he Battalion Tuesday, December 5,1989 ORLD & NATION 5 ush visits NATO after Malta summit BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) — resident Bush said Monday it’s too jarly to proclaim an end to the Cold ar, but added that Mikhail S. Gor- achev’s acceptance of sweeping re- iorm in Eastern Europe “absolutely andates new thinking” by the Vest. Wrapping up his weekend sum- ait journey with a stop at NATO ieadquarters, Bush also told report- rsthe United States would maintain significant military forces in Eu- ope as long as our allies desire our iresence.” The president said he wants a reaty making initial cuts in super- jowers’ conventional forces in Eu- ope “in the bank” before seeking leeper reductions. He told NATO eaders he hoped a multinational lummit could be convened in Eu- tope next summer to sign such an iccord. Conventional forces aside, the Jnited States and Soviet Union are legotiating a proposed 50 percent ;ut in long-range nuclear weapons, is well as a proposed ban of chemical veapons. The president spoke as Gorba- :hev was convening a meeting of a adically reordered Warsaw Pact in doscow to review the weekend sum- lit. The dramatic change in Europe ontinued uninterrupted during the [day, as the Soviet Union and the lour other Warsaw Pact nations con- emned their own invasion of zechoslovakia in 1968. In Leipzig, ast Germany, about 200,000 dem- nstrators broke into wild rounds of ause as speakers called for Ger- an reunification. Soviet military detained Americans in E. Germany WASHINGTON (AP) — So viet military personnel in East Germany detained a team of U.S. military officers for seven and a half hours on the eve of President Bush’s summit with Soviet Presi dent Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Pentagon said Monday. “There were no U.S. or Soviet injuries,” Pentagon spokesman Navy Lt. Cmdr. Ken Satterfield said. “U.S. personnel were re leased later that day. The inci dent is under investigation.” Satterfield said the U.S. team was “on their assigned mission” which involved observing installa tions in East Germany. It was not immediately clear how many U.S. and Soviet personnel were in volved in the incident. The spokesman said the vehi cle in which the U.S. team was riding was detained and “a tire was punctured with a bayonet.” Satterfield said the team was not threatened by the Soviets. The incident, which was con firmed by several other Pentagon officials, has raised tempers among some military officers. The U.S. military mission in Potsdam was established under a 1947 accord. The incident had not been an nounced by U.S. authorities, and Pentagon officials offered infor mation about it when queried by the Associated Press. “They don’t want to elevate this,” said one Pentagon source, referring to efforts by U.S. offi cials to minimize the incident at a time of improving U.S.-Soviet re lations. Bush and Gorbachev met over the weekend in Malta and said their talks heralded a reduction in East-West tensions. Bush and Gorbachev agreed at an unprecedented joint news confer ence before leaving Malta that their meeting heralded a new era of coop eration in East-West relations, in cluding arms control and trade. They intend to meet again in the United States in the second half of June. At his news conference, Bush said, “We stand at the threshold of a new era ...” but declined to assert the Cold War has ended as Gorba chev suggested. “That day hasn’t arrived,” the president said when asked about Gorbachev’s statement declaring an end to the “epoch of the Cold War.” . Germans attempt to protect evidence EAST BERLIN (AP) — East Germans out- aged by the corruption of ousted Communist arty leaders tried to storm secret police offices Monday to make certain evidence for criminal 'i is not removed. Prosecutors blocked access by the former offi- ials to evidence that could be used against them the widening corruption investigation. State television showed pictures of people join- g police at luxurious government guest houses nd at warehouses in East Berlin and Potsdam to lock any efforts to remove documents. Officials appealed for calm as people tried to force their way into secret police offices in Er furt. In Leipzig, where about 200,000 people at tended a rally calling for German unification, 30 lemonstrators were allowed inside the secret po ke headquarters, including opposition leader Wolfgang Schnur. Lawmakers seek military spending cuts East Germany’s official ADN news agency said the group was let in “after massive demands of demonstrators who had surrounded the build ing.” It said the protesters presented their griev ances and departed but 200 other demonstrators who refused to leave were permitted inside later to tour the building. Parts of the building were sealed off to prevent documents from being smuggled out, and Schnur said citizens would take part in making sure the papers remained there. Wolfgang Schwanitz, new chief of national se curity, ordered flights to Romania halted because of reports that sensitive material was being smug gled to the Warsaw Pact ally, whose leader, Nic- olae Ceausescu, has rejected reform. Officials said there was no proof documents were being sent there. Opposition sources said earlier that important documents were taken from party headquarters to Schoenfeld airport for flights to Romania. Premier Hans Modrow, who emerged as the leading political figure one day after the entire Communist Party leadership resigned, was not in East Germany. He led a three-member dele gation to the Warsaw Pact summit in Moscow. At the huge Leipzig rally, the crowd ap plauded and cheered as speakers called for a united Germany. Demonstrators waved dozens of West German flags in front of the secret police headquarters. One flag was draped over a sur veillance camera outside the headquarters. Calls for German reunification dominated the Monday night Leipzig protests, and the demands were more pronounced than ever. ADN reported 60,000 people rallied in Karl- Marx-Stadt, 10,000 in Schwerin and tens of thou sands in Dresden. WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite a declaration Monday by President Bush that he doesn’t expect a “peace dividend” to result from reduced East-West tensions, many members of Congress are urging heftier spending on domestic programs as re military budget is reduced. “We have a lot of demands at aome, and there’s no question about hat,” Bush said at a news confer- mce in Brussels at the end of a sum- nit with Soviet leader Mikhail Gor iachev. “But I think it is premature :o speak as some are at home about a ieace dividend — take a lot of noney out of defense and put it into ither worthy causes.” The president said the reason here can be no such windfall was hat the Gramm-Rudman deficit-re duction law requires that he produce a budget for fiscal 1991 containing a shortfall of no more than $64 billion. The deficit for this budget year, which ends Sept. 30, is projected at about $110 billion. Bush will present hs proposed budget to Congress on an. 22. “There just isn’t a lot of ‘excess noney’ floating around there,” Bush old a news conference in Brussels, Belgium. Greenpeace protesters fail to halt missile launch CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The Navy out- muscled Greenpeace anti-nuclear protestors Monday, crippling their vessels and towing them out of an area where the group tried unsuccessfully to halt the test launch of a Trident 2 missile. The high seas drama took place in the Atlantic Ocean 50 miles off the Florida coast just before the nuclear- powered submarine Tennessee unleashed the $26.5 million missile on a test that put the Trident 2 program back on track after two explosive failures in the first three undersea launches. “We did a perfect launch, just beautiful,” Vice Adm. Roger Bacon, commander of the Atlantic Submarine Fleet, said at a news conference. The Navy said its ships had to “shoulder” aside a large ship carrying protestors and capture and tow away two high-speed rafts called Zodiacs from the launch area. Greenpeace USA peace activists said the Navy rammed their ship, aimed fire hoses down its smoke stacks to stop its engines and Navy divers had sliced the fuel lines and punctured the pontoons on the Zodiacs. Bacon said noses were used and that Navy sailors in rafts cut the fuel lines on one of the Zodiacs after the other broke down in heavy seas. Shannon Fagan, a spokesman for the protestors, said a Navy ship, the 254-foot submarine support ship USS Grasp, left two gashes in the hull of the USS Green peace, a 190-foot ocean-going tug. She said the largest, about 3 feet long, was stuffed with mattresses to keep water out. Although members of Congress are split over the question, many be lieve it is time to impose deep cuts on the nearly $290 billion defense bud get, which comprises about one- fourth of the government’s $1.2 tril lion annual spending. They cite three reasons: the eas ing of Cold War tensions, the need to shrink the deficit and a desire to replenish domestic programs that have been hit hard by Reagan-era spending cuts. “The more you cut from the mili tary, the less damage you do to do mestic programs to meet Gramm- Rudman targets,” Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., said Monday. Frank has pressed congressional leaders to slash about $20 billion off the Pentagon’s budget and redistri bute most of it among health, hous ing, education and other domestic programs. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney has begun considering plans to shrink expected military spending rates by up to $180 billion over the next three to five years. The cuts Cheney is examining would not literally cut defense spending. 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