European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 12, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                / Page 24 a a the stars and stripes thursday july 12,1990 As Moscow apr Mikhail s. Gorbachev on wednesday backed a top ukrainian official to be his communist party Deputy in an election against Yegor a Migachev the candidate of traditionalists. Quot. A a a a speaking to the communist party a Congress the soviet Leader threw his support behind Vladimir Ivashko the 58-year-old ukrainian president and former party chief for the Post that will assume responsibility for the party a Day to Day news briefs affairs. He expressed his Confidence and closeness to the Man he chose to run the Ukraine the soviet unions second largest Republic last fall when party traditionalist Vladimir v. Shcher Bitsky retired. A it is important that these two people be close a a Gorbachev said of the two top party leaders. On tuesday Gorbachev was overwhelmingly re elected to Lead the party but he cannot devote full attention to the Job because he also is soviet president. A third candidate professor Anatoly do Daryen 45, of Leningrad proposed himself As a candidate. 0. ,. In his Brief acceptance speech late tuesday Gorbachev promised to take a the most serious far reaching conclusions from strident criticism levelled at him during the Congress. Earlier in the Day he ripped into his conservative critics. A you can never go Back to yesterday by any path and no dictatorship solves anything a he told the delegates. Some 40 percent of the delegates Are party bureaucrats and some continue to run their districts As fiefdoms. A if any of the delegates came to the Congress with the Hope of returning the party to old conditions comfortable or uncomfortable this is not a possibility a he said. A they Jere seriously  soviet Coal miners demand ouster of communist party Donetsk . A hundreds of thousands of Coal miners Laid Down their drills and picks wednesday to demand that the communist party get out of their lives and the soviet government resign. A a we should kick the party not Only out of the Ukraine but everywhere a mine construction worker Viktor Kitenko declared speaking at a rally in Donetsk the Center of the Eastern Ukraine a Don River Coal Basin. T t. Miners walked away from their jobs for 24 hours despite appeals from the soviet government and the party. In Donetsk a rally passed a Resolution demanding that the government of prime minister Nikolai i. Ryzhkova resign that party cells be removed from the mines economic enterprises the Kab army and police and that party property be nationalized. The miners held aloft two Large banners saying . Government resign a and a Down with party committees at  the walkout was a reminder of last Summers Long and bitter strike that Coal miners conducted to press the government for Basic consumer goods More pay and better working conditions. The government acceded to their demands but has been unable to fulfil its promises. According to information compiled from strike leaders in Donetsk the Kuznets Basin of Western Siberia and Vor Kuta in the far North miners at about 200 shafts were on strike throughout the country. No figures were available on the number of miners who actually walked off their jobs. But judging from the number of mines on strike m the Donetsk Region it appeared that about 100,000 miners stayed away. Thurman undergoes chemotherapy treatments Washington a amps a the commander of the . Southern come ate lunch in the Pinta gon wednesday afternoon after receiving treat ments at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore for cancer Pentagon officials said. Gen. Maxwell r. Thurman 59, was diagnosed As having leukaemia earlier this week. Thurman was scheduled to travel to Panama late wednesday but will return to the Walter Reed army medical Center in Washington later this week to continue chemotherapy treatments officials said. Italian s to Rome apr Italy and France will Send ships to Albania starting thursday to ferry out More than 3,500 Asylum seekers who have holed up in Western european embassies there italian authorities said wednesday. The first ship will leave the italian port of Brindisi for Albania on thursday evening an Interior ministry spokesman said. It will bring out Many of the approximately 2,200 people who have packed the West German embassy since they Are in the worst condition a foreign ministry official said speaking on the usual ground Rule of anonymity. The ferry operation was organized through the intercession of a . Representative in Tirana the albanian capital. Italian authorities said wednesday that an Accord had been reached with the communist government and a now we Are talking about details of the operation. He added that authorities were afraid that if people knew the details of the operation albanians would Rush to get on Board and a it would be a thing of biblical  said the ships will transport about 2,200 people from the West German embassy More than 800 from the italian embassy and about 540 from the French embassy. The other embassies in Tirana had fewer people and would work out agreements individually with the albanian government the foreign ministry spokesman said. Scores of albanians began entering the embassies on june 28 in an Effort to escape Europe a last hard line communist bastion. Some dodged bullets As they scrambled Over embassy Walls. The first 51 Asylum seekers left the czechoslovak embassy in Tirana on tuesday and flew to Prague on a plane sent by czechoslovak president Vaclav Havel. Albanian Leader Ramiz Alia introduced some economic reforms this year and began to improve ties with other countries. The government has said it would consider establishing relations with the United states. The turmoil at the embassies appeared to contribute to a shakeup saturday of albanians ruling party politburo and Central committee. Several hard line officials associated with the late communist ruler Enver Hoxha were dismissed. Travel has been nearly impossible for most albanians for 45 years but the government recently decreed that All albanians Over 16 were entitled to a passport. Soviets from Page 1 his Effort to establish a marketplace Economy in his communist land. On other issues the Summit partners a finessed the thorny Issue of eliminating agricultural subsidies. The final communique said the industrialized nations have a Long term goal of ending  on the environment the european leaders decided not to press Bush for specific ceilings on Gas emissions widely blamed for global warming of the envy a president Bush has lulled the other g-7 leaders into an environmental sleep that Abandons their commitment to Advance solutions to the worlds most pressing ecological problems a said George Frampton jr., president of the wilderness society. Other environmental leaders echoed his remarks. A on the economic front the leaders noted that unemployment and inflationary pressures remained at unacceptably High Levels in some countries but they offered no solutions other than a Promise to continue their close cooperative efforts at managing the global Economy. The Summit leaders also repeated past pledges to fight the Scourge of drug trafficking and to continue support for efforts to reduce the oppressive $1.3 trillion debt Burden being carried by the third world. Mine the causes of the problem. The leaders agreed to begin negotiations immediately to curb deforestation. And they approved a plan to save brazils tropical rain forests. Environmentalists decried the outcome. Bush restated his Long standing concerns about so. It behaviour including Large spending on the military nuclear weapons pointed at the United states and continued support for Fidel Castro scuba. Bush said Gorbachev can expect that a a we la be helpful to him in the kinds of reforms that he knows he has to  from Page 1 states continue to ease. The Senate panels cuts would be apportioned approximately As follows a 40,000 from the army a 5.2 percent Cut from current strength of 744,000. The administration recommended a 17,000 Cut. A 22,000 from the Navy a 3.8 percent Cut from the current 591,000, compared to Cheney a proposed 6,000. A 34,000 from the air Force a 6 percent reduction from the current 545,000, compared to the administrations proposed 15,000. A 3,000 from the Marine corps a 1.6 percent Cut from current strength of 197,000, compared to Zero by the administration. A senior army official said that the 40,000-Man Cut advocated by the Senate panel a will Force us to Start ripping apart our no corps Quot and Wilt Lead to a turmoil and turbulence Quot throughout the service. He said that army officials had determined that the service cannot Cut More than 35,000 troops a year without laying off soldiers and officers delaying promotions and leaving units seriously undermanned. A this is the kind of helter shelter cuts we re trying to avoid. People and combat capability will pay a he said. The official said that lawmakers were taking the easy route of cutting soldiers who have no Strong political voice rather than a weapons system like the my tank which employs thousands of unionized workers and is built by the influential general dynamics corp. The Senate conventional forces panel that recommended continued purchases of the my is chaired by sen. Carl Levin a Mich. The tank is built by United Auto workers members at Sterling Heights Mich., and Lima Ohio. Over the past six years. General dynamics contributed More than $46,000 to the 11 members of the Senate subcommittee. Levin who is up for reflection this year received the maximum allowable from the giant defense contractor a $10,000. Levin and other defenders of the m1 claim that it is essential to keep the tank line open to maintain americans military capacity in Case world tensions escalate. If forced to the defense department could accommodate larger personnel cuts than the reduction of 38,000 people recommended in the administer a a in budget for next year military officials have said. .38,000 people recommended in the administration s for next a l be Active duty Rolls Coria de in Meu by As As 50,000 to 75.00q people in any one year without having to resort to involuntary separations and other Adverse actions Pentagon manpower chief Christopher Jehn told the stars and stripes recently. But that would still leave the Pentagon far Short of the goal set by Nunn