European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 7, 1995, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes i / a a a i at a glance a a John c. In Lvi Iii accused of killing two abortion clinic workers and wounding five others last week in suburban Brookline mass., pleaded innocent Friday to Federal firearms charges. Set Story on Page .6# a Admiral Speaks out a top . Commander in Europe has countered Senate majority Leader Bob Dole s Call to lift the Bosnia arms embargo. A a a Quot a a a a page4haitians sent Home the  military sent 54 haitians Home from Guantanamo Bay Cuba on thursday the first of thousands being returned against their will after rejecting an offer of $80 to go Back. A a a Page 5catholics and sex catholics have sex More often approach sex More playfully and Are More Likely to enjoy sex than no catholics an author has concluded. A a a Page 8 snub denied Prince Charles private Secretary. Has Pooh poohed reports that the heir to the British throne snubbed the Duchess of York the former Sarah Ferguson. _ _ a Page 9 Ford leads Way two Ford vehicles were the nations top Sellers during 1994. A a Page 14 Index Abby Ann Landers 10 classifieds. 20-25 comics. 10, 18-19 commentary. Crossword. 10 faces a no places. 9 focus. 15-17 Horoscope. Jumble. .21 letters. 12 Money matters. Religion. 8 sports. 25-32 to listings. .31 weather. Boost from Page 1 forced to draw on training and maintenance funds the Only not of readily available Cash. This slowed some units training and maintenance activities and sent their readiness measures into decline. A unplanned contingencies have to be paid Tor a Deputy defense Secretary John dutch said. A a we pay for them out of the operations and maintenance accounts. If those accounts arc not replenished soon enough you lose. The activities that Are required Tor maintaining Short term  redressing the readiness shortfall was one reason Clinton on dec. 1 announced a $25 billion increase in his defense budget blueprint for fiscal 1996 to 2001. Of that increase $2 billion was added to the $244 billion Clinton had planned to request for fiscal 1996. Gop critics brushed off that increase As too Little too late. In a dec. 5 letter to Clinton Senate armed services committee republicans John Mccain of Arizona and John Warner of Virginia decried a the Litany of readiness problems Dis closed in recent weeks a As Well As administration plans to Cut funding for some weapons programs. They called for a fiscal 1996 defense budget of about $261 billion a $15 billion More in new budget authority than is called for in Clinton a Revisa budget request. While there a no dispute Over the specific readiness shortfalls that have been disclosed there a a Broad Range of views As to their significance. Rep. Floyd Spence r-s.c., the new chairman of the House National Security committee catalogued several readiness problems in a dec. 5 report. In sum they revealed an underlying pattern a the Early stages of a Long term systemic problem a said Spence whose panel was renamed this year from the House armed services committee. A the breadth and variety of problems. Are indicative of a More serious readiness problem than Many would believe a Spence said. Liberals S.C. As rep. Ronald Dellums d-calif., the senior Democrat on the House National Security committee Challenge claims that More Money will better prepare the military for War. A How much More Money can it conceivably take to be a ready in a world in which the United states already spends As much As every other nation combined a Dellums asked. The Clinton administration and the armed services take a Middle View they deny there is a crisis insisting the problems would be solved by the budget requests already in the pipeline. The administrations planned budget will adequately hone the deficient units cutting edges they say provided Congress swiftly approves some $2.1 billion in fiscal 1995 supplemental appropriations to replenish readiness accounts drained since oct. 1. Unless those funds Are provided by the end of february the services say they will have to begin cancelling exercises and slowing maintenance work slated for the latter half of this fiscal year a triggering the same process that in fiscal 1994, resulted in the readiness reductions that the Clinton team and the services Are trying to Correct. A what we did in 1994 was mortgage our future a said it. Gen. Paul e. Blackwell the army a Deputy chief of staff for operations and plans. A we can to mortgage our future in 1995.�?� d a Tri Buie a by scrupps Howard now Sonvico Grozny from Page was hit by rockets fired by a russian warplane thursday the morning after Yeltsin ordered a halt to Aerial bombing. Khasin a Duyck a member of chechen president a Khokhar Duda Yevu a press service was in the Palace All Day. He said russian forces were using artillery from 12 Miles away to lob rounds into the City. He also claimed that Dunayev remained in. Grozny though the separatist Leader has t been seen in Days. At the Start of a Security Council meeting in Moscow Yeltsin demanded to know Why the bombing continued. His comments amounted to a Concession that his orders were not being followed raising troubling questions about who is in charge of the month old offensive that has resulted in hundreds if not thousands of deaths. A we must Clear up Why we have S.C. an ambiguous picture whether the bombing of Grozny was stopped in accordance with my decision or whether it Wasny to Yeltsin Tola the dozen Council members. A that was announced to the whole world and Russia has Learned Sabourit but there is information the bombing Wasny to  looking directly at defense minister Pavel Grachev he said a and i want to hear absolutely precise information from the defense  Yeltsin sent tens of thousands of troops into Chechnya on dec. 11 to reassert Moscow a control Over the Muslim Republic of 1.2 million people and to set an example for other Independence minded regions in Russia. V a a. A v. -. He said the Council should set a Date for the end of combat operations in Chechnya. Yeltsin added that Russia would install a provisional chechen government for Only a a Brief transition  the Council later decided to continue the offensive to a restore order in Chechnya but it was unclear whether Yeltsin got a satisfactory answer to his demands. Yeltsin also met with his human rights commissioner Sergei Kovalyov who urged him to Call a cease fire and begin peace talks Friday a the russian orthodox Christmas. A i told him. The russian orthodox Christmas is coming and that its a Good convenient and suitable pretext to make some peaceful Steps at least to Start with a cease fire a Kovalyov told a news conference. A but Yeltsin said a that a too  a russian paratroops were moving into place near Grozny on Friday from the Northwest russian lawmaker a Vars Lez dish told the inter fax news Agency a Convoy of russian military Tanker trucks was seen moving in from the West. R the first shipment of humanitarian Aid was expected Friday from the International red Cross with no deliveries yet in sight from Russia itself for some 350,000 refugees. Amid the shelling frightened men and women some with Small children and bags of belongings scurried from the Center of in a cellar of a Small fabric store off la Minsk a Prospect chechen and russian grandmothers and wide eyed children took cover in the gloom of a Smoky kerosene lamp., a a v 0 a Yeltsin and Dunayev Are both at fault they should both fight it out in a Field and let inc people be a said 50-year-old Alexan dra Demic Hova a russian who has cared for her ailing 80-Ycar-old Mother in the shelter since the assault on the City began dec. 31. Zara Magomedova a 40-year-old chechen in the shelter with her three Young daughters said they were trapped. A what can we do we be had no  electricity no water for four Days a she said. A a we have nowhere to go no Money to  with the sound of shells rumbling behind them hundreds of men across Grozny made their Way to mosques for Friday Pray cars. A a a a i done to want to see another russian person not one More. I be had it with them a said Sayeed Nakayu a 76-year-old  from Page 1 craps will not change decisions made by other generals. A my experience has been the total opposite of or. Maclelland so Bridges said. Nurnberg closure is part of usar lures Effort to reach its mandated troop level he said. When that level was 92,000, Nurnberg was in the final picture. When that figure was further reduced Bridges said Usa eur had to remove a brigade from each of the two remaining divisions. A the question was which division a he said. The 2nd brigade of the 3rd inf div was tabbed for removal from its Home in Erlanger 12 Miles North of Nurnberg. The brigade which left in 1w3, Quot sat smack dab in the Middle of the City Quot at i Crris Barracks Bridges said. Usa eur was attempting to remove units from Urban areas w Here they were a hindrance to German development he said. Ferris Barracks was bordered by a University and a major corporation both with plans to expand thwarted by the posts presence. A the 3rd brigade of the 1st Armce div was removed from Mannheim Germany for a similar reason Bridges said. With the brigade s departure from Erlanger the Nurnberg Community was left with support units but no tactical unit he said. A what we wound up with was support people supporting support people he said. The nearest tactical units Are in Bamberg about 35 Miles North of Nurnberg. Many of the units soon to leave Nurnberg Are going there. A it was easier to move the support units up to Bamberg than to move tactical units Down to Nurnberg a he said Bamberg is Home to several 3rd inf div units including Field artillery air defense artillery and Engineer units plus other tactical units not part of the division. The 3rd combat support Hospital in Nurnberg was closed Bridges said because its patient Load had nearly disappeared. The argument that Money spent in recent years to renovate the Hospital is being spent again to fix up the Hospital ii Wurzburg is not True he said. A the decision to close Nurnberg occurred after we got the Money to work of the Wurzburg Hospital a he said. He also said that the Nurnberg Airport cited by critics of the closure decision a a reason to maintain troops there is in valid. With no troops he said the Airport is not needed. The Wurzburg military Community which includes kit Zingen and Schwin Furt has accessible training areas and adequate facilities Bridges said. Mud Money has been invested in Schwa incur in recent years he pointed out. Plus the outlying communities Are it a relatively Rural Quot areas. A i done to want to come across As uncaring and unfeeling on this and nobody ii the command does a Bridges said a a a it understand there is some genuine face line out  but he said the decision is the bes one for Usa eur and is not going u be changed. A a it a time a he said a to look to the fun