European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 4, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday november 4, 1992 election 92 i the stars and stripes a Page 7clinton Odds on favorite bookies in Britain Wager from wire reports London a British bookies have set the Odds for the . Presidential election giving Democrat Bill Clinton his Best standing since betting began. Monday s Odds on Clinton were set at 18. That Means an 8-Pound bet $12.64 would win 9 pounds $14.22. The Odds on president Bush were set at 41, the same Odds set for the Man he Defeated in 1988, gov. Michael Dukakis. Quot the boots on the other foot this year a said Paul Austin spokesman for Ladbroke betting Agency. The bookies set the Odds on Texas billionaire Ross Perot at 1001. Quot nobody wants to Back Bush or Perot a Austin said. Quot they see governor Clinton As a racing certainty now. The Odds Are grim news for the president who himself was a 18 shot on election morning in 1988.�?�indonesians Back Clinton Jakarta Indonesia a the majority of indonesian lawmakers bet on democratic Bill Clinton a to win tuesday s presidential election. Local reporters interviewed so parliamentarians from various factions. Thirty four of them or 68 percent favored Clinton. Fifteen others backed resident Bush and one person  baffled Singapore a Only six out of 60 Singapore citizens correctly identified All three . Presidential candidates when shown photographs of them. The Survey reported tuesday in the new paper was taken at a new town shopping Center. President Bush emerged As the most recognized candidate. Fifty one of the 60 people questioned correctly identified Bush but fewer than half knew democratic candidate Bill Clinton. A store assistant identified Clinton As sex beatle Paul Mccartney the paper reported. Independent Ross Perot fared worst of All. Of the 60 polled Only seven correctly identified him. One Man thought he was French president Francois Mitterrand the newspaper  for Clinton Toronto Canada a if canadians could have voted in tuesdays presidential election they would have chosen Democrat Bill Clinton according to a poll published monday. The Gallup poll published in the Toronto Star indicated 43 percent of canadians would have voted for Clinton. President Bush would have won 38 percent of the vote. Independent Ross Perot finished third in the Canadian poll with 20 percent. The paper said the figures add up to More than 100 because of rounding off. The findings of the Survey which questioned 1.007 adults oct. 15-19, showed a Complete reversal from a poll in june. Four months ago Bush was the favorite of 47 percent of canadians. Clinton trailed even Perot. In that Survey 32 percent preferred the Texas billionaire and 21 percent liked the Arkansas governor the results published monday were said to be accurate within 3.1 percentage Points 19 times out of 20.Bush loses out in France Paris a democratic Bill Clinton beat out president Bush in two French opinion polls published to coincide with tuesdays . Election. Clinton topped Bush by 43 percent to 37 percent in a Telephone Survey of 601 French adults conducted by the Fop polling firm for the newspaper be Parisien. The poll conducted monday showed 3 percent support for Independent Ross Perot. Clinton a Edge Over Bush was 52-39 in a Survey of 1.008 people conducted thursday and Friday by the Cha polling firm for the newspaper be quotidian. Perot had 9 percent. Neither poll gave a margin of error. Winner to reap upturn by 96, economists say by John d. Mcclain the associated press Washington a the president elected tuesday will see the current sluggish Economy improve considerably by the time he leaves office in four years analysts predict. Quot whoever is elected i. Have no doubt he will be Able to look Back after four years and say a you Are better off than you were four years ago a a said Lawrence h. Meyer head of a St. Louis economic forecasting firm. Lawrence Chimerine senior economic Counselor for Dri Mcgraw Hill a Lexington mass., forecasting service concurred. Quot i done to think the Economy will be a barn Burner but two three four years from now i expect growth to be faster than it is now a he said. Analysts were looking for an indication of the Economy a performance during the presidents first year in office in the Commerce departments Index of leading economic indicators released tuesday. Many thought the Index designed to forecast the Economy six to nine months away would be Down slightly Tor the third time in four months. If so it could portend continuing sluggishness for much of the first year of the next presidential term. The Index has fallen for two of the last three months a Down 0.3 percent in june and 0.2 percent in August. It Rose a Mere 0.1 percent in july. Although the Economy grew at a 2.7 percent annual rate from july through september Many analysts be a who. Is Sis cts i have no doubt to will to ate to look Book after Lour Yoars and say a you Art but str off than you wars four Yoars  a a Lawrence h. Meyer economic forecaster / live the third Quarter number overstated its strength. They contend that Many of the structural imbalances that have been a drag on the Economy for four years remain and that the fourth Quarter rate will be significantly lower. Quot my guess is that Well be Well under 2 percent in the fourth Quarter a Meyer said adding that lie believed a 2.5 percent growth rate is the Best that the new president can Hope for during the first six months of next year. That would be less than half the growth rate following most recessions since world War ii. If so Many analysts believe unemployment will remain above 7 percent because such slow growth would be unable to generate new jobs. The labor department is to release the october rate Friday. It was 7.5 percent in september. Youngsters Choice first grader Philip Goble 6, puts his vote into a ballot Box monday during a presidential election by pupils at new Haven elementary school in new Haven ind. Among the 5 to 10-year-old voters president Bush won with 206 votes Independent Ross Perot came in second with 120, and Democrat Bill Clinton trailed with 84. Voting Day has Seldom passed quietly Washington a election Day is a Day that throughout the county a a history has had a texture All its own important sometimes violent Boozy Quirky corny corrupted. Americans have Felt strongly about elections from the Start reported author Kate Kelly who has examined the history of the Day in a facts on file Book election pay from which this history is drawn. In colonial Days eating and drinking were such a part of the occasion Kelly wrote that election returns were sometimes called the Quot voice of  voting could be dangerous too. In St. Blairsville Ohio a Quot vote riot in front of the Belmont county workhouse in 1932 left 25 injured. Four years later election Day in Kentucky was marked by a feud that left one person dead and another critically injured. In 1952, a woman in Miami tried to vote for Dwight d. Eisenhower while wearing an Quot i like Ike skirt. Election officials said that constituted improper electioneering at the polling places so she took it off and voted in her slip. Women won the vote in 1920 with the passage of the 19th amendment. In the Wyoming territory however women had been allowed to vote 5 years earlier. Women quieted the proceedings. Election Day often meant drunkenness Rowdy ism and bloodshed but a Wyoming minister noted that the arrival of a female voter provoked a warning Quot a asst be quiet a woman is  in colonial Days people voted orally and in full View of others. It was Felt that elections would be More honest if people had to declare their beliefs. Clerks tallied the vote on White sheets hanging in the open air As each voter announced his preference. Snouts of approval would come from one Side or the other. The favored candidate would stand and Bow his thanks to the voter while the losing candidate could Send his agents out to round up More votes. This practice prevailed in some places As late As 1870. In the colonics voting was limited to people of substance. Usually Blacks indians jews and catholics were denied the vote Quot in the area where their numbers were sizable enough to make a difference a Kelly wrote