European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 28, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday september 28.1987 the stars and stripes Page 3  Fine Swine and in this farm he had some pigs As Massachusetts go. Michael Dukakis left finds out while Low Farmer Joe my Gnu tikes him on a Lour. Dukakis was in Iowa last week u part of his Campaign for the democratic presidential Nomi nation. Bork will get enough votes Reagan lobbyist predicts Washington a a Public relations executive who is helping inc Reagan administration fight Tor judge Robert 1. Bark s Elevation to the supreme court said saturday he believes Bork has enough Voles for confirmation my guess is that we will get 50 votes when the Senate decides the confirmation question Tom Koro logos a lobbyist said in a Telephone interview. Korologos who has helped devise administration strategy for pursuing Bork s confirmation admitted thai the vote will be extremely close and could go either Way but said so votes would be sufficient. As i be said Many limes he s not running for presi Dent. He s nol running for Misa America miss con geniality or something Kofl Roloos said of the 60 year old Bork a judge on the 1 3. Circuit court of appeals for the District of Columbia. Administration interviews quoted anonymously in he new York time on saturday rated the chances of Bork s confirmation at Best 50-50." fifty votes presumably would to sufficient because even Pihe final vote were a 50-50 tie. Vice president George Bush would break the tic in bark s favor. Speaking on a Republican party program in Phila Delphia sen. Cordon Humphrey r-n.h., said he thinks the administration s 50-50 projection � too pessimistic and Laid he has urged Reagan to Goon the attack. In another development Gary Bauer a White House Domestic policy adviser said of the Bork debate on capital Hill i believe what we Are witnessing can Best be described As pit Bull polities. Yet another Man of character and intellect is being viciously chewed up by Washington s special interest lobbyists. In a speech prepared Tor delivery to a meeting of the Eagle forum the conservative organization founded by Phyllis Schlafly Bauer said that a coalition of pro Aport Jonisu Radical feminists left Wing and far out civil libertarians has engaged in an incredible special interest Campaign 10 Force the Senate to reject this nomination. The vote that will be taken soon rep resents a great test not Only for this administration bul for the ability of the Senate to withstand the pres sure of left wings Korologos who is president of Timmons & co., a Washington Public relations and lobbying firm said while House officials have been frustrated Over inc Lack Ofca Dorand the Lack of objective opposition to Bork. The lobbyist said thai Bork s cynics should focus on what the judge said in five Days of testimony and on the Legal opinions he has written rather than earlier speeches and articles by Bork. There s All this conversion talk about Bork i hav ing moderated his views just for the committee hear Ings Korologos said of the opposition. Look the Man testified under oath. Either confirm him or indict him. He was on the  this is the Bob Bork that they ought to  Korologos said. He said administration figures have been assured by both sen. Joseph Biden d-dcl., the chairman of inc Senate judiciary committee and Senate majority Leader Robert c. Byrd d-\v.va., that Bork s Nomi nation will not get stuck in the judiciary committee. It s not a life or death Battle to get Bork out of committee Korologos said. He said he expects the nominee either to be recommended favourably b-6, or to have his name sent to the Senate floor without recommendation on a 7-7 lie vote or to have it sent with a recommendation of disapproval on a 6-8 vote. Korologos said he now doubts whether opponents will attempt to conduct a filibuster of the Bork Nomi nation on the Senate floor but conceded that if one look place the administration forces would not currently have enough votes 60 to obtain cloture. Korologos said he is not receiving any compensation for his work in assisting the administration saying i m doing this on my lunch hour As a private Citi  meanwhile Pennsylvania Republican leaders and College conservatives who have gathered in Phila Delphia moved to put pressure on sen. Arlen Specter r-pa., to come put Tor Bork the Republican slate committee s leaders sponsored a Resolution urging the Senate judiciary com Mittee to confirm Bork. The move was clearly aimed at Specter a second term Republican who is among four judiciary committee members saying they arc undecided on the Bork nomination. Petition blocks Oregon Seatbelt Law Salem Ore. A Oregon s new Law requiring the use of seat belts did not go into effect As scheduled sunday be cause those seeking to Block it have Gath ered enough petition signatures elections officials said. Enough petition signatures also were submitted by backers of a Campaign to put a Law increasing the state gasoline tax to a vote in the november 1988 general election. That Law was not scheduled to go into effect until january. The counties have 15 Days to verify the signatures on the two groups of petitions filed Friday during which Lime the seat Belt Law will be suspended if enough signatures on the petitions arc found to be valid the Laws will be suspended until the election. Backers of the campaigns to Block the Laws needed to collect 42,38 valid Sig natures of registered voters to place the Laws on the november i9ss ballot. Each group handed in several thousand More signatures than the required number i. Order to account for invalid signatures. Friday was the deadline for referring to the ballot most Laws passed by inc 1987 legislature. Most of the Laws took effect sunday which is 90 Days after the legislature adjourned. The scat Eft measure will be on inc ballot regardless of whether the referendum Effort succeeds. Lawmakers provided for a vote on the Law in november 1988, the Only difference is that now inc Law won t go into effect for a trial run. The gasoline Ian measure would boost inc tax by 2 cents a gallon Jan. 1, and by the same amount again in january 1989 and january 1990. The tax now is 12 cents a gallon. Jellyfish attacks plague lifeguards Daytona Beach Fia. A jellyfish floating about 100 Yards offshore in the Atlantic Ocean have stung More ban 40 lifeguards in the wont series of attacks in memory. We be never seen anything this bad before said Volusia county Beach patrol it. Jack Driskoll. He had blisters on his stomach and one leg from the Crea Tures. It fell like someone took a hot Villel and held it against my Arm until it was on i said Mark Brown 37, a Mem Ber of the so my mfr patrol for 11 years. The sting left purple blisters and scabs on his leu forearm. Brown said he fell fortunate. A fellow lifeguard was stung in the face during swimming drills last week and had not yet returned to work Friday. Few Beac goers have been stung be cause the umbrella shaped creatures Are out too far for most swimmers Driskoll said. The patrol is cautioning swimmers to stay in Waist High water no More than 50 Yards out. The jellyfish about 3v inches wide and nearly transparent resemble blobs of Gelatin with opaque tentacles that release tiny darts to Sling prey. On human skin the sting produces a rash which should be treated immediately with warm water and soap or vinegar. Guards said they found meal Tenderizer also is effective in treating the slings a photo freed from Chile German teacher Beatriz Brink Mann 41, arrives at Frankfurt air port saturday night following her release by chilean officials. She was imprisoned in Santiago since last september on Security charges and said her Jallim tortured her with electric stocks and pinched her in the face a military court dropped let charges and Rard thai she could go free but said she must leave Chile immediately. No malignancy in Hirohito tissue to reports Tokyo a a japanese Clevi Sion station reported sunday that no malignancy has been found in tissue taken for testing five Days ago from the pancreas of 86-year-old emperor Hirohito. Nippon television quoted unit Chi feed informed sources As saying the tissue was Beautiful arid not  Masaaki Kuwashima. An official of inc Imperial household Agency which Man Ages inc emperor s affairs said no offi Cial announcement had been made on the test results in a 2 a hour operation Lasi tuesday. Surgeons performed a bypass around a blockage in Hirohito s intestines which they said probably was caused by pres sure from an egg sized enlargement of his pancreas. The problem probably was chronic inflammation of the pancreas they added but a tissue Sample w As taken 10 test for cancer meanwhile. Hirohito look milk and ice Cream sunday after drinking water saturday afternoon for the fir anime since his surgery the Imperial household Agency said. The emperor s blood pressure pulse and temperature were All reported nor Mal and he was said to be recovering satisfactorily Hirohito watched japanese traditional sumo wrestling on television from tits bed sunday some 4,000 people have signed Ihetu Nanu s in a special Book outside the Imperial Palace to wish the emperor a speedy recover