I count you at 73 (congratz!), but I also don't think it gives what Masem asked for. Using your idea, I got me down to 87 chars:

@s=('*',' *'x5,'='x15,"\n");@t=(' *'x5,"\n",@s)x3;@u=("\n",'='x26,"\n"
+)x3;print@s,@t,@u
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