European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 12, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes monday october 12,1987 news updates fewer illegal aliens Tucson Ariz. A a nearly one third decline in the number of people caught illegally entering the United states Means the new immigration Law is helping . Borders Federal officials say. Harold w. Ezcell Western regional commissioner of the . Immigration and naturalization service said apprehensions of Ille Gal aliens nationwide during just completed fiscal 1987 were Down 31 percent from the year  an act to Reform Immi Gration that went into effect earlier this year employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens face penalties of up to six months in prison and j 10,000 in tines per alien. London recovers Topeka Kan. A former gov. Alf Landon was released sat urday from a Hospital where head spent 12 Days recuperating from a mild Case of bronchitis an was glad to be Home his Daugh Ter , who turned 100 on sept 9, was in Good condition Fol lowing his release saturday afternoon from Stormont Vail regional medical Center in Tope Fca said London s daughter .  Kassebaum a Kan. Landon served two terms As Gover nor of Kansas from 1933 to 1937, and ran against then incumbent democratic president Franklin Dela no Roosevel in 1936, losing in one of the most lopsided defeats in Ameri can election history. 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But the Newsweek poll released sat urday found is percent think Bush will have a serious problem overcoming criticism that his Loyal service to Republican presidents Over the years has made him look like a wimp. Thirty two percent of those surveyed said they would like to see Bush become the Republican nominee while 23 per cent would prefer sen. Bob Dole  other candidate received double digit support. Among those who identified them selves As republicans or Republican lean cars 41 percent favored Bush and24 percent Dole. Asked How Likely they would be Tovote for Bush for president if he were nominated 14 percent of the total Sam ple answered extremely Likely 16 per cent said very Likely and 24 percent fairly Likely. Forty four percent an swered not too Likely or not at Al Likely and 2 percent said they did t know. Regarding Dole 11 percent said the would be extremely Likely to vote for him 12 percent very Likely and 21 per cent fairly  Twenty one percent responded not too Likely 30 percent not at All Likely and 5 percent said they did t know. However when asked whether the were generally More Likely to vote for a Republican or democratic candidate for president in 1988, 43 percent of those surveyed said democratic while 33 per cent said Republican. The poll of 1,013 adults conducted oct. 7-9, has a margin of error of plus or minus four percentage Points. Kennedy May have misjudged attack on u-2 during missile crisis paper says Washington a a key As sumption by president John f. Kennedy during the cuban missile crisis that the soviets in control of a cuban missile Battery shot Down an american spy plane May have been incorrect according to a published report sunday. In an article in sunday s editions of the Washington Post journalist Seymour m. Hersh writes that decoded communications newly available indicate a so Viet surface to air missile base was at tacked during the crisis apparently by cuban troops. The attack by the cubans came Les than 2 hours before a . U-2 spy plane crashed near the base on oct. 27,1962. Kennedy and his advisers assumed the soviets had shot it Down not consid ering the possibility that it could have been the cubans the article said. The cubans were More Independent of Moscow in the crisis than the Kennedy administration thought possible Hersh wrote. The crisis thus was even More danger Ous than already thought he said be cause both superpowers were making important strategic misjudgments he said. The shooting Down of the spy plan played a role in Kennedy s decision to demand that the soviets begin dismantling missiles within 48 hours or risk a  strike. The soviets agreed to an iia mediate withdrawal of their nuclear mis Siles. The cuban attack on the base became known Only in 1964, when the United states broke a soviet code according tothe article. Unprecedented polish referendum a to seek Public s views on Price hikes Warsaw Poland up the pol ish parliament saturday approved bold ing a referendum nov. 29 to get Public opinion on a government proposed eco nomic Reform program that includes sub Stantial Price hikes. The referendum apparently the first in postwar Eastern Europe is seen As part of an Effort to make the drastic economic measures which in clude a restructuring of wages and prices More palatable to the population. One estimate in an official newspaper predicted that prices could Rise As much As 57 percent next year. Polish television said the question of Price hikes will be included in the referendum the contents of which will be specified in a separate parliamentary Resolution to be completed later. Government imposed Price hikes area sensitive Issue for poles whose protests against them toppled the governments of Wladyslaw Gomulka in 1970 and Edward Gierek in 1980, and forced the leadership to rescind announced increases in 1976. Only under martial Law imposed by  Jaruzelski in december 1981 for 19 months was the government Able to impose Price hikes on Many Basic items. Opening the unusual saturday session prime minister Zbigniew meaner presented the Reform program. The plan includes the firing of half of the polish government s top officials and one fourth fits work Force. The ambitious program of 129 tasks or changes to be undertaken through de Cember 1991 also would lift bureaucratic restrictions on state run enterprises an encourage More private Enterprise particularly in retail Trade restaurants food catering and processing and the production of building materials. Lion shot after mauling 8-year-old at Texas Flea Market in Houston Houston up a 600-Poundafrican lion owned by a photographer mauled an 8-year-old girl at a Flea mar Ket saturday and Security guard saved the child s life by shooting the animal three times. The lion s owner was leading it on Aleash out of the Texas Fie Market in North Houston when it attacked Rox Anne Hernandez police said. The child a taken by helicopter to Hermann Hospital where she was treated for head wounds. She was unguarded condition sunday night hos Pital spokesman Bill Swanson said. The wounded lion was removed from the Flea Market by animal control officers and was later killed and its head sent for Laboratory tests to see fit had rabies said a veterinarian. The animals owner told police head owned the lion for two years and had brought him to the Flea Market three times to pose with patrons so he could Seo photographs. The owner whose name was with held by police was taken into custody for questioning but released without charges. Police said their information win be forwarded to the District attorney and a grand jury. Police u. . Driscoll said the an Imal grabbed the girl s leg As the Ani Mal walked from the Market and Security guard shot the beast the enraged lion then took the girl s head in its Mouth and would not let go until the guard shot it twice More he said. They were walking the lion oat and it just happened to attack her said Thomas Whitmire who was shop Ping at the Flea Market. She just happened to be the closest. It was a Horri ble  the Man told police he brings Asnake for picture taking sessions at the Flea Market when be does not bring the lion Moore said