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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 21, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday december 21, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 7 major troop cuts proposed for Pacific by the Washington Post Washington a High level de sense department review of . Forces in the Pacific has concluded that the United states can make major reductions in the 46,000 troops stationed in South Korea and can afford to lose for Ward bases in the Philippines according to knowledgeable sources. The options were presented to de sense Secretary Dick Cheney and Gen. Colin l. Powell chairman of the joint chiefs of staff in a two hour meeting at the Pentagon monday. No decisions have been made by Che Ney and Powell but if they accept the choices suggested by senior planners their decisions would Mark a fundamental reshaping of . Military strategy in the Western Pacific. Pacific forces now total 222,238 Active duty personnel with about 50,000 based in Japan 45,000 in Hawaii and another 34,000 afloat. Pentagon planners arc reviewing alter Nate bases in the Western Pacific. One military official said they could Settle on some combination of facilities on Guam Okinawa and perhaps Singapore to re place Subic Bay naval base and Clark a in the Philippines. A Pentagon briefing paper circulated before the monday meeting asserts de spite . Support to the philippine government during the recent coup attempt it is not Likely that . Forces will be based in the Philippines beyond the end of the  the maximum level of cuts contemplated under the options considered this week would reduce Active duty Armand air Force personnel by nearly 80,000 throughout the Pacific betwee now and the end of fiscal 1994. For a saving of about $3.6 billion according to the sources. The option that received the most Dis Cussion Calls for elimination of the army s 6th Light inf div in Alaska Andy u Ruwin uni u Nic  in n i pm Tigue Minin yarn Imus Sivu a inn a i i i feathers glue and imagination add up to growing toy business Cleveland a in an age of teenage my 4epp / Klant ninja turtles and Nintendo two women who. Of 4 a the 25th Light inf div in Hawaii sources said. The latter unit has served As the theater Reserve for the Pacific com  briefing paper said these cuts would halve the number of army Light infantry divisions but it notes that these forces combined with . Marine forces would leave the United states with seven divisions at the Light end of the  South Korea the army proposes reducing its presence to one brigade and associated support the sources said. This plan would pull most of the 8th army s 2nd div out of South Korea and Send the troops Back to Pacific Headquarters in Hawaii. My stance a toy company in their basement have Cre ated a growing business that relies on an endless source of  imagination. Phyllis Brody and Evelyn or Conwald owners of creative Art activities inc., banked on children s curiosity and ingenuity when they founded creativity for kids in 1979. So Many toys arc aimed at entertaining the child said Brody 53, a former social  our toys rather than a child being passive they  the idea has paid off. The business has moved into a warehouse As sales have increased 30 to 40 percent each of the last five years. The two Cleve land Heights owners say it is accurate to estimate that sales exceeded $2 million in 1989, though they decline to give specific sales figures. The company s 40 kits contain materials to trans form old boxes into cars or dollhouses safety pins and sequins into bracelets and cardboard tubes and clothespins into dolls puppets and monsters. Aimed at children 4 and older the kits Range in Price from $3 for a party favors kit to $25 for a pc Cut doll bed. The product line is inexpensive in an Industry with annual sales of $ 12 billion. The kits arc a combination of facts playing and learning. They make up their own rules no one tells them How to do it Brody said. For $7.95, the let s pretend travel kit includes maps passports postcards and tickets. The let pretend restaurant offers dinnerware menus place Mats order pads and other items needed for a restaurant. Other kits include the ingredients to make a personalized to shirt hat or masks or items to operate a hotel or supermarket. Harry Guckert publisher of playthings the new York based Trade Magazine founded in 1903 for the toy Industry said creativity for kids has Cai cd out a special Niche in the toy Market. Creativity Lor kids is excellent Guckert said. We Call them specially retailers. The two gals have researched the Market and their company is Strong. There Are a lot of companies in this differentiated Market that arc  the company s products have won seven parents Choice awards a toy Industry award for Excel Lence. Phyllis by Xiy Tup and Kun Len or Conwald with some of their 40 different 1-et s pretend kits. Many of the kits Are just a collection of House hold items the kind of stuff parents used to Assem ble for play on a Rainy Day feathers glue coloured paper corks paint fabric Wood Ana yarn Sai Greenwald 49, a lawyer. She said the kits satisfy the needs of working parents who Don t have the Lime to round up Craft items but still want to offer children creative opportunities. Mother 2 sons charged in drug ring operation Indianapolis a a former president of the Indianapolis league of women voters and her two sons were led to court in chains tuesday two years after they were charged with running a Large marijuana smuggling ring. Less than 24 hours after their extradition from aus Tria. Linda scary and Richard and Paul Heilbrunn appeared before . Magistrate John p. Godich. The Trio were Unhan cuffed for the 45-minute hear ing and Ihen returned to the Marion county jail to await a detention hearing Friday. Before leaving the United Stales in 1985, scary 58.had been president of the Indianapolis league of women voters and the local chapter of the National Council of jewish women. Paul Heilbrunn. 35, was a commodities broker an columnist for a local business journal. His 38-year-old brother lived with his wife and two children on a farm outside Indianapolis. Scary and the Heilbrunn were among 34 people named in a 1987 indictment outlining a marijuana smuggling ring that allegedly involved 11 states and moved Al least 250,000 pounds of the drug. The three were arrested in May in Austria under the International convention of narcotics. The . And Austria have no extradition agreement. This is a major Milestone . Attorney Deborah Daniels said tuesday. Though we had Felt confident that they would be Home by the end of the year it s Good to Sec that process  Daniels and her staff waited for months while Justice department officials processed hundreds of pages of documents translated them into German and moved them through stale department channels to Austria. On Friday Godich will Rule on a government re quest to hold the Trio without Bond until their trial scheduled for feb. 13. Paul Heilbrunn s attorney Linda Pence said the three probably will waive formal arraignment because they previously had pleaded innocent to the charges. Scary faces 12 counts including conspiracy to Dis tribute marijuana Money laundering and interstate transportation in Aid of racketeering. She could be sentenced to 30 years in prison. Paul Heilbrunn faces 26 counts including conspiracy to import and distribute marijuana and running a continual criminal Enterprise. He could get life imprisonment. Richard Heilbrunn faces nine counts and a maximum 60-year sentence. Of officials finding stealth report hard to track Washington a you be heard of the stealth bomber and the stealth fighter Undt Citable air planes. The Pentagon has now created the stealth memo it can t be detected either. Pentagon spokesman Pete Williams queried tuesday about the results of his months Long attempts to obtain More in formation about the stealth f-1i7a fighter for reporters acknowledged that several memos on the subject have been  in the Pentagon amazingly As it seems memos get lost and deep fixed and vanish into thin air. Stealth memos yes. This is a stealth memo program that we re  Williams quipped when asked about his efforts. In fact a memorandum to the Secre tary of the air Force was Willen on this Issue sent to the air Force and i vanished the air Force s own radar could t detect in Williams joked. The Al 17a is perhaps the air Force s most secret operational aircraft. Based at Tonopah test Range Airfield in Nevada the jets have been carefully screened from Public View. But in recent months More and More have been observed in flight and Pic Tures of the Black Delta winged Craft have appeared in magazines and technical journals. The jul which was first test flown in 1977, uses the so called stealth technology to provide it with Low radar reflectivity like its newer better known Cousin the b-2 bomber. The spokesman said the memo first sent to air Force Secretary Donald b. Rice about providing the press wit More information was subsequently found and revived and sent to another office and it vanished into thin air  Williams stated that he was certain Theair Force had not deep fixed the memo or allowed it to be lost arguing that the service wanted to make More information about the so called Black program known. Black programs arc the most secret in the Pentagon with Little information released about them. One defense department source said air Force officials would like to release some information about the Al 17a pro Gram. They want to show it As Well run in contrast to difficulties that arose Over the costly b-2 bomber  
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