European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 25, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Vol. 53 no. 38 500 wednesday May 25,1994 bti5tsrussia oks leaves open a sign up Date Brussels Belgium apr russian defense minister Pavel Grachev Oft tuesday told nato that the giant nation will join natos Nev partnership program for former Warsaw pact foes but he gave no Date for signing up. Grachev standing at the Entrance of the Western military Alliance said Moscow would not set conditions on its membership in the partnership for peace program for former Warsaw pact foes. A but he did say the program a did not fully set Forth the principles and forms of the cooperation Russia envisages with nato. He promised to outline his ideas today during another round of talks with nato do sense chiefs. The focus of tuesdays meeting was on russians new military doctrine for its armed forces in the Post soviet Era. A. A a a a a a a. A a a a a a a a a a a the defense minister a russian general who wore his uniform to the talks said the nations military policy was a of a purely defensive character and not aimed against any other a a he said however that Moscow would use nuclear weapons against other nuclear Powers that attack Russia or non nuclear nations that join such an assault on Russia. A a a. A a a a \ a v a Quot a Grachev said he emphasized that atomic were see Russia on Page 2aid promised South african president Nelson Mandela on tuesday promised immediate Relief to impoverished Blacks while telling Whites they will be protected from retribution lie said that $714 million will be budgeted this year to provide houses electricity clean water and jobs for Blacks left in squalid destitution by apartheid. A see Story on Page 2 House keeps draft registration Washington a the House has Defeated legislation that would have ended draft registration while voting to penalize universities that bar military recruiting on campuses because of the military a policy on Gays. Lawmakers in a 273-125 vote monday rejected the argument that registration of 18-year-Olds for the draft was no longer needed in the Post cold War period. The vote was part of debate Over a $262.7 billion defense spending plan for fiscal 1995. The debate now in its second week also is to cover Clinton administration policy toward Bosnia Haiti and . Peacekeeping efforts. A it does no to make Good sense to shut Down this system a rep. . A a Sonny Montgomeryd miss said of draft registration a a it a like a car that you done to use for two years then you go up and try to get it started again. It does not work weii.�?�. Y. A Montgomery is chairman of the House veterans affairs committee. Rep. Ronald Dellums d-calif., chairman of the House armed services committee argued that draft registration was re established in 1980 to show . Re solve in the face of the soviet invasion of Afghanistan. He cited a Pentagon report from last year that said registration could see draft on Page 2nunn says lives endangered by cuts in defense Allentown a. A too Many cuts have been made in the defense budget jeopardizing the lives of . Service members sen. Sam Nunn says. The Georgia Democrat who is chairman of the Senate armed services committee said that cutting the size of the military during peacetime endangers the lives of soldiers who arc called to Battle unexpectedly we be ended up having to rebuild those forces meeting some Challenge that was unanticipated a Nunn told reservists at the naval and Marine corps Reserve Center in Hanover township on sunday. Quot a a we be ended up spending an awful lot More Money than we would have if wed kept the forces steady to begin with. And often tragically it has Cost us an awful lot in lives a he said r Nunn said cuts in Active duty we be ended up spending an awful lot More Money than we would if wed kept the forces steady to begin sen. Sam Nunn Senate armed services committee military mean that the United states will rely More on the National guard and the reserves. A we Are struggling now to make ends meet with the defense budget and i really believe that the defense budget cannot be Cut More a Nunn said. A a we be gone in Iny View too far already a try v inside today Greece still a bargain it hotels and hostels pc Iea Peats and other tip murder on train deemed suicide Berlin apr the shooting death of an amen can that appeared at first to be a robbery murder on an overnight train was instead a cleverly disguised suicide police in Bremen said tuesday. On the morning of May 17, a conductor on the Stutt Gart Hamburg train found a fatally wounded William Gregory Bledsoe 46, a civilian employee of the . Army who had settled in Germany in a sleeping compartment As the train approached the Northern City of Bremen. An autopsy showed that the native of Portsmouth Ohio had been shot once in the Chest and that he did inside today not have the 8,000 Marks $5,000 he had told his wife he had received in an insurance settlement. Police said from the Start that they had no clues to who had carried out the apparent robbery murder. The conductor had seen Bledsoe sitting on his bed around 5 30 a.m., ready to change trains in Bremen and less than 10 minutes later the conductor found him dying of a Chest wound. His compartment showed signs of a search and his pockets were inside out. On tuesday Bremen police issued a statement saying there had been suspicion from the Start that it was a see suicide on Page 2 Denny a restaurant to pay millions to Black patrons in discrimination Case see Page 5
