European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 18, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Bush Gorbachev announce arms Accord Moscow Summit London apr president Bush and soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev announced agreement wednesday on a historic treaty to reduce their arsenals of strategic nuclear missiles and said they would hold a superpower Summit in Moscow at the end of the month. The strategic arms reduction treaty or Start would slash Long Range nuclear weapons by about 30 percent and be the first agreement in history to reduce the number of the nuclear Era intercontinental missiles bombers and submarines. A we have moved far away from the threat of nuclear War. It is our common Victory a Gorbachev said at a cordial news conference that concluded his luncheon with Bush at the . Ambassadors residence in London. The Summit is tentatively set for july 30 and 31, an see related Story on Page 9 administration official said. The Accord was announced just before Gorbachev made a plea for economic assistance to Bush and the mystery photo May show missing leaders of Britain France Germany Italy Canada and Japan by announcing the agreement in Advance Bush and Gorbachev made sure that the soviet Leader would not go Home without some dramatic news even if he did no to get a massive package of Aid. Mdt110 of More than inc years of negotiations s1 Art has been hanging in the balance since Secretary of state James a. Baker 111 and soviet foreign minister Alexander Bessmer Nyoh held four Days of intense negotiations in Washington ending sunday with see Summit on Page 2 Washington apr government analysts Are studying a mysterious photo that relatives say shows three american pilots who never returned after being shot Down Over Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. A in coordination with the state department we Are undertaking urgent activities to follow up on this report a defense department spokesman Gregg Hartung said tuesday. The Grainy picture shows three men holding a sign with a strange message. Some of the numbers on the sign Are formed in a style that seems distinctly european. And just where the picture came from is unclear. John Isaf of the american defense Institute a private organization based in Alexandria va., said retired Navy capt. Eugene Mcdaniel who Heads the Institute received the picture last november. Mcdaniel declined to reveal where he got it saying Only that it came from a sources Over there a according to Isaf. Mcdaniel 59, was shot Down Over North Vietnam and repatriated in 1973 after six years in a prisoner of War Camp. A decade later he founded the american defense Institute and the american defense foundation to promote a Strong defense policy. Isaf said Mcdaniel was Able to identify the three men in the photo by circulating see photo on Page 2 this photo is believed to depict col. John Leighton Robertson from left maj. Albro Lynn Lundy or. And it. Larry James notes deficiencies in Gulf Effort by Barton Gellman the Washington Post Washington a . Forces in the persian Gulf War were critically ill prepared for the biological warfare they anticipated from Iraq. They had less than half the Hospital Beds they estimated they would need when the conflict began and they were susceptible throughout the War to jamming of their satellite communications. These conclusions Are contained in a preliminary report released tuesday by the Pentagon. The Pentagon also acknowledged failures in a collecting and distributing Battlefield intelligence. A Clearing mines on land and in shallow water. A bridging interservice rivalries and incompatibilities. A filling shortages ranging from linguists to tank ammunition and heavy trucks. The report issued More than two weeks late for a july 1 congressional deadline is the defense departments first official recounting of lessons Learned from the War. The military a self assessment intended to shape future budgets and fighting doctrines was the subject of heated Battles inside the Pentagon although there Are no dramatic new disclosures episodes Mir offers a glimpse Inu anxieties to rate unspoken during the War. Perhaps most revealing for its sensitivity to the political dimensions of warfare was the fear attributed to Allied commanders that the grounded iraqi air Force a might be Able to launch one massive strike against coalition bases and create the effect of an a air tet a similar to the Vietnam wars tet offensive of 1968, which achieved limited military Success but embarrassed the United states and caused an erosion of Public support for the much of the 178-Page report is devoted to Praise for the military a accomplishments and warnings against taking Victory for granted. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney calling the War the most important test of american arms in 75 year wrote 1,k a introduction that forces dominated every area of warfare with a a brilliantly orchestrated Campaign against a combat hardened army that bristled with world class equipment. A this Victory was neither easy nor certain see Effort on Page 2
