European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 10, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 2 the stars and stripes monday december 10,1900folks who make res Busy by Janet Howells Tierney l Washington Bureau Washington r of the More than 220,000 scr  who daily use the fruits of their labors one Soldier had finally noticed. Quot we got a letter from a Cook in saudi Arabia who was from Madison Mississippi Quot said Elaine Bland of the Royal maid association for the Blind. Quot she said she sat Down to have a cup of Coffee and saw our name on the packet. She wrote a you made a very lonely Soldier smile  the association is located in Hazlehurst miss., less than 50 Miles South of the soldiers Hometown. The letter was read Over the intercom to production line workers who have been toiling seven Days a week to meet the increased military demand for their product flatware and dining packets for tray pack rations and meals ready to eat. Royal maid is one of about 40 companies that produce the 42 items included in res. Tray packs a canned ration that feeds 30 people include 34 separate items. \ a a / _ Quot. A a before desert shield manufacturers each month churned out an average of 200,000 cases of res and 300,000 tray packs. A now companies Are straining to meet the skyrocketing military demand. Quot our production Levels Are up about 400 percent Quot said Margie Namie of the Cincinnati based Cinac which assembles Are packages. Quot we had been cutting Back each year but now we Are shifting  the company has hired 650 new employees in an Effort to meet the military demand but training will take time Namie said. Military officials have projected production Levels for the manufacturers but acknowledged the future is Uncertain. Quot we project 1.2 million Are cases for each of the first three months in 1991. Then 1.5 million cases in april 2 million in May 2.2 million in june and then 2.4 million for the remaining months in the year Quot said Walt Welsh general products Branch chief for the defense personnel support Center in Philadelphia. Officials project a monthly need for about 1 million tray  Quot these Levels Are based on the fact that we re dealing with one of the biggest unknowns from a logistics Point of View a Welsh said. Quot this All could end in five Minuter or last  a on wednesday $258.9 million in contracts was awarded to seven companies to provide thousands of packaged Ham slices corned beef hash Spaghetti with meat sauce and other entrees for Field rations. The government includes a clause in the contract that allows it to Cut Back on production Levels if the defense departments needs change Welsh said. More than $30 million of the Pentagon food contracts went to Cinac to produce packages of Chick cart Stew ind Chicken it la King. The Royal maid association for the Blind will have to make 1.73 billion pieces of flatware to meet the burgeoning military demands Bland said. Royal maid has been operating its injection molding machines non Stop and running two shifts of workers even on the weekends. The company made up of 700 employees in eight production workshops also produces jacket and Pon Cho liners and clotheslines for american troops in saudi Arabia she said. About 75 percent of the Royal maids production line workers Are Blind. Recent Call  to Active duty of Reserve and National guard units have directly affected some defense contract labourers. A we had three workers activated a Cook a supervisor and a Mechanic Quot Bland said. Quot luckily we have been Able to fill the holes they left so  another military food contractor Venice maid in Vineland n.j., has lost 10 workers to Active duty a spokesman said. A until production companies can meet the spiralling need for military rations specially packaged commercial foods Are being shipped to saudi Arabia to maintain Field ration stocks. T currently the commercial products Are arriving each week on separate pallets and being distributed to units Welsh said. But the military Hopes to make up Complete meals out of commercial items and Box them individually he  to stand trial for Jesuit priests murder san Salvador Al Salvador apr a salvadoran judge on saturday ordered eight soldiers to stand trial for the murder of six Jesuit priests their housekeeper and her daughter. Court spokesman Mario Gonzalez said judge Ricardo Zamora ruled that col. Guillermo Benavides three lieutenants and four soldiers will be tried on eight counts of murder As Well As charges of terrorism. He said Zamora dropped burglary charges. V Zamora closed his investigation on Friday a step that judiciary sources say diminishes the chances of anyone else being implicated in the massacre. The society of Jesus the local roman Catholic Church leadership and members of the . Congress who have been monitoring the investigation contend that Benavides is not the Only ranking officer behind the killings. A. Congressman Joe Moakley d-mass., has accused members of the salvadoran army High command of obstructing the investigation covering up evidence and lying in testimony before Zamora. A a Zamora spent More than a year investigating arid court sources said it is unlikely a but not impossible a that anyone else will be charged several defendants testified that a 40-Man unit raided the priests residence on the Campus of the University of Central America before Dawn on nov,.16, 1989. The soldiers murdered the six priest professors As Well As their housekeeper and her 15-year-old daughter according to testimony. Two of the lieutenants accused in the Case have testified that Benavides ordered the murders and the elimination of any witnesses. Benavides denies the charges. Al Salvador a Radical right Wing including Many army officers had Long considered the jesuits allies of leftist guerrillas waging an 11-year-old War against a succession of .-backed governments. The priests maintained the. Civil War stemmed from injustice official repression and widespread misery rather than International communist expansion. This viewpoint As Well As their support for a negotiated settlement to the conflict earned them the virulent enmity of  a a a. A a a police killed in bombing mourned Sabadell Spain apr More than a thousand mourners flocked to funeral services sunday for six police officers who were killed when a Booby trapped car exploded w Spain a deadliest terrorist attack in three years suspected Basque radicals set off the explosives packed car As a police Van passed by saturday. Two other police officers and two civilians remained hospitalized with serious injuries suffered in the blast. ,. Quot a a a a a no group has claimed responsibility for the blast but police said it appeared to be the work of Eta a Radical Basque group that has killed More than 600 people since 1968. A in Sabadell an estimated 1,500 people filled a main Square As the six Flag draped coffins were carried from the town Nail where they had lain in state to a funeral mass in nearby san Felix Church. Some of those outside the Church shouted Quot Long live the police a and Quot death to  silent vigils r for the victims were planned in some 60 cities and towns throughout the Spanish Basque Region which comprises three Northern provinces. R de Maiziere s ties to Stasi probed Bonn Germany apr Chancellor Helmut Kohls government said saturday it has initiated a probe into whether to thar de Maiziere a East Germany s last Leader and now a Kohl Cabinet member a had worked for the Stasi secret police. Government spokesman Dieter Vogel said the decision was made after a Quot refer ence to a document was found on a file card under the cover name a Czerny a with an address listing in former East Berlin thai is identical to de Maiziere s. The Index card was discovered among Stasi documents said Vogel earlier saturday the news Magazine Der Spiegel said it had uncovered records indicating de Maiziere had been an Quot unofficial workers for the East German Stasi secret police using the cover name  Vogel did not comment on the cards authenticity or give further details about it. There is concern that files compiled by the Stasi secret police could contain doctored up papers that would incriminate innocent people. Vogel said that Quot in agreement with de Maiziere a the Stasi files would be examined to try to Clear up the matter. Later saturday de Maiziere issued a statement denying he had worked for the Stasi. Be Maiziere who became East Germany a first and Only democratically elected prime minister on March 18 pointed out saturday that East Germany s parliament had examined his background and exonerated him before that nations dissolution and Mercer with West Germany on oct. 3. He said that before East Germany a revolution last fall when he was an attorney his sole contacts with the stash Terefe gals it Essa y 0_ut his _ is Maiziere added that he has asked Germany s Interior minister Wolfgang Schauble to Quot carry out a comprehensive examination to finally show that he is innocent. Both the prosecution and the defense have the right to Appeal Zamora a ruling that the investigation is Complete and his decision to bring the Case to trial. Sources say the defense is expected to Appeal a process that is expected to take about three months. If the Case goes to trial a five person jury will review transcripts of testimony the judge gathered in. His investigation and will return a verdict. Juries in Al Salvador do not hear testimony directly from witnesses and their reviews generally last Only a few Days. The judge imposes sentence. A murder is punishable by a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison and terrorism by up to 10 years in prison. No salvadoran officer has Ever been convicted of a human rights crime news updates a r. A a a. A a Pilot investigated Bologna Italy apr the Pilot of an italian military Jet that slammed into a classroom and killed 12 students has been served notice that he is under investigation in the disaster. / Deputy state prosecutor Massimiliano Serpi said that 2nd it. Bruno Viviani who bailed out shortly before the crash May face charges of manslaughter. The Pilot one of 87 people injured in the crash received the notice in a local Hospital. _ the military Jet which was on a test flight from Verona plunged in Blanp to a classroom at nearby Casal Ecchio. Twelve students were killed instantly Many others were injured when they jumped in panic from the windows italian president Francesco Corsiga arrived in Bologna on Friday to pay homage to the victims and visit those hospitalized Forest sales receipts Washington a final payments totalling about $1qq million Are going out to states As their share of 19,90 National Forest sales receipts the agriculture department has said