European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 31, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Ike Sec Traad Hopes vol. 50, no. 291 350 Friday january 31,1992 d 8693 Achenes defends budget rejects wholesale firings to gain More savings a we Are taking the Force Down As rapidly without breaking it a Cheney said at a pent by Chuck Vinch Washington Bureau Washington a defense Secretary Dick Cheney boldly defended the Pentagon a revised fiscal 1993 budget submission wednesday calling on Congress to give the revised plan a Chance to work. With at least two dozen alternate proposals for slashing defense spending under discussion by various lawmakers Cheney refuted the notion that the $273 billion Pentagon budget does not contain significant cuts or is a sort of a opening gambit for further reduction negotiations. As we can _ _ Pentagon news briefing. A i am not prepared to accept a budget that takes us beyond these cuts and would put the future Security of this nation at risk.�?�. Taking the Force Down faster to get additional savings in fiscal 1993 can Only be achieved by wholesale firings of military personnel he said. A that makes no sense at All a he said. A you would destroy the morale of the Force As Well As its combat  army Gen. Colin l. Powell chairman of the joint chiefs used the draw Down in Europe As an example of the Steps the defense department is taking to remake itself. Since september 1990, More than 87,000 troops and 100,000 family members have left Europe a most of them in just the past eight or nine months a and the Pentagon has identified 463 Sites in Europe for closure Powell said. A i linger on this because people say a Why Arentt you doing it Why Arentt you bringing Home the troops Why done to you realize the cold War is Over a a he Saia. A we Are doing it. We Are on our Way. But it would see Cheney on Page 2 defense Secretary Dick Cheney makes a Point As he meets with reporters wednesday in  for . Troop withdrawal Survey says by Gene Kramer the associated press Washington German Public support for an american military presence is fading but anti americanism is literally non existent Congress was told wednesday. An opinion Survey commissioned by the Rand corporation found that 57 percent of germans polled last october and november favored a Complete withdrawal of . Troops. That was up from 53 percent in a 1990 poll Rand political scientist Ronald Asmus in testimony before the House subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East said the Survey also revealed that 85 per cent of germans want their government to have a greater say on the use of . Nuclear weapons deployed in Germany. Rand a private think tank ordered the Eoll for the . Air Force. Germany osts major . Air bases including one at the Edge of Frankfurt a Busy International Airport. Asmus and other experts said the two countries should prepare to adjust their relations to a partnership of Equality once Germany solves its unification problems and Shifu attention outward. A american preoccupation with Japan could leave . Leaders and the . Public unprepared for the challenges of German and european unification said Daniel s. Hamilton senior associate of the Carnegie endowment for International peace another private research group. The Rand Survey showed that acceleration in the withdrawal of soviet forces from Germany after the failed Kremlin coup last August brought a erosion in Public support for an american military presence a Asmus said. The poll conducted for Rand by the Berlin Arm of Infra test Burke was based on 2,000 personal interviews in Eastern and Western Germany which were formally unified in late 1990. Asmus said the margin of error was Between 2 and 3 percent. As a practical matter the Issue of . Presence in Germany could be settled by Congress withdrawing american soldiers a before they re putting us out a said professor Catherine m. Kelleher of the University of Maryland and the Brookings institution. The United states has already begun reducing its forces in Germany As part of Overall cutbacks in the size of the military. Germans still want a close relationship with the United states but 46 percent think America has too much influence Over them. And 59 percent want to see the european Community become a a counterweight to the United states on the International  features going into sunday Magazine the stars and stripes and Parade have reached an agreement that will allow the Germany based military newspaper to run certain features from the popular sunday Magazine. Two Parade columns will appear each week in sunday stars and stripes own Magazine. Parade will allow same Day publication of a Walter Scott a personality Parade a a celebrity question and answer column and a a Parade a special intelligence report a a collection of Short news and feature items. This is the first time in parades 50-year history that the Magazine has agreed to make these ongoing features available to another publication. Special consideration was Given to stars and stripes because of the unique and important military readership it serves. A Parade is far and away the Premier sunday newspaper Magazine in the .,�?� said Bernard a. Zovistoski editor of stars and stripes. A a we re delighted to extend the reach of some of its most popular features to americans throughout Europe. This will enhance the Appeal of our sunday Magazine and we re grateful to Parade for making this  Parade editor Walter Anderson said the decision to Grant stars and stripes permission to reprint the two features was not difficult. A this is a Way to support the men and women serving our country overseas a commented Anderson who recalled Reading stars and stripes while serving with the . Marines in Vietnam. A i can imagine myself Reading Parade in stars and stripes and so i can imagine it would be a Comfort to our servicemen and women As Well. Reading Parade brings them a feeling of being Back  in a further gesture of Good will Parade announced that the fee it will receive for the two features will be donated to the Uso in Europe. Publication of the new columns will begin in stars and stripes on sunday