European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 3, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Vol. 51, no. 259 500 sunday january 3,1993 a v a b d 8693 a to Start ii on eve arms Moscow apr president Bush toasted what russian president Boris n. Yeltsin called Quot our joint gift to the people of the Earth Quot on saturday As they prepared to sign an arms control agreement cutting strategic weaponry by two thirds Over the next decade. _ Yeltsin greeted Bush As he arrived at Moscow s Sheremetyev Airport from Somalia on a bitter cold Day As a Light Snow swirled. Later Yeltsin played Host to Bush and a . Delegation at a state dinner in the Kremlin s halt of facets. Nearby stood a Small fir tree with blinking lights Silvery tinsel and a Green and red Star on top. A string quartet played. A Bush who leaves office in less than three weeks bid Farewell to Yeltsin Quot a Man for whom i have great  1a a a a a / a a a and Bush said the treaty is important to his successor Bill Clinton telling Yeltsin Ayou will find him in 1q0 percent partnership on  we treasure so . It was Bush a fourth and final Summit with Yeltsin As Well As his 25th and Likely last trip abroad. Bush and Yeltsin planned today to sigh the treaty which would slash . And russian Long Range nuclear arsenals by two thirds Over the next 10 year. Bush who had rung in the new year by viewing . Troops efforts to feed a starving population in Somalia was joined in the russian capital by his wife Barbara along with chief of staff James a. Baker Iii and Secre Tail of state Lawrence s. Eagleburger. It was a sentimental journey for Baker who As Bush s Secretary of state carried out Many of the negotiations that led to the landmark Start ii Accord to reduce nuclear weapons. Eagleburger completed the treaty in. Geneva on tuesday with russian foreign minister Andrei v. Kozarev. Bush arrived in the russian capital amid the Winter worst cold snap where temperatures saturday plunged to an overnight Low of 20 degrees below Zero. Tempera russian president Boris n. Yeltsin accompanies president Bush alter his arrival in Moscow on saturday. Turns in mid afternoon Rose to 3 degrees. Bush and Yeltsin were bareheaded in the cold but the american president spent Only about a minute or two on the Tarmac before getting into a Cadillac limousine that bore . Flags. Police forced some 20 hard line protesters away from the Entrance to the Airport. The demonstrators carried signs that said in russian Quot Down with Bush Quot and . Cutting troops going to from wire reports. Mogadishu Somalia a the . Military said saturday that it was reducing its troop commitment to Somalia by 4,000 combat troops turning Over More of the front line duty to its allies. Meanwhile one of the country a principal warlords appeared to be waffling on attending a preliminary peace conference this week a meeting seen As crucial to the rebuilding of the shattered famished nation. Marine col. Fred Peck a spokesman. For the .-led military coalition said american commanders had decided to halt the marching orders of 4,000 service members scheduled to be shipped to Somalia to participate in operation restore Hope. That would reduce he . Commitment to 24,000, a reduction made possible by what Peck called the a tremendous response of other nations to the humanitarian Effort. Twenty other nations have sent More than 7,000 troops most of them combat soldiers without adequate logistical support and thousands More have been promised to Aid the Effort in Somalia. Peck said Many combat units from other nations would be supplied by the see troops on Page sgt starting monday Quot Russia is not Somalia a a even though the police moved them away from the Entrance they were visible from the motorcade. Bush planned to Stop in Paris for a Chat with president Francois Mitterrand before heading Back to Washington today. Mitterrand had been considering visiting Bush in see Start ii on Page 2 officer s Back see related stories on pages 10 and 11 restore of hop . Troops Elk Tho Effort to save Soo Otlo a v it urged to keep sevens in line Dearborn Mich. A a police officer who was suspended for three Days for writing his sevens european style with a line through then is Back on the Force in Good standing. In an agreement reached with the department officer Brian Yinger will collect the three Days pay he was docked and the incident will be erased from his record the Detroit news reported saturday. But police chief Ronald Deziel still wants him to try a hard a to write the sevens without the horizontal line through the downstroke. It is used commonly in Europe to differentiate the number seven from the number one a Wjt has been strongly suggested that he conform a Deziel said wednesday. In november Yinger was suspended and ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation because he continued writing european style sevens after Deziel or Dertl him to Stop. Deziel said Yingere sevens were confusing the departments see sevens on Page 2