European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 1, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Authorized unofficial publication for the . Armeo forces magazines v a Quot a m 1 int is  a a c vol. 49, no 78 sunday july 1,1990 a try in or a. A y a w a a a a m t2 4, a if 3s we s 2>< Ottily inc sunday 0 8693 a East berliners line West German currency. Already full of Western products. Many East Berlin apr East germans went on a spending spree saturday the last Day that they could spend their postmarks before the currency became obsolete. Waiting in the wings was the mighty Deutsche Mark the new Legal tender for both German states. The economic merger which became effective when the clock struck Midnight saturday is the latest move toward unification of the two Ger Many. East German prime minister Lothar do Maiziere predicted Friday that full Unity will come by years end. That is. The same timetable outlined earlier in the week by West  another sign of changing times. East Germany a state news Agency said Friday that former East German Leader Eric Honecker will be investigated for. Murder in the deaths of More than 200 people slain As they tried to escape his authoritarian Rule. Honecker who was toppled in last Falls revolution that ended four decades of communist government supervised construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961. After taking Over As the country a Leader in 197lhc maintained shoot to kill orders against to Uhre escapes. As the two Ger Many readied for the merger of their economies East German stores cleared their shelves and East German Consumers snatched up what was left. / the countdown to the currency switchover caused shortages of food and household products in East Berlin and other East German cities. But that was t expected to last Long. On Friday night. West German television showed Long lines of West German trucks loaded with Western goods jamming the highways to East Germany. Black marketeers who have been illegally trading in the currencies of the two Ger Many were out in Force saturday getting in a few final hours of business. At East German Banks there were Long lines As people filled out applications to convert their accounts to West German Marks. Banks arc staying open sunday see German on Back Page cutbacks could gouge military recruiting by Chuck Vinch Washington Bureau Washington a if the Early 1991 budget numbers on Capitol Hill hold up the military will have few choices for cutting personnel a and none is particularly attractive said the Pentagon manpower chief. Especially odious is the possibility of Large scale continuing reductions in recruitment said the Pentagon a Christopher Jehn. A if you want to maintain military capability today and maintain that capability next year you done to want to take a lot out of accessions a he said in an inter for $303 billion next Yea View. Accessions is the Pentagon term for that budget proposal about 38,000 per a adding new personnel to the Force. A but you done to want to break Faith with personnel that Are in the service today. There Are a lot of disruptive decisions ahead a Jehn warned. The Pentagon dilemma stems from the push in Congress for immediate cuts in defense outlays the Money actually spent in any Given year John said. The defense department has asked for $303 billion next year. As part of. Prot. Sonnet would be Cut. But the Senate budget committee has voted to reduce the budget figure to $285.6 billion while the House has approved an even smaller amount of $283 billion. A if you want to affect outlays in the current year you have to go after the accounts that pay for people a Jehn said. A Btl us numbers coming out of the House and Senate show huge reductions in outlays and that implies huge reductions in personnel a because of Pentagon procurement methods and contracting commitments a reduction in spending on weapons systems generally would not show up until ensuing years Pentagon experts say. Defense Secretary Dick Chenev told lawmakers in Early june that the House see recruiting on Back Page Kremlin resumes Oil shipments to Lithuania Vilnius .s.r. Apr the soviet government resumed Oil shipments to Lithuania on saturday one Day after the Baltic republics parliament agreed to freeze its declaration of Independence. It was the Kremlin a biggest step toward lifting the economic blockade it imposed against Lithuania la weeks ago to Force it to Back off its Independence drive. A a we re getting Oil a dispatcher Alma be Skita of Lithuania a Mani Kiai refinery said in a Telephone interview in Moscow. Lithuania is entirely dependent upon the soviet Union for its Oil and Gas which it receives at highly subsidized prices. The Oil cutoff on april 18 was one of the toughest actions president Mikhail s. Gorbachev took to make the Republic of 3.8 million people rescind its March 11 Independence declaration. About 50,000 of the estimated 1.1 million workers in Lithuania lost their jobs due to the shortages of fuel and raw materials. Oil began flowing in at 7 . Moscow time be Skita said. She said the Fazhi Kiai Plant would begin refining the Oil later and that it would not reach con summrs for at least two weeks for technical reasons. A a we re glad there will be work a she said of the mood at the Plant in Northwestern Lithuania. It refines aboutu2 million tons of Petroleum products a year a Quarter of it used in Lithuania. When the single pipeline feeding the Plant from the russian City of Polotsky was shut Down. Lithuanian president vytautas Landsbergis said that was the soviet unions a economic coercion and economic warfare against a neigh Boring  radio and Lithuania a official news Agency see Kremlin on Back Page is