European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 28, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes thursday. September 28,1989 Sel backs closing of & plod Over Washington a thet whelming by tuesday to Back a Federal decision to shut 86 military bases and scale More As lawmakers weighed a $228.2 billion Militi spending a vote of 86-14, the Senate approved an Amend ment that effectively kills a provision that would have withheld $300 million to close the bases until an audit found that the savings from shutting Down the installations would exceed the Cost. The audit would have been conducted by the general.,accounting office the investigative Arm of Cong we re just asking that the comptroller go Alyc. Otherwise these bases have noun in sen. Daniel Inouye a Hawaii said floor i support of the is no supreme court. This is the but sen. John ranking Republican on the services committee argue against Undag wrong the commission s re common were approved by former Secretary ofic Jcj Pfrank Carlucci and upheld in the House. I we set a precedent now that you can reopen the Bush frontage 1 Centra Luzon Island said the assassins were Belic Edo be my bars of the new Peoples army which oper ates in thl Krca. A in april ebels killed . Army col. As he was dring to the Headquarters of the /Jointmilitary assistance group in Quezon City Norma Nila. In octobc\1987, rebels killed three americans i simultaneous auf is outside Clark air base. The United skates operates Clark Airoff base the Subic Bay naval Csc and four smaller installations in the Philippines Butch arc Are increased Cap for an end to the . Military a sence. As Quayle arrive eco hundreds of left Jas burned his effigy and an Amer Nan Flag while ranting bases out Quayle go Home of Quayle arrived in Manila from Span for a visit expected to focus on 1% future of Fth bases which expires if september 1991. Of a business group Quay operate under a lease that in a speech cd Nesda deplored the killings. It should go without murders deserve the Stroni Liz cd men and women the Philippines like the t states arc sickened by the who wish to drown freed men and foreign Secretary m was bringing a Tetter pc san presi include a proposal to begin Tail hours Lefoi bars of the la Aguior nationalism that these cowardly a nation of All Civile said. The people of people of the United s of vicious terrorist the blood of innocent id Yan said Quay cent Bush believed to on extending the terminal an visit. Protesters and Yan Quayle vis after m pull Bac Kinto mar1 Quayle s arrive about 150 Mem filipino stud sets and the youth id democracy Rock had the Airport noisy demons Tynion against the muted Quayle go Hong bases out Home they carried owners Reading nations with police the grow agreed to iut a half mile away along Shamain Road. Police estimated the crowd Gre to nearly c time Quayle policemen were injured and inc Stu dents arc arrested when Security forces broke up rally Manila s Adamson University officials land. Afo tuesday suspected rebels killed copt. Rio sea leg a staff officer of the presidential Security Gnup in an ambush in the City s Panda can was the fourth member of the presidential go gain in the past four months. Whistle blown on strip Washington is the prove a military procurer by is blowing the whistle Arrhe stars and stripes. A sept. 19 and Chin the found Mon s new handbook for government incorrectly said the guide was free. It s a Luann. A spokeswoman Sam Zenup had received tons of mail from ont Feas requesting co pies of the 52-pa4tbookiet, titled Aii rage guide for Copi Sarthe handbook can be obtained for $5 by jilting the foundation at 613 Pennsylvan be. Be Washington . 20003. Checks or Money Ort should be made out to the project on military procure mint. Package i m fearful future commissions won t be As effective Warner Mission in is suing t last year Ings of r 20 Yean he commission s Ember announcement lawmakers whose Home state bases would be affected complained that the panel based its Selec Tion on inaccurate or in _. Complete data. Chene meanwhile defense Secretary Dick Cheney said that further cuts in the defense budget by the demo cratic controlled Congress May Force him to close More bases. Prior to the Senate action Cheney met on Capitol Hill with lawmakers from Illinois who made a last i Appeal to save Chanute fab near Rantoul session did not change plans to close Chanute 120 Miles South of All the demands to redirect dollars from the defense budget to other areas i be got no Choice but to find ways to close additional bases Cheney told re porters the Day after Senate democrats and the administration reached a tentative agreement to boost presi Dent Bush s anti drug Effort by $900 million see Story a re 7. The drug plan requires a Cut of about $1.3 billion inthe Pentagon budget. On the Senate floor. Sen. Alan Dixon d-i1i., Crit Uci cd the recommendations made last year by the is nameless members of the the books Dixon said waving a copy of a a ral accounting office report that had found problem Silvic commission s report. Residents and several Illinois counties and cities near Chanute Ponti Uhler Money to hire an influential lobbying firm to arg Star Inouye s Mea sure. The Cost Lor hiring Patton Boggy and blow is estimated at about $30,000. Pierce refuses to answer House panel s questions by Cox news service Washington former housing Secretary Samuel r. Pierce or. Invoked the fifth amendment and refused tuesday to answer questions from a House subcommittee investigating alleged influence peddling in his department. He became the first Cabinet level official to claim constitutional Protection against self incrimination under congressional questioning since the Teapot dome scandal rocked another Republican administration in the 1920s.Pierce was the third former Hud official this year to invoke the fifth amendment to avoid testifying. His former executive assistant Deborah Gore Dean and the former head of Multi family housing programs at the Agency r. Hunter gush ing also have refused to answer fourth former official. Lance Wilson was scheduled to testify under subpoena on wednesday but he also is expected to refuse to answer questions. He has already declined to provide documents to the subcommittee. After testifying voluntarily on May 25, Pierce delayed a reappearance. In his opening statement tuesday he complained that he was being rushed and has not had time to review 48 boxes of record from his eight years at the department of housing and Urban development. It defies logic that he needs More time Shays r-conn., said. Pierce also contended that the subcommittee has prejudged him and held adversarial and accusatory sessions. Shoulders hunched and flanked by his attorney sat the witness table Pierce eight times refused to respond to questions from rep. Tom Lantos d-calif., chairman of the government operations subcommittee on employment and housing. On the advice of counsel he repeated in his Flat new York accent and for the reasons Given in my opening statement i respectfully decline to answer the question and i assert the rights guaranteed me by the fifth the subcommittee wanted to question Pierce on three areas a decision to finance rehabilitation of the Durham hosiery Mills in North Carolina int apartments for the elderly a decision to lift the suspension of drug funding corp. From Hud s co insurance program and Pierce s testimony in May. Gavin from Page 1 meetings took place Irit Lemist and a second round of meetings Between shape thud member nations is scheduled for this month and a the foreign ministries of the not agreed to do this yet. This is my rcom Mondani to them he said. Under the nato proposal at the convcnti3europe talks nato and the Warsaw pact would Yah 20,000 tanks 16,500 artillery pieces and 28jnprcd personnel carriers each. Nato has also h ceilings of 5,700 combat aircraft and 1 ,900 Obj Pat Heli copters for each Side All other holdings in these calcgoricsjp8id have to be reduced by destroying a number of Jelm. For example nato would have to destroy 2,5 a inks while the War saw pact would have to than 39,000 tanks according to data released Byrn arrangement to Rcd polder equipment first How Ever would be comp Flea by a Maze of National Law governing and sales Gavin acknowledged. Much Oft Jekw must be researched to find a Lega Means for ache Jpong the transfers. The most Likely Solu Tion would a Jukl series of bilateral agreements betwee those natio Pruitt agree to equipment transfers he said. complicating such transfers would in clude us costs of destroying the equipment. Destroying this junk will Cost something. Who pays for that Cost costs would also include shipping the tank from one country to another As Well As and repair personnel who would work after nos transferred from other you see there Isug Jumain Cost in this that has to be worked out some the two countries an possibly also thar night be common costs that is costs that Ajaj Povill share As a said that the Vienna conventional arms would Spur nato s new emphasis Ong smart which stresses computer generated Bat m. 1 simulation to test commanders while reducing the umber of troops and vehicles mane vering in the Field. Last week at the Vienna talks nato proposed limits of 40,000 soldiers and 800 tanks on most military exercises in Europe. Nato anticipated the exercise limit sen it recently began integrating More simulation into to arms Conti caravan of cd. An exercise that ran from sept. 13 to sept. 20, used of Field exercises with com Puter simulations anther echelons. In november ace89 will be a free exercise involving commanders and staff of come Europe above the division level. It int simply to make a sir exercise Galvi said adding that simulation also Sav Ncncy. A tank for example uses one liter of gasoline per Knieter he a conventional forces agreement is retd. The new Era favors Small highly qualified forces he saw car now the Edge in simulated training lies with the West. V the soviets also have some capability to use so la lion in training but not anywhere near to this extent Galvin said. Fine right mix of training is looking ahead Toht Galvin said. 1
