European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 21, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 a a a the stars and stripes Croton a on More by Ciuck Vinch Washington Bureau Washington a Croton a de rid cd by one lawmaker As a a yesterday a solution to yesterdays problems a is All but dead in Congress. None of the four congressional panels that oversee military construction wants to pay the . Share of the costs for building the nato base in Italy. A House staffer said there is no Way the base project will survive the final drafts of the fiscal 1991 defense authorization and appropriations Bills with All four committees voting against it. A unless nato comes up with some other funding arrangement Croton is finished a the staffer said. The base is meant to House the 401 St tac fighter Wing which must leave Torr Jon a in Spain by the end of 1992 by order of the Spanish government. Despite the congressional reluctance military strategists still arc pushing for Croton. In a july 30 letter to Congress Gen. John r. Galvin supreme Allied commander Europe said Basing the 40tst tac fighter Wing at Croton is a absolutely necessary Tor stability and deterrence in the nato Southern  a if i had Only two . Air Force wings in Europe i would put one of them at Croton Quot he said. Last year lawmakers agreed to fund up to $360 million of the construction at Croton which will Cost $800 million with nato paying for the rest. But support for the project has steadily eroded since the collapse of the Warsaw  update released from prison Bucharest Romania apr Zoia Ceausescu the daughter of deposed and executed dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was released from prison saturday morning. She was picked up from her Central Bucharest prison by her brother Valentin who was released Friday. The two refused to pause for interviews or photographs and sped of in a five car Convoy. Their current whereabouts Are unknown. Also released saturday were Zoia s husband Mircica Orcan and Soliana Cristescu the former wife of the late dictator s youngest son Nicu. All four have been accused of various charges of com option and a undermining the National Economy Quot and were under arrest since the december revolution. The Bucharest military tribunal decided Friday that the investigation into their crimes a can be carried out without maintaining their state of preventative  it is unclear when the trials might take  film juror London up a a controversial pakistani made film depicting writer Salman Rushdie As a drunkard who kills moslem May be distributed in Britain a film Board has ruled in compliance with the wishes of the condemned Man. The ban on a International guerrillas was listed by the British Board of film classification which had previously judged it to be criminally libellous tearing u would rekindle moslem hatred of Rushdie. But Rushdie opposed the ban. The Indian born London writer has been in hiding since feb. 14, 1988, when the Laic iranian spiritual Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ordered Isis death for writing Quot the satanic  t a if i had Only two . Air Force wings in Europe i would put one of them at  a Gen. John r. Galvin the House and Senate appropriations committees recently voted to bar All funding for Croton during fiscal 1991. The House armed services committee later followed suit. The full Senate working on its defense authorization Bill last week did the same but the closeness of the 51-47 vote shows that the project still has support. That support rests less on Croton a a military importance than on the assertion that the United states signed on for the project As part of a nato agreement and thus any changes should be made within a nato framework. As much As the Pentagon would like to have the base built military officials said it probably would not be of much use in a situation like the current Mideast crisis. A it would be a nato base built by nato for nato even though a . Unit would be the principal tenant a said a Pentagon official who spoke on condition of anonymity. The Alliance traditionally has been reluctant to let the United states use its military bases dedicated to nato for missions not related to the defense of Europe he said. In this Case the Alliance nations have shown a willingness to help the United states move against iraqi president Saddam Hussein a but there Are other locations besides Italy that would be better for launching air operations in the Mideast if we wanted to do that a the Pentagon official said. O. He declined to be More specific but recent news reports have said the United states moving air assets to bases in Turkey. A a a a action on the base project reflects lawmakers reluctance to fund any new Mili iary construction overseas As Congress and the Pentagon try to forge the future shape of the . Armed forces. The cancellation of overseas projects accounts for almost All the difference in funding Between the Bills approved by the four panels involved in military construction and the administration request of $9.1 billion for fiscal 1991. The Senate armed services committee did not authorize any of the 77 european come projects requested by the administration while the House committee approved Only a handful. They Are a an $8.4 million corrosion control hangar at Nas Simonella Italy. A a $ 1.5 million receiver facility at Sicily naval communications station in Italy. I a $2.4 million fuel facility and a i $27 million family housing project at be Finvik Iceland. It a a $3.1 million dormitory at Raf Lakenheath England. A a $ 1.2 million Barracks at Princlik Turkey and a $1.1 million water distribution system at in Ciurlik Turkey. Lawmakers on the two armed services committees will argue Over funding for those projects when they meet in sep tember to come up with a single military construction authorization Bill. The House appropriations committees Bill which already has been approved by the full chamber contained Money for a number of projects not authorized by the House armed services committee under the two tier defense funding process. Included Are schools at Lan Stuhl and Frankfurt in West Germany and Harrogate England and medical facilities at Raf Edzell and Raf Lanark in Scotland. The Senate appropriations committee deleted funding for those projects which Means their Fate also will be resolved when the two appropriations panels meet in september to work out differences in their respective construction funding Bills. The Only european come project to survive All four Bills was the $1.2 million dormitory at Princlik Turkey. Romanians May be Given clothes collected for . Hurricane victims by Dave Walczak staff writer Mannheim West Germany a hundreds of needy romanians could Benefit from a clothing drive originally intended for victims a hemisphere away. The Campaign to bring the clothes to Romania is headed by chaplain capt Mark Bell of Simbach a who is part of a churches of Christ Relief Effort aimed at helping romanian needy especially orphans. Bell said he Hopes to get the clothes into Romania by the first week of september the clothing originally was targeted for victims of Hurricane Hugo which ravaged the Caribbean and the Eastern United states last september. But the Mannheim based group that spearheaded the clothing drive found collecting clothes easier than shipping them. Nearly 10 Mouths after the drive ended 21,000 pounds of clothes remain stacked in 70 boxes in a Mannheim warehouse because the group has no Money to pay for transporting them across the Atlantic. Sgt. Alfredo Davila who helped Organ ize the Hurricane Hugo Relief Effort in Mannheim is hoping that Bell succeeds. A what am i going to do with those boxes put them in the dumpster we have too Many problems with the clothes a Davila said a a it a too late to do what we wanted. Lets try and help somebody  Davila assigned to the 512th Maint in at Sullivan Barracks is a member of the Mannheim Amigos baseball team that sponsored the clothing drive. He said american service members and their families from Frankfurt Mainz Stuttgart and Mannheim donated clothes and shoes for Hurricane victims. The baseball team also raised about $6,000, which was turned Over to the american red Cross on condition that the Money be distributed equally Between Hurricane victims in the United states and the Caribbean. Mcdonald Schofield the red Cross area station manager in Mannheim said his organization distributed the funds As requested late last year. Schofield said he advised Davila to restrict his groups Relief efforts to raising Money because the red Cross did not have the Means to get clothing from Europe to the United states. A collecting clothing just Isnit a worthwhile Endeavor overseas Quot he said. A but i know they put a lot of Effort into it. Its commendable in a lot of ways. But its their clothing. I Hope they can find a Way to use  Davila said his group had hoped that the military would provide an aircraft to take the clothes to the United states. He said he wrote to the Pentagon but military officials said they had no Means of helping him. Davila began to look for an alternate Charity about three months ago and first talked to Bell last month. He said some of those who donated clothing have objected to giving it to anyone other than Hurricane Hugo victims. Transportation remains the biggest hurdle in moving the clothing. Bell estimated that his group needs at least $4,800 to rent three German trucks to transport the clothes from Mannheim to Vienna Austria where churches of Christ romanian Relief efforts Are headquartered. Bell said he Hopes Safe officials will approve the use of Money raised by the commands chaplains to pay for the trucks. Report says soviets plan Early pullout Berlin apr the soviet Union plans to withdraw its troops from East Germany ahead of schedule a West German newspaper reported saturday. Bild am sonntag did not identify its sources and the duty officer at the soviet embassy in fast Berlin had no comment. The Hamburg based newspaper said in an article released saturday to other news Media that the w withdrawal of some of the estimated 370,000 soviet troops stationed in East Germany could begin As Early As next week. The newspaper said that the withdrawal of Moscow a largest military Force outside the soviet Union could be completed by the end of next year. A West German foreign ministry spokesman in Bonn denied that the pullout w Ould be completed by the end of 1991. Jurgen Chrobot said the timetable would follow the agreement reached last month by West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev that the withdrawal would be spread out Over three to four years. However Bild quoted Horst Teltschik a top aide to Kohl As saying that he would not exclude that the withdrawal would Lake place at a faster Pace than agreed upon earlier. Bild said that according to nato reports some 10,000 trains with 50 cars each Are needed to take All the troops Home. East germans have already of gun to express impatience with the soviet troops and Graffiti saying a russians out Quot is not uncommon in towns where the soldiers Are stationed. Soviet troops have already started leaving Czechoslovakia and Hungary As the once formidable Warsaw pact disintegrates. The soviet Union will to get losing its most important Warsaw pact ally when East Germany merges with West Germany a member of the opposing nato Alliance