European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 9, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday october 9, 1991 the stars and stripes c Page 3arms cuts Jost starting soviet says aide details goal to eliminate tactical nuclear weapons Moscow apr the soviet Union and United states will keep trying to slash tactical nuclear weapons until there Are no More left president Mikhail s. Gorbachev a spokesman said tuesday. Andrei Grachev said that during a flurry of consultations in recent Days the two sides agreed to maintain the momentum created by the unilateral arms announcements of Gorbachev and president Bush. A we think that this is not the end that this is the continuation of a dialogue and a fascinating new stage a he told a news conference. Grachev said discussions have been going Well Between soviet officials and a state department team led by Reginald Bartholomew . Undersecretary of state for Security. The . Team has been meeting since sunday with soviet officials to discuss How to interpret and implement each nations respective proposals to slash nuclear weapons. The consultations also have included representatives from Russia the Ukraine byelorussian and Kazakhstan sergeant wins award for his Cool approach to a hot Job in Munich the four republics where the soviet nuclear Arsenal is located said Deputy foreign minister Alexei Obukho. The president of the russian federation Boris n. Yeltsin a was fully informed about those consultations and our position in those consultations and he accepted and approved them a Obukho said. The nuclear initiatives by both Bush and Gorbachev Are believed to have been at least partly prompted by political unrest in a disintegrating ethnically divided country with enough nuclear might to destroy the world. Grachev said the discussions and the unilateral arms cuts promised by Bush and Gorbachev have resulted in a joint acknowledgement that a the reduction in tactical weapons is  a there will be no conditions by either Side a he said. A it was decided that tactical weapons will the reduced and there will be a serious step toward Zero on tactical nuclear  Bush said two weeks ago that the United states was unilaterally reducing its Arsenal of Short Range nuclear weapons. He called on the soviets to take similar Steps and to enter negotiations to eliminate intercontinental ballistic missiles with multiple warheads. Gorbachev said saturday that the soviet Union would liquidate All Short Range tactical weapons and Cut ballistic missiles. He also challenged the United states to respond. A fall of this makes it possible to give new Speed and to begin the process of a nuclear disarmament race a Grachev said. Also tuesday Grachev said leaders of the 12 remaining soviet republics will meet Friday to discuss a proposed treaty on maintaining economic ties even As the republics spin apart politically. The meeting also will involve How to Divide the Kab the feared Security service and the establishment of food agreements to stave off shortages in some parts of the soviet Union. Soviet officials have said parts of the country particularly Large cities face severe shortages As farm regions hold their goods for the More lucrative private markets a rather than the state distribution system a and republics try to keep products within their Borders. By Joseph Owen Stuttgart Bureau Munich Germany a an uneventful Day in the Munich military Community is sgt. 1st class Jimmy r. Milliners idea of a Success Story. After All As fire chief he a supposed to keep things that Way. Milliners efforts Over the past two years to keep Munich from burning constitute such a reversal of the Community a once lax fire Protection procedures that the army picked him As its firefighter of the year for 1991. He received the award in late september at the 14th worldwide army fire chiefs training session in Toronto. The achievement by the 37-year-old Alexander City ala., native will have a limited Impact however. The Munich Community is preparing to close next summer. In recommending Milliner for the award Community commander col. Richard a. Manupella recalled that Munich a fire prevention and Protection program had failed a general inspection a few months before Milliner arrived in october 1989. Milliner who became a firefighter after failing to find a Slot As a musician when he joined the army in 1973, established a a remarkably sound innovative and thorough Community fire prevention program for Munich and its military sub communities in Berchtesgaden and Garmisch Parten Kir Chen Manupella wrote. A year later one result of that was the lowest fire loss record of All the military communities which were then part of Vii corps. The corps conducted a command inspection of the fire program in 1990 and awarded the fire program an a a excellent rating making special mention of its proficiency. Milliner works for the Community a directorate of engineering and housing. He supervises five germans who staff Munich a fire control Center at Mcgraw Cavern. The Post and the nearby housing area rely on Munich City firefighters to put out fires but the control Center staff is responsible for helping prevent them. Two years ago Milliner said the system Wasny to working very Well. A when we got Here people just did no to know they were doing it the wrong Way a he said but added that Lack of cooperation was As much a problem As Lack of awareness. A your problem was response getting the facility managers to act on their deficiencies a he said. The Early 1989 inspection revealed that managers had corrected Only 30 percent of the deficiencies from the previous inspection in areas that were under their erect control. Milliner solved that by inspecting the is Jomp Howei sgt. 1st class Jimmy r. Milliner named by the army As firefighter of the year. Community a programs punctually once a month. Program managers got used to the fact that he was going to be checking up on them. A they hate to see you come their Way a he said. A you have to talk to people get to know them. Otherwise they re going to get  he also has presented firefighting career information programs to High school students taught fire safety classes to school and Community groups and conducted fire science classes for German firefighters. Milliner his wife Wilda and their two children Are scheduled to leave Munich next october shortly after the Munich Community a official closure and the fire chief Isnit looking Forward to his departure. A i hate to see it Quot he said. A in a Way i feel like in a just really getting started. . Identifies iraqi facility for building nuclear bomb from wire reports United nations a iraqi president Saddam Hussein planned to design and produce a nuclear bomb at a research Center about 40 Miles South of Baghdad that was Only lightly bombed during the persian Gulf War . Inspectors report. Western intelligence agencies thus failed before the War to determine the significance of the a1 atheer Center. Only through documents impounded by a team of . Nuclear inspectors last month was the centers significance Learned. Meanwhile . Weapons inspectors tuesday supervised the destruction of two iraqi a super guns so that they can never be fired. Parts for a 1,000mm, 165-Yard-Long iraqi Cannon that inspectors believe could have had a Range of up to 620 Miles were Cut up with welding torches at a site South of Baghdad. The gun would have allowed the iraqis to fire Over Jordan and strike anywhere in Israel and hit the capitals of saudi Arabia and Iran. Former German terrorist sentenced in Haig attack Stuttgart Germany apr Suke Maier Witt a former member of the red army faction terrorist gang was convicted tuesday of helping to kill a prominent industrialist in 1977 and of participating in a 1979 attack on . Gen. Alexander Haig. Maier Witt 41, was sentenced to 10 years in prison by the German state supreme court. She was found guilty of murder attempted murder kidnapping extortion and robbery. The principal charge against Maier Witt was involvement in the murder kid napping of Hans Martin Schleyer president of the German employers association in the fall of 1977. Schleyer was found shot to death six weeks after his abduction. Maier Witt was also accused of participating in a 1979 bombing attack near Brussels Belgium against Haig then supreme Allied commander of Europe. Haig who later served As . Secretary of state was not Hurt by the bomb that exploded As he was being driven to work. Three bodyguards in a car following his vehicle were injured however