European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 25, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday february 25, 1990 the stars and stripes Page 9 Over Here  no speh cab Oft  p abm honk k phhap3 komah3mp i could t believe this the inf treaty was happening. I thought maybe i la actually have a Chance to contribute  Theresa Miller sgt. There Miller stands in front of russian and English messages greeting soviet inspectors it Wii Edilu in air Juliun. No puts out Welcome mat for soviets b Randy Pruitt staff writer Wosch Heim air station. West Germany sandwiched under Glass on sgt. Theresa Miller s desk in inc transportation office is a picture that no Long ago would have raised . Military eyebrows. It s a likeness of soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Pasted on the big Wall clock is the russian word for  words in inc cyrillic alphabet also Idun Tiff the door. Lamp Wall and chair. On her Calendar. A s of the week in English have been replaced by their russian counterparts. Her co workers just smile at the setup. Their understanding transcends the language Barrier. The know Why Miller surrounds herself with things that say  it s her Job to help make soviet inspectors feel Welcome when they visit the 38th tac missile Wing a ground launched cruise missile unit that is being dismantled under the intermediate Range nuclear forces treaty. Language is one of the keys to glasnost. Gorba Chev s reformist policy of openness. Miller helps smooth the Way for the 10 visiting inspectors who can pop up at any time to see if the United states is complying with the historic treaty signed in 1987. The 26-year-old from Atlanta got involved when it was Learned she was inc Only person at the air station with a working knowledge of russian. At the time she was driving a shuttle bus Between Kusch him and Hahn a. I thought i would never use it again said Miller who spent six months in 1985 at the defense language Institute at Lackland and in san Antonio she did Well academically but had to be dismissed alter it was disco. Rcd she had a slight hearing impairment. She was crushed. She Felt even worse when she found out she d been reassigned to transportation. I was mortified Miller said laughing. I be came a truck Driver overnight. One Day i was in school and two Days later 1 was in Albuquerque. New Mexico someplace i had never been doing some thing i thought i would never  her Pride has since healed. She has even come to like her Job in vehicle operations where she has been Assignee for the past three years. But Miller found herself being drawn More and More to the russian language. Actually it was some thing she never gave up. Over the years she s continued studying taking either University of Maryland courses or reviewing old textbooks. Miller said she got excited when she Learned she d been picked As a Facilitator for the soviet visits. I could t behave this the inf treaty was Hap  she said. I thought maybe i la actually Nave a Chance to contribute  since most of the visiting soviet inspectors speak some English and bring their own interpreters. Miller docs Only a Little translating. She spends time though teaching other americans at Kusch him enough russian to make a Good impression. Man now know How to Siv.   thank you and other useful  she also helped put together a Szulc show in both russian and English for the visiting dignitaries. Making a Good impression is  she said describing the soviet team members As warm and open. During the last soviet inspection All but one of the visitors spoke English. While the others talked with americans he Sal on the bus saing  Miller said. I struck up a conversation with him. He seemed so pleased he could speak to  he gave her his Only pen one proclaiming mos cow As the hero  the soviet inspectors Are extremely thorough As they Lour the missile facility she said. They look at everything even a Little closet or heat ing duds. They ask Vou a lot of questions like. Due a like being in the military .1 especially a female the ask Why i m in the military. Like i was  last november she travelled to the soviet Union for the first time visiting Moscow and Leningrad. Although she stayed Only a week she saw the Long lines and near empty stores challenges thai Gorbachev faces. Despite diplomatic Progress there is still a lot of mistrust she  recently applied for language school again because of an increase in arms control treaty negotiations she said the military is looking for service members who want to improve their language skills. I can t think of anything belter she said. Once you get interested you stay that  troop Cut plan would retain Domestic bases by Janet Howells tier Nev Washington Bureau Washington an Arkansas con Gressman has proposed a plan that would accommodate wholesale cuts in . Troops in Europe while saving Domestic bases from closure. Called dual Basing the concept was suggested last week by rep. Bill Alexan Der a Democrat during a meeting of the House military construction subcommittee. The plan is one of Many being pro posed by lawmakers looking for alternatives to the closures proposed by Cheney last month. Alexander s plan came Dur ing testimony on the $1 billion the Pentagon wants to spend in overseas Mili tary construction in fiscal 1991. The dual Basing plan would bring Home the bulk of european based troops but it would leave the command Clement based overseas. The troops and their families would be reassigned to stateside bases that the troops could be temporarily deployed to overseas locations for military training exercises and for crisis situations he said. Alexander said he first thought of the idea in 1984 while attending a nato meeting in West Germany. He said dual Basing could save on the High Cost of keeping military families overseas and estimated that redeployment costs would average less than half of what is no have been tagged for closure said Alcan Avera. Der. Whose District s Eaker fab is one of being spent to keep the units overseas the 35 . Installations targeted by de sense Secretary Dick Cheney. Full time. He also argued that since overseas troops arc facing substantial reductions All present stateside bases will be needed. Where else will they go the con Gressman asked. Pentagon officials acknowledged that forms of dual Basing already exist in some nato plans but would not identify where those classified installations arc located. There has been rapid change in the world and Little Here noted rep. Vic Fazio a Calif. We need to act less drastically on base closures and let current events run their course before we dictate such major