European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 25, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes Fasching in Europe stripes Magazine a modernizing forces called Tough Page 2 a Randy Barnett s car  13 a Wetander upsets  17 the St to inf prices authorizes unofficial publication for the . Armed Forcht Good morning vol. 48, no. 283 thursday january 25, 1990 he own re d 8693 a Bush warns Congress on chinese student veto Washington apr pc Sidoni Bush lobbying to sustain his veto of legislation to protect chinese students from deportation said wednesday that con Gress a will have Only itself to blame if it overrides his veto and authorities in Beijing retaliate. In a wide ranging morning news con Ference Bush also sidestepped a question on the use of Force by soviet authorities attempting to Pul Down civil disorder in Azerbaijan a but indicated his Trust in soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Anytime you have a use of Force and a loss of life we have concern but 1 Don t believe 1 can judge that right now he said. Or Gorbachev s future he added Quot i Hope that he not Only survives but slays Strong 1 the key event wednesday for Bush was congressional consideration of his veto of the chinese student legislation. The House wasps Peund to Vole to Oversea Bush on Back Page civilian hiring freeze to include Naf posts 91 Washington Bureau Washington a the defense detriment has added Alt non appropriated part fund positions to it s civilian hiring freeze but teaching jobs in the overseas school system will be exempt. The freeze which look of text immediately after it was announced by defense Secretary Dick Cheney Jan. A is scheduled to last for the rest of the fiscal year which ends sept. 30. Christopher Jehu the Pentagon a manpower Chieft said in a memo released monday that the freeze is designed to Quot begin to reduce the department s civilian work Force and to enable us to belter manage reductions in fiscal 1991 and  Quot the prohibition applies to All civilian positions in Dod including non appropriated fund positions and foreign National positions both direct and indirect hires Quot Jehn wrote adding that the ban applies to hiring from any source either within or outside the defense department. Exceptions to the freeze for positions in support of medical safely or Security requirements will be forwarded to John s Oil tee fora final decision. Trank Cipolla the Pentagon a director of civilian personnel policy said the decision was made to include non appropriated fund employees because the freeze is meant to be a management tool As Well As a potential budget cutting move. Naf workers promised jobs after Cheney a Jan. 1j announcement but before the monday memo by John cannot be hired Cipolla said. Although freezing non appropriated jobs will not save taxpayers Money the freeze will help the defense department goal of paring Down the entire workforce. Quot we re dealing with the entire Structure Here a Cipolla said. A there Are a lot of situations where appropriated and ruin appropriated fund employees work Side by Side in the same kinds of organizations. As such the rationale was that there is no basis for excluding Naf Quot see freeze an Back Page Cheney places 3-month Stop on new military construction by Bill Batman Washington Bureau Washington a defense Secretary Dick Cheney announced a the acc month moratorium on military construction wednesday As a Way of preparing for what he said were changes in the size and shape of the . Armed forces. The moratorium effective immediately and lasting through april 18. Marks the second Lime in less than two weeks that Cheney surprised his own lop officials with a significant spending freeze. On Jan. Ii Cheney announced a civilian hiring freeze for the remainder of the fiscal year. Esli Melcs on the savings the moratorium would pro vide were not readily available said several lop officials. This year s construction budget was ss.5 billion. Overseas construction will not be hit hard by the moratorium because Congress had already sharply curtailed construction outside the United states As part of the fiscal 1990 defense spending Bill. Cheney also ordered the secretaries of the military departments and the directors of the defense agencies to review their plans for future military construction and report their revised plans to the undersecretary of acquisition and the Pentagon comptroller by april 16. Lit a statement Cheney tied the moratorium to coming cuts and expected changes Tor the military. Quot this use Cheney on Back Page troop cuts under Vienna treaty wont save much defense Money by Janet  Washington Bureau Washington a . Defense spending would decline Only modestly with the troop cuts being considered at conventional arms talks in Vienna according to the congressional budget office. However further troop cuts would Lead to significant savings the analysts said monday. The budget office is a research Arm of Congress. Its report was requested by the Senate budget committee. The nato proposal to withdraw 30,000 .classified ads troops from Europe would reduce the $305.5 billion defense budget by 1 percent or less than s3 billion the budget office said. The nato timetable Calls for the treaty to be fully implemented by 1993, so budget reductions would not be noticeable for several years the budget of tick reported. If tensions Between nato and the Warsaw pact continue to ease larger military cutbacks could be possible. Savings could swell to j27 billion a year by Tim see cuts on Back Page flowery touch a woman with the International Green week fair being held in Berlin presents Flowers to an East German Border guard wednesday. 11k Lair s organizers want Border guards to help Speed Crossings by East Gentian expected id attend the event. East German will be represented in the fair for the first time. Magazine