European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 12, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Franco leads Al All stars to Victory a Page 17 the so prices authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces % 1 amp panel vol. 49, no. 89 thursday july 12, 1990 2h oily and sunday  0 8693 a ure by the los Angeles times Washington a a Senate armed services subcommittee meeting9 in closed session voted tuesday to Cut military manpower by 100,000 in the coming year or nearly three times the total recommended by the administration sources said. At the same time another panel voted to keep open the my tank production line despite Secretary of defense Dick Cheney a efforts to close it within two years. Angry army officials who would suffer the largest manpower cuts immediate iyar used lawmakers of taking the outward la  Indi the size and direction Cates that president Bush an Are losing the argument with Congress Over How to manage reductions in military spending. Cheney has argued that the defense budget can be substantially Cut Oye tote next five years but that manpower reductions must be relatively sit tall in the first year to prevent a tabs in the forces. He has consists Fritz said that protecting Mili personnel from layoffs is one of his tary sign Custea lawmakers of taking Trie cow Raiv political choices of forcing soldiers and officers out of the Sec wee while keeping unneeded product fun lines running to satisfy Locapo Mycal concerns. Est in unties. Cheney also has attempted to cancel weapons programs outright rather than stretching out purchases but has met resistance from members of Congress intent on saying jobs and defense contractors in their Home districts. The Senate armed services come Ifft tee this week began its a  of the administration s  $307 billion Pfest Tefon spend Cogbill with a series of closed Leif tit committee sessions. Sen get readers  a vote on the measure Befonti Tagress leaves for summer recess aug. 3.the House will not take it sense Bill until september officials said chairman Sam Nunn d-ga., has already signalled that he intends to recommend Overall defense spending of $289 billion a a 6 percent Cut from the administrations requested $307 billion. Other influential senators including budget committee chairman sen. James Sasser a Tenn advocate even deeper cuts both in total spending and in Force Levels. The armed services committees manpower subcommittee acting with Nunns concurrence tuesday approved the Cut of 100,000 men and women from Active duty forces which currently stand at 2.07 million. Cheney earlier this year recommended a Cut of 38,000, saying that faster reductions would spark unmanageable disruption in the ranks. A these arc Nunns numbers Quot a cd Gable source said. Quot its a fact of life to it oct the savings we want this is what we rave to  Cheney has indie Tod that he is willing to accept cuts of As oui As 380,000 soldiers sailors and  a the next five or six years a if carried ouf gradual by and if military threats to the thawed see Cut on Back Page. Terms for aiding soviets drafted As Summit ends Houston apr the worlds richest democracies wrapped up their annual Summit wednesday drafting conditions for sending Quot fundamental and Long terms financial Aid to the soviet Union and resolving a Nasty dispute Over farm subsidies a the american people would have a very hard time understanding Aid to the soviet Union in the form of Loans while $5 billion a year is being Given to Cuba missiles Are trained on . Cities and 18 percent of the soviet Gnu goes to defense a Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady said wednesday. The Summit ordered up a six month damage assess ment study to review the soviet Economy and recommend ways to target Western Aid. Officials said Trade negotiators reached a Compromise agricultural agreement ii the Early hours of wednesday and the seven Heads of government were to review it at their final session at Rice University. The United states insisted on language calling for across the Board cuts in All categories of farm subsidies. This was included but the agreement also contained ambiguous language acceptable to the reluctant europeans. The farm dispute had threatened to disrupt the annual gathering. British foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd acknowledged there had been some hard words. A but it will be a More successful Summit than if everybody had come Here determined to sing from the beginning a unified hymn of  in a self congratulatory final communique to be read by president Bush at the close of the talks the world leaders patted themselves on the Back for a global Economy that was still chugging along although at a decidedly slow Pace. _ the communique also agreed to a Pilot study to help save the Amazon rain forests but in a Victory for the administration the Summit countries did not press for specific reduction targets for pollutants suspected of causing a global warming of the environment. The final communique basically recycled Many of the environmental pledges made by the same countries at last years Summit session in Paris. But a passage on soviet Aid was sure to cause reverberations because an aide to Mikhail Gorbachev Georgy Shak Nazarov had said in Advance that preconditions to Western Aid were unacceptable. A we Arentt taking orders a he asserted. A foreign language draft of the statement read this see Summit on Back Page vacation fever a Pope John Paul ii yawns during the weekly general audience at the Vatican on wednesday. Later in the Day he left for a vacation in the Village of Les Combes in the italian  now Wear civilian clothes to e. Berlin by Ken Clauson staff writer military uniforms Are no longer required for service members visiting East Berlin the . Come Berlin announced wednesday. Also the policy requiring travellers to use the Helmstedt to Berlin autobahn when driving Between the City and West Germany is about to be lifted said an official at the . Embassy in Bonn. The change would affect Only travellers with passports however because passports Are needed to obtain an East German visa. Travellers without passports will still be required to obtain Flag orders and use the Helmstedt to Berlin autobahn a Hoff div my to the City the official said. Uniforms once served As identification for . Military members entering East Berlin. Since East German authorities Are no longer controlling Access to East Berlin uniforms Are no longer needed for identification according to a command statement. The uniform requirement was lifted in March for service members stationed in Berlin but remained in effect until tuesday for those stationed outside the City. Since March 20, Berlin based service members have been allowed to Wear civilian clothes and use their . Forces Berlin identification cards when entering the soviet sector. The policy requiring a amp forces travellers to have lag orders and to use the or . Military duty trains was fret fats of preserving the allies rights of Access to few City the embassy official said. The intent was 10 pm Eha size that Allied Access rights wet ased on agreements of the four occupying Powers and not granted by the East German government the official said. American visitors to East Berlin May now use any available crossing Point from the West and ride any Public transportation within All sectors of the City said officials of the . Come Berlin. However  members government civilians and family members must obtain travellers assistance cards before entering East Berlin. The cards which Are now being updated Are available at he Bremerhaven and Frankfurt duty train offices checkpoint Bravo the Berlin rail transportation office and the information tickets and reservations office in the Berlin main Exchange Complex at Truman Plaza. Berlin based travellers can obtain the cards from their units. Military members from outside Berlin must still have a leave or pass form containing the statement a travel to East Berlin is