European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 08, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                \ it Page 10 b the stars and stripes world monday february 8,1993 Kohl to order Large cuts in pm a by s m i i i tary by the Washington Post Berlin to help defend Germany s embattled Economy Chancellor Helmut Kohl announced sat urday that he will order a Sharp reduction in Ger Many s armed forces Europe s largest. Kohl did not use specific numbers but German de sense officials and news reports indicate that the Chancellor plans to Cut military manpower from its cold War level of a half million to about 300,000 by 1996. Kohl s announcement that the military must shrink even As it expands its Mission reaching out beyond nato territory to take part in . Peacekeeping actions if Kohl has his Way is expected to spark opposition both within the armed forces and among Ger Many s nato allies. Speaking at an annual International Security Confer ence in Munich Kohl said the new German military will be a. Flexible Mobile Force designed to help manage political crises. Moreover he promised an audience of politicians and defense officials including . De sense Secretary Les Aspin that Germany will resolve its Long standing constitutional stalemate and give its military the Green Light to participate in such . Operations As those in Somalia and the Balkans. Kohl s statements follow defense minister Volker Ruhr s announcement last week that the military Bud get will be Cut by nearly $600 million this year with All plans for new armaments to be Frozen. And the Ger Man newspaper die Welt reported last week that de sense planners in Bonn believe the government will  the Overall Force level to 200,000 in com ing years. Some Western defense officials expressed annoyance that Kohl announced cuts in his military even As he used the conference to argue that a Large contingent of . Forces must remain stationed in Germany. Kohl and other German officials want the United states to keep at least 100,000 troops in Germany to Demon Strate that Washington still considers its forces Essen tial to Europe s defense. It cannot be stressed often enough that. A sub Stantial . Military presence should remain in Europe in order to meet the Alliance s tasks now and in the future Kohl told the conference. I realize the voters May not understand this but the essence of poli tics is to carry out things the electorate might not immediately understand.". Kohl who is in trouble with his own electorate is under pressure from the German Central Bank and leading industrialists to make huge cuts in the Federal budget. At the same time Germany is sliding into re cession is saddled with its highest unemployment rate in decades and is committed to continuing massive Transfer payments to the newly incorporated East Ger Man Region through the end of the Century. Pope John caul ii prays at the martyrs shrine of Nam Uyon of outside Kampala Uganda on sunday. Chastity will halt aids Pope says Kampala Uganda a Pope John Paul ii visited the heart of the aids epidemic in Africa and Tolda Young audience saturday that chastity is the Only proper Way to Stop the spread of the disease. Thousands of singing and cheering Young people filled Navi Kubo stadium to hear the Pope. Aids has devastated Uganda and is the nation worst hit with the disease in Africa. The sexual restraint of chastity is the Only Safe and virtuous Way to put an end to the tragic plague of aids he said. Before his address John Paul heard speeches from some of the Voung people including Veronica Cha Ansa who said she had been sexually assaulted several years ago. They test my blood. I test. His positive the 15-year-old said haltingly. She said she considered dropping out of school be cause her schoolmates were teasing her. But god did not leave me she told the Pope. Soon after her speech a Power failure hit the stadium. Some of the Young people Sang. The stadium remained lighted with the help of the Moon and candles and the. Crowd kept an edgy Calm until the electricity was re stored 15 minutes later avoiding to some estimates one of eight ugandans is infected with the human immunodeficiency virus which causes aids. One third of the nation s Hospital Beds Are occupied by aids patients. Uganda has 34,611reported aids cases. The disease has decimated whole villages in Uganda. White Collar workers and skilled employees have Bernhard hit in Kampala depriving the capital of people with skills needed to rebuild the country alter decades of War fare. The country s anglican and Catholic Bishops have fought efforts by the government and Aid groups to pro Mote condom use to fight the disease. John Paul spent saturday morning in Gulu a provincial town North of Kampala where he celebrated an outdoor mass. He plans to return to Rome on wednesday after an eight Day african trip. Vietnam returning remains of 7 believed to be gis from wire reports Bangkok Thailand the remains of seven people believed to be americans killed in the Vietnam War will be flown to the United state today a . Military spokesman said. The remains were among 24 examined by american and vietnamese experts at a Hospital inthe vietnamese capital of Hanoi it. Col. David Fredrikson said sunday. After a ceremony at Hanoi s Noi Bai Airport theremins will be flown to a military Laboratory in Honolulu for further tests and investigation. . Officials from the Pentagon s joint task Force full accounting unit met with vietnamese counterparts last week. Fredrikson the unit s spokesman said the two sides agreed to begin a monthlong joint Mia search feb. 25. 6 die in s. Africa raid. Johannesburg South Africa gunmen with ak-47 assault rifles opened fire on residents of a Black squatter Camp East of Johannesburg killing six and wounding Lima predawn attack sunday police said. Police spokesman it. Wikus Webber said the attackers had not been identified in the Slaughter inthe Dave ton township about 12 Miles East of Johannesburg. The motive was not known. But the area has been the scene of frequent clashes Between the african National Congress and the inkatha Freedom party the country s two leading Lack groups who Are locked in a Power struggle. The victims lived in an Anc stronghold known As the Chris Hani squatter Camp a tin Shack Community named for an Anc Leader who also Heads the South african communist party. Rightist attacks decline Bonn Germany the number of violent attacks carried out by suspected Radical rightists in Germany has dropped noticeably but still averages More than two a Day the government said saturday. There Are no reasons to drop our guard. Each such criminal act is one too Many Interior minister Rudolf Sellers said in his ministry s report. The report noted a noticeable decrease in anti foreign criminal acts since november 1992. It said 70 violent acts were carried out by extreme rightists in january for an average of 2,3 attacks a Day. It said 2,285 violent attacks were proven or believed to have been carried out by Neo nazis and other Radical rightists in 1992, resulting in 17 deaths. That averaged 6.3 attacks daily and was an increase of 54 percent Over the number of such attacks in 1991, the report said. Most attacks involved arson or Rock throwing incidents at refugee Homes. Others involved desecration of jewish memorials and beatings of homeless germans. 5 deportees Back in Israel Jerusalem israeli authorities brought five palestinian deportees who were hospitalized in Lebanon Back to israeli territory sunday official said. The five were among the 100 expelled palestinians that prime minister Yitzhak Rabin offered to repatriate last week. He promised touring Back the remaining deportees by the end of the year. Leaders of the deportees rejected the israeli proposal demanding they All be brought Home together. Israel accuses the deportees of being members of the Hamas fundamentalist movement that has directed attacks against israelis. The five were being treated at a Hospital in the lebanese town of Marj Ayoun before being taken to Northern Israel on sunday. Marj Ayoun is located in the Security zone that Israel controls in Southern. Lebanon. An army spokesman said the men were put in ambulances at the Hospital and taken Back to Israel. Iraq threatens retaliation Baghdad Iraq Iraq warned Iran on Sunda of possible retaliation for what Baghdad charged were shooting attacks by iranian infiltrators on a Carand bus last month. Iraq has frequently complained of iranian infiltration m the South Home to shiite muslims that Baghdad suspects of harbouring sympathies for Iran s Shute fundamentalist regime. Iraq maintains that iranian infiltrators saboteurs iraqi dissidents iraqi army deserters and common iraqi criminals have attacked civilians in the South