European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 9, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Vol. 50, no. 300 500 sunday february 9,1992 d 8693 senator says Congress Likely to reduce troops to 75,000 by Ron Jensen Firnberg Bureau Munich Germany a Congress May reduce the number of . Troops stationed in Europe to 75,000, a . Senator told a conference of defense experts saturday. Sen. William s. Cohen a Maine said the Bush administrations target of 150,000 troops As a minimum will probably not survive a congressional vote. A if i had to project i would say the number will come closer to 100,000 and perhaps 75,000,�?� Cohen told the Munich conference on Security policy. A Cohen also said that nato must transform itself from a Structure heavily dependent on the United states to one More dependent on Europe. He also said the position of supreme Allied commander Europe should be held by a european. It has always been held by an american currently Gen. John r. Galvin. Cohen is one of nearly 200 defense experts taking part in the 29th annual con Ference. It has until this year been called the Weh Kunde conference but its founder Baron Ewald von Kleist changed the name to better describe its intent. Vice president Dan Quayle is to address the conference today. Conference organizers invited several leading . Legislators on defense issues. The list includes senators John Glenn a Ohio Richard g. Lugar Rind. John Mccain a Ariz William v. Roth jr., a Del. Larry Pressler . And Warren project Hope takes off on monday by Randy Pruitt staff writer Rhein main a Germany a beginning monday 54 american military planes will Start fencing 2,250 tons of food and Medicine into what was the soviet Union. To the men and women working behind the scenes Here though operation. Project Hope As the humanitarian Airlift has been dubbed is already off the  everyone is pumped up. Most of us were cold War babies and its hitting us All the same Way a said col. Donald Streater commander of the 435th tac Airlift Wing. A fundamental change in the world order is obvious  to Mark the occasion a ceremony featuring Secretary of state James a. Baker ill is planned for 10 . At Frankfurt International Airport which is adjacent to Rhein main a. For the next two weeks military cargo planes will deliver the badly needed supplies into what was once s6s Jim dwt  a member of the 435th Aerial port so at Rhein main a prepares a pallet of food. Enemy territory. Not since the withering 01 the .-soviet Alliance immediately following world War ii have so Many . Military planes ventured into airspace of the former soviet Empire. C-5, c-141 and c-130 transports will Fly out of Rhein main a and . Bases in Ankara and in Ciurlik in Turkey and will land at National Aeroflot airports in the 12 republics now designated the Commonwealth of Independent states. Seven of mondays 12 flights will be staged out of Turkey. Rhein main is the transportation Hub for operation project Hope. A this is staggering a Streater added. A a we be had humanitarian flights before but this is far and above anything we be Ever  the twisted irony of new relations see Hope on Page 3 Rudman . . House members invited included Les Aspin a wis. Beverly b. Byron did. Trent Lott a miss. Norman Sisisky a a. And John r. Kasich a Ohio. Conferees used the opening session to describe a world of a a desperadoes with nuclear bombs and terrorists with chemical weapons who threaten a Security realized when the cold War ended tensions Between the East and West. Quot a new danger is looming because of see reduce on Page 2 Short term insurance to Cost More by David Tarrant Stafft writer Washington the Cost of a Short term health insurance program available to an estimated 330,00 5 service members who will separate from the military this year is expected to Rise by 50 percent april 1, according to government and Industry sources. Mutual of Omaha which has sponsored the program for several years under a government agreement to provide temporary health insurance coverage for service Myers after they leave the military blamed the proposed rate increase on the fact that Tower than expected service members have purchased the plan in previous years a spokeswoman said. The health insurance plan called the uniformed services voluntary insurance plan or Uslip is meant to Bridge the Gap Between the time a service member leaves the military and when he becomes eligible for another health plan a usually through a new Job. The coverage can be purchased on a 90-Day basis and renewed every three months for up to one year after the service member leaves the military. The Cost of a 90-Day policy for a nonsmoking family of four where no one is older than age 29, for example would increase from $572 to $858. The Cost for the same family of four but with both husband and wife smoking would in see insurance on Page 2u.n. Won t Back Down from iraqi demands Bush says Washington apr president Bush said Friday night that the United nations is a More determined than every to Force iraqis compliance with demands that it forsake weapons of mass destruction but he would not discuss what might be done. Bush declined to state when asked by reporters whether the trip of Cia director Robert Gates to the Middle East last week is for the purpose of discussing iraqi Leader Saddam Hussein a ouster with regional leaders. But in apparent reference to a new York times report Friday that Gates was conferring on ways to hasten Saddam a downfall Busk said a a done to believe everything you read in the  a a in a like to see him out of there. Ill just leave it right there a the president told reporters at Andrews fab outside Washington As he returned from California. Administration officials have said Gates who took Over at the Cia in november is holding talks in the Middle East to assess Saddam a hold on Power in Iraq a year after the persian Gulf War and discuss other regional developments. The officials said that while the trip is primarily to acquaint Gates with his intelligence counterparts in Egypt Israel and saudi Arabia he was expected to bring up the situation in Iraq where Saddam maintains control despite an economic embargo imposed by the United nations. Bush said he is worried by Saddam a failure to comply with the terms of . Resolutions. A the has not fully complied with . Resolutions. That a very very Clear. And he ought to do it in Many Many ways a including the assets taken from Kuwait during the iraqi occupation Bush said. A really what he ought to do is take care of his people a Bush said noting that the United nations lifted an embargo on Oil Esq ports to allow Iraq to raise capital for humanitarian assistance to its people. A but he does no to want to do that. He a brutal and cruel a said Bush. A and the Best thing that could happen would be for him to go out of there so we could Start new relations with