European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 9, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Soccer Cameroon stuns Argentina in world cup opener a Page 21 the Smej Lpes authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces Good morning vol. 49, no. 56 saturday june 9, 1990 a a 25c Dally and sunday d 8693 a Compromise brings end to lengthy feud Over Dod funds shift by Janet Howells Tierney Washington Bureau Washington a after More than four months of wrangling Congress and the Pentagon in a Compromise agreed to shift about $1.5 billion to cover shortages in military personnel accounts. The shift involves $800 million needed to pay military personnel through sept. 30 and $650 million to make up for shortfalls in the civilian health insurance program. The plan was finalized during negotiations thursday Between Secretary of defense Dick Cheney and House speaker Thomas Foley a Wash. Without the Transfer As Many As 65,000 service members could have been forced out of the military Between now and the end of the fiscal year on sept. 30. Transfers and promotions also would have been delayed. To reach an agreement Cheney compromised on which accounts would be the source of the funding. To appease the biggest opponent to the action rep. Les Aspin d-wis., Cheney agreed to shift funds from four a need weapons systems excluding the b-2 bomber and the strategic defense initiative. Aspin chairman of the House armed services committee earlier this week passed All authority to Foley to work out an acceptable agreement. This years funding for the my rail Garrison missile program will be reduced by $8 million the midget Man missile by $10 million the Trident missile submarine by $20 million and the sea Wolf attack submarine by $20 million. The reductions will affect Long term defense spending. The $58 million total pulled from the weapons systems accounts will be used Only to pay claims under the civilian health and medical program of the uniformed services or champs a Pentagon official said. Aspin originally called for $230 million to come from the strategic weapons programs. A what the speaker and the Secretary finally agreed on bears Little resemblance to Aspinw a demands a said rep. William l. Dickinson r-ala., a House armed services committee member. A consequently one cannot help but wonder what was accomplished by All this. A what amazes me is How and Why one individual would hold the entire reprogramming fund Transfer process hostage in the name of principal Only to Settle for an amount that is about 4 percent of the total package a he said referring to the $ 1.5 billion Transfer. In january the defense department had requested routine congressional approval of a funding shift from other accounts to cover shortfalls in military personnel accounts. Under a Long standing agreement with Congress the Pentagon asks for approval of such transfers from the House and Senate appropriations and armed forces committees. But the action quickly became bogged see funds on Back Page Havel votes czechoslovakian president Vaclav Havel casts his vote Friday in Prague in the country a first free elections since 1946. More than 11 million people age 18 and Over were entitled to go to the polls and ring in a government freed from the taint of one party communist Rule. Projections show Havel is almost certain to keep the presidency. Permanent ban sex sergeant reportedly on nato troops mjj0ns for spying m East left open David Tarrant stuff writer Turnberry Scotland a nato foreign ministers on Friday endorsed a . Plan to ease soviet concerns about German unification but they stopped Short of announcing a permanent ban on stationing Allied forces in what is now East Germany. The nine Point plan intended to break the soviet impasse Over a United Germany a membership in the Western Alliance said nato forces would not be extended to the territory of East Germany a for a transitional  however West German foreign minister Hans Dietrich Genscher said he had insisted that the summits Windup communique reiterate past West German statements pledging the territory would be off limits to nato troops. In the end the nato communique left the question open. Issued after two Days of meetings by the ministers the statement failed to take a formal position on whether Allied forces would Ever be stationed East of the Elbe. It said Only that a United Germany should remain a full member of the Alliance a including its integrated military structure.�?�. The alliances guarantee of National Security Tor Germany would include ail the territory of the United country the communique said. Alliance sources said there is no consensus see nato on Back Page Roderick James Ramsay is escorted by Fri agents into a car after his arrest on espionage charges. Tampa a. Apr a Brilliant former . Army sergeant received up to $5 million from East bloc countries for secret nato plans detailing the nuclear defense of Europe an Fri investigator said Friday. A a it a one of the most serious breaches Ever a it s unprecedented what went Over to the other Side said Joe Navarro who led the of big a probe. Roderick James Ramsay 28, who was arrested thursday night on a downtown Street appeared before a Federal magistrate Here Friday. He was charged with conspiracy to gather or deliver defense information to Aid a foreign government the Fri said. The magistrate continued the hearing until tuesday. Ramsay faces a maximum penalty of life imprisonment if convicted of espionage conspiracy. He has been cooperating with authorities in the probe said  worked in West Germany from 1983 to 1985 directly under Clyde Lee Conrad 43 a retired . Army sergeant convicted of treason by a West German court and Given a life sentence earlier this week the Fri said. It said Ramsay a arrest stemmed from the investigation of Conrad. Navarro told . Magistrate Elizabeth Jenkins that Ramsay had a High in spoke japanese and German and a had the ability to recall minute details facts and figures a some from documents he Hadnot seen in five or six  information included sensitive documents on the use of tactical nuclear weapons by . Forces and nato allies and plans for the defense of Central by see spying on Back Page