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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Thursday, March 10, 1988

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 10, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes thursday March 10.1988paga 28 Fyk b donor s foil prompts restrictions in . By Dave Stehl . Bureau the Dollar s 5-Ccnl loss against Fri Iii Sterling monday has prompted american express military Banks in the United kingdom to Sci temporary limits on the number of pounds their customers can Exchange Tor dollars. The Dollar hit new lows against the British currency this week after inc Bank or England gave up its efforts to keep Sterling below the unofficial ceiling of 3 West German Marks. Without tear of intervention he mar vet drove the Pound to st.8415 tuesday. Other  Nolc ppm on pc 20 military banking customers today Wilt be prohibited from exchanging More than si00 Worth or pounds into dollars according to Boh Davics general manager of american express in England. Greece and Iceland. Barring another big drop in the Dollar Exchange limits will be lifted  mid the restriction which the Hank has not used in its . Branches since 1985, goes into effect whenever there is a drop of 5 cents or More in i devalue of the Dollar against Sterling. Last Friday inc Bank sold a Pound for j1.79, monday s Rale stood at $1.84,triggering inc restriction. Customers were saved from a similar limit monday on the Purchase of pounds a Cap of $2,000 because news of the Dollar s drop came Loo late to put the restriction into effect. Unlike in pounds to dollars limit the 12,000 re Striction applies Only on the Day the Dot tar drops 5 cents or More. Davits said. The purpose of this is to prevent speculation Davies said in a Telephone interview from the Bank s Raf Hig Wycombe Headquarters. It s to prevent people Rushing in to buy Sterling one Day and coming Back inc Neil and Selling it  american express buys its currencies the Day before Selling them. Davics said. One London trader said she believe the Dollar will lose More ground against Sterling by the end of the week she predicted a rate of 11.90 to the Pound in the coming  the Central Bank has eased its support for the German Mark the conservative government of prime min ister Margaret Thatcher remains committed to a stable Pound in the interest of keeping inflation Down and Export competitive. Bush sweeps super tuesday demos split 3 ways ,._� ,1 u Lytwa. 4i.n Siut in in i a Ftp to nut it fit Irv Mari ui4 Ihrl invisible Man Nobili Calv As the return from Page i Lar in inc South and Bush is certainly Riding those con Taik aside from Washington Roberton s Best states were in Texas and Umiliana where he challenged Dole for second place. Hui the former to evangelist was running third in h is Home state of Virginia and was nowhere near the 200 or 40 delegates he said he needed to Lake Home furl Mcnight. I i in t too bad for an Amateur but it ill not near whal i expected said  Robertson. Kemp was in fourth place in most of the slates and appeared sure to withdraw from the race. " you be Given me and Barbara a tremendous lift Bush said in Houslin. And indeed the voters had. The vice president romped to Victory in Tsas Florida Georgia. Virginia. Kentucky. Mississippi Alabama Mary land Rhode Island. Tennessee. Louisiana Arkansas and Massachusetts. Oklahoma und North Carolina were closer Calls but landed in Bush s column anyway. Dole congratulated inc vice president on an a Creme a Good Day adding hell probably sleep better than i  Bui inc Kansas senator tried to turn the talk to next week s Illinois primary saying tomorrow we will be on inc Road 10  Dukakis who was running second in Arkansas and Ken Tucky 10 go with his victories called super tuesday a very very special Day for us i feel Good about the South said the Man with the new England accent. He also took a look at the a churns his and Gore s and immediately took a shot at his rival . You can t win the democratic nomination with n Southern  he said. Gore said he was inc Man to Lead the democrats to Victory in the fall and fired right Back at his new England rival "1 think Mike Dukakis is going to represent Tor Many no charged with assault on his 23-month-old son Raf Alconbury England is an no whose son has been hospitalized with critical injuries since saturday was charged tuesday by air Force authorities with aggravated assault. Tech. Ski. Sieven Webber. 36, of the 2166th communications so was charged at a pc trial hearing with aggravated assault on his 23-Monlh-old son Stan sol. Steve scholar a base spokesman said. Webber is from Salt Lake cily Utah. The boy was in a very very poorly condition in Addun Brooks s Hospital in Cambridge a Hospital spokesman said tuesday. He could not say anything about the nature of the injuries but said the boys breathing was being aided by a Respirator. The Case still is being investigated and 3rd air Force officials will decide if Webber will be court mar titled scholar said. Voters the same old formula that led to the loss of 49 out of 50 states i wire in the last five elections Gore said. He promised a Long hard fought contest for the Nomi nation. Next Slop for Gore n weekend Duel with Jackson und Gephardt in South Carolina. Jackson won Virginia Georgia and Mississippi and Louisiana. He was running second in North Carolina Florida Missouri Tennessee Massachusetts Maryland and Rhode Island and parlayed his Black political base into a mass of delegates. All in All ii was a Laree improvement Over 1984 when Jackson won Only Louisiana among inc 20 super tuesday states. We be gone from a narrow mainstream to a Broad based River Jackson said. Network polling place inter views with the voters showed him gaining nearly 10 percent of the White vote roughly double his showing of four years ago. Gephardt won his Home state of Missouri and was Sec Ond in Oklahoma but i hid or fourth everywhere else. "1 agree i did t do Well tonight he said. He vowed to stay in the race for the Indus uial slate battlegrounds ahead bul aides said in Advance that he would t make much of an Effort in a Cal week s contest in Illinois. Sen. Paul Simon who passed up the South and waited in his Hom state of Illinois saw no Clear Winner on inc democratic Side. It s going to be a brokered convention he said Wishful by Gary Hart was the politically in returns were counted. The Campaign was notable for its accusatory to commercials. And the number of convention delegates at stake 712 in it Republican contests and 1,307 in 21 democratic primaries and caucuses made super tuesday the busiest Dayhof Hisor any other presidential nomination Campaign. Dukakis targeted his Campaign at ethnic Volcart liberals and Union workers in pockets across the South aiming hit Appeal As Well at the huge elderly population in Florida Dukakis used his Superior finances and organization to pick up Downs of delegates in slates where he did t in Jeet to win outright. His rivals made inc same Effort on a smaller scale know ing they could Cam at least one Delegate in any congressional District where they received is percent of the vote. Jackson who has run Well in some slates Wilhoi a Large number of Black volts Drew on his Core constituency for the first Lime this year. Abc interviews with voters indicated he was gaining roughly 9 percent of the White Vole compared to 1984 when he pulled in less than 4 percent. Gephardt was in jeopardy of failing to qualify for delegates in several states. Gephardt blamed his poor showing on inc sheer scope of the contest saying. I think maybe it was a disservice to the voters to put 20 state on one  losers was Check returns of Home Washington a there was nothing superin super tuesday for Gary Hart in the democratic race or for Jack Kemp in the Republican. There we Reno cheering throngs no Victory parties Hart whose Baule cry when he re entered the race last december was let the people decide had no Public comment after he failed to get into double digit percentages anywhere. Hart who had said last week thai so Long As i can be treated seriously t will continue watched the re turns on television at his Home outside of Denver. Kemp who also Dweller in the Low single digits also chose to watch the returns with i family in suburban Washington rather than with supporters. Dad As Hart s and Kemp s totals were they exceeded those of other candidates who had stopped campaigning but whose names remained on the ballot a ghosts of debates past. Sen. Paul Simon of Illinois passed up the super tuesday Competition to rally the democratic troops in his Home stale. In a sense what happens after tonight is we Star the Campaign Over in phase ii. And what i want to do is come out of Illinois with a Strong solid vote Simon said Early in the evening. Later he said the super tuesday results confirm that the democratic nomination process is in a stale of confusion and gridlock and thai the race is anything but Ovir it s just  Republican Pat Robertson also had a poor  lie vowed to slay in the race unlit the National convention in new Orleans he said if this in t theone Well be Back four years  rep. Richard Gephardt did Well on inc democratic ballot Only in his Home stale of Missouri. I m far from chucking it in because this is a Lon Grace said Gephardt in a Tel visor interview. We re going to go on to Illinois South Carolina and Michigan and try to gel our message across and i think i can Gephardt said we lacked sufficient resources to Beable to get our message everywhere on super tuesday. Thai s not going to happen in the slates Hal Are com ing up  he complained about negative campaigning by Michael Dukakis and Albert Gore who with Jess Jack son split the democratic vote. We had a situation where we had about $6 million or s7 million spent against us by those two candidate against about is million we were Able to spend he said later in another television interview. Slots from Page 1i and have asked the out the Issue. Have seen Pentagon in fcb Iron Oul Legal Gray like to Sec a consistent policy on the Slot machines among t no welfare and recreation chief Clare mock said Navy policy Gener ally is the same As thai of Jhc air Force to  bars korean troop from playing Slot machines in open messes but the air Force does the said. Atter reviewing the audit Agency report air Force and Dod Legal officials Felt Hal Navy to have their Legal people in these six countries go Over the policies to draw up a  and i Ming Hal we re said machine policies we be asked the air Force Arney and  the air Force As inc Lead Agency. ,.-review, should Complete its work within Thenell few weeks he said. Governments 41muui by facilities by citizens or i ,moelk5aid. Slot machine revenues Are used to sup administered port installation level mar programs an construction projects. In fiscal 1987, air Force Slot machine Revenue totalled More than $20 million while army Slot a pulled in j26.7 million. Navy offi not Able to provide Revenue fir _ 987. We re eager to get this cleared up Saida staffer for the mar panel on Capitol these machines Are a significant Rev activities and we  
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