European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 28, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d Gao reports women promoted at same rate As male gis Page 2 q update on aftermath of Hurricane Hugo pages 2 and 5 d keeping in step with Spain a Torrejon a Page 13 o Senate backs shutdown of 86 bases Back Page. Job the  authorized unofficial publication 5or the . Armed ponces Good morning vol.48. No. 164 thursday. September 28. 1989 7 25. Of in Ami d 8693 a 2 americans killed in i. Manila Philippines a Gui men believed to be communist rebels ambushed and killed two american civil ians working at a . Military base tuesday shortly before vice president Dan Quayle arrived to discuss the future of . Military installations in the Philippines. On wednesday Quayle condom i the killings As cowardly murder said the slayings will onto move to strengthen .  Cora Zolj Fly Foo. The Vic  employees of Ford corp., which contracts to am an electronic warfare training Neal fars Quay a visit Range at Camp o Donn .-run facility Abou Manila and a Guhn vim Clark base. Aerospace spokesman Norman 3ck identified the victims As William h. Thompson. 45, and Donald , 44. He said both were retired from the . Air Force. Their Home towns were not known. Also tuesday gunmen killed a Mem Ber of Aquino s presidential guard about a mile from where she was to meet with Quayle on wednesday. The attacks followed a series of bomb month and came amid growing ii i Jinni i i i Jilji military installations in the  americans  Jias they approached a dump tit jeep blocking a Highway near Capas l Miles North of Manila police said. Six men sprang from the jeep and Riddle their car with gunfire according to police it. Pc Ito Pic Nicl. The assailants then opened the car door and pumped bullets into the Vic Tims Pic Nicl said. The attack occurred about 5 . We deplore this senseless and cow ardly act of terrorism state depart ment spokesman Richard Boucher said Washington. Acts like this will not in our resolve to support the  in the  col. 1111111111ijmtbhb Juhl Ujj spokes Man for the philippine  in see ambush on a Corbige Galvin suggests nato arms Swa  John r. Galvin said. S in Rijk i i to i   i . I is a a. S Vij pc. A i. . Re in Casteau Belgium an in Prem of military hardware among nato allies Wou the 16-Mcmber 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 in Vienna could be concluded within a year staff members at nato s military comic Bra Center in Casucau have been meeting  member nations since August to Wal Sirtut a plan for achieving treaty . The goal Huch a plan is to remove thousands of is  in an orderly fashion and still Fth Best equipment within nato s ranks Gen. Joh. Galvi we have set up Here Attis Headquarters a staff Clion that covers what wifi by which Nch those Raduc Lions arc announced Galvin said. We prepare to take these reductions in a Way which makes sense  the plan Calls for reducing the oldest equip ment first within nato s Galvin wer equip some of their arms to nations with equipment in a cascading fashion. Ultimately the oldest equipment would be destroyed. One nation which has the very Best artillery piece instead of destroying that would Transfer that to an other nation which has an older artillery piece and that nation would destroy its artillery piece Galvin said 1 Dunn a wide ranging round table discussion with jigs Headquarters.  the plan has not Bee agreed to by any . La would require approval by nato s  com Mittic which meets later this year. Shany. Galvin said he has permission Only to float the plan at National military Levels at this stage. The first such see Galvin on Back Page soviets accept Bush offer to slash chemical weapons Eduard Shevardnadze addresses . By the los Angeles times United nations the soviet Union accepts president Bush s proposal for the superpowers to begin at once to destroy their stocks of Poison gases without waiting for the rest of the world to agree to outlaw chemical weapons soviet foreign minister Eduard a. Shevardnadze said tuesday. Although the procedure Shevardnadze outlined in his speech to the . General Assembly differed in some de tails from the plan Bush unveiled less than 24 hours earlier the Gap seemed very narrow. Top officials on both sides said that the positions arc close. Both nations said that the purpose of a Washington Moscow pact would be to overcome the inertia immobilizing a 40-Naiion disarmament conference in Geneva that has failed for almost a dec Ade to draft a global ban on chemical weapons. In Washington Bush said that he is very pleased with the Way things Are going. We be got some Good common ground. That i Don t think we had before the foreign minister came Here he said. And i know he s accurately reflecting or. Gorbachev s  if the United states and the soviet Union begin joint destruction of their chemical arsenals by far the largest in the world it should become easier to persuade other nations to follow suit . And soviet officials said. Bush called for a Washington mos cow pact to reduce . Chemical weapons stocks by so percent with the soviet Union culling its even larger Arsen Alby enough to bring both nations to the same level. The United states is thought to have about 30,000 tons of chemical weapons. The soviet Union acknowledges 50,000 tons although some .officials believe the figure is higher. Viktor p. Karpov the chief soviet arms control negotiator said we rein agreement with president Bush s proposal but we think we could go even  he said that the soviet Union agrees in must destroy More weapons than the United states to bring the two nations stockpiles to an equal level. Moscow is prepared to eliminate any amount thai we agree on even 100 percent headed. However Karpov also said the soviet Union would not want the superpowers to destroy All such weapons before the disarmament conference agrees on a global ban. He did not try to explain the seeming contradiction