European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 02, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Cheney extends freeze on military building but Chi c k Vinch Washington Bureau Washington a defense Secretary d k c Hene it on tuesday extended a three month freeze on military construction until june i 5. The freeze which affects More than $7 billion in new contracts was to have ended monday Quot in Light of the enormous uncertainty Over the Lex Al of funding that Congress a i  for future defense budgets including the budget for fiscal 1991, i ha1, e no Choice but to extend the construction  Cheney said at a Pentagon news conference Cheney also said he has directed Deputy defense Secretary Donald Atwood to review 70�?� Quot lower priority construction projects approved for this fiscal year and valued at $ 1.2 billion. Cheney said he May ask Congress to revoke funding for the projects Atwood targets. He added that his Deputy is free to recommend cancelling any other projects affected by the construction freeze. Atwood s recommendations Are due by june 1. A some of these actions May not be popular with members of Congress who want to Cut the defense budget even As they plead to save projects in their own Stales and  Cheney said. A but when tight budget forces dedicated soldiers to leave the service i can to put construction projects ahead of  Cheney decried the a hypocrisy Quot of lawmakers who talk about cutting the Overall defense budget a but then Call me up and say. Dick you re not going to dose my base. You re not going to shut my production  a Congress has to understand that cutting the defense budget Means cutting the defense budget Quot he said. A it Means personnel procurement bases military construction everything across the Board. Everything is going to get  More than three quarters of the projects on Cheney a list Are in the United Stales. Congress already had sharply curtailed construction abroad to less than 6 percent of the total fiscal 1990 construction budget of $8.5 billion. The most controversial . Projects Are four of the six strategic Home ports to be constructed for the Navy. Those four Are in Texas Alabama Mississippi and new York City. Of the remaining two one would be built on the East coast and the other on the West coast Cheney said he still supports the Home porting concept which is designed to spread out the Fleet and make it less susceptible to attack. A but that program was designed at a time when we thought we were going to have a 600-ship Navy a he said. How far the Home porting program foes will depend on future congressional funding for the projects and that funding is in doubt he said. Other major . Projects that will be reviewed include a $110 million Large rocket test facility for the air Force in Arnold Tenn. $60 million for improvements at fori Hood and the red River army depot in Texas and $37 million for an army consolidated maintenance facility at Tooele Utah. The majority of the approximately 60 overseas projects on the list which total $322.8 million relate to operational Mission requirements. But a number of Quality of life Initia Tives will also be reviewed. They include a $2.9 million child development Center in Ansbach West Germany and a $1.9 million Center at the naval base in Rota Spain. A other projects to be reviewed include a $2 million recreation Center at location 276 in Turkey a $1.3 million Post office in Vilseck West Germany a $3.1 million unaccompanied housing project in Hohenfels West Germany and dormitories Worth $2.7 million each at san Vito Dei Normanna Italy and Perhac Turkey. Seven department of defense dependents schools construction projects Worth $43.6 million will be considered for cancellation. Those projects include elementary schools in Bicester England and Frankfurt West Germany and additions to facilities in Grafe Wohr and Hohenfels. West Germany and up Wood England. Cheney also listed the major family housing construction project for Europe this year 200 units at Ramstein a. West Germany. The project would Cost $18.7  briefs Britain a 1 St woman at sea apparently fits in too Well London apr the first woman to go to sea on a Royal Navy ship says the enlisted men often Call her a sir Quot by mistake. A i get called sir probably half the time because the majority of the ratings sailors forget in a female Quot second officer Chella Franklin said tuesday. A a in a there wearing trousers and a tie and doing a Job. And they done to really think about  the 26-year-old officer should be called a Ama am a but she says a i m Happy they accept me that  Franklin is assigned to the Royal Navy a newest ship has Norfolk where she is responsible for managing the people who maintain the frigate s sophisticated weapons equipment. A member of the women s Royal naval Reserve Franklin was with the ship when it was being built and officially joined her company in february when it was announced women reservists would be allowed to go to sea. She has her own Cabin and shares one of the two showers for the 11 officers hanging a sign outside Reading a out of Bounds lady  of filipinos rally against . Bases Manila Philippines apr protesters clashed with police and burned a . Flag today As tens of thousands rallied nationwide to demand the removal of . Bases from the Philippines. At least 30 people were reported injured. Tuesday s rallies were the most extensive ant bases protests since president Corazon Aquino took office four years ago. The largest near the . Embassy in Manila attracted about 50,000 people. After the rally police blocked about 4,000 protesters who tried to March on the embassy to serve diplomats with a a notice of termination for the bases. At least two people were arrested. Manila mayor met Lopez defused the situation by persuading protest leaders to allow him to deliver the a eviction  the left Wing May first movement organized the protests on May Day to demand the removal of six . Military bases on philippine territory. The protesters also called for Quot genuine land Reform higher wages and an end to the War against communist rebels. A there will be no peace and democracy in the country As Long As the . Bases Are Here a Crispin Beltran the movements chairman told the cheering crowd at the Manila rally. . And filipino negotiators will begin talks May 14 on extending the lease on the bases which expires in september 1991.Parade from Page 1 with the Hammer and sickle Cut out. Another sign called soviet leaders a the Kremlin Ceausescu a after the executed romanian dictator. Others said a Down with the Empire of red fascism Quot and a today a blockade of Lithuania tomorrow a blockade of  the protest was not shown on state run television which ended its transmissions after the official March. The wave of angry protesters continued to file through red Square which holds about 50,000 at a time for More than an hour after the leaders left. Police gradually and apparently gently moved them along. A few thousand trekked about a mile to a Square across from Gorky Park to renew their demonstration. Similar expressions of discontent were seen in Leningrad the soviet unions second largest City and the Birthplace of the revolution. Protesters sprinkled among pro gov emment marchers on Palace Square carried banners that read Quot communism is a Universal shame and Quot Freedom for Lithuania Quot according to Leningrad journalist Maxim Korzhov. He said some demonstrators shouted a Gorbachev resign a Many soviet citizens Are upset with Gorbachev because of the deteriorating slate of the Economy. Consumer goods Are scarce and of poor Quality. They also Are critical of him for championing democratic reforms but not submitting his own leadership to a test at the polls. Gorbachev was elected by lawmakers last month to a powerfully expanded executive presidency and critics say it puts a dangerous amount of Power into the hands of a single Leader. The 59-year-old soviet Leader is also engaged in a bitter dispute with Lithuania Over its Independence drive and Moscow has imposed a blockade on Many raw materials manufactured goods and food. Many soviet advocates of democracy say Gorbachev should let the lithuanians restore the sovereignty they lost in 1940 when the soviet Union forcibly annexed the Baltic state. Gorbachev and the leadership were not immune from criticism during the official segment that came before the protest. Labor leaders speaking from atop Lenin a mausoleum demanded attention to their women that economic reforms will Lead to High prices and unemployment. The May Day Celebration a major soviet Holiday comes As the country faces secessionist demands in several of its 15 republics and economic deterioration. Government statistics show Industrial production has fallen by 1.2 percent in the first Quarter. One any Given Day during the period 130,000 people were on strike. A the Basic reason for the Ennis situation is that the leadership of the party and the government have been chronically late in putting into effect Cardinal political and economic measures a said Yevgeny Pablov a technology researcher chosen to speak at a 30-minute rally before the traditional Parade. Yevgeny Kuznetsov a Union Leader at a giant Moscow steel Mill said planned moves to a Market Economy would Hurt workers. A Many Wise men of economics Are calling on us to plunge headlong into a Market Economy trusting in our Luck a he said. A but we wont be Able to Trust our Luck if we done to in Advance take into account the consequences growth in prices a fall in the Standard of living and  the speeches from the mausoleum were met with less than enthusiastic applause. Gorbachev led government and communist party politburo leaders onto the reviewing stand before the proceedings. In keeping with efforts to emphasize the government Over the party he was accompanied by Premier Nikolai i. Ryzhkova and Anatoly i. Lukyanov chairman of the supreme soviet legislature. Protesters fearing joblessness ahead Mark first free East German May Day h East Berlin apr thousands of East germans marked their first free May Day with protests against the widespread joblessness they fear will be the Price of unification with West Germany. Border guards dispensed with passport checks As huge swarms of people carrying balloons Beer and bratwurst swarmed Back and Forth through new open Ings in the Berlin Wall. Nearly 60,000 germans from both sides of the Border crowded around the Reich Stag the former parliament building on the West German Side of the Wall. They heard speakers demand employment and social service Protection As East Germany moves from a socialist Economy to the free Market. Economists have predicted that 500,000 to 2 million East germans could lose their jobs As inefficient state owned enterprises Are closed and others Are forced to compete with Western businesses. West germans also have expressed fears about the economic Impact of unification. Unemployment will be bad in both countries. As factories close in the East the East germans will come Here and compete for jobs with West germans a said Claudia Gerlach a 27-year-old West Berliner. West German labor leaders meanwhile warned that Western businesses May seek to move to the East to take advantage of lower wages. While some germans rallied against unemployment hundreds of thousands of others enjoyed the warm Spring Day at a huge May Day festival on East Berlin s main Avenue Merden Linden. Only a few thousand gathered in another part of town for a rally held by the former communist party a reorganized group now calling for a democratic  thousands of extra police were put on duty in both East and West Berlin to guard against the rampages by radicals and hooligans that occur annually in West Berlin on May Day evening. With the newly opened Borders authorities feared any disorder would spread to the East