European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 15, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 stars and stripes wednesday december 15, 1993 at a glance a second witness has testified that adm. Frank b. Kelso ii saw some of the debauchery at the 1991 Tail Hook convention. See Story on Page 61 insurance Snag . Military officials say they Are no closer to resolving the Issue of whether 5,000 enlisted members in Italy hold valid Auto insurance. A Page 4 boulders Folluo thirty people were killed tuesday when a Mountain face collapsed in Cairo Egypt. A Page 5 Trade Deal reached the United states and european Union reach agreement on the big Gest Ever Trade Reform package. A Page 16 i Index i Abby Ann Landers. 24 classifieds .25-27 comics. 2224 commentary .15 crossword.24 faces a places. 21 focus .17-20 Horoscope .27 Jumble .27 letters.14 Money matters.16 sports.31-36 to listings.35 weather.13 Shalikashvil on Washington a amps Gen. John m. Shalikashvil the nations top military commander expressed Confidence tuesday that the combined military forces of South Korea and the United states could repel an invasion from communist North Korea. But the chairman of the joint chiefs of that prevent North Korea from initially overrunning Seoul the South korean capital. In his first news conference since being sworn into his new Post oct. 25, Shalikashvil said he is very confident of the ability of the South korean forces reinforced by . Troops to Stop an incursion from the North despite the comm staff stopped Short of guaranteeing 1 Allied forces could prevent North kit nist regimes numerical superiority. A i am not atone in the military judgment. That we coi ild Stop a North korean attach far Short of reaching their War objectives of re unifying the country under communism he said. He also said there is Quot a very Good likelihood that Allied forces could repel an attack on Seoul. Quot however there Are also Many imponderables that you simply cannot  talk of War on the korean Peninsula has been fanned recently by escalating Clinton administration rhetoric regarding North koreans drive to build nuclear weapons. Despite North koreans nuclear nation efforts Shalikashvil said . War plan ners have seen no indications that North Korea is planning an attack on its neighbor to the South. On other issues Shalikashvil said a he will travel to Somalia on saturday to discuss preparations for Uii. Troop withdrawals from that nation. All but t Small number of support troops Are due to leave the War torn nation by March 31. A the Issue of extending full nato Security guarantees to East european states is  however he said a consensus is developing within nato that the notion of expanding the roster of Alliance members is Quot no longer question of whether but a question of when and How a Leader from Page 1 that Yeltsin fire top reformers including economics minister Yegor to Gaidar Ana foreign minister Andrei a Kozarev. Both men were the target of hard line attacks in the last parliament. Gaidar is the Leader of russians Choice a party Allied with Yeltsin. A i want them out of the government a a Mirinovsky said. When the Duma meets for the first time Jan. 11, a Mirinovsky said he will press for deep changes in Yeltsin a pro Market policies and Hopes to Quot declare these dark times Are Over in Russia that All these reforms that greatly Hurt our people Are  the Liberal democrats plan to seek new subsidies for Industry increased welfare spending and state subsidized consumer imports a Mirinovsky is unlikely to become prime minister or get a big government Post because Yeltsin nominates Cabinet members. But at a packed news conference he referred to a my ministers Quot and our government a and said he expects to become russians next president. Yeltsin a term runs until 1996. The communist party a potential a Mirinovsky ally also took the  Page 1 in russian affairs. A if i was sitting in the Kremlin the germans would pay for All this meddling a he was quoted As saying. �?o1  hesitate to use nuclear weapons. We would make new Hiroshi Mas and  a but in the interview a Mirinovsky portrayed himself As a great Friona who wanted a new version of the Hitler Stalin pact under which the soviets and nazis divided up Poland Ukraine and the fial tics in 1939. A peace on our continent can Best be defended when the two great Powers a the Russia and Germany a learn the lessons from their history and return to their close traditional Friendship a he said. He called for the withdrawal of All american troops from German soil. Quot Germany is no protectorate but an evident Power a he said. A Mirinovsky denied he is a fascist. Quot i have As Little to do with fascism As you a namely absolutely nothing a he said in the interview with Gerhard Frey publisher of the National Zeitung and Leader of the far right German Peoples Union. Frey who has expressed doubt that the holocaust occurred wants Germany to kick out foreigners and reclaim the former territory of East Prussia lands East of the Oder and Neisse Rivers that were divided among Poland and the soviet Union after world War ii. He went even further at an oct. 2 meeting of Frey a party in the bavarian City of Passau saying that Germany and Russia should Divide up territories in Poland the Baltic and Ukraine. Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin did that in the secret 1939 pact that preceded the outbreak of world War ii Hitler abrogated the pact in 1941 and invaded Russia. Frey whose party has scats in three state Legislatures and about 26,000 members in Germany sent a Mirinovsky a congratulatory Telegram monday Quot voc Ijoyce i Send you my deepest Best wishes for your overwhelming Victory a he said. A East Prussia will now once again become the crystallization Point in a pioneering German russian  Frey 59, is not the Only right Wing Radical m Germany who has made common cause with Ultra nationalists in Russia. Against Yeltsin a Reform program which has impoverished Many russians and contributed to the stunning voter Badt lash. Communist Leader Gennady Zyuganov said his party would seek a no Confidence vote in Yeltsin a government ill the Market reforms continued. Still in Shock from the results russians Choice repeated its desperate plea to cooperate with any bloc ready to fight the a fascist threat posed by the Liberal democrats. Gaidar said his party would refuse to cooperate with a Mirinovsky. The election was nervously followed by. Ukraine and the Baltic nations which won Independence with the collapse of the soviet Union chief from Page 1 Lar organizations have ties to the right wine groups responsible for the slayings of 30 people in Germany Over the last three years and the attacks on thousands More. Freeh was in Wiesbaden on tuesday to meet with German Law enforcement officials. His trip started in Italy to promote in to emotional cooperation in the fight against organized crime. Quot there will be a sea change in German american Law enforcement relations a Freeh predicted. A the world for organized crime is a global Village and methods of communication Between Fri the German Federal criminal office and the drug enforcement Agency will be improved 16 meet the Challenge a Freeh  changes Are necessary he said because organized crime is changing its a playing Field everyday Freeh warned of the threat posed by nuclear weaponry in the former soviet Union International Money laundering and the emerging organized crime  said Germany is important to organized crime because of its banking  Pago 1 Reserve units will have to make do with older weapons becoming in effect a second class army incompatible with the better equipped Quot contingency corps a the study says. A the study also says future logistics and transportation capabilities will be Quot inadequate for Force projection and sustainment of the follow on forces. The study predicts shortages of such vital equipment As fuel pumps portable pipelines amphibious barges for unloading gear on undeveloped coastlines and even scanners for Reading bar codes on ammunition containers. A i think the pain is really starting to show a said an army colonel who is familiar with the study s conclusions. A it Means that we re starting to come apart that you re not Able to equip the Force with what it would take to be a top line across the  some Independent analysts suggested that the services problem is not so much fiscal As structural. Instead of trying to preserve a Force of 10 Active divisions and roughly 500,000 soldiers they said the army should accept a smaller Force in return for fully modernized hardware and sufficient funds for training and operations the army has shrunk from 790,000 troops in 1990 to about 570,000 today. Maj. Mark Samisch an army spokesman described the study As a a subjective analysis that does not necessarily reflect the views of the army chief of staff Gen. Gordon r. Sullivan whose Public statements on the future of the army have been somewhat More sanguine. The study however appears to reflect widely held views within the army leadership. Contributors included commanders of the services major combat schools planners in the army operations directorate and the military a regional commanders the study was sent to army Headquarters in mid november and is due to be completed feb. 15, according to a schedule furnished with the draft. The study attempts to forecast the effects. Of the Clinton administrations planned spending cuts on army research development and acquisition programs from 1996 through 2010. The study is generally optimistic on the prospects for the so called contingency corps a such As the 82nd airborne div a describing it As Quot the most technologically advanced most capable five division combat Force in the  but the study is somewhat less positive about the army a other main comp cents categorized As Force package to mostly units based in Europe and Sou Korea Force package three  based divisions not in the contingent corps and Force package four nation guard and army Reserve units. The study said a that Force package two is Quot Losh its dose combat Edge and be Coati a a incompatible with the contingent corps. A that Force package three is maintaining land Force dominance a n is a difficult to project and  a and that Force package four is a in maintaining the Edge in any area. Fon will have Little relevance except in oper tons other than War or total mobilize Tiona