European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 7, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday March 1991. The stars and stripes a Page 9economy is Bush s Achilles Heel Washington up president Bush is enjoying one of the highest presidential approval ratings in modern polling but the ratings slip to less than 50 percent on his handling of the nations Economy an Abc Washington Post poll shows. The poll published in wednesdays Washington Post shows that 90 percent of 1,215 adults polled Between Friday and monday approve of Bush Overall with 94 percent approving of the Way he has handled the persian Gulf crisis. But Only 49 percent approve of the Way the president is dealing with the nation s Economy. The poll has a margin of error of 3 percent to 5 percent. A. _. The Post cited previous Gallup polls that showed president Harry s. Truman with an approval rating of 87 percent after the end of world War ii and presidents Lyndon Johnson John f. Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt with Peak approval ratings in the Low 80s. When the Gulf crisis began Bush enjoyed a 75 percent Overall approval rate on aug. 20, 1990. But by oct. 28, 1990, his Overall approval rating had plummeted to 51 percent. When asked specifically about How Bush is handling the Economy the president s approval rating went from a High of 64 percent on oct. 3, 1989, to a Low of 38 percent on oct. 14,1990. A the Post poll showed that while nine out of 10 said they think the Economy is either stagnant or declining now seven out of 10 said they think the end of the War will have a positive effect on the Economy. The Survey indicates that americans concerns surface when they Are asked about Domestic issues with 81 percent saying the nation is not making enough Progress on the Federal budget deficit and poverty. Seventy nine percent say not enough Progress is being made on crime while 75 percent believe More needs to be done to fight illegal drug use. Of those surveyed 73 percent cited health care has a major concern. A seventy one percent said not enough Progress is being made on the states and. The nations Economy and 71 percent believe More needs to be done Ontic education front. Sixty one percent of the respondents said they were dissatisfied with Progress on the environment 46 percent on race relations and .26 percent on respect for the United states abroad. Only about one in five americans say they arc better off financially than they were when Bush took office the poll said adding that the same proportion said they Are worse off and 35 percent believe that most other americans Are worse off. Only 22 percent said they had a a Good ideas about where Bush a plans to Lead the nation in the next two years a while 40 percent said they had Little idea. Another 37 percent said they had a just some idea of what Bush wants to accomplish. Bush scored 90 percent approval among men and 89 percent among women 85 percent among self described liberals 84 percent among democrats and 77 percent among Blacks the poll said. While the president won High Marks his vice president Dan Quayle teeters on the 50 percent line. Asked if they thought it was a mistake for Bush to pick Quayle As his vice president 39 percent said yes Down from 43 percent on aug. 8, 1989 51 percent said no up from 47 percent and 11 percent said they did not know. Asked if Quayle would be qualified to take Over if something were to happen to Bush 43 percent said yes up from 38 percent in the 1989 poll 49 percent said no Down from 52 percent and 7 percent said they did not know. Asked if having Quayle As vice president worries them 29 percent said yes Down from 31 percent 69 percent said no up from 63 percent and 2 percent said they did not  arrest suspect in murder of sex i Darmstadt Germany a amps a Swiss police have arrested a 23-year-old German in the 1989 stabbing death of a former . Service. Member. Thomas Moring was arrested Friday , a Darmstadt police spokesman said wednesday. Moring is suspected of killing Jerry w. Brooks a former . Soldier who lived in Stuttgart. Officials have filed extradition papers so Moring can be returned to Germany to Stadd trial the police spokesman said. A. Brooks 31, was slain april 8, 1989, shortly after Midnight outside a festival tent at a Fairgrounds during a fight Between a group of Young germans and members of an american motorcycle club. Brooks was stabbed m the stomach and near the heart. He died in an ambulance. Shortly after the incident police apprehended Moring in his Heinric Strasse apartment along with seven other men. But he later was released based on an Alibi supplied by a witness. Police later Learned that the Alibi was false. Before Moring could be picked up a second time he fled Darmstadt with his Girlfriend and their 2-year-old son. A Moring was reported to have been spotted several times in Berlin the Black Forest and Franconia. But even a to program publicizing the Case did not turn up new information on his whereabouts. A police spokesman  said he could not provide details Over the Telephone of the arrest. A a. Morings Girlfriend who could be charged with aiding a fugitive still remains at Large with the  blame hot stove for fire that killed child Rota Spain a amps a fire officials Are blaming an unattended hot stove for a feb. 16 fire that killed the 4-year-old daughter of a Navy Petty officer at naval station Rota. Ebony Marie Yarbough the daughter of Petty officer 1st class Clarence Yarbough died in the Blaze which broke out in the family son base town House. The girl who was discovered in an upstairs room died of smoke inhalation. Quot the fire caused about $60,000 Worth of damage to the Yarbough apartment and smoke damage to the other three units in the four family Complex. A most quarters fires done to reach 1,000 degrees but this fire was almost 2,000 degrees a said Clarence rout fire marshal for the Navy a Atlantic division naval facilities engineering come in Norfolk a. Routes preliminary report on the Blaze was released wednesday. Routes division oversees 41 Navy Sites scattered from the . East coast to the persian Gulf nation of  left mystified after Hailey s Comet flares up new York a Hailey a Comet has unexpectedly flared up to become hundreds of times brighter than expected during its orbit through the outer reaches of the solar system and astronomers can Only guess Why. The Comet had lost its Tail since its latest pass near Earth in 1986 and become an inert potato shaped dirty ice Ball almost 10 Miles Long. It was very faint even when viewed with powerful telescopes. But last month when it was some 1.3 billion Miles from the Sun astronomers saw  had sprouted a Cloud of shiny dust measuring about 180,000 Miles across. A to have something turn off and suddenly brighten up at this distance is unheard of a said. Karen Meech of the University of Hawaii a Institute for astronomy. She spotted the Cloud feb. 15 and measured its brightness at More than 1,000 times what the Comet was expected to show. The brightening also was observed feb. 12, when Hailey was about Midway Between Saturn and uranus by belgian astronomers Olivier Hainaut and Alain Smette observing from a european Southern Observatory Telescope in Chile. They measured it As almost 300 times brighter than the Comet was supposed to be Energy from the Sun is thought to trigger such outbursts on other comets so Hailey a behaviour so far away is a rather startling is Aid Brian Marsden Asso Date director for planetary sciences at the Harvard snit honian Center for astrophysics in Cambridge mass / t. A a a a a. A this is much farther than anything we be observed before a Marsden said. Dust Clouds called comas Are generally produced around comets when solar Energy vaporizes ice which blows some dust off the Comet nucleus. But the temperature at Hailey a surface on feb. 12 would have been about 330 degrees below Zero the european Observatory said. Meech said some Frozen substance other than water ice such As Carbon monoxide or Carbon dioxide could still be Active at such a Low temperature. _ _ so a pocket of one of these substances might have been slowly vaporizing beneath the crust that covers the comets nucleus. At some Point growing pressure May have let vapor burst through the crust blowing out enough dust to create the Cloud she said tuesday. Meech said other comets produce dust Clouds at comparable distances but at a steady rate rather than a a brilliantly shining Cloud of dust surrounds Hailey a Comet. Sudden outburst like Hailey a. These comets Are making their first pass through the inner solar system and perhaps they contain easily vaporized substances that had largely been used up by comets that have passed through before she said. Another possible explanation for Hailey a outburst is that a Small piece of space debris hit the Comet she a said. A. Quot. A. The european Observatory said the chances of an object hitting the relatively Small nucleus seems a extremely Remote a and it is hard to see How such an event could Lead to the relatively steady outflow of dust observed. Meech said she had not looked at Hailey a since she saw the dust Cloud but a i would strongly suspect that it has continued to be Bright because things can to happen very quickly out  a 1 Marsden said that although such outbursts had not been seen before so far from the Sun it could be that they simply have been overlooked by astronomers. A most of the time people just Aren t bothering with very Distant comets a he said