European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 27, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse D 4 die 32 injured in Holiday fires Page 2 Ritwo Days of comics and crosswords pages 16-20 d Kansas Norseth leads Blue Over Gray 27-20 Page 21 the st1ft, vol. 44, no. 252 Friday december 27, 1985 d 8693 a funds denied for gis pay hike Congress requires Pentagon Lojiw Tomoney for 3% raise b Cunt sum Washington Bureau Washington the Pentagon will have to raid other defense accounts in find the Money for the 3 per cent military pay raise that began in october Congress has decreed. The fiscal 19k6 defense appropriation Bill slices the s1.9 billion for the raise from the department s budget request saying inc Pentagon ought to pay for the increase out of $6.3 billion it has left Over from other be. Those billions figured proud intently last week when rebellious House Mem Ryf Efus to approve an earlier House Senate agree Jmon defens a pending. M a bars of Ort Gress were concerted that the de sense depart to a might try to use the Money to avoid Aulo matk or across the Board spending acc to Lions that May by of fingered next March to help keep line with Revenue. Military compensation officials said the Pentagon will find the Money. Congressional staff members said deficit reduction legislation enacted during the first session May Force the defense department to fire some employees nest year but such As salaries must be paid by Law. The appropriations measure says in is not possible to determine How much savings might result from retire see raise on Page 28 a Young woman looks on As smoke Billows from mount Etna in Sicily. The Volcano eruption surprised area Resl mount Etna erupts dents and triggered an earthquake that killed one nun and injured 12. Story on Page 3. Christmas Miracle highlights Holiday of giving in . By he associated press from the White House to Wisconsin highways to shelters in downtown Dallas americans celebrated Christmas Day in the spirit of giving. Families flocked to churches nation wide gathered around sparkling Trees to open eagerly awaited gifts and tried in ways Large and Small to give Comfort to those less fortunate. In Chesapeake va., a ear old men tally retarded child who had lived in a series of Foster Homes was reunited with the father she had t seen since she was 2. The girl s father who spoke on Condi Tion of anonymity said he had been unable to find out what had happened to Yacka Marie until he saw a newspaper Story about her Christmas wish for a per manent Home. It s a Christmas Miracle said Marina a. Houston a social worker who had sought a Home for the child. Actor Daniel Travanti of television s Hill Street blues helped serve meals to 3,000 in Digonis at the Union Rescue mis Sion in a Section of los Angeles where Many scenes from the police drama Are filmed. I m very familiar with this neighbor Hood Travanti said. I feel a kinship be cause 1 see these people All the time. I want to Call attention to their plight. The Public has to know the need in suburban Columbus Ohio Ann Buchanan haunted by a recurring dream of a hand reaching up from a Gutler for help bul being ignored by passers by spent a total of $2,100 on i 50 Turkey dinners. 200 Coats and Christmas cards containing $10 Bills for residents of a shelter. I just love people and i think they need she said. Tennesseans pitched in with Cash toys and Foxx to help the family of a a scr old girl who died last weekend in a fire in her Home. Jessica Renee Jones safely out of the House had seen her father fall in a front room and rushed Back inside screaming. Daddy. her father made it out alive the girl apparently pm her was in the thick smoke. I Cali de How Luck cod has made said fail Cullun or. A car dealer who drove 20 Miles to Waverly to drop off a Check for $500. I be been so fortunate. I just wanted to help them have a better americans from new England to okla homa had a White Christmas and fog thai had blanketed the Seattle area for a week thinned enough to allow hundreds of stranded travellers to depart. But the thick fog was expected to return with Nightfall and flights were cancelled for a fourth Day in Reno. Nev. Fog in Massachusetts forced some smaller carriers to cancel wednesday s flights into and out of Boston. But in Southern California thousands see Christmas on Page 28 dessert by any other specification is not dessert Washington ult 18 Small Type pages Long including Fourt or Riua fun changes and if grandma goes by the manual Oulen come what the Pentagon considers the perfect Christmas Fruitcake. The non classified recipe described As the perfect specification Cost is no object Fruitcake was placed in the congressional record by sen. Sam Nunn of Georgia the ranking Democrat on the Senate armed services committee. A the proper nomenclature for by the army s research of cml a lion including metric c for instance Nunn or candied cherries Caa to i Frics shall be made from pitted still be thoroughly processed with pts Tuble solids Content of not less than 72 per so artificially coloured with a red Dye. They shall be Cut to yield /4 to to Inch Cherry pieces on the As for getting the Fruitcake into the tin 3.5.1 specifically states and the is an order that the finished product shall conform to the inside contour of inc can or can Scrivy distributed and Jett commercial Bakers arc admonished the flavor of the finished product shall be typical of the Type Ted. There shall be no off flavors or of Many critics of the Pentagon s penchant for and i am afraid this is typical of military an and he posed a question during that near catatonic Lull Between Christmas can you imagine the specifications on an air plane or a Complex weapons system
