European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 22, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes monday August 22,1988 Bush leads Dukakis 51% to 42% in poll new York up George Bush leads Michael Dukakis in popularity by 51 percent to 42 percent and the controversy Over Dan Quayle s service in the National guard did t make much of a difference a Newsweek Magazine poll showed saturday. Although Bush has suffered from a gender Gap prob Lem the Telephone poll of 1,000 registered voters taken aug. 18-19 revealed that women were divided evenly Between the two presidential candidates. Among the women polled 45 percent said they would vote for Bush and the same percentage said they would choose Dukakis. Seventy five percent of those who said they had voted for Ronald Reagan in 1984 said they were plan Ning to vote Republican again. Among the 18-to-45 age group 52 percent said they would cast their ballots for the Republican ticket As compared with 43 percent who favored the democrats. The margin of error in the poll was listed As plus or minus 4 percentage  vice president was perceived As stronger in a number of policy areas with half those polled saying they thought he was better Able than the Massachusetts governor to keep the country out of War and Deal with the drug  in the area of reducing crime 43 percent Felt Bush was better and 34 percent said Dukakis was the Man to do the  Only area where Dukakis was perceived As stronger was in helping families and children out ranking Bush by a slim 48 percent to 40 percent. Responding to Bush s Choice of Quayle the Junior Indiana senator As his running mate 36 percent said Bush s Choice made it More Likely they would vote Republican while 33 percent said it made them less Likely to do  13 percent said they Felt Quayle s service m the National guard during the Vietnam War made him less favourable and 74 percent said it did t mat Ter. Asked if they had a less favourable opinion of Quayle if As claimed he used family influence to join the National guard and avoid being drafted 66 percent said it did not matter and 23 percent said it  asked if they Felt Quayle was qualified to serve As president in the event it became necessary 43percent said he was As opposed to 67 percent who thought Dukakis s running mate sen. Lloyd Bentsen a Texas would be better qualified. Asked which candidate has a Well defined program for Progress 47 percent thought Bush did and 32percent went with Dukakis. The majority Felt Bush is More forceful and  on the Issue of raising Federal taxes Over the next four years 35 percent believed it was either very necessary or fairly necessary and 61 percent said twas not necessary or not necessary at  West Bank Gaza strip outbreaks continuing Jerusalem a six arabs were shot by soldiers and three israeli civil ians were Hurt sunday As palestinian staged a general strike to Mark the 19th anniversary of an arson fire that ravage the Al Asa mosque in Jerusalem. Meanwhile police minister Chaim bar lev announced the arrest of three palestinians from the West Bank town of Jenin who Are suspected of tossing a Gre Nade that wounded 25 israelis in crowded shopping mall in Haifa. Israel radio s arabic service said the three were a father and two sons who worked in Haifa. The three were see fleeing the scene after the attack it said. Bar lev said some 17 other arabs herein custody for questioning in the Case. Among the israeli casualties were two children. Dan Meir 8, lost both feet and his brother Yonathan 2, was wounded inthe Abdomen said officials at Rambam Hospital in Haifa. Haifa s mayor Aryeh Gurel said the saturday night attack appeared aimed at harming jewish Arab ties in a City which has become a Symbol of coexistence. They will not succeed in their goal of upsetting jewish Arab relations Gurel said in a statement. Haifa s population of 243,000 includes 20,000 arabs who hold israeli citizenship. In contrast with other areas of Israel Many live in mixed neighbor hoods with jews. In the occupied West Bank and Gaza strip palestinians shuttered stores and stayed Home from work in a dozen majorities in a strike called by moslem Funda mentalists another offshoot of the anti israeli protests that began in the Territo Ries dec. 8. The strike marked the anniversary of the1969 arson fire that ravaged the Al Asa mosque one of islam s holiest Sites. Israeli soldiers clashed sunday wit groups of Stone throwing Arab youths in the narrow winding streets of the old City of Nablus the largest City in the West Bank with a population of 120,000. Hospital officials said six palestinian were wounded one seriously by live am munition. A seventh protester suffered serious Eye injury after being struck by a rubber Bullet. The  said it was checking the report. Iraqi troops fired shots violating truce Iran says Baghdad Iraq a Ira charged sunday that iraqi troops Vio lated a two Day persian Gulf War cease fire by firing 10 shots near a . Observer team in the Central Sec Tor of the front line. Gulf based shipping sources said two . Patrol Craft one described As a speedboat Are patrolling the strategic Strait of Hormuz Gateway to the Gulf and the Shatt Al Arab waterway which Marks the Southern Boundary Between Iran and Iraq. It was the first report of . Crafton patrol since the cease fire took effect saturday morning. Iran s official islamic Republic news Agency monitored in Cyprus said the Small Caliper bullets were fired by iraqis in the Nafts Hahr sector at 10 04 . Saturday 3 a hours after the cease fire took hold. The Agency made no mention of an casualties but said the gunfire occurred in the presence of . Observers. There was no immediate comment from Baghdad or the . Iran Ira military observer group which is monitoring the truce. However maj. Gen. Slavko Jovic the yugoslav commander of the group said in Baghdad Iraq s capital several hours after saturday s reported shooting that he had no information about violations and everything is going very  earlier saturday the official Iraq news Agency said an iranian sniper infiltrated an iraqi ground position an killed a private. It did not say whether the iranian Soldier was captured. The Agency said Iraq did not  it said the incident occurred in the Saif Saad sector of the front. Iran s official news Agency on Sun Day quoted an unidentified Tehran official As denying iranian forces had violated the truce. Iran also declared sunday it will intercept ships suspected of carrying War Materiel to Iraq until a Gulf War peace treaty has been signed. Is Ken George Ronald who ten month old Jessica Zorn of Baum older Ger Many is oblivious to the charms of Ronald Mcdonald s magic show presented at the local commissary saturday. Jessica is the daughter of staff sgt. Jim Zorn and his wife Pat. Car bomb blast Nixon assails Media kills 2 in Spain Estella Spain a a car bomb explosion believed set off by Basque separatists killed two civil guards sunday As they were on duty in a patrol car police said. The car bomb parked in a Center Street of the Navarre town of Estella exploded just after 7 30 ., killing Antonio Fernandez Alvarez 36, and Jose Cerri Perez 34, police said. Police added that two passers by Maria Del Puy Garcia and her 2-month-old son Hector suffered minor injuries. Both were treated in a local Hospital and sent Home. After the explosion a crowd gathered to View the twisted wreckage of the car. No group immediately claimed responsibility but police said they believed the bombing was the work of the Basque separatist organization Eta. The deaths brought to eight the number of victims killed in political violence in Spain so far this year. The attack came 48 hours after two car bombs detonated by suspected members of Eta in two separate attacks injured five civil guards two of them seriously near Bilbao the capital of the Vizcaya province in the Basque country. Eta seeks Independence from Spain for the three province Northern Basque country and annexation of neighbouring Navarre into an Independent Basque state. Since taking up  in 1968, Eta has claimed responsibility for killing More than 600 people mostly police military and civil guard personnel. For Quayle coverage London a former . President Nixon called the news Media hypocritical and cynical Sun Day for pursuing a Story that sen. Dan Quayle the Republican party nominee for vice president used family influence to avoid serving in Vietnam. Writing in his column in the sunday times newspaper on the . Presidential Campaign Nixon said Many of the reporters grilling Quayle had been champions of the real draft  the Republican presidential nominee vice presi Dent George Bush chose the 41-year-old Quayle on tuesday at the party convention in new Orleans to serve As his running mate. Questions later arose As to whether the Indiana sen Ator had used the influence of his wealthy publishing family to find a place for him in a unit of the National guard instead of facing the draft for an Active service unit in the Vietnam War. Nixon said the Media hyped it not because they had changed their views about the War but because they thought the questions about Quayle could Hurt him with  the former Republican president who resigned in 1974 in the midst of the watergate scandal charge that Bush and his democratic party challenger gov. Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts of trying to be what they Are  Dukakis. Has rolled out his manual Lawn Mower to prove he is frugal. Bush. Has insisted he eats pork rinds and listens to country music Nixon wrote. Nixon said both candidates have tried reworking their images to play along with television and he cautioned the republicans against letting the Media trivialize the election process