P183 183 YLE TEKSTI-TV 18.01. 2117:32  NEWS IN ENGLISH WEDNESDAY Soviet Union to start withdrawals The Soviet Union is to start troop withdrawals from eastern Europe as promised before July, Soviet deputy Defence Minister Viktor Kulikov says. Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has promised that half a million troops are to be withdrawn,& the Soviet news agency Tass says this means divisions from GDR, Czechoslovakia and Hungary. The announcement was made in Moscow to former US Secretary of State Kissinger nd former French president Giscard - d'Estaing. Miami riots 184 INDEX 180