European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 10, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page the stars and stripes tuesday february 10,1987 Iowa Survey finds Reagan support Down Den , Lawn a More than half the Lourns questioned in a re cent Survey disapprove of the Way presi Dent Reagan is handling his Job with a third saying his competence As president is below Par. The pcs Monics Register s copyright Iowa i Alt published in monday s editions found Hal 31 percent of inc Lowans surveyed approved of the Way Rea Gan is handling his Job. Filly five percent disapproved and 14 percent expressed no opinion. When asked i assess Reagan s competence As president Lowans gave the president previously rated As one of the most popular chief executives in his tory mixed Marks. In All 51 percent said he is of average competence. 33 percent said he s below average and is percent said he is among the most competent . Presidents Ever. The poll also reported that 6s percent of those questioned said Reagan s effectiveness is being seriously Hurt by disclosure of the Iran arms Sale and subsequent diversion of profits to contras fighting in Nicaragua. Twenty eight percent said the episode will be mostly forgotten after a Tew months. The latest Survey suggests that the Iran arms controversy is not being forgotten. A similar question in december found that 69 percent said he controversy would not soon go away. The Job approval rating is the lowest Ever for Reagan whose agriculture policies had come under Fin in the farm Belt before the 1 ran arms scandal erupted. The earlier Tow was 34 percent in de Cember when the controversy was unfolding. The new figure matches the lowest approval rating received by two of his predecessors during crises of their own Jimmy Carter during the Iran hostage standoff and Lyndon Johnson during the Vietnam War. Reagan s rating is just 3 percentage Points above the lowest presidential Job approval rating measured since the Iowa poll began asking the question during the Eisenhower administration. In septem Ber 1973. At the height of the watergate scandal Richard Nixon received a 28 percent approval rating from Lowans. The poll conducted Jan 26 to feb. 4, was based on interviews with 803 Lowans 18 years old or older whose Telephone numbers were selected at random by a computer. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage Points. 2 Pofs flying pole to pole reach Hawaii Philadelphia uh1 two pilots in a single engine plane Hying from pole to pole landed monday in Hawaii where key will lunch up their Craft for their assault on the North pole. The Crew of the Arctic Tern landed in Honolulu after a 2,-400-Niilc flight from Tahiti that look them 13 Houry j7 minutes. 1 sluts Richard Norton 48. A commercial airline Pilot i rum Philadelphia and Calin Roschli 56, a Ger Man Ecron Dujics Engineer planned to pause in Honolulu Lor routine maintenance on their sex Scalar Piper Mich in a Flag i operations spokesman in Philadelphia said. Tin.1 Arctic Tern s nem planned stun after Hawaii is Fairbanks Alaska the staging Haw fur an Atli in led flight  the North i Nile. Norton said they expected 10 leave Earl tuesday fur Alaska. In Contrail to mime of the buggy Stormy weather they cup Crienus d nver lilt South pole. Norton said. We had a Rry Nice trip up from Tahiti. We had imperative weather and  there Yre a few thunderstorms they were Able to Sliff he said. Norton and Kos Clit had flown 20,135 Miles before taking off for Hawaii including a successful visit to the South pole and have about 10.630 Miles to go before completing their hopscotch journey around the world said trip spokesman Frank Caputo. After ils flight Over the North pole the plane is scheduled to land in Norway and Paris before return ing to the i in cd slates. The two so Tiejen spent saturday travelling non Stop from Aster Island m the South Pacific to Tahiti. That s no tinkertoy Fly lung Yoon Park 17, of stun sunt High school in new York demonstrates a project he has submitted to the  science Talent search. For his project which ill rumprti.1 fur a $20,00 1 scholarship he sync Hesiki d a writs of Complex new organic chemical compounds. Air Force Bricin Stormer study Futurist ideas san Josh. Calif. Am researcher futurists and science Huron writers a an in Furce brainstorm in Confer ence Pund Rcd such ideas As implanting computer chips into human brains and genetically altering pilots ii was reported monday. Air Force scientists already have implanted Silicon chips in llu1 brains of Duus in  aimed at giving human pilots an  sensing Organ according to the san Jose Mercury news. The a Oik pts wort1 broached Al inc futures workshop conducted two cars Xijiu for the air Force s aeronautic ills Sll is div of Wright Patterson fab. Near Dayton Ohio. It included 30 air Force members 10 fiction writers and 10 futurists according to a report obtained by the newspaper. The report noted that the ideas do Noi reflect air Force policy plans or direct  but the air Force issued a Sec Ond  report that included ideas from the conference deemed Worth further study. Consider upon enlistment into the air Force that future Blue suiters could be genetically re engineered to be a Bel Ter Pilot one in which superhuman capabilities have been  the workshop report said. Other ideas included implanting com Puter chips into the brains of chimpanzees and using the animals As expendable Pilot Crews growing human body parts running computers by thought Waves flinging meteors Al naval targets and de signing biological diseases that could invade and eat enemy computers. Air Force officials have refused to specify which conference ideas were recommended for further study. But col. Ronald h. Traudt chief of staff of the aeronautical systems division at Wright Pauer on said the computer Dis ease concept already is being studied. We re looking at things such Asen Wymes that attack  he said. Asked about genetic engineering he said they re obviously looking at some of those areas or i certainly Hope  in a separate Story the newspaper re ported that air Force scientists have implanted a computer Chip in the brain of a Beagle with Hopes of one Day giving pilots an extra sensing  the operation carried out in 1982, recorded the dog s visual response to a flashing Light. The Silicon based circuit had 16 electrodes Matthew Kabriski a professor at the air Force Institute of technology at Wright Patterson said his research team Hopes to put an integrated circuit Wajih 256 electrodes in he brain of a Monkey some time this year. Colombian drug suspect pleads innocent to charges  so Vii 1,1-. Fla. A1 a Man a famed of k  Une of lilt leaders of the v. Will s largest drug snip Louig Iii spa jul a ii Volt in monday and was ordered held without Huml after m prosecutor cat cd him the personal embodiment Ofa Narco err Priit Amul Light set unit. Carlos Lehder Rivas. 37. Entered innocent pleas to 11 drug smuggling counts at a i Mig in Fua . Magistrate liar eve. Schlemmer and said lie had no funds to pay fur an Laturney. I have been hounded b the colombian army for the last four years Lender said. He said All his assets had been Frozen. The internal Revenue service also has filed a jul million Lien on Lender s estimated earnings of up to s300 million in the Early i Jesus prosecutors said. The magistrate agreed to order Lender held after . Attorney Robert Merlc listed violent acts Altonb used to Lehder. Alleged to be a Leader of the Medellin Cartel As the dog sin Gulmi ring has been dubbed b investigators. Detaining him is no pcs a to to decl ourselves the witnesses in this Case and in a Milli the Public Markle said adding. I her is the it Rural embodiment of a  Lender is accused if by in nm1 of the leaders of a Cartel that used bullets numbs and bribes to build the world s largest cot inc smuggling ring