European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 7, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday april 7, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 9 Mcdonald s grilled by 4 chinese chefs san Francisco up four master chefs from China s Sichuan province got their first Laste of american fait food and were impressed. They also amazed local Burger Flipper with their prowess at the Grill. The chef from Chengdu the provincial Unpi Lal of Sichuan visited a Busy Mcdonald s restaurant to tee How a typical capitalist spends Bis lunch hour they had a Quick lesion and were turned Loose in the Kitchen. Wang Dao Shua 41, Zhao Hui Chan 42, Lui de Cheng 40, and up Xuan min 29, visited the Burger joint As part of their two week Viii to san Francisco and put aside such specialities As pandas playing on the Mountain and the Sichuan landscape1 Tor such mysterious items As Gay mop a Burger Luchu Fries an to How How to soft drinks. They wanted to see what a real Mcdonald s operation is like translator Franklin Chao Aid. They asked to come Here chinese people today Are very interested in change in learning How to Speed things lip an some european stations plan to scramble to signals by Wendy Bourlan staff writer americans buying satellite television dishes to N.C. up european channels or the american forces network could be in for a rude Shock. An and some european channels Are planning to scramble their signals satellite dish owners currently can receive Many channels including the european feed of Cable news network and Britain s sky Channel. But the army has warned service members to be aware of several Pitfalls associated with the Purchase of dishes. Although distributors claim the signals can be de coded scrambling has become so sophisticated that i would be difficult if not impossible to decode an army news release said. When an switches from microwave transmission to satellite transmission the signal will be scrambled by a method called digital encrypting a 5th signal come spokesman said. Digital encrypting is More Complex than regular scrambling he said. Scrambling rearranges the picture and synchronization he said. People can sometimes make or buy a Box thai will decode the signal. With digital encrypt ing you can t go out and buy a Box to decode  a spokesman for the american forces information service it Washington d.c., said he could not say How Many satellite cashes would replace microwave Lowers in the an Germany network until a contract is signed with the German Buix Espil Lal Erthis month. He also would not disclose the Cost of the new syn Tern nor where the dishes would be placed. Several of the dishes will replaced in communities that currently Don t receive an he said. In communities already receiving an through microwave transmission reception should improve. Anyone who purchases a satellite dish Tor use in Germany must Register it with the Bunde Spost which regulates the use of satellite dishes in the country. If you use a dish and Don t pay the fee or Don t convert the dish to German standards the Bunde Spost lakes it away you pay a line and you go to court and pay a Fine said Franz Schneider of the radio and television department of the Bunde Spost in Frankfurt. The initial registration tee is 50 Marks $28. Fol Lowed by 20 Marks $ 11 a month thereafter he said. Number of women in military hits Post Wii High Washington a the number of women serving in the . Armed forces has climbed past the 10 percent Mark setting a new Post world War ii High of almost 219,000, according to a new Pentagon report. The number of military retirees has also set a record climbing past the 1.5 million Mark for the first time. The report says the Pentagon continues to confront its own baby Boom the Active duty Force continues Loim prove in educational Levels and the number of civilian workers employed by the defense department declined last year. Those and other statistics Are Dis closed in the latest edition of an annual Pentagon study selected manpower statistics. The report offers the most comprehensive review available of Pentagon employment patterns As Well As indicator of where that Force resides and How age sex education and family patients Are changing. The latest edition shows that As of sept. 30, the Pentagon had 2,169,112 men and women on Active duly and 1,153,009 civilian employees around the world including foreign nationals the Active duty figure represents an increase in uniform strength of 18,080. But that was almost entirely offset by a decrease in civilian employment of 18,045. That decrease follows a major spurt recorded in fiscal 1985, when civil Ian employment climbed 42,210. In a Section reporting on Active duty trends the report discloses there Are now 217,430 female officers and enlisted personnel and another 1,459 women in the various military academies for a total of 218,889. That represents i  percent of the military Force compared to 9.8 percent in i9b5, and is the highest level recorded since 1945, when world War if ended. At that time there were 266,256 women serving in the military. The report also shows women Man aged to slightly increase their presence at the military academies where new offi cers Are trained. In fiscal 1985, women comprised 10.33 percent of the Academy students. Last year the total climbed to 10.63 percent or 1,459 of the total 13.719. The study also shows another increase in the number of military retirees up to 1.51 million and the highest level Ever  the total includes people retired with a pension after a minimum 20 years of service those retired with benefits be cause of a disability As Well As families entitled to survivor benefits. Most of the retirees about 1.25 Mil lion Are regular pensioners in 1950, the re were Only 58,752 such retirees. The increase has already prompted Congress to Reform the pension system with an Eye toward cutting future costs. The report farther shows efforts to re lain personnel in the All Volunteer sys tem and to provide them better pay Are leading loan increase in dependents. That in turn leads to increased demands for housing school and recreational facilities roughly 54.6 percent of All military personnel Are now married up from 54.2 percent in fiscal i ssi and there Are now More than 2.9 million military dependents up almost 37,000. On the educational Side the percent age of enlisted personnel in the military who have completed High school in creased by a full percentage Point just year from 95.5 percent to 96.s per cent. Earlier reports have shown a dramatic increase in the number of new recruits with a High school diploma. The fiscal 1986 study however covers All enlisted personnel not just recruits. History buffs re enact major civil War Battle Shiloh. Tenn. A the Echo of Musket fire swept across rolling Fields sunday As 6,000 civil War buffs trans formed into civil War soldiers staged a remake of one of the bloodiest Battles on american soil. Cavalry companies charged into the fray with swords and pistols drawn while 66 cannons sent Clouds of smoke and Waves of Thunder across the Battlefield. When he shooting starts and your adrenaline gels up you get just As excited As if in were real said William Carriage Lon of Durham. N.c., serving As a lieu tenant with the 19th Alabama inf. The show watched by about 40,000 people perched on Hills was the first Day of what had been a two Day fight 125 years ago. The real Battle began on april 6, 1862, when 40,000 Confederate troops Jed by can Albert Sidney Johnston surprised an equal number of Union soldiers under the command of Gen. Ulysses s. Grant. The Union army marching South after victories at fort Donelson and fort Henry on the nearby Tennessee River had decided to rest and Drill in West ten Nessee near Shiloh Church. Confederate troops marched up from Corinth miss., about 20 Miles South. By the time the Battle ended More than 100,000 men had joined the fight and 23,000 of them were killed or wounded. At the time it was the largest Battle fought in the United states. Sunday s event was organized by the Shiloh Fie enactment association inc., which said requirements for proper period dress and weapons were sync try enforced. The soldiers wearing replicas of civil War uniforms were armed with 1860s-Cra weapons or replicas. Cavalry men provided their own mounts. The location for tic re Cna Clment was a 600-acre Field near the original Battle ground now a National Park about 100 Miles East of Memphis on saturday the participants from 47 slates and five foreign countries practice marching turning advancing with fixed bayonets and other War tactics of the Day. Re enactment organizers had to Deal with matters More mundane than com Bat such As parking and traffic control. Ken Christman who spent two Yean planning and organizing the re creation said thousands of dollars were spent on insurance permission to use the land had to be secured and 120 Porta Johns were ordered. The re enactment association hoped to recoup the $50,000 Cost by charging spectators s3 for tickets. In Many ways it s like a play Chrestman a 34-year-old investment banker said recently. But what we do is a lot More serious than a play. It s history  condom firm experiencing Boom in soles since aids Dothan Ala. A Ansell inc s production lines Are busier than Ever evidence that America s once stagnant condom Industry has been revived by the deadly disease aids. We Are making More condoms than anyone else in the world,11 said Cecil a Miner executive vice president of the Pacific Dunlop Ltd. Latex products subsidiary that employs 620 workers in do than and about 1 do at Troy. For nearly two decades after the introduction of the birth control Pill the . Condom Market slipped to sales of some 400 million a year. But that was before publicity about aids which stressed that aside from Fidelity condoms were the Best Protection against contracting the sexually transmitted disease. Ansill s orders have increased about 10 percent this year benefiting from fear of acquired immune deficiency syndrome. The aids virus at tacks the body s immune system leaving victims susceptible to a wide variety of infections and cancers and Here is no known cure. Condoms Are expected to be fur ther bolstered by an increase in Adver Tising and recent support for he product by surgeon Genera Everett Koop but company officials Are hesitant to predict the ultimate Impact of the aids scare on sales of both condoms and protective gloves. Eugene freed a spokesman for an sell s marketing office at tin Lon Falls. N j., said recent decisions by general circulation publications and some television stations to handle condom advertising spurred the company s decision to double its advertising budget to $2.5 million. The company also makes medical examination gloves and Ansel officials expect to Cir condom and Glove sales combined to reach $100 million this year. The company projects sales of 533 million condoms and 628 Mil lion medical examination gloves in the year ending june 30. The company s Alabama operations include a Battery of govern ment regulated stretch tests per formed by a work Force which is 65 percent women. The condoms in varying colors and textures arc then slipped mechanically into packages and Cartons. More than half of them Are produced for foreign birth control programs administered by the Agency for International development