European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 20, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Tiger inn Safe s Best inflight Kitchen Page 13 authorized unofficial publication forthe . Armed forces Good morn my vol. 48, no. 33 saturday May 20. 1989 do inn sum., u Ruso a soviet threatens inf pullout Gav a defends missile upgrade by Dave Ideiil . Bureau London the soviet Union May Back out of the superpower treaty limiting intermediate Range nuclear missiles if nato proceeds 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 missiles similar to those being eliminated in the .s.r. Under the inf soviet army Gen. Petr g. Lusher said. It might Lead to a Depar Ture from the inf treaty and to the emergence of a dangerous situation. Europe Carr once again find itself drawn into alarms race with All the ensuing negative in a rebuttal. Nato commander Gen. John r. Galvin challenged the so Viets on Short Range modernization. Over the tast 10 Yeti the soviets have modified their entire missile Galvin system to a great degree Galvin said. He also pointed to expected new additions to the soviet Arsenal that would affect the european picture such As the As-15 air launched and ss-21 sea launched cruise missiles. But we have not modernized the one single missile a sea of people engulfs a truck wednesday Al a pro democracy rally at Beijing s Tiana men Square. That we have the Lance Galvi Galvin did Praise unilateral disarmament moves made by the soviets saying they were in a positive s comments follow Sini Ilar warnings made saturday by soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze after meetings in Bonn West Germany with German foreign minister Hans Dietrich guns Char. Lusher s remarks came at the Start of an annual conference at the Royal United service s Institute for defense. Studies a private think tank. Lusher. Who was appointed to head Warsaw pact forces in february is on his first visit to the West. In his speech Lusher warned that if the West Pur sues modernization the soviets would consider with drawing the ss-23 missiles from the inf treaty signed in december 1987.the ss-23, with a Range of 300 to 600 Miles is considered a Shorter Range intermediate Range nuclear missile by nato. The inf treaty covers missiles with see nato on Back Page sino soviet Summit ends amid unrest from wire reports soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev resumed to mos cow thursday after following up the first sino soviet Summit in 30 years with a tour of a free economic one in Shanghai. China s largest City. Gorbachev praised the Summit which officially ended 30 years of hostility Between the two communist giants As a watershed but the historic meeting the first since Mao tse Tung met Nikita Khrushchev in 1959 was repeatedly upstaged by massive pro democracy rallies in Beijing and Shang Shanghai demonstrations thursday once again forced a change in Gorbachev s plans As traffic was too snarled to permit him to attend a luncheon in the City Center. In Beijing several events had been can celeb and others moved or delayed As a result of the huge crowds that gathered at Tiana men Square de manding greater Freedom. Premier i Peng warning that China was facing a see Summit on Back Page Dod berated for shuffle of mss a personnel by Chuck Vinci i 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 inter mediate Range nuclear forces treaty. At a hearing before the House armed services military installations and facilities subcommittee. Pentagon officials were criticized about plans to Cut 14,562 inf slots in Europe but to remove Only 5,685 personnel from the theater. John Woodworth Deputy assistant Secretary of defense Foi policy said the services shifted the other spaces to missions that had been shortchanged because of the need to add inf related slots while staying within the congressionally mandated european troop ceiling of 326,000. Woodworth said those missions in clude air base ground defense medical War readiness a new combat Manev retraining Center at Hohenfels West Ger Many and improvement 4 of under manned combat support 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 Sec some Dollar savings said rep. William Dickinson Raia. This is just bureaucratic Mish Mash fumed rep. Andy Ireland r fla., who has berated the Pentagon during hearings on the fiscal 1990 Bud increased the troop ceiling specifically to accommodate the peril Ling ii and ground based cruise missile units. And we got along Fine without those missions that could t be accomplished before. The threat is no stronger now than it was then. Why do we suddenly need to accomplish those missions now the Pentagon has 3 is Able credibility Gap on this Issue. After a while it becomes a kind of Shell maintained that the services Are cutting slots Servic wide in numbers roughly equivalent to the troop Levels of the missile units in eur also questioned the future of the nine inf bases which rep resent a sizable . United Stales paid $394 million for construction and $67 million for family housing. It also shouldered 28 percent of the $312 million in nato infrastructure costs for those have identified activities that we want to move to those bases Woodworth said. "1 can t say that Well see Doo on Back Page
