European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 4, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Chess to.  to t vol. 50, no. 355 350 saturday april 4,1992 d 8693 allow moving traffic a amps Jim Daric in sometimes one has to Amend the rules of Road. This pedestrian in Michel Stadt Germany Learned that Little lesson in life on thursday when he encountered four elephants plodding Down the Street and had to make sure he stayed out of the Way. The four were heading toward the local Fairgrounds where the circus Giovanni Althoff was preparing for its weekend performances. Yeltsin fires 2nd aide before crucial debate Moscow apr president Boris n. Yeltsin on Friday fired Deputy Premier Gennady Burbulis the second most powerful official in the russian government. Burbulis is the third russian Cabinet minister to lose his Job this week As Yeltsin prepares for a key parliamentary session expected to attack his economic Reform program and consider whether to curb his sweeping presidential Powers. Burbulis will relinquish his Post april 14, but retain his other Job As state Secretary russian news agencies and government sources said. The government shake up began tuesday with the resignation of another Deputy Premier Sergei Shakh Rai. It continued thursday with the firing of Yegor Gaidar As finance minister. The moves apparently Are aimed at de fusing criticism of Yeltsin a government at the Congress of Peoples deputies. The county a Stop legislative body convenes monday. Burt Nilis bowing to mounting political pressure on Yeltsin steam submitted his resignation and Yeltsin issued an order removing him the inter fax news Agency reported. Both Gaidar and Burbulis have overseen Yeltsin a economic reforms. Gaidar was the chief architect of them and Burbulis has been the second most influential official after Yeltsin who is both president and prime minister. It was unclear what effect the Cabinet shuffle would have on reforms because Burbulis Gaidar and Shakh Rai All retain important posts. Gaidar remains As see Yeltsin on Page 2 Aspin says Dod lying about Impact of budget cutbacks Washington a the House armed services committee chairman on thursday lashed out at top Pentagon officials accusing them of lying about the Impact on the military of his proposed cuts in president Bush a defense Doaget. A this sort of thing creates turmoil and unnecessary anxiety among the very people for whom we should be showing the most concern. The Pentagon ought to Stop it a rep. Les Aspin d-wis., said in a statement prepared for delivery to House members. President Bush has proposed spending $281 billion on defense in the fiscal year beginning oct. 1. Aspin has said the amount can be reduced to $275 billion a total that the House adopted. In recent testimony defense Secretary Dick Cheney and joint chiefs of staff chairman Gen. Colin l. Powell have said such a Cut would Force the Pentagon to fire 300,000 uniformed men and women. Powell also said a smaller defense budget would affect Money for training and would cause higher . Casualties in both peace and the next War. Aspin described the claims As fiction and wrong. He also said the Pentagon was guilty of a Weinberg Drizing a a reference to president Reagan a former defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger. A Cap Weinberger claimed vastly overblown consequences for defense cuts to protect his defense budgets. After seeing this material from the Pentagon in a tempted to paraphrase Ronald Reagan. There they go again a Aspin said. A a a a a sense Cut Aspin Here they go again Aspi in proposing the defer ascribed his Type of Mil Soldier s plight gives statistics a human face by Chuck Vinch Washington Bureau Washington he May not have much in the Way of rank but pfc. Mark Moore played an influential role at a congressional hearing thursday when he showed lawmakers what the rapid draw Down in Europe Means for individual service members and their families. Military officials have been striving for weeks to put a human face on personnel reductions in Europe As a Way to remind lawmakers involved in shaping the fiscal 1993 defense budget that there Are real people behind every cold statistic. But such discussions to Date have focused on hypothetical situations a generic examples involving say a tank crewman at an unnamed base somewhere in Germany. At the hearing of the House armed services committees read see plight on Page 2 described his Type of military a scaled Back Force capable of fighting a War similar to the Battle against Iraq in the persian Gulf. The armed services committee chairman said the Pentagon a Public claims about his budget and the Force contradict classified information and he will not stand for the a distortions and  Aspin cited the comments of air Force Gen. Merrill a. Mcpeak who said the chairman a operation desert storm equivalent Force is a desert  go into detail Here but the documents say Mcpeak a i can to classified documents say creak is wrong and the desert storm equivalent could do the Job a Aspin  Issue women in combat editors note thu associated press asks thu  question each weekday about their views on a particular Issue and assembles their responses Here Are the views of the major presidential candidates on the question Quot should women Bea towed to serve in co hot Quot r Public 1 n a George Bush president Bush signed a Bill last december repealing the ban on women s flying combat missions for the Navy Marine corps and air Force. However defense Secretary Dick Cheney said he does t expect any Quot substantial change Quot in the status of women pilots for at least a year. Patrick Buchanan a spokesman said Buchanan believes women should not be allowed to serve in combat.  r of Jerry Brown Quot yes. They should be allowed to serve in  Bill Clinton a spokesman said that Clinton had not taken a Public stand on the Issue. Pollen la 1< nil Khz up Oil i v la 1 s4s