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Almost every industry group is touting nutrition. The Washington Apple Commission, a growers' organization based in Wenatchee, calls its fruit the "original health food" and asserts that the natural fiber in apples is an appetite suppressor. The Potato Board is pushing its vegetable as "multivitamins with minerals." Even the Sugar Association has something positive to stress: the sweetener's low 16 calories a teaspoon and its placement on the Food and Drug Administration's "safe" list, a claim artificial alternatives cannot make. "Which would you rather put on your kids' cereal...
...blue jeans-clad vegetable seller in Budapest. "Everyone I know thinks there's going to be an explosion." The challenge for Hungary's rulers, as for Moscow's innovative Party Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, will be to contain such public discontent long enough for the economic reforms to bear fruit...
...have reached Harvard University's Dial-a-Menu. Today is Friday, September 24. For lunch: cream of celery soup, Italian sausage sub, sub sandwich bar, shrimp fried rice, fruit salad, salad bar, and brownies. For dinner: sirloin steak, baked ziti, O'Brien potatoes, zucchini rings, long French carrots, salad bar, and ice cream. Bon Appetit...
...Honduran town, bickering over who was to be in charge. The feuding led to a formal ISA complaint about loose Seaspray security. Seaspray agents had set up a small military satellite dish outside the Honduran house, hiding it with only a plastic garbage bag. An operations security team, Yellow Fruit, flew a large commercial satellite dish to Honduras so that the Queens Hunter team could more convincingly play the part of rich Yanqui tourists...
...special operations division, meanwhile, was getting into even deeper trouble. The source was Yellow Fruit, which had been assigned to keep watch over the other special operations units to make sure they preserved secrecy. In 1983 two of the unit's officers complained that their commander, Lieut. Colonel Dale Duncan, was trying to cover nearly $90,000 in missing funds with phony receipts. Colonel Robert Kvederas, the new commander of special operations, asked Longhofer, who had become military liaison with the CIA, to investigate. Longhofer initially concluded that Duncan's accusers could not prove their charges. But Jerry King...