European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 23, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse The s is and of ripes authorized unofficial publication Fob 14.41.s. Armed forces vol. 48, no. 281 tuesday january 23, 1990 a dirty and d 8693 a no official to on we Brucken by Chuck Vinc staff writer Washington reports that Owci Bruckn a. West Germany will be closed As a Cost culling measure arc pre mature. Air Force officials said monday. The reports including a newspaper article in Friday s Zeitung and an associated press item on an radio monday afternoon. Said Owci Bruckn would be shut Down As part of the 1991 defense budget. But maj. Lou Figueroa. An air Force spokesman in the Pentagon declined to comment on the report before the unveiling of the spending plan. The budget is scheduled to be made Public by de sense Secretary Dick Cheney on Mon Day. The air Force May detail its recommendations for closing some bases As part of the fiscal 1991 defense budget. Figueroa said but no official announcement has been made yet on the Parma sons newspaper said the base would close in 1992 in conjunction with the Transfer of the 10th military Airlift so elsewhere. A Wei Bruckn re yet closing spokesman said monday however that there were no plans to Transfer the unit which uses c-23 Sherpa aircraft to move parts and supplies around Europe. Other major units assigned to Owci Bruckn include the 26th tac recon Wing the 26th combat support group the 601st tac control Wing and the 612lh tac control group. The base has a work Force of 3.500 uni itary personnel and 340 German civilian workers. It was used by the Ca Nadian military until 1969, when it was see closing on Back Page Bonn v Germany Sasman Galvin thinks . A conf nue Europe Xeric ses by daviij1arrani staf Thrier a mind. West Germany nato s lop military command or in Europe said monday thai he exp act Large scale . Military Maneu vers in Europe to continue despite pres sure from Congress to c however. Gen. John de states Likely will Sci peels of the annual re Calvin to turn around and ship Well probably Cut Back Galvin hailed the a better than i Ever cup cacti looking at the exercise of the general made the with the Lola Mountain fort drum. . At isl hard Cavern. Seen Lal do fens spending. Galvin said the unit Back the costliest As of forces to Ger Many. Including the movement of vehicles across the Ocean. That s really not very much Galvin said during a visit to the site of exer Cise Centurion shield 90. You put the vehicle on the ship and it sits on the ship for a couple of weeks and then of have Back in the end. Iver by saying it s i think that we Are Marks after visiting i1 Light infantry from command Center on Story and photo on the exercise which Feal Pulcer simulation while Ems of commanders and staff d challenged those involved simulated Battles. I be been watching the see Gai pcs wide use of com tas izing the training Peers has especially a commanding the and it s so real Vin on Back Page a soviet Soldier assigned to protect armenians in a and a Erba Jun Aims his nun from a demolished House. Hundreds of thousands turn out to Bury azerbaijani assault victims Moscow at factors whistles wailed in mourning monday and hundreds of thousands of azerbaijanis massed in Baku to Bury scores of country men killed when soviet troops stormed the Cit to put Down a nationalist uprising witnesses said. A general strike took effect to protest the assault and demand an end to the soviet occupation. In an Over night session the Southern Republic s legislature demanded soviet troops leave the azerbaijani capital. The official Tass news Agency said 83 people including 14 soldiers and members of their families were killed saturday in an assault by soviet troops in the capital. Baku or in skirmishes the previous Day. That brought the toll to 155 dead and More than 500 wounded since Jan. 13 in fighting that was Origi Nally sparked by anti armenian riots in Baku a Oil producing Center of 1.7 million people on the Caspian sea. Tass reported 12 new deaths when armenian Mili Tants opened fire on an azerbaijani Village on the Bor Der Between the two soviet Republic s in the Dolchy Sorota area. Internal Security troops prevented further bloodshed. Tass said. President Mikhail Gorbachev sent the troops to the Southern Region last week to try to halt fighting be tween the moslem azerbaijani and Christian Armeni ans the worst ethnic unrest since he became communist party chief in 1985. Gorbachev whose fostering of greater freedoms led to the surging nationalist unrest. Also faces conflicts in the Baltic. Moldavia. Georgia and in parts of soviet Central Asia. Iranian radio said monday that armed forces had been deployed along Iran s Border with soviet Azerbaijan to prevent people from crossing. Tass said azerbaijani and iranians continue to Cross the Border in see victims on Back Page 23 Steps of super bowl sunday pages 22-23
