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Chicago Tribune, Wednesday. May 30, 1990 Section 5 7 Tempo lots in Eiee 6iorni 1 A Project Juno keeps trying to get off the ground 1 paid about 7 million pounds ($11.2 million) for its part in putting a British astronaut into orbit, Mace and Sharman were selected in November from 13,000 applicants, all eager to become the first Briton in space. The two successful applicants came through weeks of grinding tests of physical and mental stamina to satisfy Juno organizers that they knew enough about science to contribute to a series of British space research projects that would be conducted aboard Mir. Long before the project began, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher declared that there would be no government money available for it. Instead, Juno would be hurled aloft by the thrust of private enterprise a consortium of business houses and banks.

In March, Sir Geoffrey Pattie, a former British defense minister who heads the business side of Juno, announced that funds had been slow flowing in. Pattie said in an interview last week that he is confident that with encouragement and cajoling, more British companies will join in. He concedes, however, that so far only a few have done so. Part of the problem Juno faces is that in the early phase, heavy emphasis was put on the glamorous side of the mission, and less on the scientific aspect. Heinz Wolff, a bioengineer from Brunei University in Uxbridge who heads the Juno science program, says the project was "over-hyped" at the outset.

The organizers, Wolff says, seem to have imagined that companies would pay heavily to have their logos inscribed on space suits and their food and drink consumed on the flight. As things have turned out, there was little business community interest in such matters. Wolff is trying to restructure the Juno science program to give it more appeal to science-based companies. The outcome of renewed efforts to put Juno aloft is being eyed anxiously in Moscow by Mace and Sharman. Both are quoted in news reports as saying they have little difficulty facing the thought that the other will be Britain's first person in space.

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But soon Giorgi went public his political philosophy, winning election to the conservative-Idominated City Council as a 'Populist Progressive in 1955. "It was basically Republican in 'the City Council when Zeke was there, but Zeke being a Democratic alderman, a minority alderman, he learned how to swim upriver, and I don't think he's ever stopped swimming," said Gloria Lind, the Winnebago County clerk and a former legislative aide to Giorgi. In 1964, after the legislature had; failed to agree on a redistricting rmap, Giorgi, on a lark, agreed to have his name submitted as a candidate for the House in the famed "bedsheet ballot" election (the ballots were oversized), in which voters across the state the chamber's 177 members. Riding the coattails of Lyndon "Johnson's landslide presidential victory over Republican Barry Goldwater, he joined an overwhelming Democratic majority that won seats in the House. For two years, Giorgi held his aldermanic post while serving in the House, giving him a valuable footing in both arenas.

While it 'didn't help an ill-fated bid for mayor in 1969, it did cultivate a belief in patronage, of working up 'through the ranks, and the you scratch my back, I scratch yours" vote trading that is part of the leg-L islative process. Through the years, though, Giorgi also learned that part of the legislative process is patience. While not known generally outside Rockford or northwestern Illinois, Giorgi has been able to steer millions of dollars in pork projects back into his district and the city. Last year, Gov. James Thompson formally opened the State of Illinois regional office building in Rockford, a $10 million, flve-c story, glass-and-stone structure along the west bank of the downtown Rock River, culminating a I.

project that Giorgi introduced in the legislature in 1975. Even when the public objected to a project, Giorgi pushed ahead, sensing a longer-term need. After "voters in a referendum rejected plans for a civic center, Giorgi helped deliver $20 million for construction of the downtown MetroCentre, which has played host to such diverse attrac-. tions as the Rolling Stones and tractor-pull competitions. Damage control But time has taken its toll on the old-style politics Giorgi praoc tices.

He feuded frequently with a previous mayor who wouldn't give him any patronage jobs, and his -old-guard faction in the local Democratic Party organization is gradually being eased out by a younger group. Yet time, and the power of legislative seniority in a majority party, has earned Giorgi the title of assistant House Democratic leader and the compliment of having his district drawn conveniently for him, making him immune to any seri- Rep. Zeke Giorgi (left) draws the lottery drawing (in 1974) for master lottery drawing (in 1974) ous Republican challenge. As a result, Giorgi, a major spokesman for organized labor, has been given the task of sponsoring controversial bills that could be potentially damaging for others to carry, such as the bill that resulted in the new White Sox stadium. Part of Giorgi's success is the way he talks.

Sometimes injecting the wrong multisyllabic word in a sentence in a misguided attempt to sound grandiloquent, he is also known to mumble through his explanation of noncontroversial bills, and occasionally controversial bills, to steer them quickly through the House. That was the case in 1980 with a bill to aid then-struggling Chrysler Corp. It was a major piece of legislation, but Giorgi quietly gave the impression the state was merely putting up $20 million in case Chrysler needed it. Not until the day after the bill passed did everyone realize it was an outright loan to the company, which has an auto plant in Belvidere that employs thousands of workers from the Rockford area. No 'thanks' Giorgi is sometimes known to boast about his personal popularity in Rockford, and once his seat-mate in the House, Rep.

John Ma-tijevich (D-North Chicago), put his braggadocio to a test Matijev-ich glued a picture of Giorgi's face onto an envelope, wrote "Rockford, 111." beneath it, and stuck it in the mail. The letter arrived at Giorgi's district office without delay and is now one of his most prized possessions. Still, for all his notoriety inside the chambers of the General Assembly and in his district, if Giorgi is known elsewhere in the state it is as the Father of the Lottery, the title Giorgi was awarded by then-Gov. Daniel Walker after Walker (who vowed that a lottery would be legalized only over his dead body) came to Rockford in 1973 to sign the state lottery act. "Of the over 600 millionaires that have been made in Illinois By Alexander MacLeod ONDON Two would-be British astronauts one a male free-fall army parachute champion, the other a female food scientist are hard at work at the Gagarin space center at Star City, near Moscow, preparing for a voyage into space.

Meanwhile, in London, a number of scientists, financiers and industrialists are laboring just as strenuously to make their journey possible. Project Juno is having a bumpy ride. But backers of the first commercial Anglo-Soviet space mission remain optimistic that, come April 1991, either Timothy Mace or Helen Sharman will blast oil on a Soviet rocket and rendezvous with the orbiting space station Mir. So far astronauts from France, Holland, Saudi Arabia, Cuba, Vietnam, India and Afghanistan have traveled into space aboard Soviet rockets. The idea is for a Briton to make the same journey.

Juno's backers are working with the Soviet space organization, Glavkosmos, which expects to be' By Joyce Jillson Birthday (May 30): You have many loose ends to tie up this year. Be willing to adjust to the ways of others in June. There are a lot of family matters to balance out. You need a break a mental and physical rest in July. Going places is good for you.

Important business decisions must be made in August. September and October see numerous transitions. Arte (March 21 -April 19): Don't be surprised if you pull off a grand financial coup. Spending on practical items will be worthwhile. Your concentration is back, so you can handle those details.

Taurus (April 20-May 20): You can get top money for your efforts today, and don't take less. Your partner may not be the ogre you imagine; take another look. Good social vibes are in store. Gemini (May 21-June 21): You have an excellent chance of wiggling out of just about anything. You may nave to take someone into your confidence.

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You can lay a lasting foundation for the future. You'd do well in the service profession or in sales. mium in II YOU 1 (Mir "Cj Protective lighter first number In the first Illinois of ceremonies Chick McCuen. through the lottery bill that I introduced, not a one has ever sent me a contribution or a thank-you letter. Not a one.

They don't even know I exist," Giorgi said. The compulsiveness to which Giorgi attaches his name to bling legislation stems, ironically, from a card game in the basement of the Capitol. In 1973, during an attempt to legalize the lottery, Giorgi found himself in need of several votes. Traveling from the third-floor House chamber to a basement room in search of lawmakers to vote for the measure, he found six legislators playing gin rummy. "Here's these guys playing gin rummy, and I need some votes to pass the lottery bill, so I get them to come up to the floor with me, and what do they do? They vote against it," Giorgi said.

That legislative "hypocrisy," as Giorgi calls it, prompted a vigorous effort on his behalf to work to legalize raffles and chances for non-profit groups, "Las Vegas" nights for charities, jar and pull-tab games, riverboat gambling and the next item on his agenda wagering on sports events. "We know people play betting pools in bars daily, they bet on sports daily, and they'd like to do it without the fear of being arrested," Giorgi said. His proposal would allow sports betting in taverns as a way to make up for the revenue lost by retail liquor establishments through the state's stricter enforcement of drunken driving and the higher dramshop insurance costs that bar owners are facing. But even if he isn't successful with that plan, which has been linked to the controversial funding of an expanded McCormick Place and a domed stadium for the Chicago Bears, Giorgi has an idea of what will come next. "If you think that after riverboat gambling boats ply the rivers that there isn't going to be a move to legalize casinos in Illinois, then you're not with it," Giorgi said.

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