European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 26, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Friday january 26,1990 egress told of Sli front opposed Tropp Cut plan by Janet Howells-t1erney Washington Burein Washington defense spending would decline Only modestly with the troop cuts being considered at conventional arms talks in Vienna Austria the congressional budget office says. Further troop cuts would Lead if cant savings the analysts Day. J co is a research Arn a Congress. The report was  the Senate budget commile per the Tajo proposal to withdraw. Troops from Europe would uce the $305.5  budget i or some ssh Morton co said. O i Able Calls for the treaty to  by 1993, so budget a  not be notice Allejo reveral years tensions Between nato Ltd the Arsaw pact continue to ease military cutbacks could be possible. Ings could swell to $27 billion a year by eliminating seven of the 18 Active army divisions and 14 or More of the air Force s 35 Active and Reserve tactical fighter wings co  represents an 8.8 percent reduction from current spending Levels. Those cuts would involve As Many as321,000 .  in Europe and the United states. A . Troop Cut of that size would make nato s traditional Job of defending Western Europe More difficult but the diminishing threat May justify the action the report  prospects for such a peace Divi act shave been enhanced by recent events nah Stern Europe notably the opening of ten Reinwall. Reduced co Hesion within the Watsaw Impact. And the move toward democratic government in several Eastern european  the report said. Freeze from Page 1 said in a memo released monday that the freeze is designed to begin to reduce the department s civilian work Force and to enable us to better manage reductions in fiscal 1991 and  the prohibition applies to All civilian positions in Dod. Including non appropriated fund positions and foreign National positions both direct and indirect  John wrote adding that the ban applies to hiring from any source either within or outside the defense depart ment. Exceptions to the freeze for positions in support of medical safety or Security requirements will be forwarded to John s office for a final decision. Frank Cipolla the Pentagon s 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. People promised Naf jobs after Che Ney s Jan. 11 announcement cannot be hired. Cipolla said. Although freezing non appropriated jobs will not save Federal budget funds it will help the defense department s goal of paring Down the entire workforce he said. We re dealing with the entire Struc Ture  Cipolla said. There Are a lot of situations where approx armed and non appropriated fund employees work Side by Side in the same kinds of organizations he said. As such the rationale was that there is no basis for excluding Naf from the freeze. About 1.05 million civilians work for the government worldwide including 80,000 foreign nationals. The total num Ber of Naf employees worldwide is about 220.000. While the conditions of employment for foreign nationals arc set by agreements Between the United slates and Host nations the hiring of such employees is not and they will be included in the freeze As part of the civilian work Force Cipolla said. We Are not obligated to any Host country to employ a certain number of foreign nationals Cipolla said. Hiring decisions Are made by .  freezing the entire work Force and reducing civilian employees through Attri Tion this year will put the Pentagon in the Best position to avoid harsher actions such As reductions in Force and other Adverse separations  he said. John has made provisions for a num Ber of exceptions. Chief among them is the Blanket exemption of department of defense dependents schools teachers. Hiring commitments May be made for teachers recruited for the Dod dependent and Section 6 school systems he said. Cipolla said Jehn made that decision in order to avoid interrupting the teacher recruitment process which is currently taking place for the 1990-91 school year. He said the process cannot be deferred until after the next fiscal year begins in october because the school system would be unable to immediately hire the number of teachers it would need and probably would have to leave positions vacant for a Large part of the school year. Jobs that must be filled under Federal Law Are exempted from the freeze but part time and temporary positions arc included. Cipolla said exceptions can be requested in order to convert part Lime employees to full time if that does t re quire moving them to a new Job. The freeze deals with vacancies he said. If you have a part time employee thai you want to make full Lime Wilhour changing the Job that will probably be allowed. But if you re looking to make thai employee full Lime in another Posi Tion thai won t be  the services and defense agencies can recruit from colleges and universities and make hiring commitments to College applicants for trainee jobs including a nary positions presidential manage ment interns and summer hire pro Grams John said. That s the same kind of Silva lion As with the  Cipolla said. Our Traince programs for career occupations rely heavily on colleges and we want to be Able to make commitments to this year s  beginning feb. 15, the services and defense agencies will have to Forward monthly Stalus reports to John s office thai must include detailed information on any re quests for and approvals of exceptions to the freeze. Bush from Page 1 wednesday night. With the strife in Azerbaijan and de mands for Independence from the Balti Stales of Lithuania. Latvia and Estonia Bush said Gorbachev is faced with an ethnic problem Here and an internal problem of enormous  the military killed dozens of people saturday in storming the capital City of Baku. After 11 Days of violence the official death toll stood Al 170. Gorbachev ordered thousands of soviet troops into Azerbaijan last week to Stop Ami armenian rioting and restore order. Bush said he can t make predictions about Gorbachev s chances of surviving the challenges but added i Hope he not Only survives but stays Strong. Because i think it is in our inter est that per Stroika succeed and go for  the uni cd slates regards the soviet Union s annexation of the Baltic Stales a half Century ago As illegal and Bush said he and Gorbachev discussed the . Position at last month s Malta Summit. But he said he did nol want to Fine tune All thai emphasizing Insl cad that what we want to do is to encourage or. Gorbachev s stand that peaceful change is the order of the  Bush bristled Al the Prospect of his veto on the chinese students Bill Teing overridden. One of the criticisms that gels 10 me a Little. Is the idea that 1 Don t care about human rights. That is absolutely ridiculous he said. Not one student was sent Back to China after last june s government crackdown on demonstrators he said. They were Safe Ihen and they Are Safe now and they will be Safe in the  he attributed the Strong sentiment in Congress to override the veto both to persuasive lobbying by the students and crass politics by lawmakers eager to hand him a defeat. He said China took a Gigantic step Back last year on human rights. But the onetime China envoy said i news briefs of launches satellite Cape canaveral Fla. A the air Force launched a navigation satellite wednesday to join a network of spacecraft Monitor ing american and Allied military forces worldwide. The payload is the sixth in a series of advanced Nav Star satellites launched in the last year from Cap canaveral. F-15 Down at sea Angeles Philippines a a . Air Force f-15 fighter crashed wednesday in the South China sea about so Miles North West of Clark a. The Pilot is presumed dead. . Officials. Search teams from Clark and the Nas Cubi Point found debris but failed to locate the Pilot. The . Statement said the Pilot s name was withheld pending notification of Kin. Baku Harbor cleared Moscow soviet warships artillery and tanks wednesday blasted merchant ships to end a four Day blockade that had pre vented the evacuation of soldiers families in Baku Harbor. The military attacked after ves Sels of the Caspian sea Oil flee opened fire on port installations in the azerbaijani capital the soviet news Agency Tass said adding that there had been casualties but not saying How Many. Quake hits in Asia Hong Kong a a earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale occurred Early thurs Day in the South China sea about 350 Miles from Manila Philippines the Hong Kong Observatory said. No damage reports were immediately available. Romanians protest Bucharest Romania leaders of three political parties wednesday denounced the provisional government s plan to run it sown candidates in National elections in May and demonstrators at two rallies shouted slogans against its president. The gatherings at which Ion Iliescu was criticized were Amon the first Large scale expressions of discontent against the provisional authorities. Think i know enough about it that in China you get a couple of Steps Forward and then somebody Steps  suggesting China May shut the door to future exchanges Bush said the Bill is totally unnecessary the Long term policy consequences arc potentially great and Congress in my View will have Only it self to  on other topics Bush said he can t confirm reports of deep division within the Bush family on abortion. He denied disagreement surfaced at a family meeting but stopped Short of say ing there is no such division. Offered a polite no thank you to Czechoslovakia president Vaclav Havel s offer to have the next Bush Gorba Chev Summit in Prague instead of in the United Stales. Said he had not decided How much Aid the . Will Send to help repair the wounds in Panama from last month s invasion. Said the new budget due monday will include our plan to restructure America s defences in the Wake of the dramatic changes that Are taking place  military from Page 1 coming culs and expected changes for the military this moratorium will per Mit inc depart Cal to further exercise careful stewardship of taxpayer funds de voted to military construction in Light of the coming changes in the Force Structure and disposition of the . Aimed forces he said. The moratorium applies to the award of All new military construction con tracts including those for architectural and engineering design services. Some contracts May still be awarded if the government has a Legal obligation to proceed with the project or if it is needed under congressional requirements or the base closure and realignment act of 1988. Urgently needed new construction May also proceed but such projects must be approved by Cheney himself. Cheney said the moratorium will ensure thai new military construction is carefully tailored to the department s future plans for the size and disposition of the armed