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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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Barring a utopian development,
Bush said, “the United States must
stay involved” by keeping troops
massed against Warsaw Pact forces.
“If you want to project out 100
years, or take some years off of that,
you can look to a Utopian day when
there might be none (U.S. troops in
Europe),” he said. “But as I pointed
out to them (NATO leaders), that
day hasn’t arrived — and they agree
with me.”
Dutch Prime Minister Ruud Lub
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United States’ “extraordinarily posi
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“It has nothing to do with a ‘we
are pulling out’ attitude,” he told re
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again promising a meaningful pres
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British Prime Minister Margaret
Thatcher said Bush’s speech “was so
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consider it very carefully before we
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said “all was not sweetness and light”
at the Malta summit, but took pains
to applaud Gorbachev’s handling of
the change in Eastern Europe.
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