European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 31, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page the stars and stripes monday. August 31,1967 Gephardt leads pack poll says Des Moines Iowa a then is still no Clear Funni runner in lows among democratic candidates vying for the presidential nomination although rep Richard Gephardt seems to be leading the pact according o inc latest Survey conducted by the Low a poll. No candidate received As much As 20 percent support of the 316 Iowa democrats surveyed who indicated they will attend the feb. 8 caucuses the traditional Start of the presidential primary season. The latest poll published in the pcs Monics Register on sunday has 18 per cent of the democrats saying Gephardt a Missouri congressman is their first Choice or they Are leaning toward sup porting him. Gephardt is followed by gov. Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts with 14 per cent support and sen. Paul Simon of Illi Nois with 13 percent. However the differences in support among Gephardt Dukakis and Simon arc Well within the poll s 5.5 percent margin of error. The rest of the Likely candidates received 10 percent support or less sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware 10 percent Jesse Jackson 9 percent former Anion gov. Bruce Babbitt 9 percent and sen. Albert Gore or. Of Tennessee 2 percent. The Survey taken Between aug. 17 and aug. 26, presented the names of 10 candidates including sen. Sam Nunn of Georgia and gov Richard Celeste of Ohio who have since announced they do not intend to enter the race and rep. Patricia Schroeder of Colorado who has not Yel decided whether she will run. Schroeder received s percent support in the poll Nunn received 2 percent and 1 percent chose Celeste. All tuckered Oul this Tot finds time to Lake Nap in the Dairy stalls of the hitting the Hay coliseum barn while visiting the co Luni Hinna county fair to Ohio. Star tire the family new keeps a watchful Eye on the tyke. I pct Cill luu3c a Al Tel. A everyone s o Winner in the fat Guys Road race. I a r .1. A. In in or Hauf Untch warm at least 4vj inches greater than the Terrebonne Ore. A the Competition was fierce but it ended in a tie As about 40 contestants cheated sweated and swayed to the finish line in the first Short fat Guys Road race. That was because a Stop Short line was drawn about 100 feel from the finish line on the one mile downhill course so All contestants could gather to in ish at the same i i me Organ incr Bob Ward said. After the finish the men were handed Beers and twinkies and they headed for the nearby sandbagged Saloon at Central Oregon s crooked re Var ranch to escape the 8 5-Dcgree Lieal and recuperate. I m full As As a pig. I be never seen so much free Beer flow said Ward 69. Cheating was encouraged in the race which most contestants walked. One Man used a horse another used a bicycle and one used a skate oaf d. The race was limited to men under 7 feel tall who have Wais sizes i their inseam measurements but even that requirement could be circumvented. If an inseam was too Long we just Cut the Bottom of their Pant legs to make them Ward said. The contestants ranged in dimension from s-foot4and to pounds to 6-2 and somewhere Between 430 and 450 pounds Ward said. That Guy says he s not really sure because he has to �0 to a feed store to gel weighed. Educator finds . Students ignorant in history literature languages _ Tii a 1_._� . Crter Tirl er4lrtftl in 1 t h f _ hot it Washington a teachers and textbooks that emphasize skills Over Content Are keeping american children ignorant of history and literature the chairman of the National endowment for the humanities said on sunday. Lynne v. Cheney in a study ordered by Congress urged elementary and secondary schools to devote More Lime to history literature and foreign languages. Her 10,000-word report american memory also previewed a forthcoming Neh sponsored Survey that found dra Matic gaps in teen agers knowledge of epochal events including when the civil War occurred when the Constitution was Wolten. And even when Columbus discovered the new world. Most elementary Reading books ton Tain Little Chi no Siirid. In Stead of learning haul King Arthur. Joan of arc or i Corgi Washington Chil Dren Are to dry. Contemporary rime aimed at leaching much skill As tip in male grocery hols and uie the Telephone hunk the Craigi d. Cheney wrote knowledge of the ideas that have folded us and the ideals that have mattered to us functions As a kind of civic our schools today we run the Dan Ger of unwittingly proscribing our Hen she Laid the blame at the door of text books and teachers who emphasize the process of learning rather than us con lamented the Scholastic aptitude test was studiously indifferent to whether test takers have studied the civil War. Learned about Magna capita or read she expressed concern that foreign language courses emphasize Oral proficiency at the expense of the culture of other lands. Hut she welcomed the re bound in language enrolments in High schools percent of stud ends studied a foreign language in 1983-Jifi, up trom21 percent in 1478 and said Grade is the Lime to Mart. The j&9.000 Jas pics arc with Vic from a i Pam is of Al luge professors and schoolteachers. Her predecessor William j. Bennett now Secretary of education wrote an Neh report in 1984 decrying the decline of the humanities on College said the 1370,000 Survey of nearly 8,000 17-year-Olds in the Spring of 19861 y the National assessment of educational Progress found 68 percent could not place the civil War within the Cor rect by vast majorities students Demon Strate unfamiliarity with writers whose works arc regarded As classics Dante Chaucer Dostoevsky Austen. Whitman Hawthorne Melville and some 39 percent could not place the . Constitution within the Correct half Century. And 43 percent did not know when world War 1 look place. Thiny Vui percent did not know Culumbus Landi in in fore 1750," the Coracci answer on the multiple Choice lest Simy four percent failed to pick Chaucer As the author us taif Canterbury tales and ill per cent could Mil name Wall Whitman As the fill who unite leases of tin ii new drug May combat alzheimer s Chicago up1 italian re searchers reported sunday that a new drug appears to retard and partially reverse the mind Crip pling effects of alzheimer s Dis ease but . Scientists urged Cau Tion in interpreting the results. The drug based on a fatty com Pound derived from cows caused delayed but significant improvements in 6j alzheimer s patients who took Low Oral doses Over a three month period said or. Livigi Arndul i of the univer sity of Florence school of medi Cine. A spokeswoman fur the Alz Heimer s ii Wuwer and related Dis orders Tisou Jilin. 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