European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 26, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse D Wright s lawyers ethics panel bargain Over charges Page 5 d visiting Greece s sporades islands stripes Magazine d classified ads today stripes Magazine d rangers fire Esposito sports Page 17 the stars and stripes authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces vol.48. No.39 Friday May 26. 1989 d 8693 a Bush lauds soviet arms offers by i hi1 Baltimore Sun new London Conn. President Bush soft ening his previous scepticism declared wednesday that new offers of arms reductions by the soviet Union will make it possible to transform the military land scape of the issues Are Complex stakes Are very High but the soviets arc now being forthcoming Bush told the 164 graduates of the . Coast guard Academy at outdoor commencement ceremonies Here. Make no mistake our policy is to Sei a every and i mean every Opportunity to build a better More stable relationship with the soviet Bush was referring specifically to a soviet proposal for substantial cuts in its european based troops tanks and artillery along the lines of a conventional arms Deal sought by the nato allies the soviet proposal unveiled by negotiators i Vienna this week detailed in a meaningful Way plans outlined earlier by soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorba Chev presidential spokesman Martin futz Walcer told reporters Here. Those Are major major concessions Fil water said of the soviet proposal which he called a very promising but White House officials said Bush also was trying to sound a More positive Noli As he prepared to leave Washington Friday for the -40lh anniversary nato Summit in Brussels Belgium next week. Arms control promises to be the dominant Issue ii the Summit. His speech was rewritten several times and the president worked it personally almost to the moment of delivery the aides said. The president Felt he appeared Loo negative be explained Brent scowcroft Bush s National Security adviser. On sunday Bush warned the nato allies not to be lulled into complacency by Gorbachev s peace Initia Tives. He charged the soviets might be trying to driven wedge Between the allies with his proposal to begin talks aimed at reducing stores of Short Range nuclear missiles. The president has been sharply Crivici de by con Gressional democrats and Many foreign policy analysts Lor adopting too cautious a stance toward the soviets. Meanwhile a dispute Between the United states an West Germany continued to Fesler without Resolution. Despite a flurry of phone Calls Between diplomats of the two countries scowcroft observed that an agreement before the Summit was unlikely. The United Stales has been reluctant 10 enter such talks for fear they would Lead to the elimination of the Short Range nuclear missiles the last visible Symbol of nuclear deterrence in Wes Lorn Europe. Bush insisted wednesday that nuclear forces arc essential to deterrence and that theater weapons such As the Short Range nuclear missiles arc just As important As strategic nuclear weapons borne by aircraft and submarines. But he said of Gorbachev s offer last fall of unilateral culs on conventional forces they give us Hope thai we can now redress. The Warsaw pact s massive advantage in such troops and weapons that have made nuclear de Clrrence so important. Further Bush said with the soviet proposal put on the table in Vienna this week through negotiation we can now transform the military landscape of Europe. Our aim is nothing less than removing War As an option in Fiu Waler said that the soviets were responding in Vienna to a nato proposal offered March 9 Hal called for Overall limits on Batlle tanks artillery pieces and troop carriers. It also proposed sufficiency in which no one country May retain More than 30 percent of the Overall limits in these three categories. Cafes to revamp work Force by Rosemary Sawyer staff writer , West Germany in an Effort to beef up service and Foster employee loyalty the army and air Force Exchange service will convert Many on Call positions to regular jobs the cafes Europe commander said wednesday. About 70 percent of cafes Europe s 25.000 customer service workers Are on Call employees and receive no medical or vacation benefits said Brig. Gen. Thom As a Robison. Cafes plans to lower the number of intermittent workers to 20 percent or 30 percent in the next six months convert ing their slots to regular part time or full Lime positions anti providing them with the benefits. Workers at cafes facilities in Nurnberg already have made the change. The service will not eliminate All intermittent status work however. Robison noted that some people want to work a few hours a week and thai some facilities such As fast food restaurants always see cafes on Back Page visitors to Venice this week Are finding More than they expected. The narrow garbage and gondolas sidewalks and passageways Are choked with piles of herbage and trash. A strike by garbage collectors is sending Strong Uronis across the Lagoon City. Death plot suspected in Iowa blast new York a Navy investigators have found evidence to support the possibility Hal murder or suicide was involved in the explosion that killed 47 sailors aboard the Ball ship Iowa Abc news reported. Abc quoted unidentified Navy sources As disclosing some disturbing facts about a surviving Sailor who stands to colled $ 100.000 from the insurance policy of a gunner s mate killed in the explosion april 19. Investigators found Gunpowder and blasting Caps in a search of inc belongings of gunner s mate 3rd class Kendall Truitt 21, two years ago after he was arrested for stealing a car Abc said. In a search of his Home after the explosion investigators found one of the Bur Lap patches that gunners insert Between bags of powder 10 clean the barrels of the balt ship s huge guns during firing the network said. Ruilt was quoted in published reports last week As saying the Navy created homicide or suicide scenarios involving him and Clayton m. Hartwig 25. To make them scapegoats for an explosion investigators cannot otherwise explain. Ruiu has denied any blame for the explosion and in response to investigators questions has denied hav ing a homosexual relationship with Hartwig. Abc said that because the Navy has failed to find see Iowa on Back Page
