European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 9, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes news briefs Paris bar s traditional poll puts Bush in White House Paris a George Bush and Dan Quayle swept to Victory tuesday Over Michael Dukakis and Lloyd Bentsen in the traditional . Presidential Straw poll conducted by Harry s new York bar in Paris. The results of Harry s Vole Are something of a bellwether having been wrong Only once since the poll began in 1924. That once was in 1976, when the travelling american gave the nod to president Ford Over Jimmy Carter. The poll was opened at Harry s bar on oct. 27 and closed at 1 30 . Tuesday. Owner Andy Macelhone said the Republican ticket won s79 of the 1,050 Voles cast or 55 per cent. The democrats got 471 votes or 45 percent. Macelhone s father Harry established the Paris watering Hole in 1911. Sakharov in Boston tested for pacemaker Boston at1 soviet human rights activist Andrei Sakharov entered Massachusetts Gen eral Hospital tuesday morning for tests to deter mine whether he needs a heart pacemaker a spokesman for the Nobel laureate said. If doctors find he does need it Sakharov will re turn to Boston later this month for the operation and May extend his two week visit to the United states said spokesman Matthew Bannister. Implanting the device which regulates the heart s rhythm usually requires a two Day Hospital slay. Sakharov is believed to have suffered a minor stroke several years ago while being Force fed by so Viet authorities during a hunger strike. His wife physician Yelena Bonner said in a letter to her children in june 1985 that afterwards he showed minor Par Kinso Nian symptoms such As trembling hands but that he appeared to have recovered otherwise. Wednesday november 9,1988 speech from Page 1 in West Germany to address them thursday according to published reports Galinski called the arguments in the bundestag about his possible appearance  Galinski spoke tuesday at a memorial Cere Mony held by the East German government in East Berlin. East German Leader Erich Honecker announced that the government will establish a jewish Center in the renovated synagogue on  in East Berlin once one of Europe s largest synagogues with its 3,000 seals. Rescue teams reach area where 900 died in quake Beijing a military Rescue teams and Doc tors reached a Remote mountainous Region in South Ern China tuesday two Days after the area was devastated by an earthquake that the government said killed More than 900 people. The quake which registered 7.6 on the Richter scale was China s deadliest in 12 years. It struck sunday in the Jungles of Yunnan province near the burmese Border. A National television news program broadcast the first pictures from the scene showing an Aerial View of collapsed houses in one Village and victims being pulled from the wreckage. Host of the Region s mud and Wood Homes were built on stilts because of heavy Rains making them More susceptible to collapse in an earthquake. The television report also showed army trucks loaded with troops moving into the area to help res Cue operations. It did not say How Many troops were deployed. The ministry of civil affairs reported 938 people died in the quake said Roy Morcy representative of the . Development program. Morey said the ministry would not Tell him How Many people were injured or what were the immedi ate Relief needs. The National television broadcast put the number dead at More than 600, with 578 wounded. The offi Cial Xinhua news Agency s Yunnan Bureau said the remoteness of the area made it Likely that final Fig ures would not be compiled for Days. The quake was entered in Yunnan s heavily for ested Lancing and a Anglian counties about 240 mites Southwest of the provincial capital of Kunming. The slate seismology Bureau said 40 aftershocks had hit the stricken subtropical area the strongest measuring 7.2. The quake destroyed nearly All the houses in the Lancing area which has a population of 400,000, Morey said he was told by the civil affairs ministry. Most Homes in the a Anglian area were also destroyed said a reporter with Xinhua in Kunming. The reporter who declined to be identified said that Rescue teams doctors food and supplies reached the stricken area and that a delegation was on its Way from Beijing led by slate councilor song Jian a Cabinet member without portfolio. The reporter said that the area had ample food and water supplies but thai its main Road link to the outside world Cut by quake damage was still under repair. V Many of the casualties were believed to be from the Lahu minority a tibetan burmese Hill people who farm and Hunt. They have their own language and Are buddhists. Yunnan province has a population of More than 34 million. Laius in the province number about 300,000. The death loll in sunday s quake is China s High est since july 28, 1976, when 242,000 people were killed in the Northeast China City of Tangshan in the nation s worst natural disaster in modern times. Thai quake measured 7.8 on the i Flitcr scale. Poce strike spreads in belgian cities Brussels Belgium a a strike started monday by Brussels police officers spread tuesday to suburbs of the capital and Antwerp the country s second largest City. The walkout backed demands for better pay and working conditions and More staff. For a second straight Day police answered Only Calls if lives were at stake or the police did Only Basic administrative work. But they dropped routine patrol or traffic control work. The action spread monday to Saint Gills and tuesday to Vii Dorde two Brussels suburbs and also to Antwerp where patrol cars still circled the City but without reporting their locations. Brussels mayor Herve Brouhon asked for in Emer gency meeting with Interior minister Louis Tabback 10 discuss the Mailer. The National stale police joined the protest Al though not the walkout there can be no efficient state police nor sufficient Security if stale policemen Are discredited on professional family and social Levels said a statement released tuesday by the state police officers Union. The Union implied that the corps also could go on strike and would not replace striking City policemen or prison guards. In Lantin near Liege East of Brussels guards announced they would strike wednesday to Back de mands for higher pay and More staff members As Well As for speeding up completion of this new prison and better defined rules for prisoners. Leaders from Page 1 try were of a heavy Early voter turnout. In Georgia North Carolina Rhode Island and Tennessee election officials said Early turnout was heavier than Normal. Bush s running mate Dan Quayle made no secret of his Choice after voting in his Hometown of Huntington ind Well we got one sure vote Quayle said two a chimed in his wife Mari Lyn who accompanied him. Belsen the democratic vice presidential nominee was in his Home state of Texas although he had used an Absen tee ballot to Cassis vote Early in Rhode Island Tom Diprete was arrested after he Tore Down Campaign posters of Democrat Bruce Sundlun who. Is running against Diprete s father. Re publican gov. Edward Diperle. On his father s orders the younger Diprete went to the Sundlun Campaign Headquarters and apologized. Police re leased him without filing charges. One of the nation s most unusual con tests was in Union Point ga., where mayor Ben Stewart was being challenged by his younger brother Bob. The Only comment i would want to make the mayor said is that it s a very sad regrettable unfortunate  with pollsters still finding millions of voters claiming they hadit made up their minds. Bush and Dukakis made final hour appeals for support on television monday night1 ". I cannot predict All of the challenges. America Wilt face in the years ahead Bush said at the conclusion of a 30-min Ute commercial broadcast on the three major television networks i can Tell you what principles will guide me what values i hold dear and i can say that i believe i have the experience to be steady hand guiding Pur  he described Dukakis As someone with no experience in National Security  democratic nominee s 30-Minule Appeal was on the networks immediately preceding the Bush broadcast in his broadcast Dukakis spoke of family jobs senior citizens hunger and Farmers and answered questions on issues that have dogged him including his record on crime his military policy and his reluctance to respond to negative attacks Dukakis also charged anew among the closest Senate races were contests for open seats in Florida Washington Wisconsin and Mississippi. Threatened incumbents included Chic Hetchl a Nev. Lowell Weicker. Conn. And John Melcher a Mon. Democrats control the House by a255-177 margin and not even the most partisan republicans expect that to change very much. Rep. Fernand is Germain , chair Man of the House banking committee had his re election prospects jolted two weeks ago when a Federal judge made Public a Justice department report referring to substantial evidence of serious and sustained misconduct by the lawmaker. The race Between is Germain and re publican Ronald k. Mach Ley was rated tossup. ".rep. Pat Swindall r-oa., was under indictment for perjury and was trailing democratic challenger Ben Jonts in re cent polls. -.-. -. Among the nation s governors three republicans Arch Moore of Wesl Vir Ginia Diperle of Rhode Island and nor Man Bangerter of Utah were rated the most threatened. In addition. Democrat Evan Bayh was favored to defeat Republican John Mulz in the race to succeed gop Indiana gov. Robert d. Orr. In the presidential race the polls offered encouraging news to Bush with All indicating his Lead had stabilized after narrowing somewhat Over the weekend. A lbs news poll said Bush s Lead had increased to nine Points after narrowing to six during the weekend. A Harris poll that said Dukakis had closed the  to four Points said that movement halted monday. A new Gallup poll said Bush had an 11 Point Lead thai was holding steady. The poll which had reported 20 percent undecided said thai figure had dropped to 5 percent. V "