European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 25, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes thursday january 25,1990 voodoo material not drugs in Noriega a time. We know our tamales members a see one they said. . Military said tuesday and the of Nales Cornmeal and Rodery substance found in Manuel an Nork. Or Chicken con Panama City Panama yes the powder Tonio Noriega s Home was definitely not tamales. But it was t cocaine either. . Army officers had first said that nearly 110 pounds of cocaine had been found in Noriega s Home the Day after the dec. 20 invasion bolstering . Charges of drug trafficking against the panamanian strongman. But published reports this week said the army acknowledged later thai1 Trie substance found in the House was tamales. Not cocaine. Southern come spokesmen reacted angrily tuesday saving the army never claimed it had found tamales. Many of the . Service members Here Hail from the Southwest and should be Able to recognize a tamale when pork thetfo different wans. They thick Corr Northern Mexico de states to Arprano conf in Many from the tamale of the Western unit tamale wrap Ped in a Banina Leaf Popup along the mexican Gulf coast Central America and Emmma. A .1 the panamanian variety is most pos v ular around Christmas and is made with Cornmeal and Chicken meat in the capital and with pork in the provinces. We said that our soldiers found some White powder wrapped in banana leaves in a refrigerator said capt. Art Hau bold of the Southern come s Public affairs office. The substance was taken to a lab and it was determined after that is was not the Best they could determine was that it was some bonding substance used in voodoo rituals. That s the Way it was described to us by army experts. At first it could have been mistaken by a Layman As  army officials also said tuesday they never indicated any direct connection existed Between the former dictator and drugs found by soldiers As they searched Noriega s Homes and hundreds of other Stop pcs and offices in Panama. In was not our Job to determine that Haub maid. Acc Roll to the army quantities of cocaine crack cocaine marijuana and heroin were Foutty and confiscated by the . Army Frow dec. 20 through Jan. 9 in search operations throughout Panama. The total Rel Udud Small amounts found on suspects pitted up for questioning and in private Home so Powell warns of hollow9 defense Washta Toien a the soviet threat is  America should beware of dropping  so Lothat it again has a hollow  the top . Military officer said Mona trek i will not preside Over the return to a hollow army a hollow Navy a hollow Marine corps a hollow air Force. I have been there and i am not going Back said Gen. Colin l. Powell chairman of the joint chiefs of staff to applause from an audience of Reserve officers Many in uniform. The term hollow army refers to the situation in the 1970s when Many . Units were far below strength and did not have enough ammunition or spare parts to fight a War or keep equipment running although the soviets retain r significant military capability the Doh Lical likelihood of them using that capability against us or our allies in Europe is less than it has been in  said during speech to the Reserve officer association. I Don relieve i am telling you any thing new when i say that As a political and military matter the soviet threat is diminishing he said. The reality is that we must plan on our defense budget going Down several percentage Points every year in tar the foreseeable  to Jie added we do not  up Lik the Farmer who in offer to save Money Stostad of coding Juls horse. The strategy  horse  not Only is the Atnif Elution changing but its wars crack   of their Mai eos needs Power Eaid making his first my in re marts since attending last week s met it Vienna Austria of military chiefs for the 16 nato seven Warsaw pact and 12 non aligned european nations. The Bush administration is scheduled to Send its budget to Capitol Hill monday and Many lawmakers Are demanding that the government use what they cab the peace dividend to divert Pentagon Dol Lars to Domestic programs and reduction of the deficit. Some programs will be Cut Powell said but the pen fsr must protect its strategic  program and not withdraw program auf is forces from abroad. % Powell was impressed by the changes he saw among his Warsaw pact counterparts. It was fascinating at the conference to meet particularly with the Eastern euro Pean chiefs of defense he said. "1 met with six leaders of the non soviet Warsaw pact nations. Five of them had Only been in their Job for less than a month. The one thing that was Clear from Terrase conversations is that they arc All seeking their Way in this new Era they arc All looking at what the nature of an army Itald be at what the nature of a Navy shot Floc or an air Force with respect to their Ottawa tinal interests. And increasingly Powell continued they Are struck Una their forces the Safeway we think  ours for defensive purposes oriented solely to the defensive needs of your nation and not As part of an aggressive  from Page Alliance partners til Europe has de creased As a result of Fiji noes in Eastern Europe and soviet Force a a auctions Webster told the panel. We can probably expect Al minued diminution but not elimination roof soviet threats to . Interests the director said. The Cia director cautioned however that the soviet Union is vigorously up grading its strategic  soviets also have made consider Able gains in anti submarine efforts but they still will be unable at least in this decade to threaten . Subs in the open Ocean Webster said. But in what appeared to be a plea to head off budget cuts for the Cia and other intelligence agencies Webster said the United states must maintain its intelligence capability. He pointed to the continued soviet strategic modernij1" lion and to terrorism illegal drug 4 certainty in latin America asja old the Middle East and weapons numeration Joel licence opcration�5re hidden inthe defense department budget which faces Siw cant Tobon Capitol Hill this year.  exact figures Are secret . Intelligence  $25 billion to $30 billion or year just under 10 percent of . In his Public statement Webster emphasized that Jive situation in Eastern Europe and Fife soviet Union is in con Stant Ujj Blun widespread economic is turmoil in regional areas and communist party s reduced Power. Soviet president Mikhail s. Gorba Chev is committed to reforms but they have been slow in coming the Cia director said. The Chance of Gorbachev s re Moval As Kremlin Leader is unlikely and a major reversal of his policies would come Only if he is removed from Power Webster added. Soviets from Page 1 said tuesday that extreme fir fired on soldiers three times monday night. At a news conference in Jno scow foreign ministry spoken aft Gennadi Gerasi mov said that Jar soldiers were killed monday Nieby sniper fire. The popu Lar front mid five civilians were killed during the previous 24 hours. Official soviet Media also said a Mili tary Convoy carrying women and Chil Dren was ambushed by gunmen and that two soldiers and a bystander were killed. Fie latest casualties Jug the confirmed death toll in Baku tuft found 100 since the army entered the City the azerbaijani news Agency form said the figure included Thi women and three children despite ear Lier insistence by the army that no women and children were lulled by its troops. Both army and Interior ministry troops Are in the City. According to the soviet news Agency Tass a blockade of naval vessels in the Bay of Baku by More than 50 Oil tankers continued for the third Day. The captains of the Oil tankers have sent a Telegram to the military commander of Baku threat ening to blow up their vessels unless so Viet troops leave. Gerasimov said Small boats in Baku s Harbor halted the evacuation of the families of soldiers at the City s military Garri fee. He said activists insisted inking the ships for bodies but found none Ike Jioras have circulated that the army Hassitt dumping bodies at sea to cover up Inheh Fujil death toll. According toto665 relatives of so Viet servicemen Merit were evacuate from Azerbaijan Over the past 24 hours. About 16,000 armenians half the remaining armenian population have been evacuated from the City since anti armenian riots of Jan. 13 and 14, Tass said. Blue Angel Jet crashes Pilot ejects by the associated pres the crash of a Navy Blue Angel Jet was among three accidents involving the Navy in California and air National guard jets in Texas and Kansas on tuesday. Two Navy Blue Angels jets collided Over the superstition mountains about 20 Miles Northwest of Al Centre calif., during a training exercise tuesday causing one of the planes to crash authorities said. Elsewhere an air Force Jet crashed near a Busy Highway Clover Leaf in Austin Texas. A Pilot in an air National guard Jet clipped radio Guy wires during a training flight in Wulchin son  Pilot of the Blue angers a 18 ejected safely before the air Craft went into the mountains about 12 30 p.m., said Al Centra Naf spokesman Mike Ray. The planes involved in the Colli Sion were part of a four aircraft Diamond formation at the time of the Accident Ray said. Three of the air Craft including the other one involved in the collision returned safely to the base. The downed plane s Pilot. Marine capt. Chase Mosc Lcy was flown by helicopter to the Al Centra regional medical Center. Ray said. Moseley was reported in Good  Austin a two Man Crew of an Rf-4c Deconna Isacc Jet ejected safely before the aircraft slammed into a Grassy area near two bus highways during the afternoon Rush hour snarling traffic and producing a mushroom Cloud of smoke and grass  Pilot capt. Hal s. Golds Mith. 32, and his weapons officer 1st it. Robert b. Brumley 25, suffered minor injuries and were taken to a Hospital at Bergstrom fab where they Are based said a base spokesman capt. Guy Thompson. In Kansas the Pilot of a Kansas air National guard f-16 Jet fighter landed safely after striking two steel cables hanging from the t9wer of radio station Khut pm in Hutchinson about 40 Miles Northwest of Wichita authorities said. The guard safety officer told me the wires first hit the canopy. That s Only six inches above the Guy s head. That s How close he came to being decapitated said Khut chief Engi Neer Randy Mettlen. The air National guard refused to release the name of the Pilot who was not injured. Bush from Page 1 Bill Hickock and Bat Masterson the president declared today too Many Law abiding Ameri cans Are prisoners in their own Homes. We be got to change that. The wrong people Are behind  Biden s Bill the focus of the presi Dent s complaint is but one of two cur rent measures the senator has submitted in the wave of anti crime proposals. An aide to the senator said that Bush s attack Only tells half the Story and that the second Bill which Bush did , contained Many of the same provisions recommended by the administration