European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 22, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday february 22, 1990 the stars and stripes Page 3 Sas gut Schuettler harrumph Velk Ommen til Norge gis the Grumpy creeper elves a grudging Rudy Cal Ada. The american soldiers they re admiring the icy likeness of a Circle. The giant perpetually bad tem tired half smile to from left pfc. Kirk from Mannheim West Germany Are troll fashioned by a norwegian artist in Perez Long tailed trolls Are the subject Smith pvt. 2 Derrus company and pfc. With the array encounter 90 exercise. And Sylv 250 Miles North of the Arctic of Many a scary norwegian  can to train individual soldiers with computers a by Ron Jensen staff writer an Selv nor Vay a there will be no computerized exercises for the Allied come Europe Mobile Force. No humvee will represent tanks. No companies of soldiers will be blips on a computer screen. A you can train higher Headquarters with computers Quot said West German maj. Gen. Peter h. Carstens. Who commands the Ace land forces. A you can to train individual soldiers or squads with computers. It s got to happen on the ground. Quot More importantly it must happen in the place combat is Likely to  Carstens was comparing array encounter the Ace Mobile Force cold weather exercise in Northern Norway this month with last month s Centurion shield exercise in West Germany. During the january exercise computers were used to replace Large numbers of troops and equipment in the Field. Plans Call for More computerized War games in the future. But Carstens Force is unique he said and so arc its exercises. The outfit is a multinational deterrent Force that must a show the Flag Quot on natos flanks if a threat is perceived. That involves extreme climates such As the cold above the Arctic Circle or the deserts of Turkey. It also Means a cooperative Effort on the part of several nations and requires the troops involved to be familiar with the people they Are to protect. A you can to simulate All those things on computers Quot Carstens said. Because the Ace Mobile Force represents nato s All for one. On for Al resolve. Carstens said its future is nearly assured even in a time when troop reductions arc being negotiated. Quot if you accept the Assumption that nato is going to continue As an Alliance Between the North american continent and the european continent its got to have a military component Quot the general said. Quot that s True even though there Are some very Good reasons to assume that the future of the role of nato will be More political than military. But. If you have a political Alliance there has to be a military  that unit is needed for crisis management deter rence and peacekeeping operations he said. If nato does move toward smaller More Mobile multinational forces he said it can find the blueprint for it in the Ace Mobile Force which has been doing just that for nearly 30 years. Throughout the Force Are examples of troops from different countries training together a norwegian engineers assist american engineers British forces cooperate with Canadian and so on. Carstens acknowledged that there is no immediate threat to Northern Norway where Ace Mobile Force troops have exercised 15 times. But the next two exercises will take place in Turkey along Borders that Are perpetually tense. One will be along the syrian Border and the other along the armenian Border. And of course the Mobile Force will move into those exercises with its flags flying. Quot its not the number of soldiers Quot Carstens said Quot it s not the number of Battle tanks. Its not the number of artillery pieces that cause the deterrent effect. Quot its the number of  shipment of Mig-29s to Cuba upsets . Washington it apr the state department said tuesday that Cuba has received a new shipment of High performance soviet fighter planes and that the United states Quot simply cannot tolerate Quot such developments. Under questioning department spokeswoman Margaret Tutwiler denied that the statement constituted a threat to Cuba. She referred reporters to recent testimony before a soviet legislative committee by Secretary of state James Baker in which he said Cuba posed no threat to the United states. In confirming a delivery of new Mig-29 Jet fighters Tutwiler gave no figure. The Washington times which reported the shipment in tuesday s editions put the number at six. The report said the combined total of migs in Cuba s Arsenal has now risen to More than 300, most of them older models. Tutwiler noted Baker had told the so Viet legislators during a visit to Moscow two weeks ago that the United states has difficulty understanding Why the Kremlin continues to Send Mig-29s to Cuba particularly at a time when Cuba has been so critical of soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev s Reform policies. Tutwiler also quoted Baker As saying Quot Cuba is actively supporting the insurgency in Al Salvador and it is these kind of activities close to the shores of the United states that we simply cannot Tol Erate. Initially Tutwiler dismissed As Quot hypothetical Quot a question As to whether the statement w As meant As a threat to Cuba. She later said no threat had been intended. Tutwiler also attached Little significance to the internal reforms announced recently by the cuban communist party. She said the reforms appear aimed at consolidating the strength of Cuba s one party system