European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 12, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 b the stars and stripes wednesday february 12,1992 hopefuls hit primary Homestretch Iowa hands Harkin a Victory rivals focus on new Hampshire prom wire reports Concord . A democratic presidential hopefuls on tuesday kicked off the frenetic Homestretch run to new Hampshire a primary next tuesday following sen. Tom Harkin s unchallenged Victory in his Home state Iowa caucuses. N with the first trophy of the 1992 Campaign in hand Harkin was returning forthe finishing burst in new Hampshire where his Campaign has yet to command the kind of attention he received at Home monday night. Harkin received almost so percent of the vote a result he deemed a far better than i Ever  campaigning All alone in the state where he has lived for 52 years Harkin scored a landslide Victory monday in the first electoral contest of the 1992 presidential race. As he promised Harkin did better in Iowa a democratic caucuses than any presidential hopeful has Ever done. He even exceeded president Carters record of 59 percent in 1980. But the significance of his Victory was limited because he faced almost no opposition. With 91.2 percent of the precincts reporting Harkin had 76.7 percent of the delegates selected at Iowa a 2,189 precinct caucuses. Monday nights contest was the first in a four step process to select 49 delegates to the democratic National convention where 2,144 delegates Are required for nomination. Harkin s nearest Competition was a uncommitted a with 12 percent. Quot tonight you fired the shot that is going to be heard around this country and around the world a a jubilant Harkin told cheering supporters gathered at a Des Moines hotel. �?o1 want you to know this Campaign is on track the train is on time and this engine has a full head of steam. Tonight we Here in Iowa showed them How we do it. Now we take it to the rest of the  his rivals skipped Iowa forfeiting to Harkin and trying to deny him any claim to Campaign momentum a even As they tried to gain some of their own momentum during harking a absence from new Hampshire. Arkansas gov. Bill Clinton and former Massachusetts sen. Paul Tsongas dulled for the Lead monday. The latest can Usa today Gallup poll showed Tsongas leading with 33 percent to Clinton a 26 percent. Nebraska sen. Bob Kerrey followed with 13 percent Harkin had 11 and former California gov. Jerry Brown had 8 percent. The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 5 percentage Points. Clinton attended a new York fund Raiser monday night that netted him at least $725,000. He said the Success of the event should give pause to those who believe he is stumbling. A the report of my demise. As Mark Twain said May be premature a Clinton said. Twain actually said a the reports of my death Are greatly  Tsongas dropped much of his prepared economic speech monday night to Tell a crowd of about 500 people How his Battle with cancer reshaped his political philosophy. A for me purpose is in the conduct of democratic presidential candidate sen. Tom Harkin is greeted by supporters from City High school As he arrives monday in Iowa City Iowa for his Home states caucuses. The Battle not in the outcome of the Battle a said Tsongas seeking the High ground As his rivals directed More criticism his Way. But Survey after Survey shows a recession battered electorate hesitant to make firm commitments to candidates yet. President Bush took time monday to do radio and television interviews with new Hampshire outlets. Republican challenger Patrick Buchanan said Bush a Day on the air was evidence of a worried president even though polls show a huge Bush Lead. The new Hampshire primary s Impact could be great most of the democratic campaigns Are under financed and under organized in the states that follow. Candidates will face a daunting Challenge to raise funds if they fare poorly in the True Meadoff event of the 1992 primary season. With Harkin Home to ensure his Victory his rivals fanned out across new Hampshire their growing crowds a sign that voters Are focusing in on their  debate Noriega s role in drug War by the new York times Miami a in some of the sharpest exchanges so far in the trial of Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega lawyers clashed on monday Over the extent usefulness and motivation of the cooperation the deposed panamanian Leader offered the United slates in its War against colombian drug traffickers. In four separate rounds of questioning James Bramble the drug enforcement administration s top agent in Panama from 1982 through 1984, testified that Noriega a assistance was incomplete at Best and that american agents were repeatedly blocked when they tried to build cases against friends and business associates of the general. A no Large amount of cocaine was seized during my tenure in Panama Bramble said. When asked by assistant . Attorney Guy Lewis if even Quot one fugitive you associated with the Medellin Cartel was a shipped to the United states a Bramble replied a not to my knowledge no  faced with those assertions from a witness he had called Noriega a chief counsel Frank Rubino reacted by mocking and ridiculing Brambles testimony. That set off Lewis who took an equally aggressive approach As he repeatedly objected to Rubinos salvos and sought to shield Bramble from some areas of questioning while leaving him free to elaborate on others. Brambles laconic recitation of the difficulties he encountered in two years of dealings with Noriega and the panamanian military looms As an important setback for the ousted panamanian Leader and Rubino. The defense which began its Case last week contends that the general a assistance was unstinting and so valuable that Washington recognized him As its most valuable ally in latin America. But Lewis heaped scorn monday on that notion aided by Bramble. The drug agent said that a from the Day 1 got to Panama i knew about investigations indicating that Ricardo Bilonick Cesar Rodriguez and Floyd Carlton All of whom Are former business associates of Noriega who testified against him As witnesses for the prosecution were involved in cocaine trafficking As associates of the Medellin Cartel libyan suspects reported missing Washington a two libyans charged in the terrorist bombing of a pan am Airliner that killed 270 people in 1988 have disappeared and May have been executed a newspaper reported monday. The Washington Post quoted Vincent Cannistraro former chief of Cia counter terrorist operations As saying one of his sources in Libya had told him the two suspects had a disappeared and Wilt not be  Cannistraro said two other sources a one in Europe and the other in the Middle East a reported the men Abdel Basset Ali Al Mezrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhi Mah had been executed. Credibility of biosphere 2 under scrutiny Tucson Ariz. Apr a panel of scientists has been selected to review biosphere 2, the project accused by critics of cheating on its goal of creating a self contained world under Glass that produces its own food air and water. The group which includes scientists from Nasa and the smithsonian institution will examine biosphere 2�?Ts scientific credibility said Thomas Lovejoy a smithsonian biologist and ecologist heading the review. The nine members were appointed without pay by space biosphere ventures the for profit company that runs biosphere 2. They report to Edward p. Bass the Texas millionaire who bankrolled the $150 million Glass encased world. Four men and four women Are committed to live inside biosphere 2 for two years. The Crew was sealed into the three acre Glass and steel dome in the desert sept. 26, promising to Recycle air water and wastes in a prototype space Colony. Dahmer wanted live slave court told Milwaukee a Jeffrey Dahmer would not have killed again and again if his attempts to lobotomized a victim and turn him into a Zombie like sex partner had succeeded a prosecution psychiatrist said monday. A was far As his first Choice his real sexual interest was not in a Corpse a or. Frederick Fosdal testified during Cross examination at Dahmer a insanity trial. Quot he was More interested in homosexual Intercourse with a live  a Zombie sex slave a was a solution to his dilemma a said Fosdal who maintained that Dahmer began the experiments because he had grown tired of the work involved in dismembering and disposing of his victims. Fosdal said Dahmer suffered a mental disease at the time he killed and dismembered 15 Young males in Milwaukee county but is not legally insane because he knew his crimes were wrong and could have stopped himself from killing. Dahmer was not having delusions when he drilled holes into four of his victims Heads and poured boiling water or an acid solution into their brains in an attempt to turn them into sex slaves Fosdal said. Fosdal said he believed that had one of the experiments worked Dahmer a who has confessed to 17 dismemberment slayings a never would have killed again