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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 2, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday. October 2, 19h7 the stars and stripes Page 9 poll shows Jackson As demo front runner but gop candidates favored in South super tuesday Washington a an Abc Washington Post poll of voters in the 14 Southern super tuesday primary slates shows Jesse Jackson winning handily in a race against his democratic presidential nomination  the poll released wednesday indicate that Nei ther Jackson nor any other democratic candidate would win against two prominent Republican candidates in the Stales surveyed if the election were held now the poll results Are based on Telephone interviews with 2.116 men and women selected at random from sell. 9 to 23. The Sample included 1,042 from the 14 Southern super tuesday Stales including a Sample of 295 Black voters. Tie margin of error was plus or minus 3 percentage Points on the National Sample 3.5 ._m��m44.d a but a the in nor tllmrldu1 of Calvinl Al Fly lie.  e 14 in the South and Southwest that were surveyed will conduct democratic primaries or caucuses on presidential candidates. Because so Many of the Stales Are picking candidates on the same Day it is commonly called super  Abc Washington Posl poll shows that when filled against democratic rivals Jackson remains the National front runner. Among democrats polled Jack son was chosen by 22 percent Welt ahead of second place finisher gov. Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts who had 13 percent the percentage supporting Jackson increases to 25 percent when the Southern super tuesday Stales Are isolated. Support for Dukakis in the South drops sharply pulling him in fifth place with 7 percent. Sec Ond in the regional poll is sen. Albert Gore of Tennes see with 12 percent rep Richard Gephardt of mis Souri with 11 percent is third followed by Dukakis and then sen. Paul Simon in sixth place at 5 percent. Rep. Pal Schroeder of Colorado who announced this week she was not a candidate had 9 percent Good enough to rank third nationally and fourth in the Soufi. Sen. Joseph a Biden of Delaware who has pulled out of the race had 2 percent in the super tuesday states and former Arizona gov. Bruce Babbitt had 4 percent. Twenty seven percent of those polled nationally had no opinion or planned not to vote. That same Sample was 25 percent in the South. Both Jackson and Dukakis run poorly in the poll against the two leading go presidential candidates vice president George Bush and sen. Robert Dole of Kansas. In a hypothetical Bush Jackson con test he vice president won 63 to 28 percent nationally and 69 to 24 percent in the super tuesday Southern states. Bush also won against Dukakis but the margin was lower 61 to 29 percent nationally and 59 to 23 percent in the  Jackson nationally Dole won 63 percent is. 28 percent for Jackson. Against Dukakis the Kansas senator got 60 percent to 27 percent for Dukakis. In the super tuesday states. Dole beat Jackson 67 percent to 26 percent and Dukakis 63 percent to z4 percent Jackson said the poll shows special Power in the super tuesday Southern primary Stales because of their heavy Black Popula  in a sampling of Black voters Only Jackson was selected by 62 percent As the first Choice for a demo cratic presidential candidate. Gephardt who is from the super tuesday stale of Missouri and Schroeder shared a Distant second with 4 percent. Biden and Dukakis followed with 3 percent each. Then came Babbitt Simon and Gore each with 2 percent. The poll also found that among both Bjacek and White voters Jackson is considered the nation s lop Black Leader. More than 58 percent of those polled Stile planning  primaries an March 8,199b Tuss. South  picked Jackson when asked to identify the most important Black Leader in  Chicago mayor Harold Washington was a very Distant second selected by 2 percent while 30 percent of the Sample had no Opin Ion. The other percentage Points were scattered among More than 22 other choices. The Southern super tuesday states in the pol were Louisiana Maryland Alabama Tennessee Georgia North Carolina Arkansas Texas Virginia Mississippi Florida Missouri Kentucky and Oklahoma. Primaries or caucuses also will be held in six other states Rhode Island Massachusetts Nevada Idaho Hawaii and Washington. Mit team planning to re create legendary flight of Daedalus Athens Greece a a fragile Man powered aircraft will take off from the Mediterranean Island of Crete next Spring in a group of scientists bid to recreate the legend of Daedalus the first human to Fly according to greek mythology. At the moment of Takeoff the Suc Cess or failure of the flight will be largely in the hands of the person act ing As Pilot John Lang Ord director of the Massachusetts Institute of technology s Daedalus project told a news conference in Athens. If successful the 69-mile flight across the Aegean sea to Mainland Greece will double the distance re Cord for human powered aircraft set earlier this year at Edwards fab Calif. Peddling a 92-Pound aircraft named Light Eagle Over a dry Lake bed. Glen Tremml a 26-year-old medical student covered 37.2 Miles in a Little Over two hours to beat the previous record of22 Miles. Three world class athletes including a greek cyclist will train together on the $800,000 project to Pilot the sophisticated 70-Pound Daedalus air Craft. Although Only one Pilot will Fly the Daedalus the other two will be used As backups in the Cuenl that More than one attempt is required Lang Ford said. In greek mythology Daedalus flapped his Way Oul of imprisonment in King Minos labyrinth on Crete using a pair of Feather and Wax wings he had designed and built himself. The modern equivalent is a slim pedal plane constructed from Carbon Liber and polystyrene foam with wingspan of 31 Yards. The Power out put for the Nieling flight from a fee Airport in Western Crete to Nea Polis in the Southern Peloponnesus i roughly equivalent to two marathons run Back to Back Langford said. The endurance trained athlete having undergone an intensive six month period of training beforehand will work Al roughly 70 percent of his Power for the four hour Elighi and will produce close to one third of a horse Power,1 he said. The greek Pilot Kanellos kanello Poulos 30, said he is optimistic about getting through the Lough Battery of physical tests. I Don t think Illi be dangerous said Kanellopoulos a greek National cycling Champion and 1984 olympic participant he also will learn How 10 Pilot an engine powered Light air Ragas pan of his raining. The three year project coordinated by aeronautical engineers physicists meteorologists and classical scholars will finally depend on weather conditions Langford said. We re trying to re create a dream that s existed for More than 3,000 years but even if the flight s not successful toe real goals in the Field of education and research will have been achieved he said. Stopgap spending Bill approved by Reagan Washington president Reagan signed a Stopgap spending Bill wednesday As the Federal government finished uie fiscal year with Uncle Sam shelling Oul More than is trillion for the first time according to official estimates. The Bill continues most Federal spending at current Levels through nov. 10 to keep the government running while Congress considers the regular appropriation Mea sures. None of the 13 regular spending Bills has passed Bath houses of Congress. The House has passed 10 the Senate had passed two and was considering another covering expenses for the District of co Lumbia on wednesday. The Stopgap Bill provides for continued spending at current Levels except for for eign Aid which is reduced and Aid to con tra rebels in Nicaragua who were Given $3.5 million limited to humanitarian assistance. This is sharply less than the pro rated share of the current appropriation of $100 million which is for military As Wellas humanitarian Aid. Taxpayers contributed Only about $850 billion toward the outlays in the fiscal Yea that Jelsi ended. The government borrowed the rest piling More than $ 150 billion on to the More than s2.4 trillion debt it Haj Al ready accumulated most of that in this decade. Spending and lax changes for the new fiscal year will be decided later but both surely will be higher. The National debt will increase about $144 billion according to the newly revised Gramm Rudman Bud get balancing Law. Hahn subpoenaed of testify in we tech Case sources say new York not Jessica Hahn has been subpoenaed to appear next week before a Bronx grand jury investigating the we tech corp., according lop eople familiar with the Case. They said she would be questioned about a $10,000 payment she received from a Bronx minister the Rev. Aime Garci Cortise who is a sister of rep. Robert Garcia and also a former Board member of the Rev. Jim Bakker s Ftp ministry. Hahn a 28-year-old former Church Secretary from Long Island achieved notoriety when she asserted earlier this Yea that she was forced in 1980 to have sex in a Florida hotel with baiter. Accord ing to Hahn Bakker s organization Lacr offered her $265,000 in an attempt Lokeel her from revealing the incident. Bakker has denied Hal he forced Hahn to have sex with him. Last summer Federal investigator linked Hahn to the Wedech Case when they traced payments from the Bronx military contractor to her Bank account. According to people familiar with the Case the grand jury will seek to deter mine if Cortise obtained the funds tra ced 10 Hahn u part of a we tech bribe of Cortise s brother to help secure Mili tary contracts. Hahn who is touring the country to promote an interview in Playboy mag Azine is reportedly not a target in the investigation  
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