European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 19, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tiger inn Safe s Best inflight Kitchen Page 13 authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces vol. 48, no. 32 Friday May 19. 1989 Good morn Iraq 25. Der to Sun d 8693 a new missiles May kill pact soviet general warns nato Bidav Odiehl . Bureau London the soviet Union May Back out of the superpower treaty limiting intermediate Range nuclear missiles if nato goes ahead with plans to modernize its Battlefield missiles the military Leader of the Warsaw pact warned thursday. The modernization of tactical nuclear weapons which is now being discussed in nato actually Means the development of new intermediate Range mis Siles similar to those being eliminated in the .s.r. Under the inf  so Viet army Gen. Clr g. Lushch said. It might Lead to a departure from the inf treaty and to the emergence of a dangerous situation. Europe can once again find itself drawn into an arms race with All the ensuing negative consequences his comments follow similar warnings Nide saturday by soviet foreign min ister Eduard Shevardnadze after meet Ings in Bonn. West Germany with Ger Man foreign minister Hans Dietrich Genscher. The general s remarks came at the Start of an annual conference at the Royal United service s Institute for de sense studies a private think tank. La Shiv who was appointed to head War saw pact forces in february is on his first visit to the West. In his speech. Lushch warned that if see nato on Back Page Farewell to China soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev and wife Raisa. Wave Farewell at Shanghai Airport thursday before boarding the Light Back to Moscow. Gorbachev s visit to the City As uneventful despite protests hat threatened to disrupt his schedule. The president s Lour ends a 30 year chill in relations Between the Tun nations. Warsaw pack seeks of limit each Side s weapons soldiers Vienna up Warsaw pact nations called on thursday for sweeping reductions in conventional arms in Europe outlining for the first time specific numbers in a proposal for equal ceilings on nato and Warsaw pact weapons. The proposal raised last week by soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow was outlined thurs Day at the conventional forces in Europe talks in Vienna. It Calls for the reduction of combat ready weapons and those in storage to equal Levels Over five to six years and also Calls for a ceiling on troop strength to 1.3 million personnel on either Side. The proposal was made in order to set aside exist ing misunderstandings and asymmetries but also to establish an essential lowering in the Levels of the most destabilizing forms of weapons said Oleg Grinc ski the soviet ambassador to the talks in a statement car ried on the soviet news Agency Tass. Grinc ski added that he hoped the proposal would result As soon As possible in a new Era in the Security of  until now the Warsaw pact had not released specific numbers in calling for weapons and manpower reductions. In a recent proposal soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze called for reductions by both military1 alliances to equal Levels 10 to 15 percent below the lowest existing ceilings in key Battlefield areas. Thursday s proposal would place combat strike air Craft at a ceiling of 1,500, combat helicopters at 1,700. Tanks at 20,000, artillery at 24,000 and combat a see pact on Back Page Dod berated for shuffling missile personnel slots by Chuck vent Washington Bureau Washington lawmakers accused military officials on thursday of playing a Shell game with More than 14,000 personnel assigned to missile units made obsolete by the 1987 intermediate Range nuclear forces treaty. At a hearing before the House armed services Mili tary installations and facilities subcommittee Penta on officials were criticized about their plans to Cut 4,562 inf slots in Europe but to remove Only 5,685 personnel from the theater. John Woodworth. Deputy assistant Secretary of de sense for International Security policy said the services shifted the other spaces to missions that had been shortchanged because of the need to add inf relate slots while staying within the congressionally Man dated european troop ceiling of 326,000. Woodworth said those missions include air base ground defense medical War readiness a new combat Man Euver training Center at Hohenfels West Ger Many and improvement of undermanned combat sup port units. But lawmakers pressed Woodworth on Why there could not be a reduction in the number of troops in Europe equal to the number of slots being Cut under the inf treaty. When entire units arc eliminated we ought to see some changes we ought to see some Dollar savings said rep. William Dickinson a Ala. This is just bureaucratic mishmash fumed rep. Andy Ireland r-fla., who has berated the Pentagon during hearings on the fiscal 1990 budget. We increased the troop ceiling specifically to accommodate the Pershing ii and ground based cruise see Odd on Back Page