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DATE: FRIDAY, April 20, 1990                   TAG: 9004200355
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A5   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

12,000-TROOP CUTBACK IN ASIA FORCE PLANNED

The United States plans to withdraw more than 12,000 of its troops in Asia over the next three years and additional cuts are possible as the Soviet threat diminishes, administration officials said Thursday.

Paul Wolfowitz, undersecretary of defense for policy, detailed the planned changes in U.S. forces as he presented a report required by Congress on military strategy in the Pacific.

Under the administration plan, 10 percent of the 120,000 American forces based in Asia would be withdrawn - some 7,000 military personnel of the 44,000 U.S. forces in Korea and 5,000 to 6,000 of the 50,000 in Japan.

- Associated Press 


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