European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 14, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 a a the stars and stripes saturday july 14,1990 Moscow apr the mayors of Moscow and Leningrad Friday joined populist Boris n. Yeltsin and leaders of the Reform bloc of the communist party by quitting the party. The dramatic events came As Mikhail s. Gorbachev was wrapping up a personally victorious 28th party Congress with adoption of new party rules and the Clec Tion of. New members to the Central committee. Delegates Friday the last Day of the Congress voted by secret ballot on the approximately 420 nominees for the Central committee. Gorbachev was scheduled to deliver a report on the Congress after the votes were tallied. Yeltsin elected president of the russian Republic in May announced to a hushed Congress thursday that he was leaving the communist party because his new Post meant that he could no longer obey Only party policies. A i have to obey the will of the people and their All powerful representatives a he said. A therefore in connection with my obligations i declare my exit from the  by quitting the party Yeltsin became the first Rion communist Leader of Russia in 72 years of soviet Power. As the Silver haired Reform ice strode forcefully up the Center aisle in the Kremlin s Palace of congresses delegates shouted a shame a and whistled derisively. A very few however applauded. Moscow mayor Gavriil Popov and Leningrad mayor Anatoly Sobchak issued a statement Friday saying they were quitting the party because of its inability to offer a realistic program for transition to a new society. A recognizing All the responsibility before the people and history we have taken a decision in the situation that arose to leave the communist party in order to help create a multiparty system a said their statement released at the Moscow City Council. On thursday progressive Delegate Vyacheslav Shostakowsky a Leader of the democratic Reform bloc told the con Gress that he and other progressive delegates including Yuri Boldyrew of Leningrad and Vladimir Lysenko of Moscow were leaving the party and would form their own Independent organization. A i am empowered to declare a division in the communist party and our intention to form an Independent democratic parliamentary party a Shostakowsky said announcing the first split in the communist party since 1921. Another Delegate Vladimir Polok Holo Friday announced the formation of another new blot called democratic Unity in the communist party of the soviet Union designed to Chip away at the party a traditionalist bastion. . Official May be ousted Over anti German remarks London up a Britain a highest ranking Trade official left Hungary for Home Friday to face mounting demands that he be sacked for an anti German diatribe in which he compared Bonne a economic leadership in Europe to domination by Adolf Hitler. Trade and Industry Secretary Nicholas Ridley has withdrawn his comments published thursday in the Spectator Magazine under the headline a saying the Unsay Able about the germans but has failed to defuse the juror. One angry West German Leader suggested Ridley was drunk during the interview in which Ridley also criticized the 12-nation european Community and charged that a the French were behaving like poodles to the germans.�?�. _ no immediate meeting was planned with prime minister Margaret Thatcher but most major newspapers said Ridley would soon be forced to resign. Thatcher met Timothy Renton the chief whip of the conservative party who was reported to have told her that most members of the party believed Ridley had to go. Mohawks talk with officials about disputed Golf course Oka Quebec apr Mohawk indians have opened talks with the Quebec government two Days after a police officer died in a gunfight during a protest Over plans for a Golf course addition on land the tribe claims. But the mohawks Oka near Montreal swore they a keep their barricades up until the police leave and protesters get immunity from prosecution. Quebec a native affairs minister John Ciaccia said the two sides held talks late thursday and agreed to More talks Friday. A a we be had a very positive meeting a Ciaccia said. He said thursdays talks were halted to a respect the Mohawk tradition of not continuing this Type of a meeting after  the dispute centers on plans by the Oka town government to build a Golf course addition the indians say encroaches on their ancestral land. Police brought in reinforcements thursday bringing the number of officers to about 1,000 in the area. The mohawks dug trenches and strengthened their Concrete Block and barbed wire barriers with crushed police cars As they prepared for a possible showdown. Dozens of police wearing flak jackets and carrying shotguns were seen patrolling their new sandbagged positions also reinforced with Concrete blocks. All Day thursday the two sides faced each other across their barricades about 200 mohawks at the top of a Hill on the Highway that goes through Oka 18 Miles West of Montreal and the police at the Bottom of the Hill. A the police have to Retreat completely from the area before we can Ever work out a Deal with Ciaccia a Mohawk spokeswoman Ellen Gabriel said. The mohawks claim title to a Small Pine Forest Oka wants to Cut Down so the Golf course can add nine holes. Police intervened at the request of Okay a mayor. After mohawks refused to tear Down a Small barricade they built four months ago. Early wednesday a raiding Force of about 100 Quebec police attacked the barricade. They retreated after Cpl. Marcel Lemay 31, was shot and killed. Police said they were not certain whether he was shot by mohawks or fellow police. According to a newspaper report Friday ballistics tests indicated the Bullet was not from Lemay a weapon or from weapons used by his colleagues. Montreal police declined to comment on the  from Page 1 the work of sen. Alan Dixon d-ill., chairman of the panels readiness subcommittee who said at a news conference Friday that his intent is for the reduction to take place a regardless of what happens with the ongoing cafe  said the action is necessary because if a cafe agreement docs not materialize making major cuts in army and air Force troop strength in the next year or two without allowing any reductions in those services european forces would wreak havoc on their rotational and training bases. Quot the cafe talks arc not prospering right now and there a a sense that the soviets Are foot dragging Quot Dixon said. He emphasized that he wants to remove the troops from Europe not Cut them from Active duty and he gave president Bush an escape clause to cancel the action if he can convince Congress that National Secu Rity considerations warrant doing so. Dixon also tried to include a similar provision in the Bill that would lower . Troop strength in South Korea from its present level of 44,000 to 30,000 Over five years but that Effort was voted Down by the committee. He vowed to raise the Issue again when the committee Bill goes to the Senate floor for debate calling it a a very defendable Quot idea. He said there is no reason to maintain such a Large . Presence on the Peninsula when a South Korea has twice the population and six times the economic strength of North  despite Pentagon complaints that Overall cuts above 50,000 to 75,000 people in one year would cripple the services congressional aides said the committees numbers Are achievable with a minimum of disruption. T a they wont go on record with it but the services have told us they can handle these reductions a the staffer said. He pointed out that the services a have seen the handwriting on the Wall and have been making efforts to reduce their forces Over the past few months. The army for example already is More than 1,200 troops below its authorized fiscal 90 manpower level and the service expects to make More reductions Between now and the end of the fiscal year on sept. 30. The Navy a authorized limit for this fiscal year is 590,501, but the most current statistics show slightly More than 579,000 Navy personnel on Active duty a which Means the service has to Cut less than 12,000 More people by the end of fiscal 91. A fall the services Are a lot closer to the fiscal 1991 Levels mandated by the committee than it May appear a the staffer said. A the Way this has been set up i done to think you la see the kind of wholesale heartburn that the Pentagon has been predicting a the Bill now goes to the Senate floor for debate. The House armed services committee will not Start work on its version of the defense authorization Bill until  a once the two Chambers have approved their Bills the armed services committees will meet in conference to Iron out any differences. When the two Chambers approve the conference Bill it will go to president Bush for his approval. Panel cuts funds for favored Dod programs by Chuck Vinch a Washington Bureau Washington a the Senate armed services committee Early Friday slashed funding for an array of the Pentagon a most cherished weapons programs. Committee chairman sen. Sam Nunn d-ga., said his panel terminated 15 programs a a completely knocked them out a including the air forces Mil Star navigation and communications satellite program the army Sadat air defense system and the Navy a Bigeye aircraft mounted binary chemical weapon. The cancellation of those programs could save As much As $40 billion to $50 billion Over the next few years Nunn said. One of the most prominent program reductions came in the strategic defense initiative which was slashed by $1 billion to $3.7 billion. A in my opinion the research program needs to continue but no one in the administration has a Chart showing How you a pay for an operational system Nunn said at a news conference in explaining the flagging fiscal support for the sol the reduction in ski brings funding to about the same level As last year. If approved it would Mark the first time since former president Reagan presented the plan seven years ago that the requested funding has been Cut. As expected the committee tentatively agreed to limit Money for the two land based nuclear missiles the my and midget Man to research and development funds. The administration wanted More than $2.2 billion for the missiles but the committee approved Only $548 million for the my and slightly More than $200 million for the midget Man. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney also proposed cancelling the v-22 Osprey the till Rotor aircraft that takes off like a Heli copter and flies Tike a plane. But the committee agreed to $200 million in research and development funds for the aircraft. In addition to the programs that were targeted for elimination the committee significantly slowed funding for others including the air Force c-17 transport plane and advanced tactical fighter the Navy a-12 attack plane and Seaw oif submarine and a new heavy truck for the army. The panel agreed to Cheney a recently revised request for two b-2 strategic stealth bombers in fiscal 1991, Wilh a total Fleet of 75 planes