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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 27, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 the stars and stripes Friday december 27, 1985 dessert by any other specification in t dessert Washington ii pm ihcr.,., just in Small a pc Pago lung including four for additions and changes and if grandma pies by inc . Nut will come what the Pentagon considers the Perfec Christmas Fruitcake the non classified recipe described As the perfect specification Cost is no object Fruitcake was placed m inc congressional record by sen. Sam Nunn of Georgia the ranking Democrat on the Senate armed services committee. The proper nomenclature for the recipe. Put on paper by the army s research. Development and engr come is military specification Mil-f-u99f, amended19ho. Private contractors were ordered to use the recipe to make 12 tons of fruitcakes this Holiday season for . Troops Oversea. And nothing is left to the Cook s imagine Dort including metric conversions. For instance. Nunn noted the question of Llam 3.2.9, candied cherries candied cherries shall be made from pitted cherries. Fancy shall be thoroughly protested with sugars to a soluble solids Content of not less than 72 percent and artificially coloured with a red Dye. They shall be Cut to yield 14 to -5-Inch Cherry pieces on the  As for getting inc Fruitcake into the Lin,3.5.1 specifically slates and this is an order that the finished product shall conform to the inside contour of the can Orcan  and fruits and Nuis shall be evenly distributed and lest they forget commercial Bakers arc admonished the flavor of the finished product shall be typical of he Type indicated. There shall be no off flavors or  Nunn. One of Many critics of the Penta gon s penchant for specifications said i am afraid this is typical of military specifications. It is not an  and he posed a question to Ponder during that near catatonic Lull Between Christmas dinner and pcs scr can you imagine the specifications on an air plane or a Complex weapons system tribal battling in South Africa claims 53 lives Johannesburg. South Africa a the death toll in fierce. Christmas Day tribal fighting near Durban Rose to 53, police said thursday and another five Blacks died in anti apartheid and Black on Black violence in 10 Urban centers around the country. In Cape town Black activist Winnie Mandela paid her third visit in As Many Days to her imprisoned husband outlawed african National Congress Leader Nelso Mandela. South african troops on a raid into an Gola which according to informed military sources began two weeks ago killed nine members of the South West african people organization. Johannesburg s Star newspaper reported. Army spokesman commandant John Roll refused comment. But military sources in the capital Pretoria confirmed inc re port and said it brought to 15 the number of guerrillas killed since the angolan raid by Small elements of the South Africa military began dec. 14. Swap uses Angola As a springboard for its 19-year Bush War aimed at ending South african control of South West Afri Ca also known As Namibia. Police said some 150 people sought ref Uge at a police station from the fighting in the us Bumbuluc tribal District Between warriors of the Zulu and Pondo tribes. The refugees were trucked to the red Cross Headquarters in Durban an Indian Ocean port 31 Miles Southwest of Embum Bulu. Police said the fighting died Down thursday but the Region remained tens and clashes could easily resume. The Battles which did not appear to be politically motivated were among the fiercest tribal clashes in recent memory. One refugee said the fighting was n continuation of tribal Battles which started a month ago in the nearby Black township of Malaga i police said they were never cer Tain How that Battle began but at least eight people were killed. At the red Cross Hall in Durban Refu gee Colleen Cicala said hundreds of zulus lined up on Christmas eve along the North Bank of the Umbogy Intwine River. This she said followed reports of earlier clashes and the zulus chanted and Sang calling out for Rondos across the River to fight. They the zulus then crossed the River and since tuesday both tribes have Bee fighting non Stop gala said. Reporting five More deaths overnight in anti apart acid rioting and Black on Black political unrest police said three of inc Vic Tims died in a clash Between members of the main anti apartheid group the United democratic front and the Azania peo ple s organization a Radical Black consciousness movement. Police said two Black men were also injured in the clash wednesday night in Pearl a Cape province wine growing Cen Ter. Comment could not be immediately obtained from either of the organizations. A communique from police headquarter hinted that two other Blacks reported killed overnight were also slain by Blacks. It said one body was discovered in Johannesburg sow clo township surrounded by a Large group of Blacks who fled when police fired Tea. Gas. The other was found badly burned in Cape town s Kay Alisha township. In Cape town. Mrs. Mandela huddled with lawyers after the jail visit debating whether to stick to her plan to return Fri Day to Johannesburg in Defiance of a state order Banning her from the City. Lebanese Surprise from Page 1 of political reforms regarding the future shape of Lebanon at War since 1975. The Accord once signed by the militia groups will pave the Way for an enlarged National coalition Cabinet to see its clauses through the stage of implementation the sources said. They said one thorny Issue Lebanon s Long standing system of distributing civil service and top government and army posts was resolved through an agreement to Abol ish the system within a transitional period of not More than 10 years. The Cui siting stale of War Between the Christian and moslem militias will itself be abolished gradually Over a 12-month period by strengthening and restructuring the lebanese army and police militia sources said news of the breakthrough came As relatives of frenchmen kidnapped in Beirut packed their bags to return to Paris thursday after their lonely Christmas Vigil in moslem West Beirut failed Toffee their Kin from Page 1 asked what his Home town is. Bushman said when he told Reagan he is a Dixon native he just said this must be old Home week " the Hometown connection Between Rea Gan and the 20-year-old sergeant was s co incidence according to officials who helped arrange the Call. This was pure Chance said it. Col. William l. Mulcy of the Vii corps Public affairs office in Stuttgart. We did t pick a Guy from Dison 111. We did l Eten know that until after the phone  Mulcy said the White House had called earlier asking for the f troop number and for the name of the Soldier who would answer the phone. Bushman said he got Advance warning the president would be calling because they d been calling All Day to Check the  then a j � Hojic opera T lied at 5 20 p m and asked the sergeant to stand by. Reagan came on the line 14 minutes later. I was nervous at first but when we started talking. I just answered his questions Bushman said of his three min Ute conversation with Reagan. The president told him americans at Home support the . Soldiers fully then asked about his Job and tour of duty according to the sergeant. Bushman the duty no at the Border Camp operations Center told Reagan he is an my Lank Armor Crew Man who has served two years of a three year tour in Germany. Having served the last eight months at Camp Hof. Bushman was expected to depart for the United states today on a two week leave. He had Cyprus releases smuggling suspect Warnaca. Cyprus a police Nave released an american citizen of pales Tinian origin detained in connection with an attempt to smuggle weapons hidden in win bottles aboard a Swissair jetliner. Yezid Gasper Sayigh 30, had been held since another palestinian was caught at Lar Naca Airport allegedly with three pistols and three grenades concealed in two wine bottles. A Lic a inspector Yannakis Chrisl Doulou had asked for Sayigh s detention telling the court he had been in daily Contact with the Man arrested at the Airport Sami Nas ser 26, during the three previous Days. White House denies plan to oust Shultz Washington ufos a White House spokesman thursday rejected re ports that Secretary of stale George Shultz it on his Way out and said president Reagan his the fullest Confidence in his Cabine official. Shultz is very much on Board spokes Man Edward Djerejian said. The president has the fullest Confidence in his Secretary of state and has expressed absolutely no intention of making any changes he said. Other aides said they new of no pres sure to oust Shultz from the Cabinet. Shultz ran into controversy recently when be threatened to resign if Ever asked to take a lie Detector test. His comments came after it was disclosed that Reagan signed an executive order requiring govern ment officials to take polygraph tests the minute in this government i am told that i m not trusted u the Day that i leave Shutlz told reporters. It was the first time in memory that a Secretary of state publicly said he would quit Over principle and the while House seemed to reverse the polygraph policy inthe Wake of Shultz s statements. Last week. White House spokesman Larry Speakes said Only officials actually suspected of espionage would be subject to such tests and that guidelines would be drafted to control How they Are handled. The Nap Over lie Detector teats comes in the Wake of the arrests this year of 11 peo ple who bad Access to National Security secrets and Are accused of trying to sell them. Conservative critics Are not Happy with Shultz for his More moderate East West policies spawned at the Geneva Summit or the Secretary s recent Lour of Eastern eur. I1"? als angry Over Sulu s Victory detection 8an � Flen his p0 "1 on defense Secretary Caspar Weinbender and Cia director William cases Strong advocates of the lie Detector tested Adf Mats supporting its us after ski Chr took a i Pic Stind a faint Ihl Poncy. .h,1 the is lost an ally inthe Battle with the administration s ideologues when National Security adviser Robertm Farla resigned. Shultz and met be wer. A up against Weinberger tried to get away for Christmas but too Many other soldiers already had applied for leave during the Holiday. And now that he s got his leave he was asked where will he spend a Dixon  he said firmly. Temperatures december 25 l ii 22 21 5327 39 ii 25 31 36n 30 31 45 ii 25 -5 13 34 41 10 16 3 14 35 5410 17 -11 i 3 57 ii 35 31 24 53 -6 10 -2 12 5 25it 41 32 37 61 79 34 42 i j 69 44 49 61 Albany  Allan la Atlantic City Ballomo Railling Birmingha Bolia Botlon Behilo Burf Noron Chart Avion ,. W vib chicag Cincinnati Clevaland Wallai i. 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