European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 28, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Bush to unveil path to peace new strategy will affect status of . Forces Washington apr president Bush was to unveil sweeping changes in . Nuclear strategy Friday night including proposing further cuts in superpower arsenals administration officials said. A the new world we be entered Means changes in our National Security strategy Quot Bush said. The White House billed fridays nationally televised speech As a a turning Point in the nations defense. Press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater said Bush a speech would focus on a a new path for peace Quot As Well As the status of . Forces and changes in the soviet Union. Officials speaking on condition of anonymity said time for a change its about that time again. Much of Europe will go off summer time Early sunday morning. See Story on Page 10.$269.7 billion defense budget of d by Senate from wire reports Washington the Senate adopted a $269.7 billion defense spending Bill for 1992 that largely mirrors president Bush a priorities but not before some prize Pentagon programs barely survived floor challenges. The Senate after two full Days of debate passed the appropriations Bill for the budget year starting tuesday in a voice vote thursday night. In passing the Bill the Senate voted to lift a 3-year-old defense department ban on allowing abortions in . Military hospitals overseas. The defense measure differs in significant ways from the $295 billion appropriations Bill the House passed in june. The differences will be reconciled by House and Senate negotiators. The Senate debate Over spending on the b-2 stealth bomber was the most divisive Issue. The Senate Bill includes $3.2 billion the amount the administration requested to buy four b-2s next year. But it stipulates that the Money cannot be spent until defense Secretary Dick Cheney certifies that Thesee defense on Page 2 that Bush would Call for changes in All categories and ranges of nuclear weapons. He was also to spell out Steps the United states is willing to take on its own As Well As propose cuts in both . And soviet arsenals the sources said. The 20-minute address was to be broadcast live front the Oval office at 8 . Edt. Bush a speech comes at a time of warming .-soviet relations and a declining need for the ominous nuclear arsenals built up during the Reagan Era. Just two months ago Bush and soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev signed the strategic arms reduction Tready Start that promises to slash Long Range nuclear weapons by 30 percent. Both leaders have indicated their interest in even broader cuts in military might in the Post cold War Era. Bush told reporters his speech would have a major worldwide implications for world  later in a speech on an army base Bush said a was we enter the 1990s, the United states will reshape its military to meet a changing International environment a one that May be safer but one that clearly will have see Bush on Page 2 panel deadlocks on Thomas Washington a the Senate judiciary committee deadlocked 7-7 Friday on Clarence Thomas nomination to the supreme court then sent the appointment to the full Senate for a final vote. All six republicans joined Democrat Dennis Decon Cini in voting for Thomas a conservative appeals court judge who would be the second Black to sit on the High court. The committees seven other democrats opposed him. The tie vote in committee was certain to hearted opponents of Thomas who has been criticized by democrats for failing to discuss his views on abortion and for undergoing a a confirmation conversion that caused him to step away from earlier conservative views. Even so a leading supporter a prominent opponent and president Bush All predicted that Thomas would eventually be confirmed for the scat currently held by see panel on Page 2bound for saudi Arabia sgt. George Haney guards one of two Patriot launchers that were loaded onto a c-5 Galaxy at Rhein Maln a on Friday. Two Patriot units from Germany deploying to saudi Arabia arc the 1st in 7th air defense regt 94th brigade from Kaiserslautern and the 5th in 7th air defense regt 108th brigade from Pitburg a. A total of about 1,400 Patriot Crew members and support personnel Are being  rights March will go on Leader vows by Luke Britt staff writer an announcement by the military command that . Service members Are prohibited from demonstrating in foreign countries will not Stop a civil rights March today the events organizer said. But a possible meeting Between military and civil rights leaders and the formation of a group of a distinguished americans to look at equal Opportunity policies might. Arthur Diggs president of the european conference of the National association for the advancement of coloured people said the prohibition on participation is improper. A your rights As americans a our constitutions first amendment a supersede anything the military can threaten us with a said Diggs who has scheduled the March for 10 . Today in downtown Frankfurt Germany. Diggs said he was suspicious of the department of army a announcement Friday that a group of a distinguished americans was being formed to assess How the army carries out its equal Opportunity policies. A it sounds like something the defense department is doing to cover up and justify Why they have been Able to discriminate for so Many years a Diggs said. However if the names of those in the group Are released before the March and the group includes members of the a act the civil rights commission or other civil rights leaders a from outside the military a Diggs said he will consider Catling off the protest. However on Friday the department of the army had not released the names of those in the group which will visit Europe sometime in the near future. Gen. Crosbie e. Saint the . Army see March on Page 2