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WHYS. 2AThk Miiinks KkuistkkIF Plan to open clinic in Dubuque resisted treated," Hobson said. Planned Parenthood access to health care for everyone, but the "abortion agenda" of Planned Parenthood overshadows other questions. Diseases Spreading Meanwhile, authorities say sexually transmitted diseases are spreading in Dubuque County. In 1992, preliminary figures show Dubuque County reporting 257 cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis.

State health officials say that figure does not represent all of the cases in the area and that cases are going untreated. "There's quite a bit of chlamydia and gonorrhea in Dubuque," said Hobson, disease prevention specialist for the Iowa Department of Public Health who investigates venereal disease cases in Dubuque. While women have access to a family planning clinic for treatment of sexually transmitted diseases at Hillcrest Family Services In Dubuque men In the area must go to doctors' offices. Hillcrest refers companions of female clients to physicians. "It's sometimes difficult to manage a rhinmvrlia infection when her boy DUBUQUE Conliiiufd front Paije IA transmitted diseases other than AIDS.

Public testing and treatment futilities are not available now in the Dubuque area. The problem is particularly bad for men, officios say. "There's essentially no City Council support or county support at this time for a sexually transmitted disease clinic," said Matthew Hob-son, a state health of ficiul. Awaiting Contributions Planned Parenthood of East Central Iowa, which operates a clinic in Cedar Kapids that does not provide abortion services, is awaiting private contributions for the $20,000 project in Dubuque. Fran Hansen, executive director of Planned Parenthood in the region, said the project was delayed because the organization didn't get as much state money for family planning as it wanted.

nnnnnont of Planned Parent hood say they ant Planned Parent hood's help. "I'm so very, very skeptical of Planned Parenthood," said Maureen Ward, chairwoman of the Dubuque County Kight to Life and a resident of Dubuque. "In our view, this would Just be a conduit to referring women to a Planned Parenthood facility in Iowa City for abortions." Sx Education Some residents of the area don't want Planned Parenthood approach to sex education in its support of birth control information to creep into the school. "The problems of sexually transmitted diseases and abortions will increase over time because tiieir philosophy actually promotes sexual activity," said Jim Giese, a Catholic businessman in Dubuque and co-chairman of the Coalition for Parental Rights. Giese's group, which formed to fight Planned Parenthood move to Dubuque, joined with the Respect Life Office of the Catholic Archdiocese of Dubuque to distribute fliers titled: "Planned Parenthood; It's Not What You Think! Know the Facts." lim Yeast, director of the Respect Life office treats both men anu women.

Treat Men Hobson and Dubuque health officials say they like the idea of clinic that would treat men for low or no cost. People who need screening can end up paying as little as $10 at Planned Parenthood, Hansen said. Mary Rose Corrigan, who manages health services for the city of Dubuque, said the area has separate city and county health departments, and neither provides services for people with sexually transmitted diseases. But Dubuque plans on cutting $300,000 from its budget, so the odds for a new city program are slim, said City Manager Michael Van Milligen. Sue Zietz, director of health services for the University of Dubuque, said she thinks it's wrong that area men have to seek more costly private care while women do not.

"To me, that's discriminatory," she said. "We definitely need something for men." friend has difficulty getting somewhere to get don't oppose a public clinic, but even with no money to set up a public clinic, opponents don't at the archdiocese, said the I JiH i I V' I jplHMH I'M Kin Iraq response unclear to missiles ultimatum HERE ARE Farmur. Home Administration (FmHA). Sol Conwrwil fcrvlce (SOS). Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (AiCS) nd Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC) offices recommended for closing in Iowa.

Figures Include the numlcr of employee. In die county office I Emmetsburg 1 Thompson fmHA. FCIC FmHA Sac City i FmHA I i 2 i -r- Mapleton FmHA 2 Harlan FmHA Knoxvllle -FmHA USDA plans to close 17 field offices USDA Continued from Page IA heard few complaints from farmers. Madigan said there will be no layoffs, although he expects many workers will retire or resign rather than transfer. "We're not out here to fire a lot of people," he said.

Many of the closings could take effect almost immediately, and the entire process should be completed in two years, he said, depending on the provisions in office leases. Not a Bombshell Madigan's announcement is not a last-minute bombshell dumped into the lap of the incoming Clinton administration. The USDA review began last May after pressure from Congress especially from Senators Patrick Leahy, and Richard Lugar, the chairman and the ranking Republican on the Agriculture Commit- I Bedford Shenandoah FmHA MnjjntAvr I FmHA and SCS 12 7 I This office was already being served by employees from another county. IRAQ Continued from Page IA between the Bush administration and the incoming Clinton administration. On Dec.

27, U.S. jets downed an Iraqi fighter over the zone. U.S. officials continued to hold firm on the allied ultimatum Thursday, with President Bush reiterating to a group of freshman members of Congress that Washington was prepared to begin military action against Iraq if Baghdad failed to comply with the allied instructions. President-elect Bill Clinton once again endorsed Bush's stand on the Iraqi issue.

Clinton's spokesman, George Stephanopoulos, called Iraqi President Saddam Hussein "an outlaw" and warned that Clinton would be no easier on him than Bush has been. Pentagon planners said that for the moment, Washington Intended to hold any military action to a quick, single-day's strike, eliminating Iraqi missile positions in southern Iraq and possibly destroying several airfields used by jets near the no-fly-zone border. At the same time, however, officials conceded that if Iraq decides to stand its ground or even escalate the action it could push the two countries into their hottest military confrontation since the Persian Gulf War in early 1991. "We're not looking to do more than we have to, but we can't accept less than full compliance and non-interference," one U.S. official said.

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7 Last year Iraq moved missiles and used radar to threaten allied flights over the no-fly zone in northern Iraq created to protect Iraq's Kurdish minority. After an ultimatum from the allies, Baghdad removed the missiles. After bombs were planted on trucks carrying supplies to the Kurds, Iraq refused to permit U.N. guards to accompany the trucks. It relented last month.

Last July, Iraq refused to admit weapons inspectors to its Ministry of Agriculture headquarters. After threats from the Security Council, Iraq permitted the inspection. U.N. officials say they are not certain Iraq has fully disclosed its weapons of mass destruction. Iraq rejected terms of a U.N.-monitored oil sale intended to pay compensation to victims of its invasion of Kuwait.

Iraq boycotted meetings of the Iraq-Kuwait boundary commission and rejected some findings. It has not moved some border posts as required and still calls Kuwait its 19th province. most historically significant and controversial actions of the Bush administration: the decision to leave Hussein in power at the end of the Persian Gulf War. Gates, deputy national security adviser at the White House before and during the war against Iraq, acknowledged that administration officials talked extensively about, the possibility of making the capture of Hussein one of America's war aims. In the end, Gates said, U.S.

officials rejected the idea, largely because they feared that the Iraqi leader would go into hiding and that U.S. troops occupying Iraq would be to find him. ing his visit Tuesday to West Point. The students waited in the VIP section as their father, Dutchess County Executive William Steinhaus, and other officials greeted Bush at Stewart Airport in New-burgh. Sued over a song A songwriter is suing Hammer and his record company for more than $16 million, claiming the rapper stole his song.

Muhammad Bilal Abdullah says Hammer stole his composition, Oh, Oh You GottheShing, and renamed it Here The Hammer. Abdullah says he performed his song for Hammer at an audition in Dallas in August 1989 and followed it up by sending him a tape of the song. The tape was returned with a letter saying the rapper wasn't interested, according to the the lawsuit. Here Comes The Hammer, released in February 1990 on Hammei-'s Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em, was "substantially similar to, and incorporated substantial and significant portions of" Abdullah's song, he lawsuit claims. A publicist for Hammer in Los Angeles didn't immediately return a message Thursday sef k-ing comment.

Abdullah is suing for all profits from recordings, videos and live performances of the song church supports Till RROIHTKR I FavettB Parkersburo, -ASCS FmHA i j. i iEldora SCS 1 Maquokata FmHA i Monlicella ASCS: 1 i mr Keosauqua; i FmHA; 1 i 2 has all of the modern transportation and telecommunication services available to them," said Madigan. Likewise, President-elect Bill Clinton generally supported the notion of streamlining USDA offices during the presidential campaign. Industry analysts said profits should rise even more strongly than sales because price-cutting was kept to a minimum. Federated Department Stores Inc.

Chairman Allen Questrom said the season was one of the strongest in the past decade. Federated, the owner of Bloomingdale's, Abraham Straus and other department store chains, said its December sales rose 10 percent over 1991. Not every retailer was so lucky. Wool worth December sales rose only 1 percent and Kmart's same-store sales rose a sluggish 2.4 percent, although it forecast higher earnings. "What sorts out the winners and losers is apparel chains outperformed their business plans and general merchandise chains did not," said Tom Tashjian of First Manhattan Corp.

THIS ARTICLE includes reports from Renter news service. Short Takes Robert Downey who portrays Charlie Chaplin in Chaplin, says his favorite Chaplin film is City Lights. "I saw City Lights with an orchestra conducted by Carl Davis, and I could watch it back to back a thousand times. You'd always see new stuff." Detroit trumpeter Marcus Belgrave, a nationally known jazz musician, says he owed his musical career to Dizzy Gillespie, 75, who died Wednesday. "He's the cause of me playing trumpet," Belgrave said.

"I heard him when I was three years old. His was the first trumpet I heard on a recording. He was father to an entire generation of trumpet players." An 'old lady' now? Dorothy Hamill says she's an "old lady" now, but the 36-year-old has no plans to hang up her skates. Hamill. the 1976 Olympic gold medalist in figure skating, is touring with the Ice Capades.

an old lady now Vi and certainly not perfect," Hamill 1 tt said. "I have my good days and bad days. I'll keep on skating as long as my body holds outjustforme." Bush signs kids' excuse from school tee, respective' They have noted that the number of field offices is better suited to an era when 20 percent of Americans lived on farms, and most lacked telephones. "Today less than 1 percent of the U.S. population lives on farms and The RF.OISTER DECEMBER SALES Increases for major retailers, reflecting sales from stores open at least a year.

Younkers Kohl's Corp 15.4 15.1 Federated Department Stores Inc. 10.0 10.0 Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Dayton Hudson Corp 9.5 J.C. Penney Co 9.1 May Department Stores Inc 8.7 8.2 2.4 Sears, Roebuck Crx. mart Corp SOURCE: Associated Press, company reports "Santa Claus was kind," said Terr-ence McEvoy, who follows the retailing industry for Janney Montgomery Scott.

News 1 K. JL ST Y0UNKERS Continued from Page IA Younkers said. "Sales were pretty strong the entire period," said Alan Raxter, Younkers' chief financial officer. "People are more confident (about) the economy." Coats and Blazers Younkers Chairman and Chief Executive Tom Gould said in a prepared statement that "all product lines had significant increases with the coats and blazers product line leading the way." Raxter said it is unlikely Younkers will sustain similar sales growth over the next year. "We think '93 is going to be a good year," he said.

"Sales are going to be up in the mid-single-digit range." Retailers nationally posted December sales gains averaging 8.5 percent over December 1991 at stores open both years. In tlie 1., 1 Millbrook, N.Y. (AP) Two youngsters had an excuse for missing school: a note signed by President Bush. Julie Steinhaus, 14, and her brother, Matthew, 1 1, had their school excuses signed by President Bush dur How to aid Russia Russian television commentator Vladimir Pozner says the United States should spend the money it used to invest in the Cold War on ensuring his country doesn't slip back into totalitarianism. Pozner said Russians, familiar with state-guaranteed jobs and services, are shocked by free-market policies that have sent inflation soaring and eaten up paychecks.

"It's a very dangerous situation. It can go either way, believe me," Pozner said Wednesday in a speech at a desert resort in Indian Wells, Calif. i Denying rumors of a hot romance Billy Ray Cyrus plays Romeo in Dolly Parton's new video, but, the pair say tabloid reports of a real romance are pure fiction. "It would'a been fun if it was true, but it wasn't," Parton said Wednesday while taping the video with Cyrus. "He is the cutest guy in country music, and we've got a lot of 'em she said.

The video for the song Romeo also features country singers Kathy Mattea, Mary-Chapin Carpenter and Tanya Tucker, playing handmaidens to Parton's Juliet. Cyrus said he had wanted to ask Parton to sing on a new song called Pictures Don't Lie, but "Now that they've had us on the front of the tabloids. I can't ask her to sing a song with a title like that.".