European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 13, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 a a a the stars and stripes sunday May 13, 1990 museum awaits missile Swap late messages mothers Day messages received a Jii l a a a. By Chuck Vinci i Washington Bureau Washington a officials with the National air and space museum have cleared the last of a dizzying array of bureaucratic hurdles standing in the Way of a Swap of disarmed interred Tate Range nuclear missiles. A . Pershing ii and a soviet ss-20 will he unveiled Side by Side in the museum s milestones of flight Hall on june 20. According to Gregg Horken chairman of the space history department. An accompanying exhibit. Trust but verify will explain the inter mediate Range nuclear forces treaty and the role that satellites play in arms control verification. The name is taken from a phrase that former president Reagan liked to use when talking about arms negotiations with the soviets. Under the terms of the treaty each country can keep up to 15 unarmed missiles for Static museum displays. The missiles have no warheads or functioning propulsion systems. Herken who recently returned from a trip to the soviet Union to watch the disarming of the ss-20 that will go to his museum said it took a year and a half of negotiations with More than a dozen government agencies in both countries to secure permission for the Swap. A there were times i thought it Wasny to going to happen a Herken said. A i have three folders each about 6 inches thick with paperwork from All the agencies we had to Deal once the Security considerations were ironed out another stumbling Block arose involving the Cost of transporting the ss-20 from the soviet Union to the United states. An official familiar with the negotiations said the Price tag could have run As High As $20,000, a Bill that the museum said it could not afford and the Pentagon did hot want to cover. Herken solved that problem by getting the on site inspection Agency which monitors destruction of the weapons for the United states to agree to transport the ss-20 on one of its regularly scheduled flights from the soviet Union. Herken and a representative from the soviet Central armed forces museum which will get a Pershing ii will Exchange the weapons May 17 at Sheremetyev Airport in Moscow. Of the More than 2,600 missiles banned by the inf Accord the Pershing i is and ss-20s were considered the most dangerous because of their Range and accuracy. The treaty requires All intermediate Range missiles to be destroyed by May 31, 1991. To Date 97 of the 234 Pershing is and 430 of the 654 ss-20s have been eliminated. After May 4 will be published sunday May 20. . Temperatures on y a Albuquerque. Atlantic Billings r a Var c a h a Dallas it Dayton c Des Al Flagstaff. Grand great c a Honolulu. 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A i i House and Senate budget committees for the 19 l defense budget and in future years. Nonetheless Ira ins represent the deepest reductions in budgeting ?970s Nib military forces since the late the Navy has agreed to Cut the number of aircraft Carrier Battle groups irom 14 to 12, end the Trident program with 18 boats stretch out major new attack submarine and destroyer building programs and Cut the Marine corps irom 197,000 to 159,000. The army document Points out that by 1997 army Ead Cis will have scaled Down their forces to the lowest level since 1948 with 80,000 of the 200,000-person reduction by involuntary separations. In recommending the deferral of key strategic missile i Ogiami air Force Secretary Donald b Rice so a Quot a ,l1 Lescal c a strains and the lower likelihood o a crisis ill a l could tempt the soviets to escalate to Shklear weapons Diplo Mait of the Mobile missile programs can be deferred with acceptable f is n. I lie air Force will also Cut eight tactical fighter wings aim Cut Back production of advanced stealth missiles. In his transmittal memo to Cheney kick u Ai cd that the in auctions a have forced us to accept increased risk in Many the Force cuts contained in documents include the following s con uary plan Cas for reducing the Force to 580.000 by the end of fiscal year 1996. A during this period army Secretary Michael . Stone wrote and Quot its Ste f,ghtm8 strength of the total army Sions a support Structure by Over six Divi Stone also complained that the Bush administration s current position to reduce its forces in Europe a 7mbe? of uw5 army planning toe non old als privately say that the 195.000 figure will shrink further especially if All Sovi forces eventually withdraw from the East bloc. Nor Rgth d0d positions on these issues site turf my a military personnel accounts at con-n.,r s h an Conan bytes to serious shortfalls in our modernization Industrial base and Quality of life programs a Stone said. 4 y in m ,.ltis lands n0w�?Tthe army of a recasts its contribution to the . Presence in nato at 158,000 in 1997 a number that is almost certainly overstated if German Rood cation and soviet withdrawal continues. No Al Lvi a harm 1 a a rpm rated reductions that Chc i already had made to major aircraft room my in dude hip 11-2 stealth bomber cd 7 transport and the Neu generation stealth fighter program. The plan would also a retire 200 minuteman ii. Redeploy 50 minuteman Iii from storage and reduce the number of warheads in the minuteman Iii Force from three to one. The air Force would reduce its Active duty forces by 3 a and Cut another 13,251 civilians. A the Navy has put Cheney on notice that it intends to seek restoration of Many of the cuts that it was forced to make to meet his budget targets. Chenev will chair this review process during the summer in a special Appeal on the Trident program the Navy document argues that funding More Trident Catbe 8�? a bargaining flexibility in Thev negotiations and a help maintain economic i his by Rej conc by at electric boat is a division of general dynamics corp., the Only defer a contractor that builds Trident ,Hin?e�oe0rfuusze a a the Navy would shrink from v Pilsl Ulos two of four Active world War i stage battleships will be retired including the n a to is Eland the Jwa. Which was damaged in the u �?T1 j killed 47 Crew members. M Manne corps offered to Cut 37,000 act a / marines while also appealing for restoring h a i that number in this Summers review. The Marine plan also Calls for cutting eight Rife or it nip if Erst sevi7n tank companies nine aircraft squad Rons and four Wing support squadrons
