European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 15, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stirs an Lpes. Authorized unofficial publication Foft the . Armed forces 25 Datty and sunday d 8693 a a Wiesbaden ers have ideas for when army  2 a . Subway fire causes traffic  5 a pirates increase Lead to 2 games Page 21 a big names dropped from politburo Page 28 Bill  to the South slowly hundreds of cars with tourists longing and Stop a saturday. They re on a for the sunny climate of Southern eur West German autobahn near the Wal rope move a and Stop a a and move a Serberg crossing into Austria. By Chuck Vinch Washington Bureau Washington a the army would shrink to its smallest size since before world War ii under a five year plan approved by the Senate armed services committee. As part of its $289 billion defense authorization Iii approved Friday the committee would Cut the army from its currently authorized level of about 744,000 troops to 510,000 by 1995. The air Force also would take a significant hit with the committees plan calling for a Cut from its current level of 545,000 to 415,000. The Navy would have to reduce from 590,500 to 500,000, while the Marine corps would lose about 20,000 members for a total of 177,000., under the committees plan the total Active duty Force would have slightly More than 1.6 million  in 1995, compared with the current level of 2.06 million. Included in the plan is a 20 percent Cut in the Pentagon a Flag and general officer strength which currently stands at 1,073, defense Secretary Dick Cheney recently offered to trim 78 senior officers by the end of 1994. However the Senate Bill would Cut More than 210. The decision to mandate such specific personnel limits five years in Advance is the result of congressional frustration with a Lack of Long Range planning coming from the Pentagon a committee staffer said. A whenever we get a defense budget for the next year we also get a five year projection Quot the staffer said. Quot this year Dod did t give us one and they still Haven t Given us one. The services done to know How to go. So we re giving them  sen. Sam Nunn d-ga., the committee chairman said Friday that the panel rejected even deeper cuts proposed by various lawmakers. The committees plan Quot minimizes involuntary separations and hardships on personnel. They Are major cuts but done in a careful Way Quot Nunn said. The committee called for the Pentagon to immediately adjust its personnel policies to the Levels envisioned for 1995. A for example we re saying to the army figure out in 1991 How Many recruits you will have to bring in to Man the 510,000-troop Force a the starter said. Quot it does no to make a lot of sense to bring in enough recruits to Stock a Force of More than 700,000 if you know you re Only going to have 500,000 a few years Down the  after adjusting recruiting Levels the see Bill on Back Page Mitterrand reaffirms stand on nuke Force cuts Paris apr president Francois Mitterrand suggested saturday that France will not consider cutting its nuclear forces until the superpowers make real Progress toward reducing their arsenals. In an annual interview with television journalists following the traditional Bastille day1 military Parade the French Leader said the nations defense remains based on nuclear deterrence. Quot defense is part of the Imperial obligations of the nation Quot Mitterrand said. Quot i absolutely done to want to reduce it even More so because there Hasni to been a real reduction in the nuclear potential of the United states or the soviet  French officials hav renewed their commitment to nuclear Independence in Light of natos recent abandonment of its Long standing doctrine of nuclear flexibility in face of a massive Warsaw pact attack. Responding to relaxed East West tensions Alliance leaders declared in London two weeks ago that nuclear weapons would be fired on the Warsaw pact Only As Quot a last  France disagrees with the new policy. The nation is a member of nato but does not belong to the alliances joint command Structure. In veiled terms Mitterrand said that the future of Frances approximately 500 nuclear warheads As Well conventional forces of 470,000 units parading in Paris on saturday a Bastille Day. Men partly depends on superpower arms cuts a when they be really started to do it i wont completely refuse examining some ways of reducing military expenditures a he said. A the International situation has changed tensions have diminished Quot Mitterrand acknowledged. A the duty of vigilance by the army however Hasni to  Frances 1990 defense budget runs at 200 billion francs $36 billion a 3.5 percent of the Gross National product and about 16 percent of the National budget. Mitterrand ruled out creating a fully professional army but said the term of National service required for Young frenchmen would be reduced from one year to 10 months starting in 1991. France must plan on withdrawing its 55,000 troops from West Germany Mitterrand said. Such a Retreat is a a inevitable As East and West Germany move toward unification he said. The French Leader also urged Aid to troubled soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev Quot while there is still time Quot to help him and his program of perestroika or restructuring. France and West Germany proposed a $15 billion Aid package to the soviet Union at last weeks g-7 Summit in Houston Texas. The United states opposes substantial Aid As Long As the soviet Union supports client states like Cuba