European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 13, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 f thib stars and stripes tuesday february 13,1990 a c -5 gala transport plane from the military Airl Mcoyd at Hucin main a a week s end. More than 6.300 troops Rorri six countries will occupy this fro in landscape for a Winter test of nato s Allied c omd Europe Mobile Force known As the am. The am has primarily a deterrence role in said maj. A Jcj Jorgon san. A norwegian army officer involved in the exercise. And the Force will perform that role in some unconventional meet with local mayors even engage some area matches. That is not Ordinor Milit try patrol Ling As you Are used iof Jorgon flan said. In a real waving Yff the nato Flag would Jelp prevent of Teion from Evo Vipo Jorge Ken said. They want feb show the world Alfet nato is present he said. That is say. That an attack on inc country when the am is i Joe an attack on troops fro the United states Canada. West a Jermany. Italy Luxembourg and Britain far participating this week. Troops from Norway do not participate but prov pc Host nation support. / in a real situation the am would be deployed Only when invited by a nation that Felt threatened Jorgon san said. For this exercise Norway asked nato to deploy tie am because of supposed tension prompted by an unnamed Adver sary. The am has practice c9ld weather tactics 15 times before in this Arctic re Gion. The Force also has exercised in such Southern Region countries As Italy and Turkey. The deployment phase of the exercise hich began sunday will continue Mph the week. Besides the troops i vehicles and 32 helicopters will be assembled for the exercise. Cd Fabat operations will begin feb. 18 and a last for six Days. . Wants Good terms from Manila by the los Angeles times Honolulu staking out a firm Early negotiating posture in talks on the future of two key . Military bases in the Philippines Secretary of defense Dick Cheney said sunday that the Penta gon wants to keep the bases but Only on terms favourable to the United states. Cheney who is in Honolulu in route to a two week visit to Asia said obviously we arc interested in renewing the base rights agreement but it s Only going to happen if both parties can reach acceptable the base negotiations arc scheduled to begin next month. Philippine officials arc entering the talks in an equally combative mood. President Corazon Aquino who said she will not meet with Cheney when hear Rives in Manila on feb. 19, complained in her weekly radio address about recent statements by . Officials that appeared hostile to her government. Senior officials in Washington have questioned the Aquino government s ability to handle a continuing leftist insurgency and to run Public services free of corruption. A Cheney spokesman while playing Down the significance of the Aquino snub noted that Cheney s schedule had been changed so that he will spend two rather than the previously planned three Days in the Philippines. While there he will meet with defense minister Fidel v. Ramos and visit . Installations. Cheney also plans to visit Japan and South Korea where he will be discussing withdrawal of some . Troops. He said that there would be some redeployment of . Forces based in Asia but not on the scale planned for Europe where the United states has offered to withdraw fully one third of its land based troops. Soviets make concessions a troop withdrawal Moscow a the soviet Union on unday offered to negotiate the withdrawal of its to Fps from Poland As pan of an Overall cutback of Jfe soviet military presence in Eastern Europe. It also said it was ready to begin Raduc Fig its troop strength in the East bloc without wailing apr a treaty to be signed. In a government statement published by the official Tass news Agency the Kremlin do clawed that the cold War was Over and it was time to Burgin the gradual european dismantling of the outdated Model of t balance of superpower talks on cutting conventional Europe have accelerated As communist regi collapsed in East bloc countries. In this situation it is of importance not to i historic Chance and to supplement political Detoni. A relaxing of tension in the military Field in g time the government statement said. President Mikhail s. Gorbachev and president lies in have he Bush have called for major troops cuts in Europe and inc soviet Union has been negotiating with Czechoslovakia and Hungary on the withdrawal of troops. If the government of the Republic of Poland expresses an appropriate desire we could discuss with its representatives the question of soviet troops in that country the Kremlin said. Of the 575.000 soviet troops deployed in easter Europe 40,000 arc stationed in Poland. Mandel from Page 1- j some of his colleagues but up he expected he would be Able to accept any invitation Bush told reporters in use Rose Garden after making inc phone All. Bush said the future of . Sanctions against South Afri Ca was not discussed Runng the Brief his speech. A Thecla said he was Only making some preliminary comments and would have More to say after 1 have had the Opportunity to consult with my com by that he meant the leaders of theancy now in exile in Zambia As Well As colleagues still based in South Africa. But he appeared to discourage any Lead ing role for himself such As the government has in mind saying a Leader of the move ment is a person who has been democratically elected at a National de Klerk has invited Black leaders to join talks leading to the formulation of a new Constitution that would let Black South africans who outnumber Whites 28 Mil lion to 5 million take part in National poli tics. Mandela acknowledged that he had con ducted a dialogue with the government Dur ing his last years in prison. But he added my talks with the govern ment have been aimed at normalizing the political situation in the country. We Nave not yet begun discussing the Basic demands of our struggle. I wish to stress that i myself have at no time entered into negotiations about the future of our country except to insist on a meeting Between the Anc and the govern be said. He described do Klerk whom he has met twice since december As a Man of Interi to or. De Klerk has gone further Han any other nationalist president in Aluig real Steps to normalize the situation re Ndola As an organization we base our Licy and strategy and tactics on the reality we Are faced with he said. At. This reality is that we arc still the policies of the nationalist gov1 the National party which do Klerk no leads instituted apartheid after taking Power in 1948. Mandela said the government had to meet two demands before negotiations could begin. They Are the lifting of the state of Emer gency which was imposed in june 1986, and the release of All political prisoners including those accused of crimes committed in the struggle against apartheid. Only such a normalized situation which allows for free political activity can allow unto consult our people in order to obtain a mandate he cannot take place above the Heads or behind the backs of our peo ple he said. It is our belief that the future of our country can Only be determined by body which is democratically elected on a non racial appeared to be alluding to a Ormula under which a constituent Assem a in effect supplanting the existing Par i Fariew would draft a new a plan would mean the creation of an if Crim government and has by de Klerk for the foreseeable Mandela walked out of the prison after a delay of 75 minutes from the announced time he was greeted by some 5,000 supporters then was driven 40 Miles to Cape town passing several Hundred More people who waited by the Roadside Oron overpasses in Hopes of seeing him
