European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 2, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday. September 2. 1991 the stars and stripes c Page 3keep control of nuke the stars and stripes Moscow apr the tiny but deadly Chance that soviet nuclear arms will fall into the hands of fanatics is causing concern in the West drawing fresh Soviel assurances that those weapons will remain under Kremlin control. A i think that any time you have 27,000 nuclear weapons and you have political instability and uncertainty whatever the dangers Are they go up  said sen. Sam Nunn. D-ga., chairman of the Senate armed services committee. A but i think that the Odds Are still overwhelmingly against an Accident a Nunn said after meeting with the new soviet detente minister. Gen. Yevgeny Shaposhnikov. Nunn said he expected to Quot Tiseth Essue today Witt president Mikhail s. Gorbachev. Nunn s assessment was shared by a half dozen soviet and Western experts interviewed on the chances of nuclear weapons falling into the hands of terrorists or nationalist factions during the political turmoil stemming from the failed aug. 18-21 coup. By far the majority of soviet missiles and bombers capable of hitting the West Are in the vast russian federation led by president Boris n. Yeltsin according to soviet and Western sources. About 15-20 percent of the strategic nuclear Force consists of Block Buster ss-18 missiles located in Kazakhstan on russians Southern flank. Additionally the soviets have based an unknown percentage of their Long Range ss-24 missiles on trains that move coup outdated Book on soviet military might no it int Iki i i actin .11, w by John Lancaster the Washington Post Washington a just Days before its scheduled release the Pentagon has suspended the annual publication of soviet military Power suggesting that the events in the soviet Union have made the widely distributed document about As useful As last year s Calendar. The yearly assessment of soviet military might hatched during the Reagan years to help make the Case for bigger defense budgets had already been ment printing office with orders Tor 195,740 copies officials said. But with the collapse of the coup and subsequent purge of the soviet military leadership Pentagon officials realized they had a Dinosaur on their hands. Now they done to know when a in even if a they will Otter a revised version. A a a it a a bit of a  said Pentagon chief spokesman Pete w Illiams. A Glossy analytical compendium of soviet weaponry budget trends personnel changes and other factors. Soviet military Power could serve As a barometer of superpower relations Over the last decade. First published in 1981 during the tenure of then Secretary of defense Caspar Weinberger the document hewed closely to the a be in in Tifre school of soviet military analysis. As recently As 1987, it warned that Quot our technological Lead is being increasingly  describing the soviet buildup As a going far beyond legitimate requirements for  1 he Book had its critics most notably detente analyst Lorn Gervasi. Author of a pass a annotated and corrected Quot cts on that accused the Pentagon of hyping its facts Tor propaganda purposes. 1 although demand has ebbed somewhat in Light of the diminished soviet threat the Hook remains popular in and out of government. Distributed free within the Pentagon and sold in bookstores Tor $h.5 a copy it is one of the government printing office s most frequently requested document t s. But the coup attempt May turn the one time Best seller into a collectors item. As soviet military leaders toppled like nine pins. Pentagon officials a almost literally ran in saying. Stop the presses a a said one  through the second most populous soviet Republic the Ukraine also in the South soviet and . Sources said. Shorter Range tactical nuclear weapons Are stationed in other republics such As byelorussian to the West and these in Nunns View could pose a greater danger. A we have to ask the question a Are they More the source of deterrent stability or Are they More the source of invitations for terrorist groups or even opposing forces in a civil War a a said Nunn adding that he found the defense min ister open to negotiations on curtailing tactical nuclear weapons. Shaposhnikov the new defense minister. Has repeated in several interviews that a during the coup the nuclear weapons were in very trustworthy hands and there were no reasons for the world Community to be  he said they should remain in Central hands. Yeltsin and leaders of other republics have said they share that View. An additional problem could arise from the collapsing authority of the supreme soviet legislature which normally ratifies treaties. Nunn said he did not expect the . Senate to consider the Start Deal this year. In the meantime he said . Experts would be a sorting out where the soviets Are going and making sure that there will be somebody to ratify it and making sure that there will be some sort of Central government responsibility for  knew crisis loomed wife s Book says London apr soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev predicted a Tierce Battle with conservative opponents More than a year before the abortive coup that briefly ousted him last month his wite Raisa wrote in her new Book. In excerpts from her memoirs i Hope published in the sunday times she said the warning came during a Holiday in Yalta with her husband last year. A Mikhail said to me a we be got the most difficult time ahead of us. There is going to be political fighting. Its very alarming but we  give in to the conservatives we  surrender the Fate of the country to cowboys. They will ruin everything a a she wrote. The Book to be published in English by Harper Collins on thursday also includes memories of her childhood student years parents hobbies and family. It has been published in russian by the soviet publisher no Vosti. She was with her husband at their Black sea vacation Home in the Crimea when Gorbachev was placed under House arrest by coup plotters aug. 18. After the coup started and before it collapsed three Days later the books publishers were quoted As saying they were considering changing the title to i hoped. In her Book Raisa Gorbachev said her husbands fears were exacerbated by nationalism and extremism that were spreading through the soviet Union like a Quot cancerous  a these Are anxious times with much to be concerned about about the future of the country about the Fate of the Union of Peoples. A where did this alld Estrue Tive aggression Spring from i feel seared. Is every policy ineffective in the face of this evil Quot she wrote of grow ing nervousness invading daily life. But most of All. She worried about Hei husband s ability to Cope with the Quot incredible tension Quot of his position. Raisa wrote that one of Gorbachev a most difficult nights had come when soviet tanks and troops stormed Baku killing dozens of people As they crushed the nationalist azerbaijani popular front. A the next Day i could scarcely recognize Mikhail Serg Yevich. He had gone Gray and his face was Gray too he seemed to have suffered a nervous Shock to have gone through a mental crisis Quot she wrote. M lithuanian patriotism a Young child in Vilnius Lithuania takes time out irom playing on saturday afternoon to peer into the barrel of a cardboard Cannon that has a a Patriot writ ten across one Side. The Cannon was built and set up in the capital As a Symbol of Lithuania a struggle for Independence from the Soviel  to stay on socialist Road Hong Kong apr China a hard line Premier  Peng said in an interview televised sunday that China will persist in a walking the socialist Road despite the collapse of communism in the soviet Union. A High ranking chinese military official revealed meanwhile that China has placed its military on Alert following the upheaval in Moscow. It. Gen. Fun Ruiqing told Hong Kong chinese reporters in Beijing that Security was parti Eulaile High among units along China s 4,340-mile Bonier with the soviet Union and at airports. Air. Naval and ground forces of the people s liberation army were All involved said the political commissar of the Nanjing military Region in reports published sunday in Llong Kong newspapers. I he collapse of communism in the soviet Union has left China isolated. Reports from Beijing and Hong Kong Sav China s hard line leadership reacted with Shock to the failure of the coup and dismay at news that the soviet communist party was suspended last thursday and its accounts Frozen. In his first Public statement on the soviet changes l i told Hong Kong s Ivy that China a communist in arts would not Budge in its Pursuit of communism. I his is the chinese people s historical  said the  Premier. A we Are fully confident of the future of China. Hina s Basic Altitude is that no Mallei what changes occur in the soviet Union or what instability develops on the International scene Hina will unremittingly pc severe in walking the socialist Road Wuh chinese  1 he interview aired a Day before British prime my ister John major arrives m Beijing the first visit european Leader to China since the june crackdown on a pro democracy movement. Of a i is