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...Murray and the White House, the Institute of Medicine, an arm of the National Academy of Sciences, then turned in a contracted consultants' report to the CDC on the Agent Orange study. It concluded that the Pentagon group was fully capable of "determining locations and filling gaps" in the troop movements and criticized the CDC's study for excluding many of the veterans most likely to have been exposed. The CDC never turned the institute's report over to the White House...
...Bush Administration agrees that some American forces should stay. But Washington wants South Korea to assume more responsibility for its own defense. Current plans call for a ten-year, three-phase troop reduction, beginning with the withdrawal of 7,000 U.S. soldiers by 1994. In addition, Seoul has been asked to double its direct financial support to $680 million this year...
...course, some transitional arrangements will be needed. It is possible, for example, to allow the stationing of Soviet troops for a certain period in what is today the German Democratic Republic. I also consider it feasible that in the parallel negotiations in Vienna -- but not in the Two-plus-Four framework -- we talk about troop levels generally. Because one point is very clear: the Soviet Union certainly has a legitimate security interest...
...legendary units of its own, the 82nd paratroopers and the 101st Airborne Division. The Army now has seven light divisions, so called because they are highly mobile forces boasting most of the same fighting capabilities as the Marines. On top of that, the Pentagon has developed the 38,000-troop Special Operations Forces which include the Navy's sea, air and land SEAL forces; the Air Force's First Special Operations Wing; and the Army's highly trained Ranger force, for use against terrorists and in guerrilla warfare...
Bush recognizes that the rapid pace of events will later lead to even deeper troop cuts on both sides. Soviet forces are not capable of launching a surprise invasion of Western Europe now that their allies in the Warsaw Pact have declared independence and the U.S.S.R.'s military effectiveness has disintegrated. The Soviet army is significantly weakened by ethnic strife and insubordination in the ranks. (At the NATO meeting in Brussels last week, a senior defense expert disclosed that the Soviet army mobilized an entire division in its Moscow barracks last February as a signal to the Kremlin against further...