European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 2, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sssbbb5mi$be553 vol. 50, no. 172 wednesday october 2,1991 authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces 35c d 8693 qualified gis May get Oul under voluntary reduction by Janet Howells Tierney Washingto Bureau Washington enlisted soldiers who have served in the army for at least three years May be Able to get out Early under a new plan to reduce the Force voluntarily a personnel official said tuesday. The option called the voluntary Early transition program will allow soldiers to pick a Date Between next monday and aug. 31, 1992, to exit the ranks regard less of their current Date for ending service said it. Col. Timothy Decker chief of the army a professional development Branch in the Pentagon. A a we re offering this option As a voluntary measure to bring the Force Down a Decker said. A a it a the first time we be offered a program of this  Only a a a Small number of enlisted soldiers have qualified for previous a Early out programs Decker said. However he did not know specifically How Many had qualified and he would not say How Many the service hoped to attract under the new program. Such programs allowed those who were slated to leave Active duty in december or january to get out in time to be Home for the Holiday season he said. Under this program there arc no financial benefits for getting out Early. Among those Likely to take advantage of the offer Are members having second thoughts about their service commitments. A with this program we will waive the remaining service obligation for anyone with three years of service who wants to get out in the next year a Decker said. Soldiers can request a specific Date to leave the service As Long As it is before aug. 31, 1992, he. Said. However the Date see option on Page 2 German reunification one year late inside today Pentagon unveils schedules for closing 42 installations Washington up a saying it wants to get a jump on the base closure process and give communities More time to Cushion the blow the Pentagon on tuesday offered proposed schedules for shutting or realigning 42 facilities around the country. The 2-Inch-thick document said Colin Mcmillan the assistant Secretary of defense for production and logistics was issued earlier than planned a because of the intense interest expressed by the affected communities and of the need to get the bases cleaned up and ready for reuse. In a message to members of Congress whose districts will be losing a military facility Mcmillan said the fiscal 1993 budget due on Capitol Hill Early next year will contain refinements to the preliminary schedules outlined in the Bill. To help remove politics from the base closure process Congress last year opted to repeat a process started two years earlier of creating a special commis see closing on Page 2 soviet strategic arms to be taken off Alert from wire reports the soviet Union will remove its strategic nuclear weapons from Alert status and May make unilateral cuts in Short. Range weapons similar to . Plans president Mikhail s. Gorbachev a spokesman said tuesday. President Bush a announcement of unilateral cuts offered a a historic Chance for a new breakthrough in nuclear disarmament a Andrei Grachev said at a news briefing in Moscow. Grachev said the soviet Union has decided to begin removing from Alert status the intercontinental ballistic missiles covered by a soviet-. Treaty signed in july during a Summit meeting in Moscow. Although he did not say on what status they would be placed the move appeared to be the first step toward eliminating some of them under terms of the treaty. Bush announced Friday night that America would eliminate All its ground launched Short Range nuclear weapons withdraw All tactical nuclear arms from . Ships take strategic bombers off Alert and cancel the development of the Mobile my missile. Bush and top aides on tuesday briefed members of Congress on his proposals to slash nuclear arsenals and was greeted with a general support Quot from the lawmakers one leading Democrat said. Less Clear however was the extent of potential savings in future years. And the briefing took place against a backdrop of renewed sentiment on Capitol Hill for a a peace dividend Windfall or savings in defense spending. 1 head ministration made its Case for preserving some arms programs including the presidents prize strategic defense initiative and the embattled b-2 a a stealth bomber. However Bush and defense Secretary Dick Cheney insisted they will not result in a Domestic spending Windfall. The president presented a a very convincing set of facts that this initiative by the president in the nuclear area will not generate immediate savings in fiscal �?T92,�?� sen. John w. Warner r-va., said tuesday. A that was the main thrust of the discussions this  Gorbachev so far has not Given any specific answers to Bush a sweeping suggestions and Grachev said he was aware that the International Community was waiting for a soviet response. When a reply is formulated he said a we Hope this answer will be a specific one that will be comparable to the initiatives put Forward by the United states and we would like to Hope that it would contain a number of corresponding initiatives and  he said Gorbachev had instructed government officials to clarify certain Points of the . Proposals and set up a special group to maintain Contact with the . Government. A we believe that those cuts in the nuclear potential of the United states Are very important. As a follow up we May say something about Acu Down of the soviet nuclear  a it would be a sin a he said to miss this Opportunity to Cut Back on nuclear  coup stirs riots a haitian woman in Miami screams angrily Over news of a coup in her native country where president Jean Bertrand Aristide was ousted. See Story on Page 2