European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 15, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday february 15,1990page 28 of / the stars and stripes thursday february is Laau Dod plans More troop cuts in Asia b John m. Broder los Angeles times Seoul. South Korea the United Stales is preparing to withdraw 10 to 12 percent of its military forces from South Korea. Japan and the Philippines Over the next three years according to a classified Pacific strategy plan being pre pared by the Pentagon. Secretary of defense Dick Cheney was to present the plan to South korean officials wednesday As he begins 10 Days of meetings with East asian allies. He will also ask inc allies to assume greater responsibility for their own de sense by spending More on their own troops acid contributing Mure to inc Cost no  pin,1.1 s. Bases on their soil. The troop cuts will involve the demobilization of 12,000 to 15,000 american troops out of 120,500 now stationed in the three Pacific nations. Cheney s attempted balancing act is Likely to unsettle the allies who want the . Troops to remain for political Mili tary and economic reasons while leaving unsatisfied those in Congress who want More drastic cuts overseas. According to officials involved in drafting the study the United states expects South Korea to assume the Lead ing role in its own defense within the next several years. The United slats plans shortly to turn Over Cionni ill of the joint . Korea military Toice to a South korean general. Since the end of the korean War that Post has always been held by an american four Star general. The initial . Troop withdrawals in the far East will involve support and Headquarters personnel not combat troops an official said. The services will determine which troops will be removed and the timetable. The United states has already announced plans to remove 2,000 air Force personnel working at three South korean air bases that Are to be closed for Economy reasons. The planned new cuts of 10 to 12 percent would bring the remaining troop Levels Down to about 37.000. The lowest number since the Start of the korean War.  stationed in Japan would be reduced to about 52,000 from the cur rent 59.000, while 1,500 to 2,000 troops would be Cut from the 17,800 now based in the Philippines. The reductions arc expected to save $2 billion a year at the most if the troops Are retired from the service and not redeployed to . Bases officials said. There will be no savings if the soldiers Are Sim ply relocated they said. Cheney and other . Officials have warned the asian nations that unless the administration makes substantial cuts in . Forces in Asia Congress will step in with far deeper reductions. Sen. Dale bumpers. Dark. Last year called for a 10.000-troop Cut in . Troops in s uth Korea and support is growing on Capitol Hill Abr his stance. Mandela from Page t hot their fists into the air and danc Jed them returning the Elc Nehid Fis screaming people Eil As Mandela Pas  71-Vcar-Oldtilack Leader wearing Reading glasses and a Gray suit Aid lie. Echoed the major themes he has addressed sin he was released sunday after 27 years in  said his ant movement would continue the armed struggle As Long As the violence of apartheid  however. Manila condemned violence among Blacks which he Sal set Baek inc Black cause. We must take held Steps. He said to end the mindless violence in Natal province where More than 50 Blacks Hai been killed in fighting since his release. He also cd Prossi tacks on indians in i the country s largest in Cape town a response to Mart constitutional Dev said the Pover Merb agreed  Apar eliminated ind but if rights Chi Orvy in to Blacks but it f continuing the armed concern Over the increasing at port City of Durban which has population of Blacks.1 government issued its first for Ila s statements since his release ppm Cal minister Gorrit Viljoin a Irth rid must be Enrici Vul m Iurii  be and in in in  n mils .1i-m i it .1 . I s \ Dren i Atic tul sign a he  Llu Man. Is  s,, a i i in i i   in the iv., also Hae a place " the Cowd Sang Dences As Mandela. Inc Field. He raised i Anthem of inc anti a Mandela said the had helped Hirmendi during inc last Ward to when i woj regard As my Home f after the speech. Inc Field and look " smaller stadium in motorcade to the lived in before his arrest. Speech. Mandela a--.,i  i no cilia Ali in and ,".-Il ii Security . Whom in  an inst Ruinen to be Prossi i to abandon  he and. New Sjulli Tii a. Where you Iod bless Africa in rolling to cd on a podium at one end of fist in the air As he joined in the in Lucid move Cal. Thought of returning to Soweto his Long years in prison  he said. I looked for come Back to an area which i of helicopters swooped Down on Sindela. His family and aides to a inc to. From there he drove in a Iasi. Four room Brick House he ceiling from Page t nation tint l Jve  t r Haidle  inor Menis Uil i Lle Terri ii of Iii of. I. N i Iri   our a May 12 is Nuiji to icon. In h Post. Soviets orbiter arrives at Mir for cosmonaut switch in space Moscow a a Soyu tm-9 capsule arrived at the Mir space station tuesday and the two Cosmo nauts aboard relieved two others finishing up six months of work in space the official Tass news Agency said. It was the lat Cal  in a Mission designed to Lurn a profit of More than $40 million a first in the 32-year history1 of the soviet space program. Tass reported no problems As flight commander Anatoly Solovyov and Engineer Alexander Balandin docked their soyuz tm-9 Wilh the space station. The other cosmonauts. Alexander Vik Torenko and Alexander scr Brov have been aboard the orbiter for six months and were to return to Earth on monday. Tass said. The soyuz blasted off sunday and the new Cosmo nauts also Are to spend six months in space. Under president Mikhail s. Gorbachev pressures have increased on the once sacrosanct soviet space program to prove its usefulness to the severely strained Economy. Some soviet lawmakers have even called for funding reductions saying the country can ill afford costly space missions when it cannot provide a reliable Supply of meal and potatoes. The Soyu tm-9 Mission however is designed to put to use the Kristall module described by the government newspaper Izvestia As the first Orbital factory for the full scale manufacture of technological and biotechnological materials in the near weightless conditions on Mir. Panama troops c Washington a i in i i ii. A i n the . A i i sue k  inc 1 3.- 7 slate in inn Lefoi the inva1 Reurs Marlin in a ate More than m 000 leases in the United Sta while the troop be thousand Over recent cred in inc Normal  Ever the 2,000 extra Panama following an validated by now Dep Riga. The Panama Inasi of 23 . Soldiers an panamanian troops k ing to Pentagon figure killed in inc fighting. The United states Man enl Force in Pai shifting their emphasis  on the pan National police Force f Liller said the 1 invasion ii in . The United slates   Inch mrs Loree Thiu m 2n. The Vatu la House  in Panama is at 13.0-t. U d in tile Central Ank ii Ian in said .  press  oops had been rushed limn a for inc invasion. S have fluctuated by a few is the 13.000 level is consid he said. That includes How Onnel president Bush sent to Clion last May 7 that was in d Cion. Manuel Antonio no resulted in the combat deaths in wounding of 324. With 3 1 4 cd and 124 wounded Accord n addition 202 civilians were no plans to withdraw its per la. However the troops Are rom inc traditional one of con a canal to helping train a new Anama. A bar of 1 a. Troops will Likely continue to fluctuate i be years to come. Mosi Jems from Pago 1 f ainu iian Rel i inn from the Fth lit inf in a Eib Aijan a nil be Pivin i Arienca Lor new housing which is in Hull Supply in i affix Hilston. 1 Oral author item appealed to the population on to Hiki Stan tale Ion to help repel the  Thev Al ii asked or help from inc National govern mint to the situation in the unon is out of  said a be Perl on Moscow Adio. Pogroms excesses and Rob Benes Are i oing 4 our forces arc nol enough. The emergency situation is not  some rioters Hale been shooting at troops brought in to iry to Stop Hie disturbances the official news Agency Tass said. E according to Rifino Moscow the demonstrators Are shouting anti Russ slogans. They arc demanding inc return of the lilies of Samarkand and Bukhara from neighbouring Uzbekistan. The replacement of the Republic s com must leadership the closure of an environmentally Daw Crous aluminium Plant and a re turn to the Republic w All income derived from Cotton growing. Unification from Page 1 2 die in . Plane crash i i lung h n. . Lalia main s hands in world War ii "1 he hush t i Nim  up u Iii n i an . I in ,. L a cd v. ,-.uoro.   i. I fender Mcl iride w is in his Hie 3 s or Eaily 40s. President Mikhail s. Gorbachev.  were opral Pis could be allayed Iem ies diverted  nato. Ii of on Condi. Inid Hal no i i .