European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 27, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Cheney May close More . Bases Page 5 the stars and stripes authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces Good Mornini vol. 48. No. 163 wednesday september 27, 1989 it Ond 8693 a """"""""""2 americans killed in ambush near Philippines training Camp militant filipino students rally at Manila International Airport to protest the visit of vice president Dan qua if. Manila Philippines a gunmen believed in he communist rebels ambushed and killed two Ameri can civilians working at a . Military base tuesday shortly before vice president Dan Quayle arrived to discuss the future of . Military installations Here. The victims were employees of Ford aerospace corp., which contracts to maintain an electronic War fare training Range at Camp o Donnell. The Camp is a .-run facility about 50 Miles North of Manila and 12 Miles from the . Clark a. Ford aerospace spokesman Norman Black identified the victims As William h. Thompson 45, and Donald i. A Uchner 44. He said both were retired from the . Air Force. Their hometowns were not known. Also tuesday gunmen killed a member of president f Corazon Aquino s presidential guard about a mile fro where the president will meet with Quayle on wednesday. The attacks followed a series of bombings this month and came amid growing opposition to . Mil itary installations in the Philippines. The americans slowed their car As they approached a dump truck and a jeep blocking a Highway near Capas 60 Miles North of Manila police said. Six men sprang from the jeep and riddled the americans car with gunfire according to police . Pc Ito Pimentil. The assailants then opened the car door and pumped bullets into the victims Pic Noel said. The attack occurred about 5 . We deplore this so Nidess and cowardly act of Ter stale department spokesman Richard Boucher said in Washington. Acts like this will not deter us in our resolve to support the democratic government in the col. Florentine Jamorabon a spokesman for the see ambush on Back Page soviets accept plan to slosh chemical arms United nations a soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze said tuesday that Moscow will match . Reductions in chemical weapons and he challenged the United states to ban All the devices As Well As halt nuclear testing. Shevardnadze in a speech to . General Assembly said Moscow will join the United states and radically reduce or completely destroy All the chemical weapons it has stockpiled. But he also issued further challenges. The so Viet Union he said will Stop production of chemical weapons halt nuclear tests and Stop making weapons Grade plutonium and uranium All if Washington reciprocates. The speech was a prompt reply from Moscow to president hush s proposal monday to reduce chemical weapons stockpiles drastically. The proposal was Given to the soviets during the weekend and announced by Bush in his . Address. Bush offered an 80 percent Cut in the . See ban on Back Page Galvin suggests nato allies Exchange military hardware by David 1 arrant Brussels Bureau Casteau Belgium an unprecedented Exchange of military hardware among nato allies would allow the 16-member Alliance to maintain its newest and Best equipment under the limits of a future arms control Accord nato s military commander in Europe said tuesday. Working under the Assumption that the arms talks in Vienna could be concluded within a year from now staff members at nato s military command Center in Casucau have been meeting with Alliance member nations since August to work out a plan for achieving treaty negotiated reductions. The goal of such a plan is to remove thousands of pieces of equipment in an orderly fashion and Mill keep the Best equipment within nato s ranks. Gen. John k Galvin said. We have set up Here at this Headquarters a staff Section that covers what
