European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside strides the postman s Palace stripes Magazine d Oil Rule affects Alaska gis rage 2 d video combat in t just a game Page 9 d Jordan leads bulls Over kicks Page 17 the St is and trepess is i in a Jefe authorized unofficial publication forthe . Ahmed forces Goodmore Angl vol. 48, no. 24 thursday May 11, 1989 25e daily and sundly d 8693 a Dod must Cut spending further Gao maintains Washington a even though president Bush has Cut $65 billion from projected Pentagon budgets the defens department will still be $100 billion Short Over the next five years unless More programs arc reduced according to the general accounting office. About half the shortfall stems from unrealistically Low assumptions about the future rate of inflation the congressional watchdog Agency told the House armed services committee. The report which was scheduled to be released wednesday was described by sources who declined to be identified. The Gao study involves the five year Pentagon budget which is updated annually and forms the basis for future de sense department budget decisions Suchias which weapons to buy. According to the Gao All the spending in the current five year plan would Cost More than $1.5 trillion but the sources said the actual spending projections arc about $ 100 billion less than that. The Gao report is part of a continue see Dod on Back Page soviets agree to resume arms negotiations in june Moscow a the United Stales and the soviet Union will reopen negotiations on strategic nuclear arms reductions next month a soviet spokesman announced wednesday at the Start of talks Between visiting Secretary of stat James a. Baker 111 and soviet foreign minister Eduard a. Shevardnadze. Gennady i. Ger Asimov spokesman for the soviet foreign ministry said the next round of talks on nuclear and space weapons would probably resume in Geneva on either june 12 or june 19 an would last for six weeks. He said his government had wanted the negotiations to begin again this month but the Ameri cans had objected. Baker had planned to propose the third week in june for the reopening of the .-soviet negotiations to reduce the superpowers Long Range bombers nuclear submarines and Globe girdling missiles. The talks recessed last novem Ber. Gerasimov said the . Side explained that Richard Bun who has Bee nominated by president Bush to head the . Bargaining team probably would not be confirmed by the Senate in time to resume talks this month. The two leaders met for almost three hours wednesday after Baker s arrival in the soviet Union from Helsinki Fin land. The discussions began with regional issues such As the Middle East and Afghanistan and included arms control see soviets on Back Page Bush Calls on . Allies to act against Noriega Washington a president Bush is calling on democratic allies to rally against Panama s Gen. Manuel an Tonio Noriega but . Officials Are play ing Down talk of an american military response to what they Call a fraudulent election in the Central american nation. Officials such As Panama s opposition candidate Guillermo Endara Peru president Alan Garcia and former presi Dent Jimmy Carter cautioned against . Troop involvement. Bush and his advisers kept alive the Prospect of military intervention tues Day by saying All options were being considered. Administration officials said privately however that such a unilateral step was unlikely. I Don t think it s necessary to Lake action immediately sen. Richard Lugar r-ind., a senior member of the Senate foreign relations committee said on Abc to s today show on wednesday. The opposition in Panama is counselling Calm and they re in the Best position to  Bush would not say what actions hews considering in the Wake of what he called a fraudulent election that was really won by anti Noriega forces. The panamanian people have spoken and i Call on general Noriega to respect the voice of the people and 1 Callon All foreign leaders to urge general Noriega to Honor the Clear results of the election the president told reporters. Bush was briefed tuesday by two elec Tion observer groups including one headed by Carter that had just returned from Central America after monitoring sunday s elections the observers said there was rampant fraud in voting and ballot counting. Bush embraced the conclusions of the observe Sand the Catholic Church in Panama that the Noriega opposition won a 3-1 Victory. Mayor Jacques Chirac stands near the Paris flame of Libert 1 after unveiling it. Pan s unveils Monument to .-French Friendship Paris a mayor Jacques Chirac on wednesday unveiled the City s newest Monument a Golden flame of Liberty that he said symbolized enduring French american Friendship. The flame made of hammered brass covered with 5,000 Gold leaves is a duplicate of the flame held aloft by the outstretched Arm of the statue of Liberty in new York City s Harbor. The Monument stands at the placed i Alma in the City s fashionable 16th District with the Eiffel Tower across the Seine River serving As backdrop. This is an important event in theold fraternal tics Between France and the United states Chirac said at the unveiling ceremony. " the Monu ment is a Symbol of two qualities lib erty and International  the Paris based International her Ald Tribune newspaper As part of the Celebration of its Centennial in 1987, sponsored a worldwide fundraising Appeal to bring the flame to Paris. Publisher Lee Hub nor expressed gratitude to thousands of donors who helped the Appeal reach its goal. The Monument was built in the United states by los Metal liars Champinois the same group of French artisans who worked on the rehabilitation of the statue of Liberty in 1986, the Paris flame was cast using the same holds they created for that project. Classified