European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 20, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday february 20, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 9navy, of plans shake civilian workers by the Washington Post Washington Navy and air Force plans to eliminate or Transfer some Washington area civilian jobs have sent Shock Waves through other agencies. The naval sea systems come plans to eliminate about 120 jobs by Spring. The air Force will move 500 workers from Andrews fab in suburban Maryland to Wright Patterson fab in Dayton Ohio in june. As Field units shrink Headquarters workers wonder when the shoe will drop for them. Various numbers a none confirmed a Are being floated. As a result personnel offices Are Busy handing out copies of the office of personnel management a pamphlet on reduction in Force rules and the defense departments priority place ment program pamphlet. The defense department which has 90,000 of the . Areas 365,000 Federal jobs has lots of experience in downsizing. After Congress ordered army Navy air Force and Marine commissary operations to consolidate with the Headquarters at nearby fort Lee Ait appeared that nearly 1,000 civilians in More than 30 locations might be out of work. But officials said that nobody lost his or her Job in a reduction in Force and that Only a handful declined Job offers. A the key has been to be flexible and be ready to relocate a an official said. A the people with problems have been those who can to or wont move. For them things could be  for example about half the 570 civilians whose jobs at Mare Island naval shipyard near san Francisco were abolished arc still unemployed. Nobody knows the size of the future cuts. The defense department recently estimated it would eliminate 130,000 civilian jobs Between 1987 and 1995. Thanks to last years hiring freeze Normal attrition and Early retirements it has Cut about 70,000 positions. The Impact of civilian military cuts on Washington is anybody a guess but lots of people Are making plans in Case they wind up on a hit  troupe cast adrift in cold capitalist world Mexico City apr sometimes the new world order looks a lot like a three ring circus. Just ask Zsuzsa 2 tons of reluctant russian exile with a Monkey on her Back. Zsuzsa is a Moscow circus Hippo stranded in Mexico by a tour promoters broken promises. It was a Case of capitalist treachery As cold As red Square in february. Now Zsuzsa and her colleagues a eight monkeys trainers Tofic and Ludmilla Ajun Dov and a pair of Burly Black hounds named Tarzan and baby a Are trying to work their Way Home. When the act left Moscow in september there was still a soviet Union. The Moscow circus was state supported. Not anymore. Now they Are on their own under a big top 6,676 Miles from Home. Zsuzsa is in a particularly Rotten mood. She just Hurt her foot. Tarzan looks worried. So does the Monkey clinging to his neck. A cuban acrobat offers Gauze ointment and sympathy. But Zsuzsa is a trouper. She and Tofic warm up. Purple Satin tights gleam Ruby red sequins Flash in the Sun. Its show time. Zsuzsa trots into the ring a dog and a Monkey on her Back. She Waltzes. Monkeys do Back flips. The crowd goes wild. Zsuzsa should be Home by now at the famed Moscow circus. Instead she a part of a forced Diaspora one of 12 acts in a Moscow circus touring troupe stranded when the mexican Backer ran out of Money. Tofic 50, and Ludmilla 33, say neither the Moscow circus nor the mexican promoter can afford to Send them Home a and local jobs Are scarce. It took two months to get this temporary Job with at Ayde Brothers circus. No one knows where the circus other acts ended up. It was like disbanding the 1927 Yankees and sending the players to the minors. Circus Star Zsuzsa shows displeasure As Trainer Tofic Ajun Dov tries to get the Hippo to pose for tourists photos. Tofic is depressed and indignant. He a wowed audiences from Bangkok to Bombay. He has one of the Only Hippo acts in the world. He looks at Atayde a Dusty Tarp. A a Beautiful act High class a he exclaims. A and working in this in this. Tent a other russian trousers have been stranded from Israel to Atlanta. Some lost their animals and equipment. Tofic is ready to Check his menagerie into a zoo to keep them from starving. This  have happened in the old Days when the circus was a jewel in the soviet Crown when Kab minders sniffed for defectors on every tour. But its a cold cruel new world order. Even Tofic who spent a decade walking a Tightrope finds his nerves of steel fraying. The socialist safety net is gone. Now its every Man Hippo and Monkey for himself. British general will Lead nato s fast action corps Brussels Belgium a amps a British army general Nas been selected to command a new nato multinational corps being formed to respond to crises rapidly. It. Gen. Sir Jeremy Mackenzie will Lead Allied come Europe a rapid reaction corps when it is established. Mackenzie currently commands the 1st British corps headquartered at Bielefeld Germany. Mackenzie is leading a group that is drawing up plans for the corps. The entire command staff is expected to be established by fall. The corps Headquarters will be in Germany but an exact location has not yet been selected. The corps is an outgrowth of the alliances Post cold War strategy which Calls for smaller More Mobile flexible forces and less Reliance on nuclear weapons. The corps will be made up of an undetermined number of divisions of diverse military capabilities. The forces will be trained to deploy within Days. Concert organizer to face charges Seoul South Korea a police Aid wednesday that they would charge he organizer of a new kids on the Hock concert at which a teen age girl As killed and More than 50 people were toured in a Stampede. About 200 screaming fans rushed the Tage during the group s concert monday t Seoul a olympic gymnastic Hall hich police allege was overcrowded. Park Jung Yun 17, died Early wednes Day. She had been listed As brain dead since her heart stopped beating monday. Police said Hong Hyon Pyo chief organizer of the concert could face up to two years in prison if convicted of a negligence charge. Hong 35, president of Sor Abul records was questioned by police for allegedly having sold 4,000 More tickets than he was authorized to sell. Nato chief worrier plans talks in Russia Ukraine by Rosemary Sawyer Brussels Bureau Brussels Belgium nato Secretary general Manfred Werner will travel to Russia and Ukraine in the next week at those governments invitation. The visit is War Nero a first trip to Moscow since the soviet Union dissolved and the Commonwealth of Independent states formed in december. W6mer will be received by russian president Boris n. Yeltsin on tuesday. A nato spokesman said he did not know wednesday what topics the two were expected to discuss. In december Yeltsin sent a letter to a nato foreign ministers meeting in which he expressed interest in russians eventually becoming a member of the Alliance. At that time Werner responded by saying a nothing is excluded a and noting that Yeltsin a letter called nato membership a a Long term political  Werner and his wife Elfie Are expected to arrive in Kiev on saturday. The Alliance Leader is to meet ukrainian president Leonid Kravchuk and the foreign and defense ministers. On sunday night the worn cars Are to travel to Moscow. On monday Werner is scheduled to met with russian officials including Deputy prime minister Gennady Burbulis foreign minister Andrei Kozarev and the chief of the Cis armed forces marshal Yevgeny Shaposhnikov. Foreign ministers from the Commonwealth states will be at nato Headquarters in Brussels on March 10 for a meeting of the North Atlantic cooperation Council. The Council is expected to admit into membership those states that have received diplomatic recognition by nato countries. The nato spokesman said it was unclear wednesday whether every nato member had to recognize the states before the former soviet republics could become members