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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 24, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Galvin to propose paring jobs command units in new nato Casteau Belgium apr natos new military strategy will allow the Alliance to save Money by paring command units personnel and construction costs its top military commander in Europe says. . Army Gen. John r. Galvin said in an interview Friday that he will recommend the reductions at a meeting of defense ministers of the North Atlantic treaty organization. The allies decision to revamp their military concept in the Post coid War Era has led to the planned cuts he said. The strategy calling for fewer soldiers More Mobile units and a smaller Arsenal of nuclear arms was recently approved at a Summit in Rome of leaders of the 16 nato nations. A this is an entirely new strategy a Galvin said at his planes collide Rescue personnel pull an injured person from one of two Pri Hadley received minor injuries. The three Are members of a vate planes that collided Friday at Evergreen Airport East of Portland Rock group called Bandit. Student Pilot Stephen har Vancouver Wash. One plane a Cessna Iso came Down on top Tung who was aboard the Cessna 150, was in critical condition of a four seat Cessna 172, said a spokesman. The Cessna 172 at a Vancouver Hospital. The instructor Robert Fracier was in Pilot Dave Mackin his wife Chrissie and passenger Mark serious condition at a Portland  Bill to allow military abortions Headquarters about 40 Miles Southwest of Brussels. A a it a not anything like the cold War strategy. Quot we have moved away from the cold War not just in a theoretical sense but in a practical  the new military plan acknowledges the disappearance of the threat of a massive soviet attack but cautions about the risks posed by uncertainty in Eastern see Galvin on Page 2 Sutherland feels Well recovering Wiesbaden Germany a amps former Middle East hostage Thomas Sutherland is recovering Well at the . Air Force Hospital in Wiesbaden and is Back on solid food a military spokesman said saturday. A the is resting comfortably and feels Well. He is absolutely in no discomfort and is recovering As expected a said senior airman Charles Ramey with the joint information Bureau at Lindsey air station. Ramey said Sutherland is now on a regular diet and is eating Well. He could give no indication on when the 60-year-old Sutherland might be discharged. Sutherland who was released monday after being held 614 years in Beirut Lebanon by shiite Muslim captors had planned to return to the United states on thursday. But he suddenly became ill that morning. Doctors discovered he was stricken with gastritis and an ulcer. He was immediately placed on medication and ordered to bed to Speed his recovery. Hospital officials had said Sutherland would need about a week to fully recover. Washington apr the Senate defied a presidential veto threat Friday and passed a $7.5 billion emergency spending Bill after adding a provision that would allow military women and dependents to have abortions on overseas bases. Adding the abortion measure further jeopardized the already threatened Bill which was originally intended to help pay off the costs of the persian Gulf War and provide $150 million in disaster Aid to victims of last Springs tornadoes and hurricanes Bob and Hugo. The measure was approved 75-17. Rushing toward a pre thanksgiving adjournment lawmakers turned the Bill into a Christmas tree of politically attractive ornaments costing about $4 billion that nobody expects to remain intact this week. A this horse Isnit going very far a said Senate appropriations chairman Robert c. Byrd d-w.va., shortly before cutting off 60 More amendments that lawmakers had intended to offer As what one of them called  sen. Pete v. Dominici r-n.m., called the Bill a a Sham a saying that Only about $150 million that Bush requested for victims of tornadoes last Spring and Hur see Bill on Page 2 inside today s paper sunday n closing touch with americ Why we miss what we miss Iraq frees jailed British businessman London a Iraq freed British businessman Ian Richter on saturday after he served 5vi years of a life sentence and Britain announced it will unfreeze 70 million pounds $125 million in iraqi assets for humanitarian purposes. The 45-year-old chemical Engineer told Independent television news from a Baghdad hotel where he was celebrating his Freedom that he ran a half Marathon saturday morning. He was told when he returned a a you be got five minutes to pack your bags a you re  Shirley Richter who spoke to her Hus band minutes after his release said the iraqis turned him Over to . Envoy Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan who is in Baghdad to renegotiate an agreement allowing the United nations to continue Relief work inside Iraq. South african born Richter became a British citizen after marrying his British wife. They have lived in Richmond in Southwest London for Many years. Richter a local manager of a water engineering company Paterson Candy International a was arrested As he was leaving Baghdad Airport in july 1986 on suspicion of bribery. Eight months later after a trial lasting just More than an hour he was convicted of paying illegal commissions to a former mayor of Baghdad and sentenced to life imprisonment. The mayor was later executed for corruption. Britain denied in August that the unfree zing of iraqi assets was part of a Deal to free Richter. Britain froze iraqi assets As part of . Sanctions against Baghdad following its aug. 2, 1990, invasion of Kuwait. Baghdad later severed diplomatic ties with Britain  
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