European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 15, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday March 15, 1992 the stars and stripes b Page 3reserve training concerns army chief by Susanne m. Schafer associated press Washington a the army Stop general said the desert storm experience shows it will take twice As Long As previously thought to get a Reserve combat brigade ready for War. In my View it will take 90 Days to do a brigade and about a year to train a division a Gen. Gordon r. Sullivan army chief of staff told a group of defense writers. The Issue was a critical one during the persian Gulf War when several Reserve combat units proved ill prepared for deployment. It could be even More crucial in the future As the army a Active duty ranks Are sharply reduced and it must turn to the Reserve in the event of War. The four Star general said it had been thought that 45 Days of training on the brigade level would be Ade quate. But because training Sites can handle Only one brigade at a time a divisions three brigades must train in rotation. Additional training time must also be added on so that the separate units can learn to fight As an entity. A now we know what it takes to train people to fight Quot on a modern Battlefield with High tech weaponry the general said. Sullivan said he wants to reduce the time it takes to train the Reserve for War and has begun a program to improve the preparation the Reserve receives. In All 143,211 army National guard members and reservists were called to duty during the War. The Pentagon also wants to Cut the army a Reserve Force from about 750,000 members to 565,000 by 1997. The Active duty Force is slated to fall from 725,000 to 536,000. But Given the recession few in Congress have been eager to go along with the Pentagon a plans for slashing the services reserves seen by Many As the equivalent of Hometown jobs. On another Issue the general said he s attempting to bring forces out of Europe As fast As possible. The draw Down rate now is a about 1,000 soldiers a week a a he said. Some in Congress have said the plans for cutting troops in Europe to 150,000 should go even further but the general said sharper reductions would wreak havoc with military family members. �?o1 have 2,000 Young people Down to preschoolers who done to know where they re going to school Quot next fall because of the Speed of the transfers taking place Sullivan said. Sullivan took Issue with those who Are calling for Overall manpower cuts below the 25 percent reductions under Way. A if i can to keep 500,000 soldiers then 1 risk being Able to achieve decisive Victory and that risk will translate into american lives Quot he View a Hailey Hedrick 8, guides her Ostrich a big Birds to the finish of a 100-Yard Ostrich race at the fourth annual Ostrich festival in Chandler ariz., on Friday. Working classes target of democratic appeals Chicago api in debates and advertising wars inc democratic presidential hopefuls Are seeking Blue Collar support As primary campaigns in Illinois and Michigan head into a Busy final weekend. Front runner Bill Clinton former Massachusetts sen. Paul Tsongas and former California gov. Jerry Brown made the working class the Center of their pitches Friday night in a Lively debate Over economic and tax policy. The Effort continued saturday As All three democrats headed to Michigan to court Union and other Blue Collar workers in Advance of tuesdays primaries. President Bush also visited the Region Friday campaigning in Michigan and bringing along a Promise to ease regulation of the struggling Auto Industry. Bush also vowed to oppose legislation that would require american cars to get More Miles per gallon and reduce air pollution a moves the big three automakers have been fighting for years. A i will not sign. Legislation that will destroy the Auto Industry and Cost american jobs a Bush said. Gop challenger Patrick j. Buchanan however argued in a television spot that Michigan already has been Hurt under Bush. Buchanan a spot blames Bush for costing Michigan 73,000 jobs. Bush disputed those figures and fired Back with a spot faulting Buchanan for owning a foreign made car at a time he is preaching a America the democratic debate was the first of at least two heading into the final weekend of campaigning in the midwestern states. If Clinton wins both Illinois and Michigan on tuesday he would become the prohibitive favorite for the democratic nomination. But Brown stirred things up in the Fri Campaign Day night debate televised in both Industrial battlegrounds saying Clinton travelled to Korea to brag about Low wages and a slave labor Quot in his right to work state. Brown also slammed Clinton and Tsongas for supporting a free Trade agreement with Mexico. Brown said the agreement would Cost american jobs and exploit mexican workers and natural resources. In a new television and he lumps Clinton and Tsongas with Bush because they support the agreement. Tsongas also took at the front runner accusing Clinton of wanting to give a a Candy to the american people in the form of a Middle class tax Cut children a tax credit and other programs. A what this country needs is a Leader who will say to them a no More Candy no More Santa Claus a a Tsongas said. Clinton tried to turn the argument on Tsongas saying Tsongas wanted to Force hard decisions on Low and Middle class americans while offering a capital gains tax Cut to the wealthy. A the wants to continue to Pound the Middle class and lower Middle class into the dirt a Clinton said of Tsongas. A the wants to give the Rich something and punish the working As evidence Clinton cited Tsongas plan to raise the gasoline tax 50 cents Over the next 10 years and give the wealthy a capital gains tax reduction. The free for All came during the second half of the fast moving 60-minute debate broadcast by lbs affiliates in Michigan and Illinois. Delaware execution 1st since 46 Smyrna Del. Apr serial killer Steven Brian Pennell was executed by injection on Friday for the torture murders of two women. It was the first time that a death sentence has been carried out in Delaware since 1946. Pennell 34, was pronounced dead at 9 49 . At the Delaware correctional Center near Smyrna after receiving an injection of three chemicals said James Hitchens a corrections department official. Pennell had maintained his innocence but said he wanted to die to spare his family further anguish. Pennelly a wife Kathy made a last minute attempt to Block the execution by arguing that her husband was mentally incompetent to make the decision. The . Supreme court unanimously denied a motion to stay the execution at 9 . Friday said Kathy Arberg a spokeswoman for the court. Similar motions were Turnea Down by state and Federal courts. While her attorney argued the Case in Wilmington on Friday Pennelly a wife was at the prison trying to per Suade Pennell to abandon his death wish. Pennell was sentenced to death after pleading no contest in october to killing Michelle Gordon 22, and Kathleen Meyer 26. He was already serving two life terms for his convictions in the torture and mutilation deaths of Shirley Ellis 23, and Catherine Dimauro 31. Police also suspect he killed Margaret Lynn Finner 26. But he was never been charged with the death because her body was so decomposed that police could not retrieve any evidence. The death sentence automatically was appealed to the state supreme court and upheld in february. Pennell represented himself urging the court to expedite his execution. The motion for a stay was filed by w. Michael Jacobs of the death penalty litigation project of the american bar association. Jacobs argued that Pennell was committing a a foolish suicide and an a irrational act and one which mrs. Pennell wishes to do everything in her Power to still Rule political turf International study says Geneva apr political turf is still a a no woman a land a says an International study. The Survey released Friday by the inter parliamentary Union found that women remain underrepresented in most countries and that two governments a Bahrain and Kuwait a still deny them the right to vote. Only 11 percent of the worlds National lawmakers Are women and in eight third world countries no woman has Ever been elected to parliament the study said. The Union the umbrella group for the worlds parliaments said Only four countries currently have governments led by women a Bangladesh Dominica France and Norway. Nine have female Heads of state
