European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 17, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Fags 4 the stars and stripes sunday. January 17,1988 fraud charges Spur Dupont to pull out of Texas primary Hanover . Up the former governor of he said his Campaign would continue to maintain Delaware Pete Dupont withdrew saturday from the presence there. Upo tens Republican presidential primary because his Effort 10 get on the ballot in thai state was marred by charges or fraud. The fraud charge alleged that forged names appeared on official petition for Dupont. At a new conference hours before t Republican debate in new Hampshire do font a dark hone candidate said he asked thai Hii name be removed from the primary ballot in Texas because a company he hired 10 help colled petition there had done to fraudulently. "1 am outraged to be a victim of this kind of a fraud but that does i make the ballot petitions Mare valid he said. Those pieces of paper were intended to be my ticket onto the Tonus ballot. They can no longer serve to place my name on that ballot because i will not condone some of the practices used to gather the  problems with petitions also have plagued the campaigns of he Senate Republican Leader Robert Dole  of slate Alexander Haig. Newspaper investigations also revealed alleged Forg eries on petitions by rep. Jack Kemp . The Texas Republican party planned to do a random sur vey of 500 Kemp signatures but Afler beginning the Survey thursday decided to verify All the signature son Kemp s petitions. Bui Dupont did nol suggest the candidates should remove themselves from the March 8 Texas primary. Dupont in an  Effort to put his withdrawal in the Best Light said the integrity of his Campaign would nol allow him to slay on me ballot in Texas but h Sai l a present the re Rosanne Robertson a receptionist working for the do Pom Campaign in Houston was fired Friday after an internal investigation showed she was responsible for 136 forged names on his filing petitions in teus Laid Fred Stern a do pent spokesman we discovered and teamed yesterday that an pm Hampshire. The Fri is investigating allegations that petitions required to eel Republican presidential candidate on the ballot i Texas contained forgeries. The Houston firm of Southern political consulting was involved in gathering signature for Dupont Dol and kalg but the allegation against Roianne Robertson was the first time any Campaign employee has been linked to the forgeries which also Are being investigated by lie slate attorney general and texts Republican party. The Dallas time Herald reported in a copyrights Toty saturday hat Robertson instructed two volunteers to help her forge 136 names in Houston on Jan. 2, Stem said the receptionist worked in do font s Del aware Headquarters but was sent to Tenas temporarily because she had lived in the a. In Texas candidate Are required to submit 3,000 valid signatures to win any of the stale s 111 nominating delegates. Dupont submitted about 6,000, and until saturday morning. Stem had insisted that Dusom would be Safe despite allegations of forgeries. Peled Opont Stern said there was no indication that anyone in the Campaign but Robertson was involved in the forgeries and said it was highly unlikely the was involved in petition forgeries in other to alas. The Republican party checked Only 500 signatures submitted by vice president George Bush and evangelist pal Robertson but is checking All those submitted by the others because of alleged forgeries. Washington Moscow poll shows differing  viewpoints Washington a an unusual Survey con ducted in Moscow and Washington and released sat urday found soviets More upbeat but possibly less informed about bilateral issues than americans a . Pollster says. Because scientific opinion polling is new and relatively untested in the soviet Union the fact that join sampling was taken May be As significant As the results said John p. Robinson of the University of Maryland. The Point is that we Are gelling going on these things Robinson said in an interview Friday. Telephone samplings of Moscow residents found 42 percent viewed the outcome of the meeting in Washington last month Between president Reagan end Kremlin Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev As very Good compared with 12 percent of inc washingtonians polled who fell the same Way. The poll also found that 53 percent of those polled in Moscow had nol heard of the Berlin Wall compared with 86 percent of the americans surveyed who were aware of the Barrier erected by communist East Ger Many and the Siovich Union to Divide the German City. The pall is the third conducted by Robinson and Vladimir Andry Yonkov the head of the methodology Section at inc Institute for sociological research at the soviet Academy of sciences. American pollsters surveyed 152 people in washing ton and 305 nationally after the dec. 8-10 Summit selecting Telephone numbers at random. In Moscow soviets working in conjunction with the French firm Itsos the French periodical be Point and Best Sellers the French television network tf-1 randomly Tele phoned 1,000 muscovites Robinson said. Or minus. Points isaid. Moscow is the Only place in the soviet Union where you can do this kind of Telephone sampling said Robinson because it has the highest ratio of households with telephones. So percent compared with 23 percent for the Northern russian City of Pskov where the team conducted face to face surveys Las year. Asked How they would rate the general results of a Reagan Gorbachev Summit meeting 42 percent of the muscovites polled said very Good 44 percent said Good 12 percent said satisfactory " and 1 per cent thought it poor very poor or did t  in Washington 12 percent rated the results As very Good 37 percent its Good 30 percent As satisfactory 7 percent poor 2 percent very poor and 10percent did t  asked to assets the military balance Between the Kremlin led Warsaw pact and the North Atlantic treaty organisation dominated by Washington 15 percent of the soviets and 49 percent of the american judged them equal. Of the americans 15 percent thought the Warsaw part was stronger and 13 percent said nato was stronger. Of the soviets 12 percent Houghl the East was stronger and 11 percent the West. 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