $6 billion foreign debt. They came on top of rising unemployment and soaring inflation. Christians escape route at Lebanon port shelled Beirut Lebanon a syrian forces on sat urday fired rockets into the port of Ounich the Only escape route for Lebanon s beleaguered christians. No casualties were reported As sporadic 122mm soviet designed Grod rockets exploded around Jou Midi 10 Miles North of Beirut and the coastal High Way running North to the ancient Porto Byblos. The Aii ack came during a the acc Ciao Lull in the Battle Between the syrians aided by the moslem druse militia and the mainly Christian units of Leb anon s fractured armed forces under army Gen. Michel Aoun. By police count at least 270 a Cople have been killed and nearly 1.000 wounded in ferocious Artil Lery rocket und ump barrages that began March 8 in the divided capital. Meanwhile an estimated 4,000 christians were gathered at Rounich to await ferries from Cyprus. To Miles to the Northeast to Lake Ihm to safety Accord no to police who could not be identified. Killing from Page ,1 might try to Plant bombs on departing planes. . Ambassador Nicholas Platt called the killing a cowardly act and presidential spokesman Martin Fitzwater said . Authorities would help the govern ment search for the killers. No Date had been set for memorial services or for flying Rowe s body Back to the uni cd states. His killing came five Days after the rebels announced they were determined to make . Imperialism pay dearly for the continuing slay of its bases and its escalating intervention in our people s affairs that statement was issued to claim responsibility for the bombing of a . Communications station in the Northern province of Beng act on april 9. No one was Hurt. The six us installations which include Clark and the Subic Bay naval facilities arc occupied by about 40,000 soldiers civilian workers and dependents. About 100,000 other americans live in the country. Spending from Page 1exceed the estimated is 1.2 billion Cost of cleaning up after the chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster in april 1986. The Cia predicted. All these factors contributed la a budget deficit hat the Cia estimated at 9 percent of the soviet Gross National product which is the value of All goods and services produced by an Economy. Last year the Kremlin acknowledged for the first time that it was running a deficit although estimates of the amount varied among soviet  economic performance has forced Gorbachev to Back away from some programs and inc need to provide consumer goods is impelling him to decrease defense spending the report said. Soviet Media indicated that the campaigns to modernize Industrial plan and equipment and Reform inc economic system and even the once much vaunted anti alcohol Campaign were not Only failing but were occasioning major disruptions ii said. Gorbachev remains committed to his original vision of a revitalized Economy. He has. However apparently concluded 1 hat he cannot realize this vision As rapidly As he once thought possible nor proceed directly along the path he initially planned to follow. The shifts that Gorbachev has implemented in our View have inc potential if sustained to boost consumer welfare and bring a sense of order to the Economy Gorbachev has acknowledged thai consumer Wel fare must be substantially improved soon if the regime is to develop Broad based popular support for Peres Sirotka As the reforms Are called in r russian. That will mean a 14.2 percent Cut in defense spend ing Gorbachev announced in january the first time he put a firm number on cuts that had been discussed As part of a new military doctrine known As reason. Able sufficiency.". .-,.-,. Despite proclamation of Thea defensive Mili tary doctrine Over the past two years soviet defense spending As measured in constant 1982 rubles grew by roughly 1 percent in line with the growth rates of the past several years the Cia said. Procurement of weapons systems was again a major contributor to growth. Missile procurement particularly icbms intercontinental ballistic missiles and strategic surface to air missiles also displayed growth. Last year however Gorbachev took several actions thai evidently were intended to Jay the ground work for future military  key Points of Gorbachev s plan to Cut military spending remain unclear the report said and May involve. Substantially larger cuts than the 500,000 troop reduction announced last december indeed our estimates indicate that to reduce their total defense budget by 14.2 percent the soviets would have logo beyond the cutbacks in military program that they have specifically promised o make it said. Re Rpyal of missiles suggested Bonn West Germany a a High ranking government official said saturday hat nato should not exclude inc possibility of removing Short Range nuclear missiles now based on German soil. The remark by.  Jirgen a fill maim could Ait bar fuel  Desaer Cernell Between West Germany and the United states Over Short Range nuclear weapons. West Germany is  the United Stales to agree to Early superpower talks on reducing those weapons even though Washington up to now has categorically ruled out such talks. Chancellor Helmut Kohl also wants inc North at lactic treaty organization to postpone a decision on modernizing those weapons until 1991 or 1.992. Speaking at a meeting of the free democratic party in duts Bure Mullemann reiterated the West German government s position but went even further saying that nato and the Warsaw i Aci should not exclude the possibility of completely eliminating Short Range nuclear weapons. Mill Mann is a leading member of the Ftp Junior partners in Kohl s coalition government. Depending on disarmament negotiations results and other Concrete realities in should be decided after 1992 whether we need any nuclear land based Short Range rockets fill Mann said. Mall Mann also called on nato to make  wide ranging disarmament initiatives and not to react Only when the East bloc makes disarmament proposal West German foreign minister Hans Dietrich Gen Scher and defense minister Gerhard Stolle Benj arc to Fly to Washington on monday for talks with . Officials. They Are expected to press the United states for negotiations with the soviets on reducing the number of Short Range Lance weapons which have a Range of about 60 Miles and arc mostly based in West Ger Many but inc United slates and Britain arc strongly opposed to Early talks contending that Warsaw pact superiority in conventional weapons requires a Western nuclear deterrent of Short Range arsenals. Beijing from Page 100,000 student led chinese defied government warn Ings and rallied in the world s largest Public Square fonday night. -. A group of Iso intellectuals including author Dai qing issued an open letter supporting the Studeni pro tests a signthat., Beijing could face widening Public criticism As next month s 70th anniversary of a major nationalist Reform movement approaches. At least 30,000 students massed at the nearby great Hall of the people virtually on inc Doorstep of Herc senior Leader Deng Xiaoping and China s lop official presided Over a service for he Yob aug the former general Secretary of the communist party. He died of a heart attack april 15. He s death prompted an outpouring of grief among students  lie symbolized aspirations for Polit ical Reform. Public mourning swiftly turned into Politi Cal protest. Crowds swelled saturday 10 nearly 100,000 for the second Day in the sprawling Plaza. Most were onlookers but some continued to join in memorial tributes to he and in support of the protests. More than 2,000 army troops and paramilitary police ringed much of the vast Dun coloured building the scat of China s parliament standing shoulder to Shoul Der. Hundreds More closed off the Square to traffic and pedestrians. Authorities appeared to have abandoned any Effort to break up the protest do spice government warnings in would not be tolerated. Inside the great Hall Deng led a procession of China s government and party Leaden into the huge North Hall draped with Black Bunting and overlooked by a Large color portrait of he. He s body Lay draped with a Bright red Hammer and sickle Flag under a Glass casket atop a Bier be decked with wreaths. A band played dirges. Deng approached the Bier and bowed slightly to pay his last respects. Other leaders including Zhao followed suit expressing condolences to he s widow i Zhao. The stale run news Agency said some i million peo ple lined the streets of Beijing As a motorcade bearing he a casket passed