European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 25, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 b the stars and stripes saturday january 25, 1992 at a glance jamaican accented raps by performers like Queen Latifah have transformed Rock a no Roll. Sec stories on pages 14-15.clinton denies stories Arkansas gov. Bill Clinton strongly denied a woman a allegations that she conducted a 12-year affair with him. A Page 4bush school plan denied the Senate rejected Bush administration proposals to include private or parochial schools in education Reform programs using Federal Money. A Page 5mayor goes to jail Richard Arrington mayor of Birmingham ala., surrendered to begin serving a contempt of court prison sentence. A Page 6red Cross in debt the american red Cross disaster Relief fund is $28 million in debt after two straight years of record breaking numbers of disasters. A Page 7smoking wars in the european Community s parliament a proposed Blanket ban on tobacco advertising has sparked a fierce War of words. A Page 8ransacking Clark a filipinos Are systematically plundering Clark a one of the oldest and largest . Military installations abroad until it and its contents were turned Over to the philippine military last november. A Page 9quick action sought the Senate finance committee chairman will try to Complete action quickly on a Bill to expand benefits for the Long term unemployed. A Page 17 Index Abby Ann Landers .19 action line. 16 commentary. 13 faces a no places a. 18 letters. .12 Money matters. 17 sports. 22-26 to listings. .27 weather. 11 Miyazawa Calls on japanese to help . Overcome problems Tokyo apr in the face of spiral ing Trade tension prime minister Kiichi Miyazawa pledged anew Friday to increase imports and asked his countrymen to help America overcome its economic woes. Miyazawa a nationally televised speech which opened the new session of parliament praised the United states for providing Quot Good hearted support that allowed Japan to flourish after its world War ii defeat. Quot yet today the United states faces some problems of its own and it behoves Japan to make every Effort to cooperate with the United states As it works to overcome these problems a he said. Presiding Over the parliament session was House speaker Yoshio Sakurauchi the lawmaker who caused a firestorm of protest in the United states with his reported comments that Many american workers Are Lazy and illiterate. Also exacerbating Trade tension this week was a los Angeles county decision to withdraw a $122 million contract from a . Subsidiary of Sumitomo the giant japanese trading firm. Critics of the contract said too Many american jobs were going overseas. The japanese foreign ministry issued a statement Friday expressing concern about the contract cancellation but stopped Short of criticizing the county government. Quot generally speaking if such a reversal becomes common i think the japanese business Community will be embarrassed a said ministry spokesman Masamichi Hanabusa. Japan a parliament also announced Friday it is buying two bricks As part of its Effort to persuade reluctant japanese to buy american cars. The two Buick Park avenues made by general motors will be the first foreign cars the lower House has bought for official use since the japanese car Industry came into its own after world War ii. In his speech Miyazawa steered Clear of urging compassion for the United states As he did before president Bush a Tokyo Summit. Those remarks caused anger among some . Businessmen who said they needed open markets a not sympathy a from the japanese. The japanese prime minister promised that his nation which has a huge chronic Trade surplus with the United states would Quot seek to further promote imports with a close Eye on our current account  Miyazawa also listed his priorities for the new session including passage of a Bill that would allow japanese troops to participate in . Peacekeeping  from Page 1 rented Over the next seven years. The . Officials speaking on condition they not be identified said Bush a new actions Are intended to reshape the . Strategic deterrent into a smaller Force shrinking particularly the number of . Warheads deployed with land based missiles such As the my and minuteman Iii. These missiles Are considered vulnerable to a preemptive nuclear attack on their fixed solos. Once the reductions Are completed a greater percentage than now of the . Nuclear Arsenal will be deployed on submarines hidden at sea or on single warhead missiles based in silos. The directors of the Cia and defense intelligence Agency testified wednesday that the breakup of the soviet Union has already dramatically reduced if not eliminated the threat of such an attack against the United states. The timetable and number of weapons involved in Bush a plan could not be Learned thursday As Many officials spurned Media inquiries to preserve some suspense surrounding Bush s speech. But officials confirmed a report in thursdays new York times that the details of Bush a plan were settled in a meeting last weekend involving White House National Security adviser Brent scowcroft Secretary of defense Dick Cheney and Secretary of state James a. Baker Iii. The cutbacks of land based missile warheads will Likely total 1,500 and reductions of sea based warheads could total another 1,400 or so according to Independent experts. These would be in addition to a drop of an estimated 2,000 to 3,000 nuclear warheads mandated by the strategic arms reduction treaty from the existing . Arsenal of 11,500 warheads. Officials said that further nuclear warhead cuts May accompany Bush a expected announcement of a Sharp reduction in the planned b-2 bomber Force to around 20 planes instead of the 75 sought by the administration last fall. Congress has authorized just 15 of the planes which May wind up costing More than $2 billion apiece. A senior air Force official said he expects Cheney to announce the development of a new missile a armed with conventional rather than nuclear warheads a for deployment aboard the b-2. By emphasizing the planets non nuclear role he said the new missile May Garner support for at least five More bombers which together with the 15 already approved would be enough to Complete two squadrons. The officials said they were Uncertain if Bush will cancel plans to renew production of one sea based warhead the w-88, at the Energy department s con _ Spe an additional $18 billion on several nun Trover Sial Rocky Flats weapons Plant in Colorado or if he will halt plans to spend dred associated Trident ii submarine based strategic missiles. In a televised interview on sunday Cheney said he intends to make sure that even though the . Military will be smaller in the coming years it retains the High tech advantage that made Victory possible in the persian Gulf War. The defense departments strategy for cutting the military budget will also include targeting up to $4 billion in Quot marginal or unnecessary current programs funded by Congress Over Bush administration objections. Among the items on the Pentagon list Are a $143 million upgrade of the Navy bus from Page 1 Indiana state trooper Kevin Kubsch. Head coach Tim Welsch was not Hurt. Boehler identified the two dead students As Megan Beeler of Granger ind., and Colleen Hipp of St. Louis. Both were swimmers. Quot Beeler was one of our top athletes Quot said assistant sports information director Rose Pietrzak. Quot Hipp was one of our top distance  notre Dames Public information director Denny Moore said a mass was scheduled for Friday night at the Church at the 9,000-student roman Catholic University. One of the injured passengers a student suffered a serious Back injury and underwent surgery at memorial Hospital of South Bend said Dick Rosenthal the University a athletic director. The other 33 injured people were treated at hospitals and released. But 18 of them were taken to the Campus infirmary. The Accident occurred shortly after Midnight near the North Edge of South Bend As the team returned from Northwestern University in Evanston 111. The bus chartered from United Limo inc. Of Osceola was headed East on the Indiana toll Road. Boehler identified the Driver As Howard e. Dixon 53, of Mishawaka. F-14 tomcat fighter hardware improvements for additional my tanks and oh-58 helicopters and several dozen defense research Grants earmarked for specific universities Many at the request of individual lawmakers. But the presidents proposals while cutting far deeper than generally thought possible a few months ago still Are not Likely to satisfy Congress where lawmakers have recently called for reductions in defense spending of up to 50 percent. Rep. Les Aspin d-wis., chairman of the House armed services committee recently outlined plans for a a ground up rebuilding of the armed forces arguing that the Pentagon a current plans Only slice away at the existing cold War Structure. Meanwhile Georgia Democrat Sam Nunn chairman of the Senate armed services committee said Friday that proposals for Broad cuts in defense spending to finance Domestic programs or tax cuts Are premature because there has been no detailed analysis of threats remaining in the world after the collapse of the soviet  i can to Tell Yon where it will turn out but i think its irresponsible just to grab numbers out of the air without having analysis behind it Quot Nunn said at a news conference in his office. Nunn said defense spending can be Cut beyond the 25 percent reduction Over five years that the administration proposed and Congress endorsed last year. A the question is whether we re going to do it in a rational Way based on the potential threats we see or whether we re going to do what seems to be happening now and that is everybody figure out How much Money they want to spend on their favorite program or their favorite tax Cut and then say we re going to Cut the defense budget a he  from Page 1 Stuttgart Germany said farces in Europe had not received orders for operation provide Hope. But Woodhouse said Quot its always Gratifying to be a part of one of these  Knechtel said he was aboard one of the flights from Pisa and Hopes to go to the former soviet Union on an operation provide Hope Mission. Quot this is history in the making. I would t mind going Back to be a part of it a Knechtel said