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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 24, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stabs and stripes monday april 24.1999 soviets to begin withdrawals this week Budapest Hungary Dpi the first soviet troop pullouts from Eastern Europe will begin  with the withdrawal tuesday or a tank division from Nisku Thalas in Central Hungary soviet and hungarian military officials have disclosed. The 88 units of the Sovil army Sia lion cd in Hungary will be reduced by 25 percent a decrease of 10.000 sol Diers by the end of 1990, col. Gen. Matici Burlakov commander of the soviet Southern army croup told a news conference. Four Addi Lonal withdrawals arc sex pc eld this year. They will include a Lank training regiment a fighter regi ment a chemical weapons battalion an air defense missile regiment and other Independent units with their full weaponry. -. Sovil Leader Mikhail Gorbachev announced in a dec. 7 speech to the United nations that there were plans Tor unilateral reductions of about 500,000 troops Over the next few years including 50,000 from East Germany Czechoslovakia and Hungary the withdrawals from Hungary the first of he planned pullouts will be completed in 1990 with the removal of airborne assault units from tool air port near Budapest and the closing Ofa non commissioned officers school. The withdrawals will leave 66 Sovil units which will stay in Hungary until 2000, by which time inc soviet Union has pledged to withdraw All us troops from foreign territories. This week s withdrawal will include More than 450 of the 1,300 soviet tanks in Hungary some 200 guns and More than 300 military vehicles and other equipment. You go that first step is a Long one if you re Millie s size and Wnm nut from Rul ninja six rambunctious pups. The while House dog who became a Mother March 17, gels u helping hand from president Bith As the family boards the Marine one helicopter Friday for. Q Wake it at Camp David. On the top step is first Hidy Barbara Bush. More nato arms cuts proposed _ a West Germany a a High ranking gov a Rorric to official said saturday nato should not exclude i k possibility of removing Short Range nuclear missiles v w based on West German soil. The remark by education minister. Jorgen Molly Mann coins further fuel a simmering disagreement Between is Germany and the United Stales Over Short Range Vic car weapons. West Ger Rumy is expected to press the United states to Agrelo Early superpower talks on reducing those  though Washington up to now has categorically nil out such talks. Chancellor Hemut Kohl also wants the nato to postpone a decision on modernizing those weapons unlit 1991 or 1992\-.-."  /. Speaking at a me Aing of the free democratic party in Duisburg Mill Lemonn reiterated the West German government s  went even further saying that nato and the Warsaw pact should not exclude the possibility of comp Cly eliminating Short Range nuclear weapons. Mall Mann is a  of the Ftp Junior partners in Kohl s coalition government depending on disarmament negotiations results and other Concrete realities it Shoutd be decided after 1992 whether we need any Nib car land based Short Range rockets Mulh . Mall Mann also Calle Jsn nato to make its own wide ranging disarmament initiatives and not to react Only when the East bloc makes disarmament proposals. Of. West German foreign minister Hans Dietrich Gen Schur and defence minister Gerhard Stolton Borg were to Fly to Washington monday for talks with . Officials. To ,. " they  to press inc United states for be  the soviets on reducing the number of Shon Fijrije once weapons which have a Range of about Prfto Melcs and arc mostly based in West Ger Majiyu -.-. Of bul the United states and Britain Are strongly of Jos cd to Early talks contending that Warsaw pact superiority in conventional weapons requires a Western nuclear deterrent of Short Range  from Page 1 rebels and attorney general s offices. The Holers attacked a buffi1 the China travel san ice carrying foreign Lauritus entering inc Square Xinhua said. They  he breaking its win  # \ no foreigners were rup re d injury. Xinhua said. It said 10 motor vehicles and 20 Homes were burned before police  control of the Varc around 8 . Quiet was restored around mid nifty it said. An  in Xian reach Fri by Telephone from Beijing sunday morning said the july was quiet and that Lounts were continuing to go a to Sching. From Page 1 dogs saturday to Check Luggage at Manila Airport fear ing terrorists might try to Plant bombs on departing planes. . Ambassador Nicholas Plait called Rowe s Mur Der a cowardly act and presidential spokesman Marlin ii Iwanier said in Washington that . Authorities would help the government search for the killers. Rowe s killing came five Days after the rebels announced they were determined to make . Imperial ism pay dearly for the continuing stay of its bases and its escalating intervention in our pc pc  soviets from Page 1 Cia predicted these factors contributed 10 a budget deficit that the Cia estimated at 9 per cent of the soviet Gross National product which is the  All goods and serv. Ices produced by an co nov. In 1988, anti alcohol Campaign were not univ fail the Kremlin acknowledged Tor the first tag but a Cre occasioning major disruptive it was running a deficit althoutlr1 Lions it said estimates of the amount varied a motto Gorbachev remains commit Ted to his soviet  poor economic performance has forced Gorbachev to Back away. From some programs and inc need to provide consume rep is is impelling him 10 de crease defense spending the. Repon said. Soviet Media indicated that the Cam Pfilf to Modem Ite Industrial Plant and equipment and Reform the economic sys Mai and even the once much vaunted original Viii Tofa revitalized Economy. He has Howe for apparently concluded that he cannot Waltze this vision Asra idly As Hei onic thought possible nor protect  the path he initially planned to Folluo. The shifts lha Gorbachev has imply Fri entry a our vict have the potential if sustained to boost on Sumer welfare and Bringa sense of or demo the Economy. Gorbachev has acknowledged that con Sumer welfare thus Elk substantially improved soon if the time is to develop Road biased popular Sof Enort for perestroika As the reforms Are called in russian. That will mean a 14.2 percent Cut in defense spending Gorbachev announced in january the first Lime he put a firm number on cuts that had been discussed As part Ofa new military doctrine known As reasonable  despite proclamation of he new defensive military doctrine Oyer the past two years soviet defense spending As measured in constant.1982rublcs, grew by roughly 3 percent in. Line with the growth rates of the past several years,1 inc cd a said. Hussein from Page 1 a f eight people Quad and More than 100 injured. Hassan acknowledged that the holing began As an apparently spor Claril Ous protest 6ver.suddc n increases ranging from 70 percent to 50 percent in the prices of gasoline milk powder Butler and other imported commodities. A he increases Are part of the economic re forms demanded by the International monetary fund As a condition for loins. Hassan said islamic fundamental ills and extreme if lists sought to exploit the rioting and nearly 130 leftists mostly members of the banned communist parly were arrested he said. However he Only alluded to a More disturbing fac Tor which was the Way the riots edging their Way up the Jordan Valley quickly fused economic with social and political grievances and assumed the dimension of a violent referendum on the government. Western diplomats in Amman said they believe Hussein who was to return Home sunday Muy eventually have to dismiss Rifai who is widely seen As having mismanaged an economic crisis brought on by years of deficit spending a drop in revenues and the ensuing collapse of the Dinar. The Liming of the latest Price increases was also badly handled several  said because they came during the moslem holy month of Ramadan when food consumption and family entertainment expenses both Rise us a result of the lavish feasts that begin at Sun after each Day of fasting. The Way it was done in almost appeared As if the government was trying to time the increases to have inc worst possible Impact one Diplomat said. To most peo ple it was another example of the Way this government does t seem to care about their  that allegation was echoed in an extraordinary open letter that Jordan s professional associations sent to has san saturday urging both restraint in dealing with the protesters and supporting their demands for Rifai s Dis  High Price paid by the nation in losses of govern ment property is All the result of a failure to Deal Preven timely with the problem slits roots the Teller said. Ing Hassan not to compound the error with ire bloodshed the letter  troops. Withdrawn from City cell cars in order to create ammo sphere for dialogue with the Brothers and sons to protested against the injustice and disdain of a Teram enl thai the people had hoped would be re plod Long ago the letter was signed by the Heads of 10 associations Reprez cling about 40,000 engineers Dor tors deists lawyer Hal pharmacists veterinarian Journa Isi nurses geologists and agricultural scientists. While we professionals like the protesters they sympathized with were careful not to critic inc Hussein personally the letter hinted thai he could become the next target of the discontent unless he responds quickly and positively to the rioters complains  
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