European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 28, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 a the stars and stripes saturday september 28, 1991 at a glance the United states in 1921 mounted a massive Relief drive that saved millions of soviets from starvation. Then Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover shown in a 1946 photo led the Relief Effort. See Story on pages 14 poverty rate soars poverty in the United states Rose sharply last year for the first time since 1983 and median household income dropped. A page4 . Losing drug War Congress chief investigative Agency said that anti smuggling efforts costing billions of dollars had failed to reduce the cocaine flow into the United states. A Page 5 hit Man captured a reputed colombian Assassin described As the hired gun of the notorious Medellin drug Cartel was ordered held without bait after his arrest in Queens. A Page 6 terror Campaign foiled . Intelligence agencies reportedly helped arrange the arrest and detention of iraqi agents crippling Saddam Hussein a Quot plans for world terror Quot during the persian Gulf crisis. A Page 7 Pope goes electronic the Vatican has made a Concession to the phone fettered fax Happy 1990s. A dial a Pope Quot service lets your fingers do the walking All the Way to St. Peters. A Page 9 Consumers worried consumer Confidence in the Economy dropped to an eight month Low this week a poll showed. A Page 19 Index a Abby Ann Landers 19 comics.19-21 commentary.13 faces�?Tn�?Tplaces.18 letters .12 Money matters.17 sports.22-28 to listings.27 weather.11bush from Page 1 world leaders on the Issue. Bush chose to make a televised address Fitzwater said because he believes a this is so important in terms of the Way it changes our defense strategy it in effect Points to a new course in contrast to the one we be been on for the last 40 years  because of the scope of the announcement Quot the president believes that these Are issues that he needs to discuss directly with the american people a Fitzwater said. He declined to provide further details. The speech was to include a proposal to reduce and eventually eliminate All . And soviet ballistic missiles equipped with multiple nuclear warheads senior officials disclosed. Bush s new arms proposal comes at a time of extraordinary political turmoil and uncertainty about the Fate of soviet strategic weapons. It Calls for both superpowers to reduce their nuclear weapons below the Levels required by a recently signed .-soviet arms treaty the officials said. The aim of the new missile reductions would be a to constrain further the Type of . And soviet weapon considered most dangerous to the other Side. A encourage Moscow to destroy some of the strategic missiles presently located in non russian republics. The strategic arms reduction treaty Start signed by Bush and soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev last summer contains a provision allowing such arms to be moved to Russia from the republics of Kazakhstan byelorussian and Ukraine under such an extraordinary circumstance As the partial dissolution of the soviet Union a but does not require their elimination. In his planned speech Friday afternoon during a dedication ceremony at fort Mcnairs National defense University Bush also was to indicate a willingness to abandon his administrations resistance to formal negotiated restrictions on deployments of sea launched cruise missiles a a Type of weapon in which the United states has a significant technical advantage. The United states had opposed such constraints throughout the nine year period in which Start was negotiated a position that threatened for a time to derail the treaty altogether. Adm. Frank b. Kelso ii the chief of naval operations publicly expressed the Navy a Long standing reservations about such constraints As recently As wednesday. But officials described the move As a Concession designed in the Wake of the soviet coup and a drop in the soviet military threat to entice Moscow to accept other features in the presidents new initiative. One official said the speech had a an ski strategic defense initiative component in which Bush will invite Moscow to pursue a program similar to the Pentagon a anti missile research Effort that soviet leaders have vigorously opposed. A senior official thursday night described the proposal As amp Quot major arms control Effort aimed at taking the first step into the Post coup Era Quot that was meant to demonstrate that the administration was assessing the changes in the soviet Union and acting in a studied a step by step manner. Bush decided on the speech Only two Days ago and following his Normal pattern kept the details secret from All but his closest advisers. Officials said both he and Secretary of state James a. Baker Iii began consulting allies on the outlines Only in the last week. A three months ago there was no thought at All to going below the weapons Levels required by Start a Cut of roughly 20 to 35 percent in the existing strategic nuclear arsenals of More than 22,000 warheads one official  from Page 1 that America did not need a plane designed mainly to penetrate soviet air defences. The other main argument against the b-2 is that it is too expensive at $864 million a copy. A acting on amendments during consideration of the Bill the Senate a voted 67-33, to Shelve plans to spend $225 million for tests on a rail Mobile my nuclear missile. Opponents of the test said it was a waste of Money since the Pentagon currently has no plans to convert the silo based my intercontinental ballistic missile to one that could be fired from rail cars. The House Bill includes $250 million for the test. A Defeated 50-49, an attempt to reduce the Bill s provision for spending on abortion from Page 1 veto the entire military spending Bill if final legislation include the abortion measure. Bush has made similar threats in the past and the measure eventually died. With support growing for the provision however the White House would find itself in the awkward position of accepting the measure or vetoing the Pentagon a spending Bill for the fiscal year Here Are the highlight of the 1992 defense appropriations bid adopted thursday night by the Senate a $3.2 billion to Purchase four new b-2 stealth bombers a $1.8 billion to buy one ssn-21 sea Wolf nuclear attack submarine a $3.5 billion for the strategic defense initiative ass the strategic defense initiative to $3.5 billion. The Bill in its final form included $4.6 billion for the project which is attempting to build a ground and space based defense against ballistic missiles. The that begins tuesday. At Issue in the abortion provision is whether american military personnel and their dependants stationed abroad should be Given Access to Safe and affordable abortions. The proposals do not include financing for the medical procedures. Before Federal legislation set severe restrictions on the use of Public Money to pay for abortions in the late 1970s, military hospitals in the United states and abroad performed up to 10,000 abortions a year. Since 1982, the Pentagon has barred the use of Public funds for abortions of administration asked for $5.2 billion. The House Bill contains $2.5 billion for ski. A rejected 90-10, an attempt to cancel the troubled sea Wolf nuclear attack submarine. Although acknowledging that far fewer of the sea wolfs Are Likely to be purchased than originally planned the Senate approved $1.8 billion for one of the subs the same amount As in the House Bill. A adopted 99-0, an amendment by sen. Timothy Wirth d-colo., that prohibits the Pentagon from awarding contracts to foreign companies that comply with the Arab league Boycott of Israel and of companies that do business with Israel. The appropriations Bill largely parallels separate authorization legislation the Senate passed in August. The authorization Bill sets spending ceilings actual Money is provided in the appropriations Bill. Military personnel or their dependants anywhere except when the woman s life was in danger. But military personnel still had the option of obtaining an abortion at a military Hospital overseas if they paid for it. Pentagon officials reasoned that forces based in the United states could readily find Safe medical care but personnel overseas might not. In 1988, the Pentagon ended the policy. From 1982 to 1988, up to 50 women a year paid for abortions at military hospitals overseas the defense department  from Page 1 and the March s leading organizer said he would Call off the demonstration if Saint agrees to the meeting. Dissent also surfaced thursday among various european a act leaders including those close to Diggs. Quot of course All the issues of disparity and discrimination Are valid and marching might be a viable Means of addressing it. However we have to go about such a thing in the right Way Quot said Mike Lambert first vice president of the european conference. A if we March it must be with the Blessing of the National  if military members civilians or their families choose to participate in the March they should do so individually and not in the name of the a act Lambert said. A Frankfurt is not where this March should occur a said Robert Mann a act member and former president of the european conference. A the Frankfurt Community has always been supportive of the  the March would have More meaning if it were held in Heidelberg near the Headquarters of the . Army in Europe Mann said. The a act Headquarters in Baltimore gave Diggs a list of guidelines on thursday which if met could Lead to official support from the organization a act National spokesman James Williams said. However until the guidelines Are met the March is not sanctioned Williams said. The organization would not reveal the guidelines saying it was an internal Issue. Following an August visit to several installations in Germany Fletcher criticized the military a system of combating civil Gen _ inspiration for the March. In his letter to Saint however Fletcher said the March a will prove to be embarrassing if not humiliating to the military and America As a   Jyrl How Afla Ottomay contrib Utah to a Hll report from Washington