European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 11, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes d nations to meet on open skies treaty Page 2 d Leader Sparks slide in Canadian Dollar Page 8 d All Star game coverage pages 21,23 d Kohl in Moscow for talks Page 28 authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces to 48i no 30o sunday february 11, 1990 a i d 8693 a Mandela gaining Freedom after More than 27 years of a Chi by if a ii Iichi Cape town. South Africa his bulgarian counterpart Boiko Dimitrov. The bul Garian news Agency Bra said. He was scheduled to meet with president Petar Mladinov. Premier Andrei Zukanov and leaders of the opposition Union of democratic forces the Agency added in a Brief dispatch. In Moscow in an allusion to Arthur Koestler s novel about stalinism. Baker lectured his soviet hosts about the darkness at noon Era of the past. He said the . Public and Congress did not understand How the soviet government could Send billions of rubles of assistance to countries such As Cuba and Nicaragua. Not Only were those countries supporting subversion in the Western hemisphere. Baker said but the soviet Aid is even less comprehensible when it Hap pens at a Lime when your people clearly need those scarce resources put to Good use at Home Baker spoke before the International affairs com Mittee of the supreme soviet in an 18th-Century ceremonial Hall with a Marble bust of Lenin behind him. His appearance marked the first Lime a . Govern ment official appeared in the legislative chamber an event Baker attributed to reforms undertaken by presi Dent Mikhail s. Gorbachev. For Over -10 years we have waged a cold War with a bust of Lenin in the background. Secretary of slate James a. Baker Iii addresses members of a supreme soviet committee in Moscow on saturday. Against one Baker said. Now is the Lime to put the legacy of struggle behind us. Now is the time to build a new legacy. Now is the time to move beyond the cold times Baker called soviet support for Cuba intolerable. He complained about the shipment of new Mici Jet fighter planes and questioned Why Moscow was aiding president Fidel Castro when he was so Crit ical of Gorbachev s policies. Several committee members challenged Baker on the invasion of Panama and on several arms control fronts including . Refusal to join the soviets in a moratorium on nuclear weapons testing or to consider naval Sergei f. Akrom Eyck. A military adviser to Gorbachev said the United slates at the end of world War ii had encircled the soviet Union with military bases and had not retreated from that policy. Fakhr Omeyer. A leading figure in .-soviet arms control accords questioned Why the . Administration Only trimmed defense spending while the soviets were cutting their defense budget by 14 percent As East West tension eased. Baker also was pressed to explain Why . Warships were exempt from arms control negotiations. In reply. Baker returned to the Issue of soviet sup port for Cuba and Nicaragua. He said the military action in Panama was unique and designed to remove Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega from Power while re storing democracy. The Secretary of slate also said a Strong Navy was essential to the United Stales which he described As sort of an Island 90-minute session wound up Baker s four Day visit to Moscow which was capped by a Gorbachev counterproposal to president Bush on troop reductions in Europe and headway toward arms control agreements. Baker appeared before the committee after conduct ing Marathon talks Friday with Gorbachev and other see Baker on Back Page
