European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 3, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 a a the stars and stripes Friday August 3,1990bush backs 25% Force Cut sources Sandra Down would be completed by �?T95 Aspen Colo. Apr president Bush is proposing to slash . Military forces by 25 percent in the next five years As a result of the rapidly diminishing threat from the soviet Union official sources said thursday. On a trip that was Cut Short by iraqis invasion of Kuwait the president was expected to announce the cuts in a speech at the Aspen Institute he cancelled plans to spend the night in Colorado and was returning immediately to Washington after the speech. Bush has been under intense pressure from Congress to Cut defense spending by reducing manpower and scrapping costly new weapons systems. In a blow to the administration the House armed services committee voted tuesday to trim the 2.1 million Active duty personnel by 129,500 by the fall of 1991, compared with the administrations proposal for a Cut of 40,000. The committee proposing to slash Bush a $307 billion military budget proposal by $24 billion also recommended killing the b-2 stealth bomber deep cuts in the Star wars program and halting plans for Mobile nuclear missiles faced with budget problems and a diminishing soviet threat the administration had been debating How deeply to Cut the . Military. Administration sources said Bush decided to Back a 25 percent Cut in the armed forces by the end of 1995. A reduction of that magnitude in both troops and weapons was suggested by defense Secretary Dick Cheney As an of lion for White House and congressional budget negotiators in june but critics dismissed it As too Little. Cheney said a 25 percent reduction could save $8.6 billion Oyer five years when the Pentagon retires six army divisions 111 Navy ships and ii air Force tactical fighter wings and removes 442,000 personnel from Active duty. Cheney has hinted at further reductions when proposed military base closings Are announced possibly As Early As next week. During a visit to a strategic air come base in Cheyenne wyo., on july 20, Bush said military reductions would have to be a an or dirty build Down not some kind of a fire  he indicated he could accept the Senate armed services committees proposal for an $18 billion defense spending Cut but Besec Ched Congress to a hold the line at that already painful reduction Quot before his Aspen speech Bush planned to Confer with British prime minister Margaret Thatcher who is attending a symposium at the Aspen Institute a 40-year-old, non profit organization that gathers business political and cultural leaders to discuss global issues Kurt major takes a break using one of his hogs for support after a morning of cleaning pens wednesday porker for a Pillow at the Cherokee county american legion free fair and reunion in Columbus Kan. Major is one of Many 4-h youngsters presenting their livestock for numerous judging events at the fair. A doonesbury joins fray Over arts funding Kansas City to. Apr a character in a a doonesbury Quot comic strip Clad in nothing but rope shows the Art Community s contempt for government funding the strips distributor said. But some editors Are wondering How readers will react to the strip due out next week a the strip by . Trudeau has the character Ujj. Uttering fragmented sentences laced with such provocative words As a booze Quot Quot lubricate Quot and a hot  j.j., with nothing but rope covering her private parts and a bucket Over her head gives her rendition of a performance  hut she makes no direct reference to sex acts. A the Way i read it its an attempt to show the lengths that the Art Community will go to thumb their noses at government Grants Quot said Jack Morrissey an associate editor at Universal press Syndicate. The Kansas City area based company distributes the strip to about 1,000 newspapers. The strip apparently referred to controversy Over National endowment of the arts funding Morrissey said. Some conservative politicians have tried to Block government Money going to artwork they consider obscene and some performance artists have lost Grants. Morrissey said several editors had called with questions about taste and the reason behind releasing the strip. But no paper indicated that it would pull the comic scheduled for release aug. 6 to aug. 11, he said. A frankly it did no to offend me but in a thinking of All the people out there Quot said Jim Hughes executive editor of the Baton Rouge state times and coming advocate. Hughes said he had his staff Call other papers around the country wednesday to see whether they would run the strip which papers received this week. A Hughes said his paper had not made a decision. Three of fhe papers contacted by Hughes staff a the Kansas City Star the los Angeles times and the Philadelphia inquirer a said they examined the strip closely and decided to run it without alteration. A if you held it out the doonesbury people would get mad. And if you run it i imagine some other people Wilt get mad Quot said Joe Mcgurt vice president and editor of the Star. A i just take that As a  Bob Duffy vice president of Universal. Press said newspapers could choose not to run the strip. But he strongly discouraged editors from altering it for reasons of taste As papers have done to Trudeau a comics in the past. A a we a rather have them drop the strip than alter it Quot he said. A a that a always been our position but you can to police 1,000  Florida frees husband in 1985 mercy killing Lake , 1 la apr Roswell Gilbert walked out of prison a free Man thursday after serving 5v years for the 1985 mercy killing of his ailing wife. The 81-year-old Gilbert granted clemency by gov. Bob Martinez and the Florida Cabinet because he suffers from heart and lung disease was freed from the North Florida reception Center at Lake Butler shortly after 9 . Gilbert who had breakfast earlier at the prison with his daughter Martha Moran of Baltimore smiled broadly As he left the jail. But he expressed remorse Over the killing of his wife Emily who suffered from alzheimer a disease a i  have killed my wife now i know that Quot he said. Quot i know the Public at least understood what 1 did if they did no to approve of  he called the slaying an Quot act of  he called alzheimer so a horror an absolute horror Quot and said he believes euthanasia should be legalized for some cases. Moran said she believes her Mother would say a a it a about time they let him  Gilbert and his daughter planned to drive to the fort Lauderdale area where he will spend several Days at an undisclosed location before returning to his condominium in fort Lauderdale. Gilbert was serving a 25-year prison term for murder in the 1985 shooting of his wife Emily who Alsvig had osteoporosis