European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 15, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 a the stars and stripes news briefs Gorbachev will address nato leaders in Brussels Moscow a president Mikhail s. Gorbachev has accepted an invitation to address nato leaders at the alliances Headquarters in Brussels nato Secretary general Manfred Wymer said saturday. Gorbachev met on saturday with Wymer the organizations highest ranking official and the first to visit the Kremlin. / of incr said at a news conference afterwards that they did not discuss the military allegiance of a United Germany but said he is confident a solution could be found. East Germany has been a Cornerstone of the Warsaw pact Alliance and the soviet Union has opposed membership in nato of a unified Ger Many. _ a Date for Gorbachev a nato visit has not been fixed. Last weeks nato Summit was a major subject during Worner stalks with Gorbachev and foreign minister Eduard a. Shevardnadze. Alliance leaders agreed at the Summit on a new strategy and proposed a non aggression declaration to the Warsaw pact. West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl has stated that he would like the talks to be wrapped up in time for All German elections in december a a a . Knew Libya planned terror attack report says Hamburg West Germany apr american authorities had advanced warning that Libya was planning a terrorist attack before the 1986 bombing of a West Berlin discotheque that prompted the . Air raid on Libya a West German newsmagazine reported saturday. Der Spiegel said the . Government Learned that Libya was planning an attack after at least one Cia agent infiltrated the group preparing the bombing. A the bombing on april 5, 1986, killed two american soldiers and a turkish woman and injured More than 200 people in West berlins la Belle discotheque which had been popular with . Service members. There were also reports shortly after the Blat that the United states knew an attack was imminent and that planning for the attack was traced to the libyan embassy in East Berlin. The United states retaliated by raiding the libyan cities of Benghazi and Tripoli and bombing the heavily guarded compound of libyan Leader col. Moa mar Qadhafi. Worrier offering soviets a a hand of cooperation Moscow up1 a visiting nato chief. Sign i Quot a that Moscow a to extend a hand of  Manfred Worner told foreign a minister Eduard Shevardnadze on saturday he had come to Wejmer the first nato Secretary general to pay an official visit to the soviet Union arrived a week after the Western Alliance at a London meeting issued a landmark document overhauling its militai7 strategy to adapt to changing european realities and assure Moscow that the West is not a threat. Wymer brought a copy of the a London declaration Quot to Moscow which he was to give to president Mikhail Gorbachev along with an invitation to address nato leaders at its Headquarters in Brussels. West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl was scheduled to arrive in Moscow later saturday. Sunday july 15,1990 Many by politburo Moscow apr the soviet prime minister Kab chief and defense minister were dropped saturday from a completely revamped communist party politburo whose Only holdovers Are Mikhail s. Gorbachev and his Deputy. The move announced after the 28th party Congress that closed Friday night advanced the goal of Gorbachev who is president and party chief of further separating the party from the government apparatus. Vaulting into the politburo the party a leading body that was doubled in size to 24 members were party leaders from the 15 soviet republics As Welt As several moderate reformers and officials Little known outside their areas of specially. The revamped politburo elected by the party a new 412-seat Central committee represented a Sharp break with past practice in which the politburo was the focus of All Power in the soviet Union and its members also held the governments senior positions a dropped from the politburo were prime minister Nikolai i. Ryzhkova Kab chairman Vladimir a. Kryuchkov and defense minister Dmitri t. Yazoo As Well As Gorbachev adviser Alexander n. Yakovlev foreign minister Eduard a. Shevardnadze and traditionalist Yegor k. I Gachev. All but i Gachev remain As Central committee members however. A the new composition of the politburo underscores that the party fully Breaks with the former practice when it was organically built into the command and administrative system and was on the top of the Hierarchy a said Ivan Frolov the editor of the party newspaper pravda and a new politburo member. Frolov announced that the new politburo will include himself the Heads of party organizations in the soviet republics Gorbachev and Deputy party Leader Vladimir a. Ivashko As Well As a Yuri Prokofiev Moscow a communist party chief. Prokofiev is known As a moderate reformer. A Gennady a Nancv who became head of the Central Council of Trade unions last year after labor unrest began spreading through the country. He will be responsible for International affairs. A Galina Semyonova editor in chief of a peasant woman Magazine. She will be responsible for women a issues. Gorbachev acknowledged that the party a Days of int. My Kryuchkov Yazoo Ryzhkova monolithic Power were Over. A a we re on the threshold of a multiparty system. 1 done to see anything frightening in that a he told lbs news on Friday. Gorbachev was critical of prominent liberals who quit the party including Maverick Boris Yeltsin and the mayors of Moscow and Leningrad the nations biggest cities. But he acknowledged that such defections Point to a a a Gap Between the people and the party. The Congress was the Sto Miest Kremlin gathering since 1921, when bolshevik revolutionaries faced violent uprisings by workers and sailors. At the Congress Gorbachev was victorious in removing such hard line critics As Migachev from the policy setting Central committee As Well As from the politburo. Gorbachev told lbs he has a a contempt for those who left the party and told the Congress that those who quit have dealt a a blow to the entire cause of revolutionary  but he also told delegates that the party is determined a to Bridge the still existing Gap Between the party and the people. Thousands of people have quit the party in recent months and the departure of the Reform leaders and the rising anger of Coal miners and other workers appear Likely to accelerate that process. The nearly 4,700 delegates to the 28th party Congress ended the session by giving themselves a standing ovation and singing a the internationale a the common nist Anthem. British Cabinet member resigns amid juror Over German slurs London apr under fire from All parties Nicholas Ridley resigned from the Cabinet on saturday after two Days of controversy Over a scathing interview in which he accused West Germany of seeking to dominate Europe. A personally i shall greatly miss your Loyal support for the policies we both believe in so deeply Quot prime minister Margaret Thatcher said in a letter to Ridley an ideological soulmate who had been a member of her Cabinet since 1983. She appointed Peter Lilley to replace Ridley As the Secretary for Trade and Industry. In an interview published in the Spectator Magazine Ridley had denounced plans for european monetary Union As a a German Racket designed to take Over the whole of  he accused the French government of being obedient a poodles Quot of the germans and said he would rather hand Over sovereignty to Adoll hitlers Germany than to the european commission. The interview provoked outrage in his own conservative party As Well As from the labor party and other opposition groups. A spokesman for West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl had said he a was not  however some conservatives supported the substance if not the tone of Ridley a comments and urged him to stay on. Ridley was leading a Trade Mission in Budapest Hungary when the controversy erupted and issued a Short statement saying he withdrew his  from Page 1 services should look at trimming retirement eligible personnel those with More than 20 years of service the committee said. The next target group would be service members on their initial term of Semcer who could be reduced by tightening re enlistment standards. Nunn said his goal is to make personnel cuts in a balanced Way that would a protect the Middle part of the career Force by taking a Tot of reductions in the number of people coming into the pipeline on one hand and those coming out of the pipeline on the other  under the committee s plan the services should not have to involuntarily separate midterm and career personnel but lawmakers have provided a safety net of benefits to help protect any of those personnel who must leave the service. The package would extend Severance pay currently Given Only to officers to All enlisted personnel and would remove a Cap of $30,000. It also would a extend unemployment benefits to match those Given to private sector employees who Are Laid off. Servicemen Bers must now wait four weeks before applying for 13 weeks of benefits. Civilians can get 26 weeks of benefits after a one week wait. A allow personnel who had not enrolled in the i Bill education program when they first came into the service to buy in retroactively. A offer a health insurance plan with premiums to be paid by the military for six months after separation. It also would allow pregnant service members and family members and anyone with an existing medical condition to continue to obtain care through military medical  direct the military to provide transition and Job search assistance. A liberalize travel and transportation allowances to let involuntarily separated service members go to any location in the United states to Settle. Currently the  pay transportation costs to the Home of record or place of entry into service or any closer location. The House armed services committee does not plan to begin work on if version of the authorization Bill until after the August congressional recess