European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 03, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes wednesday May 3,1989 Midway will be 2nd Carrier put in Mothballs Cheney says by William j. Bartma Washington Bureau Washington after years of steadfastly resisting the retirement of its older aircraft carriers the defense department has followed its decision to re tire the Coral sea in 1990 with an announcement that the aging Midway will quit sailing in 1992. Under the plan announced last week by Secretary of defense Dick Cheney the Coral sea will be retired in 1990 As the nuclear Carrier Abraham Lincoln is christened. The Midway then would go out of service As the second of several new carriers the George Washington goes into service. Under the Reagan administration the Pentagon was determined to keep the Vintage world Star ii Cra carriers in service through the 1990s in order to maintain a 15-Carrier Battle Force. The Reagan administration s last de sense budget proposed in january kept the carriers in service. But the Bush administration offered an amended budget april 25 that retires the Coral sea by september 1990. Later Cheney told the House armed services committee that the Midway would be retired by september 1992. The announcement pleased sen. Ted Kennedy. A mass. Who with Senate armed services committee chairman Sam Nunn d-ga., has proposed Amend ments to past defense Bills for retiring older carriers to save defense dollars. Obviously. Senator Kennedy is pleased that the Overall concept of his amendment has been adopted said an aide to the sen Ator. The defense department has obviously come to realize that it does t make sense to get to 15 carriers if we Don t have the Money to buy the planes Stock the munitions. And so on. Kennedy s aide and a staff member of the Senate appropriations subcommittee on de sense said one Issue still remained to be re solved which Carrier if any will replace the Midway in Japan As the Only . Aircraft Carrier  in a foreign country. What Carrier will be in Japan asked the appropriations staff member. That will be the question. If we put another one there presumably it will be a non nuke nuclear powered " one he said in deference to the japanese sensitivity to nuclear ships and weapons. I think the Only remaining Issue in terms of the Early retirement plan is to Sec if it makes sense to retire the enter prise instead of the Midway said Ken Nedy s aide. He said the reason for that is the nuclear powered Enterprise is facing a 42-month overhaul beginning in Jan uary 1991 that could Cost $2 billion. Retiring the Enterprise would address the Japan Issue for five years since the Midway would stay there he said. You would t Send the Enterprise to Japan that s  Kennedy s aide said there were no plans at this time to legislate which Carrier other than the Midway might be retired in 1992. Despite Cheney s statement. Navy officials would say nothing beyond the fact that the Coral sea will be retired under the current budget submission which covers fiscal 1990and 1991."beyond that there s no real plan. The Midway in t an announced line item an official said. However a Navy source said tuesday that the Yokosuka based Midway would be retired in 1992. The source also predicted that the Carrier which belongs to the 7th Fleet would be replaced by another con Ventrally powered Carrier. The Senate armed services subcommittee on projection forces and regional de sense chaired by Kennedy will hold a hearing on aircraft carriers May 15, he said. Hungary taking Down Iron curtain hungarian soldiers remove Border fortifications near Hegy shalom on tuesday. Budapest Hungary a Hun Garian troops backed by civilians tuesday began dismantling part of the so called Iron curtain the fortified Border that divides the East bloc from the West. The official Budapest news Agency Mai said electronic alarm systems and barbed wire fortifications were removed from several Miles along the Border with Neutral Austria near the hungarian towns of Kos Zig Sopron and Hegy shalom. Hungarian Border guard col. Balazs Novaky said up to three Miles of Bor Der fortifications would fall each Day. Hungary announced in March that it would dismantle the automatic warning system along the 220-Milc Long Border with Austria by the end of 1990. The system was installed in1967. Austrian foreign minister Alois mock in a Telegram to his hungarian counterpart i Clur Varkonyi said the move underlined the exceptionally Good relations Between the two neigh Bors. Novaky said the scrapping of the fortifications docs away with an out dated Frontier and thus paves the Way for a further improvement in tics with Austria and the West in  soldiers families Given special Welcome by Joseph Owen Stuttgart Bureau Stuttgart West Germany for 19 americans who arrived in Stuttgart tuesday to begin a european Lour of duty the end of the trip was a piece of cake and Popcorn Laco chips and soda pop. Stuttgart military Community officials held a Small reception to Greet the new arrivals the first soldiers and family members to arrive at Stuttgart s Airport and pass through the  s new Aerial port of debarkation embarkation at incl Lingen Barracks in suburban Ostil darn. The  also opened another such facility tuesday at Merrell Barracks in Nairn Borg where officials threw a Rocco Tion for 14 arriving soldiers and 20 family members at the Airport terminal Mili tary Community spokesman Pete a cars said. The Nairn Borg reception featured a five piece 1st  div band Good German Beer and Flowers. The two arrival centers Are designed to divert up to 20 percent of the 120,000 soldiers and family members who annually Fly to Rhein main a near Frank Furt. The ports will serve soldiers of the specialist rank and higher who have or Ders assigning them to nearby military communities thereby avoiding Long bus rides. Travellers tuesday landed in Stuttgart on a pan am commercial flight that originated in new York and stopped Enro Ute in Zurich Switzerland. The Nurnberg arrivals boarded a pan am flight in Washington and stopped once in Frankfurt. Buses picked both groups up at the respective airports took them to the ports for in processing by the 21st re placement in then delivered them o their new duty stations. The two Cente Splan to process new arrivals every week Day. V sgt. Kevin Mceachirn a radio re Pairman joining the 268th signal co in Karlsruhe described a 1983 trip to Karlsruhe for a three year assignment As pandemonium because of the complications involved in Landing at Frankfurt. This trip was much belter. If was great said Mceachern the first Soldier to enter the new arrival Cen Ter at incl Lingen Barracks. Clad in jeans and a to shirt he said being dressed that Way in flight was a lot More Comfort Able. I Don t mind wearing a uniform but it s so  news updates Hirohito s estate Tokyo a the Palace has decided that Only emperor Akihito and his Mother the Empress Dow Ager will inherit the late emperor Hirohito s private property news reports said tuesday. Kyodo news service said the Imperial household Agency has decided to ask ii other Imperial successors to waive their rights of inheritance. The Palace declined to. Com ment however saying that a pub Lic announcement now would be premature. Hirohito. Japan s emperor for 62 years died on Jan. 7 at age 87. Akihito his eldest son immediately succeeded him and Hirohito s wife Nagako became Empress dowager. Peruvian emergency Lima Peru a a state of emergency called in the face of guerrilla violence will be prolonged for two More months the govern ment said monday. The Extension comes amid the deadliest Streak of violence so far in Peru s nine year Light against leftist guerrillas. Nearly 1,000 peo ple have been killed so far this year including 86 on Friday. Under he measures citizens rights to travel and meet freely Are suspended and government forces can conduct searches without War rants and hold suspects for 15 Days without filing charges. The military can also assume direct political and police control in emergency zones. Sea chief sworn in Washington up Susan Engeleiter was sworn in monday As administrator of the Small Busi Ness administration. President Bush welcomed this outstanding woman to our team and then watched As Engel Citer her hand on a Bible held by her husband Gerald was administered the oath of office in the White House s Roosevelt room by Chase Untermeyer while House director of personnel. Engel Citer was the youngest woman in the country elected to a state legislature when she took of fice in 1975 at the age of 22 As a representative. Between january 1979 and March 1980, she served As legislative assistant to former Wisconsin gov. Lee Dreyfus. Wife of of sergeant Dies at Kaiserslautern Sembach a West Germany is the 24-year-old German Wile of an air Force sergeant was found dead of an apparent suicide sunday in her apart ment in Kaiserslautern West Germany base officials said tuesday. The body of Manuela Snider was found by her husband sgt. James w. Snider at 12 01 a.m., said sgt Jimmie Turner a base spokesman. The no is a member of the 6914th electronic Security so. Base officials would not comment on the cause of death but Turner said there was no evidence to Lead authorities to request an autopsy. The death is under investigation by German police and the air Force office of special investigations