European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 13, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Vol. 50, no. 273 350 monday january 13,1992 d 8693 a Pentagon plan speeds up cuts in troop level a realistic lessons amps Dov Didio military policeman staff sgt. Rob Kinney of the 294th my co in bad Kreuz Nach Germany shows students How Arco the police dog leaps into action. The demonstration held in Mannheim is one of the Many activities in a one semester Street Law course designed to teach students More about Law enforcement. See Story and photo on Page 9. By Melissa Healy the los Angeles times Washington a the Pentagon which had hoped to focus its budget cuts on hardware now is preparing a plan dubbed a base Force ii that would accelerate troop reductions and virtually ensure the first personnel dismissals since the period following the Vietnam War. The plan which would be implemented Over the next three years is a Retreat from the a base Force a the troop level that Secretary of defense Dick Cheney last year said represented the a absolute Rock Bottom minimum needed for National defense. While Pentagon officials said reductions beyond the a base Force would be slight they warned that the latest plans Call for an Active duty military smaller than 1,653,000 troops the number at which they previously had hoped to hold the line. The change is an Effort to counter mounting congressional pressure for major manpower cuts which some say would deliver Large Short term savings that could be used for other Domestic priorities. Still Congress is Likely to press for faster and larger personnel reductions. President Bush a 1993 budget package is expected to Force military Rolls Down about 20 percent from 1987 Levels. The proposal would reduce the troops by almost 170,000 in 1993 alone a a modest acceleration of the draw Down that Cheney announced in 1991. Overall the reductions Are projected to Speed up the process of winnowing the army a strength from 18 to 12 Active duty divisions the air forces Active duty air wings from 24 to 15, and Navy aircraft carriers from 14 to 12. Over five years government budget analysts estimate that such an acceleration in manpower cuts could reduce Pentagon spending by $10 billion to $15 billion. They project Only modest savings a less than $2.5 billion a in 1993 and 1994 together. The savings arc part of a larger package of defense reductions expected to reach $50 billion which the Pentagon is now expected to propose in its 1993-1997 spending plan to be unveiled later this month. In drafting it Pentagon leaders said they have struggled to stave off much deeper cuts in the military a manpower Rolls than those . To do so officials said the Pentagon has agreed to significant cuts in the development and procurement of future weapons systems and sweeping changes in the nations strategic nuclear Arsenal. Such changes including the presidents decision to terminate production of the b-2 bomber after 20 aircraft Are built reflect the Bush administrations belief that the nations nuclear deterrent needs have changed More than has its need to maintain a conventional military Force capable of fighting Brush fires throughout the third world. A a it a the nuclear equation that a been transformed a said a senior administration official. Quot our nuclear targeting requirements Arentt As stressing As they see cuts on Page 2 Russia Ukraine of division of powerful Black sea Fleet. N n or i Moscow apr Russia and Ukraine agreed saturday to Divide the Black sea Fleet and hoped to resolve other sensitive military issues threatening the Young Commonwealth. A communique signed after talks in Kiev the ukrainian capital was the first Progress in settlement of a War of words Between the two largest members of the Commonwealth of Independent states. A the main thing is not that tensions exist but that we Are overcoming them a said Sergei Shakh Rai Leader of the russian delegation and a top aide to russian president Boris n. Yeltsin. Negotiators agreed to set up a committee to decide which part of the Fleet would be in ukrainian hands. Ukraine wanted Complete control maintaining that the Fleet was not part of the strategic forces controlled jointly under a dec. 30 Commonwealth agreement. The sides agreed saturday that most of the Fleet is a strategic Force and therefore under Commonwealth control and that the rest can be Given to Ukraine ukrainian parliament member Mihailo Horyn told i he associated press that Ukraine pays 30 percent of the Fleet budget and May claim that much of its ships and another Issue remained unresolved Ukraine a plan to administer oaths of allegiance to Many of the 1,3 million former soviet soldiers on its territory. Saturday s agreement said Only that talks would address a the civil and political status of servicemen in connection with the reorganization of armed forces Quot the Tass news Agency reported. Ukrainian president Leonid Kravchuk has delayed the oath taking ceremonies six months but his plan see related stories on Page 3 have spurred neighbors to Brace for a breakup of the military by devising defense plans of their own. Apparently to forestall those plans the negotiators agreed saturday a to abstain from any kind of unilateral actions on questions under review a according to Tass. The inter fax news service said Yeltsin also was sending delegations to other republics apparently including Kazakhstan which formed its own National guard on Friday and threatened to take other unilateral Steps. The agreement gave some participants Hope that the 5-week-old association would survive. A i think that there will be some kind of Compromise see Fleet on Page 2quayle gains some respect on Campaign frail by Julia Malone Cox news service Nashua . As the presidents bout with stomach flu turned the National spotlight on vice president Dan Quayle there were signs along the Campaign Trail last week that the Quot Quayle factors is ebbing a leaving behind a candidate who cannot be ruled out of the 1996 presidential race. Despite ratings in the National polls that remain stubbornly Low Quayle completed. Quayle a crucial week with some personal victories. Early in the week his aides and friends see Quayle on Page 2