European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 24, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes . Saturday september 24.1994 nukes escape More Pentagon cuts a Washington a the Penta gon will retire four of the nation s most powerful nuclear submarines and reduce the b-52 bomber Fleet by nearly a third but will not Cut nuclear warheads More than already planned officials said thursday. In announcing the relatively minor adjustments to the nation s nuclear Force defense Secretary William Perry said president Clinton had endorsed the Deci Sions. Perry said the changes would make the nuclear Force safer and less expend Sive. ". Many private defense experts argue that the United states should take More Radical Steps to disarm such As eliminating a bigger chunk of the nuclear Arsenal. But Perry said it was too risky to make major changes when the Outlook for a successful russian transition to democracy is clouded. We want to hedge hedge against a reversal of Reform in Russia a return to an authoritative military regime hostile to the United states Perry told reporters at a Pentagon news conference. . Nuclear policy is expected to be a Central subject of discussion when Clin ton meets next week with russian presi Dent Boris Yeltsin in Washington. The decisions announced by Perry were the result of a nearly yearlong study of . Strategic nuclear policy and forces that was begun last october when Les Aspin was defense Secretary. Perry called it the first such review in 15 years. Clinton s strategy for the Summit meet ing is to stick to the ceiling of 3,000-3,500 warheads set in the 1993 strategic arms reduction treaty and to resist any at tempt to set even lower ceilings for . And russian Long Range arsenals. In an apparent reply to the policy announcement the House armed services committee and Senate governmental affairs committee released a report thursday indicating that prospects have improved significantly for the implementation of two major arms control agreements by the four nuclear inheritor Secretary of defense William Perry Steps out of a Navy e-2c Hawkeye aircraft at Nas Norfolk in Virginia on thursday. The Pentagon announced thursday that it would Cut submarines and b-52 bombers but retain the planned number of nuclear warheads. States of the former soviet  the report by the congressional office of technology assessment refers to arms reduction efforts with Russia Ukraine Kazakhstan and Belarus. It urges continued Aid to the former soviet states to help them dismantle their weapons and prevent their nuclear scientists from sell ing their skills to terrorist states. Some private experts said that they were disappointed the Pentagon had not taken bolder Steps to eliminate More of its own weapons and encourage Russia to disarm. Stan Norris a nuclear expert at the natural resources defense Council said the administration s nuclear strategy team essentially ordains that the nuclear future will look much like the  he called the policy cold War Lite John Deutch the Deputy defense Secretary told reporters that at one Point the reviewers considered eliminating allow the air Force s remaining intercontinental ballistic missiles the land based leg of the . Nuclear  the two other legs Are submarine based ballistic missiles and nuclear bombers. Among the actions to be taken As a re sult of the review the Fleet of Trident nuclear submarines with Long Range nuclear missiles Ca Pable of striking anywhere in the world will be reduced from 18 subs to 14 by the year 2003. The subs some of which no longer patrol on full Alert will continue to be based at the Bangor base in Washington state and at King s Bay a. Instead of having older c-4 nuclear missiles aboard some of the Trident All 14 of the surviving submarines Are to be armed with newer More accurate d-5 nuclear missiles. Currently 10 Trident subs Are armed with d-5 missiles. F the intercontinental ballistic Missil Fleet will be reduced to Between 450 and 500, each with a single warhead. The plan Clinton inherited from the Bush administration was to keep 500 of them. The number of b-52 heavy bombers will be reduced from the 94 planned a year ago to 66. These planes will continue to be capable of dropping either conventional or nuclear arms. They Are in Addi Tion to a planned Purchase of 20 b-2 stealth bombers and an existing Fleet of More than 90 by bombers. The entire by bomber Fleet will be reconfigured to a non nuclear role. When brought into the air Force bomber Fleet in the 1980s, the by was designed for a nuclear War. The question of How Many a is would be kept in Active service is to be determined in a separate study or dered this year by Congress All Navy surface ships will eliminate their ability to carry nuclear weapons. Al though none now carries them Deutch said the Pentagon has decided that nuclear training for the ships Crews As Well As nuclear equipment will be discarded. Navy attack submarines will retain the ability to fire nuclear Tomahawk cruise missiles. . Aircraft dedicated to the de sense of european nato nations will continue to have a nuclear bomb capability. The several Hundred . Nuclear weapons deployed in Europe for . Air Craft will be kept. Deutch said the Pentagon has decided not to proceed with the development of any new nuclear warhead designs. An official speaking later on condition of anonymity said that included decision not to pursue the development of mini nukes which Are Low yield weapons that some believe could be useful in destroy ing heavily reinforced underground bunk ers without causing harmful fallout. Tang led tale of baby snatching. A p ".-. Ing ., mexican courts Brownsville Texas a Laura Lugo was expecting a routine prenatal exam. Instead she says the doctor drugged her and performed a caesarean Section. I heard the baby cry but i never saw him lug said. Lugo claims that two conniving Sisters won her Friendship then lured her to a clinic just across the Bor Der in Mexico and snatched her child from her uterus. Two years later Lugo is moving closer to gaining Cus Tody of the boy. But there is another woman who claims to be his biological Mother Paulyna Botello who raised him until recently. As . And mexican courts Wade into a tale worthy of the biblical King Solomon the boy remains in Foster care. At Issue is whether he was kidnapped or Given away in an under the table adoption gone awry. On thursday state judge Robert f. Barnes declared Lugo the Mother based on Dan tests indicating a 99.11 percent probability that the child is hers. Barnes has yet to Rule on Lugo s request for  s waiting for results of More Dan tests demanded by Botello s lawyers. Botello 33, and her sister Rosa Are wanted in mexi co on child abduction charges. They have not been charged in the United states. Paulyna Botello is in jail pending a thursday extradition hearing. . Authorities consider Rosa Botello a fugitive. Lugo 27, said she has seen her son just twice since his birth. She plans to rename him Jorge Daniel if she gains custody. It s going to be difficult for him she said. Every body will always be pointing fingers at him. Me being the kind of person i am i will never hide it from  Lugo and Paulyna Botello mexican citizens living i heard the baby cry but i never saw him Laura Lugo legally in Brownsville each claim they gave birth tothe boy in september 1992, Lugo said the Botello Sisters befriended her during her pregnancy in order  her baby. One Day when she was near term Lugo said the Sis ters invited her to go with them to a clinic in Matamo Ros across the Rio Grande from Brownsville. She thought that she and Paulyna Botello who had been wearing maternity clothes for a few months were going to get a checkup. As she slipped into unconsciousness at the clinic Lugo said she realize that the doctor was preparing to perform a a Section. Unable to resist she awoke to find her Abdomen Cut and her fetus gone. Nurses later told her that Ros Botello had taken the baby Lugo said. But Paulyna Botello s lawyer Felix Recio says she is the biological Mother of the child now known As Rafael Olvera or. Recio said Lugo traded her baby to Rosa Botello in Exchange for payment of her Bill at the clinic then changed her mind about the Swap later. Rosa Botello told mexican authorities that Lugo baby was Given to a Dallas couple. Extradition papers filed by the mexican government include a consent form signed by Lugo giving Rosa Botello permission to take the baby from the clinic. Lugo says she was drugged when she signed it. Discovers he s checked out Allentown a. A Randy Walters got some bad news when he tried to open a checking account this week he was dead but he s feeling much better now. When Walters tried to open the account wednesday a Teller told him that a Check of his social Security number showed he was deceased. I told her i was alive and standing in front of her and i wanted to open a checking account Walters said thursday. _ Walters spent the rest of the Day and part of thursday trying to prove he was alive starting with a Call to the social Security  said according to their records i was de ceased and i was going to stay that Way until they contacted the local office which would take at least a week Walters said. Walters called the local office and was told he had died in March. A clerk told him he needed to bring in a birth or baptismal  thursday morning he walked into the so Cial Security office with his proof. By late afternoon a resurrected Walters had completed the paperwork for his checking account. The mistake most Likely was made at the state department of vital statistics said Joann por Ter of the Allentown social Security office. They probably just transposed a dead per son s social Security number and it matched Walters Porter said. It was a human