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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Monday, October 3, 1988

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 3, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 20 the stars and stripes monday october 3,198b sky pig1 suits Dukakis just Swine today s crossword aboard sky pig a president Reagan has air Force one. George Bush has air Force two. Michael Dukakis has sky  that inelegant and unofficial name has stuck As the Campaign s handle for the democratic presidential nominee s chartered Campaign Jet. The name has even a conversion rates London up1 Friday s closing rates for the . Dollar to of her currencies figures Are expressed in dollars to the British Pound other local currencies in dollars the pol am hot h us 7s m i. S4w "1 � i St to w 6j9m71173 39 121,4xi 10 imps 152151,646 95 124 is 154 t5 iw7s18325 04045jizm 3990, 1,10260 15575. Is2is 12135,15175. These arc commercial rates and can be Raja cd Only to the use of foreign currency by . Forces for official business. Sales of German Marks to . Personnel for personal use will be at the rate of 1.86 monday bated on a Price fining at midday. Temperatures pc Rcd on a printed Campaign schedule. The plane is a presidential air ways Boeing 137 an aging relatively Small jetliner that Dukakis has used since Republican Bob Dole faded from the presidential race in the Early Spring and relinquished it. Dukakis by All accounts has grown attached to the plane even though to some aboard it no longer seems adequate for a presidential Campaign. At this stage of past campaigns presidential nominees were travel ing in Boeing 727s or their equivalent larger Sleeker aircraft with More scats and longer Range. Sky pig is unable to Fly coast to coast without a refuelling Stop. It has sealing for about 100, com pared with 130 or More on a 727. And sky pig has its idiosyncrasies like a tendency to drip water from the ceiling through Condensa Tion on hot Days. It has no facilities for Healing food. The name was coined by net work television Crews who have accompanied the candidate for months. On the plane s lumbering Takeoff Rolls they sometimes yell encouragement up pig.  there s even a song to the tune of the 1960s Rock song wild  it goes sky pig you make my heart sink a second plane an even older 727 follows sky pig carrying the spillover of Stan reporters. Secret service agents and television Hilo �1 12 s2  79 61 i s 63 i 50 55 78 51 71 14 41 41 7 6 m f i 76 s9 79 59 m b3 d3 61 4 t 74 k 01 4 14 is u 61 76 61 i 19 73 ii 66 ii a 75 w 74 63 61 31 my to cjqim1l.ll c .1 to 67 77 63a 13 70 53 73 63 8 67 16 70 ii 59 17 to 75 60 73 667 10 m 16 a it Frau   65 35 11 m 13 65m so 71 57 16 � 66 34 71 41 n 63 61 37 Crews and producers. Press Secre tary Dayton Duncan said Dukakis simply likes the plane. He is comfortable sitting in a first class scat in the front Row. Be Hind him it is More crowded. The regular Crew of flight attendants always has aboard a Box of Raisin bran Cereal Dukakis favor Ite and they keep a Supply of Orange crush the candidate s soda of Choice. He seems puzzled that anyone would a int to dump the pig. Well we be been on this plane for a Long Lime he said. A Long  european weather Illo wow in sown Byram we be Rewti a too i Iowa to in harm by mime Raj w across 1 Viper 4 English county 0 Tcath Cliff. For of 12 in Var 13 i fill fitfi14 Riim a ital 15  tiny i Tsaller in skin terowitil9kun-Ilrii in Rolt 21 Nuh 24 window lift 25 old 40 father Pride 41 glut43 Nomi lady in Ivanhoe 45 unify to Ulm or Sun mar Ioor 47 one to h 48"ltnr Wilh know?"49 ii a away quickly54 june Siuk by i Flimm Mollus fun nip 56 cuckoo 57 devour b8 Penn  biblical sufferer down1 curve 2sw 2f, 3 in Linfuh Maulk 4 Clur full War g Ijar Jde we has 6 uighur Ort 7 hello web inn Elf 9 acts without rest Nunt solution time 24 Mann.  a Tittl of ski local ii sea Swallow 16" by Way people20 spine nights21 structural 23 stops abruptly27 rower 29 Murli Uhd Aluva 32 Kulil Follower 34 Insu ulc 37 Wall still k in  Nhi Hoh  pm Tinmu � h . Low 50 hot it u74. Lnvqn.1lnja  r 69 in � 62 59 74 it 71 � w 6z50 73m 66 571 in 06 66 76 63 7 47 77 59 79 w t6 i 3j 49  hum be to .cimiinil.1  mud is i a f Hilo a 47 is 60 6 4 co 47 is 41 Uuro Orwyn b5 in 59 79 6 60 61 71  
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