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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 3, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Vol. 49, no. 321. Sunday March 3, 1991 authorized unofficial publication Tor the  armed forces 50c d 8693 allies set . Troops clash with iraqis from staff and Media reports As the allies hair tiered Otu the Tough terms of Saddam Hussein a surrender saturday dozens of iraqi tanks that May have been lost attacked . Forces in one of two violations of the temporary cease fire in. The past 24 hours. No . Casualties were reported in the clashes but two american service members died elsewhere in land mine explosions. In new York the . Security Council met privately to debate a surrender Resolution that would set Forth stringent terms Iraq must meet before the 4day-old, informal cease fire can be made permanent. The Resolution would retain an economic and arms embargo against Iraq and demand that Baghdad pay reparations return prisoners of War and Cap tured civilians return stolen property rescind iraqi annexation of Kuwait and identity the location of the mines and bombs in Kuwait. At the same time the United states and its allies were preparing for a meeting sunday with iraqi commanders. Allied generals said the Rel Erffee of All pos will be their top demand when they talk with iraqi military leaders at a secret location in the arabian desert to discuss the cease fire. The talks originally scheduled for saturday were delayed one Day at iraqis request. The allies also want to set up a line separating them from iraqi forces to prevent further outbreaks of combat . Marine Brig. Gen. Richard Neal a Central come spokesman said at a briefing saturday in Riyadh the saudi capital. A we want to establish some sort of line which iraqi and coalition forces will keep themselves away from to avoid these kinds of confrontations a Neal said. Another goal for the military talks which will include the desert storm commander Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf is to determine the location of iraqi minefields and other unexploded ordnance. . Officials said a permanent ceasefire is urgently needed to end iraqi resistance. A a a a As yet there u no formal cease fire a military official said Friday but rather a a cessation of offensive  the differ see iraqis on Page 10 there s just so much blood to give _ by Randy Mcclain financial writer Frankfurt Germany a or. It. Col Jerry a Warren is a 51-year-old radiologist with a lucrative group practice in Rural Oregon three weeks before Christmas Warren was told to grab his. Medical kit Brush up on his bedside manner and join thousands of other army reservists on overseas flights bound for operation desert storm. Since then Warren who Drew an assignment at the army a regional  Center in Frankfurt has stood ready to care for soldiers wounded in the persian Gulf War. With peace seemingly secured and few Allied casualties to treat Warren has had lots of Timeto think about the civilian life he left behind. A fall in All its costing me $100,000 a year to be on Active duty a said Warren who makes $5,000 a month while in the army. He earns nearly three times that much when working with four other doctors in his group practice in Roseburg ore., 60 Miles Southwest of Eugene. A a t Quot _ the difference in pay Hasni to crippled him yet but Warren acknowledged that he is on the verge of forming a second opinion about whether to stay in the reserves several More years As he always planned. A a in a appreciative of the military but there a just so much blood to give a said Warren a 12-year Navy Veteran who has been an army reservist since 1984. A in my mind anything More than six months on Active duty and absolutely see reservists on Page 16 reservists in War and peace first in a series a amps Jim Derti Eim or. It. Col Jerry g. Warren uses a fluoroscopy to examine pvt. 1st class Shaila Wright. Warren is a reservist who has been putting his skills As a radiologist to use at the 97th general army Hospital in Frankfurt. Big . Troop Cut urged in Europe Washington apr the United states should reduce its troops in Europe to fewer than 100,000 during the next five years a University sponsored study argued Friday. The collapse of the Warsaw pact As a military Alii Ance the unification of Germany and the overthrow of communist governments in Eastern Europe warrants a reorganization of natos military Arm. A however the uncertainties in the soviet Union and Eastern Europe requires that nato a remains an essential instrument for preserving european peace and Security the study says. The report was endorsed by a heavyweight collection of members of Congress former government officials scholars and retired military officers. T by coincidence Volker Ruehe a member of the German bundestag and Secretary general of the governing Christian democratic party told reporters in Washington he believed the United states would maintain no More than 60,000 to 80,000 troops in Germany. A it has to be More than just symbolic, said. Fornier defense Secretary Harold Brown and former Treasury Secretary William Simon co chaired the study sponsored by the Johns Hopkins foreign policy Institute. A the changes in the soviet Union and Eastern Europe  vindication of what nato has been up to for 40 years a Brown told a Capitol Hill news conference. _. The former defense Secretary was joined by sen. Sam Nunn d-ga., chairman of the Senate armed services committee and sen. William Cohen a Maine a member of the panel. Both lawmakers were part of the study group. The report says that after the soviet Union has withdrawn completely from Eastern Europe the United states should Cut its forces in Europe now about 300,000, to fewer than 100,000, some 70,000 of the . Forces in the persian Gult have been drawn from Europe. _. In , president Bush proposed and the nato allies and the soviet Union tentatively agreed to a limit of 105,000 . And soviet troops in the european Central zone with the United states being permitted an additional 30,000 elsewhere in Europe. J the Johns Hopkins report visions a residual Force of combat units including armoured cavalry regiments tactical air wings and some nuclear weapons. A Large number of the ground forces would be located further Back from current positions Brown said. A the russians Are not Corning but they Haven to  Cohen said at the news conference. _  
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