European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 2, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse The St is vol. 50, no. 293 50c sunday february 2,1992 d 8693 a we wish to Yeltsin Bush talk covers wide Range of Basic issues Washington a president Bush and russian president Boris Yeltsin Are sitting Down for their first Summit with each offering dramatic new nuclear arms cuts for a More harmonious Post soviet world. A we wish to be allies a Yeltsin declared. Bush on saturday was playing Host to the russian Leader at the presidential Retreat at Camp David md., a Day after both participated in a . Security Council session on International cooperation in the Post cold War Era. While last weeks sweeping nuclear reduction announcements by Bush and Yeltsin dominated the picture going into the meeting those issues were Only part of saturdays four hour Agenda. A we Are going to touch on a wide Range of fundamental questions of russian american relations and the whole of our Agenda including preparations for a full scale Summit meeting a Yeltsin told reporters in new York on Friday. Yeltsin who suggested the United states work with Russia on development of a global anti missile shield popularly known Here As Star wars also underscored a turning Point in the nuclear age. A today in our military doctrine we no longer con see allies on Page 2 allies7 russian president Boris n. Yeltsin listens to president Bush during a break in fridays . describes a base Force of future by Chuck Vinch Washington Bureau Washington the a base Force that will exist at the end of the draw Down to support the nations new military strategy will be lean fast and flexible the defense departments top uniformed officer said Friday. A it is the proper base Force to satisfy Alliance requirements and . Commitments to its interests in Europe Southwest Asia the Pacific and latin Ameri Ca a army Gen. Colin Powell chairman of the joint chiefs told the Senate armed services committee at a hearing on the Pentagon a fiscal 1993 budget request. Powell said the administrations military Force Structure plan for the Era after the draw Down will have four slightly overlapping zones of responsibility a strategic concerns the Atlantic the Pacific and contingencies. Powell and defense Secretary Dick Cheney expounded earlier in the week on the strategic implications of president Bush a intention to scale Back the nations nuclear stockpile. But the conventional shape of the base Force plan is less Well known. For forces geared to the Atlantic Region which includes Europe and the Middle East the defense department has settled on one army corps a a the fundamental War fighting unit a Powell said. The two army divisions in that corps will be ded see Powell on Page 2look what s new Insun Dayther stars and stripes sunday Magazine offers a new look today with the addition of some inviting features designed to entertain you and just maybe make you laugh. The changes include m Walter Scott s personality Parade and Parade s special intelligence report two of the most popular items from Parade Magazine which appears in More than 330 newspapers in the . Every afew cartoon bailed Mefi Rufe in Europe Oracle a satirical work by Chiffer Kaufman a former air Force Captain who formerly Drew Fred and Frank Tor overseas Magazine i columnist Linda Ellerbee who la take a place alongside regular Joe Bob Briggs and his drive in column. Both Hail from Texas but any similarities end there. Ellerbee is a former Abc correspondent who lives in new Yorkus Greenwich Village and is guaranteed to bump against Brigg s outrageous cok Mnist Tony Kornheiser the Washington Post sportswriter who comments on general news. H some of these new features will be found in the revamped portion of the Magazine now called in tune which replaces to plus. This eight Page pullout which includes the weeks film schedules can be kept Handy All week Long. Kennedy leads charge against Dod budget by Joseph Albright Cox news service Washington sen. Edward Kennedy d-mass., led a democratic charge Friday for deeper cuts in military spending telling defense Secretary Dick Cheney that he could safely Cut another $50 billion from the Pentagon a $1.4 trillion five year defense plan. Borrowing a tactic of Pentagon witnesses Kennedy produced a graph As big As a subway poster depicting the and Downs of military spending since world War ii. Kennedy said it shows that while celebrating the collapse of the soviet threat president Bush is devoting just As Many inflation adjusted dollars to preparing for War As did presidents Kennedy Ford and Nixon in the heyday of soviet Power. A we done to have a hot War As we had in Korea or Vietnam and we done to have a cold War a said Kennedy. A so Isnit your budget or. Secretary really business As usual from now to 1997?�?� Cheney flanked at his witness table with his own pile of oversized charts argued that the worlds continuing uncertainties make it too risky to shrink the military below the planned level of 1.6 million troops by 1995. A obviously there May be an unbridgeable Gap Between us a the defense Secretary told Kennedy. The Exchange at a Senate armed services committee hearing amounted to the sea related Adorlee on Page 3 opening shots in a yearlong political fight that the Senate a longest serving Veteran sen. Strom Thurmond r-s.c., called a the Battle of the the Bush administration and nearly All congressional republicans Are massing to hold the line around Bush a new military spending plan which would nip $50 billion a half of Kennedy a proposal a from the Money the Pentagon had been see Kennedy on Page 2
