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The Rock Island Argus from Moline, Illinois • 1

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1 1 PAGE B1 i uM'ii TODAY.S FORECAST Partly doody'X 1' and colder, hlh; '53. no nin 5 sg- 1 140th YEAR No. 24 50 CENTS MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1997, ROCK ISLAND, ILLINOIS i. a i in WORLD A NATION 'll '-w oi Tensions soar, logical harm foe people oflraq have endured, according to the statement on; Iraqi television, carried aleo.by die British Brbad-castingCorp. padh, however, has not led us to Bny resuh, and there ia not die iBHt hope that.it win lead uetoahyneutt.

have, to chooee enrSi sacrificeor slavery, back U.N. weapons-lnspection teanu, lnslrtfog tiMt It wlll not allow Amerkra participation fo tile teams. Iraqi President Saddam Hue-. seln declared 8unday that his country had fto duose between sacrifice or slavery, suggesting that -a confrontation with the United Statea mlght ha in-evitaUB. vv 1 s.

Films of foie inspection teams activities in Iraq showed how much material and psycho bombing rune agaimt Iraq. The crisis could come to a heed today when the UAe flying under foe UJf. flag are to return to foe air despite Iraqi threats against them. Tariq Aziz, Iraqs dutp minister, was en route to New York to carry Iraqs message to the United Nations, fold CNN Saturday that Iraqs anti-aircraft sites in a standby mode" end would lire on foe spy planes. -Iraq continues to.

turn WASHINGTON (At) Ihb United States wlll not tolerate attacks by Saddam Hueaein when Pd spy planes resume. U.N. furvelllsnce flights today over Iraq, Resident Qlntnn said Senate Majority Leader Ltrtt eald the latest crisis with. Iraqi president Saddam could be a very telling moment in foe administration. He stressed that Clinton would hive Congress fliR support tf he were to order TT Clinton, in an interview wlfo PLEASE SEE I RA to President Clinton said Sunday bet wants to develop an ongoing relation-.

FldelCastros Cuba much like the one hehaS with China, but only afterAmeri-cas communist neighbor moves toward democracy. AS An and to aepaaeet Scientists expertipent- tag wlthmice have founds way to keep ovaries than dying and thua Mock the onset of menopause. The research la sdll at the experimental stage, but one scientist said the results with mice were so pood the technique could be used on women right away. AS -7 i ier eeMtoptoealooc Lori Schiller. who was lT yepre old at summer, camp wfaenshe begaiThaarlng voices, spent years wandering the streets cf New York City before gaining wintry pf her frhlmphranUrnnri frar Ufa 11 ieoaaS.jaeaad.WMi Metaiyt Tervelt of Fenton remembers when a tod.

was. made for tiw ages and tiw word craftsman meant a lot -more than a brand name. Cl Jeaee diea ftoai Naqn Thirty-yearojd Bill Jones of Rock Falla, whose attempted suicide Mday moraine entod a labour standoff with police, has died. Cl JMMMENT Oat of seatieh Mona Charen says we dont handle lhar very, well far this country. Because of that, weve Wowed it to spin oot of control, she says.

A4 Saddam Hussaib Bill Clinton Fast-track JOBS MONEY Keeping ina aye eeti Katie Schallert goes On the Job with site Inspector Jennifer Hensleyas she watches for any labor, pay or safety vtola-tions made by non-union construction companies. AS Maas adapt hwanasat A new study found that millions of Americans who are eligible for Job-related health Insurance are rejecting foe plans, leaving many of them uninsured. A7 Mea aa a adaaisai Jay Leeuwraburg. starting center for foe Indianapolis Colts, has become a crusader in fata free time. He has diabetes, he wants tp educate others about It.

K1 power ef paver Researchers who recently declared that people who goto church may live longer are on to aomething that a lot of us al- ready knew, says column latDorothy Bureah. continues in House WASHINGTON (AP) PreM-itent CUnfam and Newt Gingrich worked in tandem late Sunday in an itiwwiilii effort to trade legislation through the House. The chief executive assured -Democrats he wouldn't trade a matter cf principle as he bargained tbr GOP votae. With. Clinton able to gain pnly scant backing among lawmakers in his own -party, Gingrich ahd GOP last-minute 1 sup-' port behind the fort-track mea- ngnch Behind dosed doon, according to eourpee who spoke on candi-r tion of anonymity, they sought converts by arguing that passage would not only help tiw economy but alM Inflict a humiliating defeat on their political adversaries in organized labor end foe Houae Democratic leadership.

In hie public ewnmante, Gingrich Jabbed repeatedly at foe unions that tried unsuccessfully to topple him and the Republicans from power in elections a year ago. A lot of our members resent the kind of pressure that the union bosses have brought into the CanitoL he said. The APL-CIQ says foe trade measure lacks safeguards needed to protect wages, wakfog conditions and environmental stain darde to America's potential trading partners. Gountered Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, an opponent of fog trade biU, This is not being fought on tiie merits any more.

hie. pert, Clinton dispatched top aides to the Capitol to lobby for the trade legtolatioiv as wdl as to eeek agreement with; Republicans on other issues attached to spending measures. Agreement on thoae bllli with controversies touching on abortion and the census are essential to firming up Republican ROCK ISLAND -John Sho-ley plopped down on. his fo-vorite black chair, lit a nonftt tered cigarette, took a deep drag Off it, then shook hie head In mode disbelief at the mate on die floor. -Bite of potteryi metal toy parta.and porcelain ellvere lay scanned on tiw ted carpet like pieces of a puzzle.

The mess wasn't caused by vandals; Mr. Sheiey did It wifo a purpose a 1 restorative purpose. Restoration is his craft. The fragmented places on the floor til hype hkAkfatfy rMadiil to what ii left of the whole, and theemptyepaceefiOedto. fo the end.

the DMsdn pqrca- lain bowl and Roseville vaae. will be almost Ilia new. Exactly where the pieces were fitted together will be nearly impossible to detect. Mr. Sheiey fads restored a-rare tin ear, buttons, even a mantle clock that once belonged to Al Capana.

He has repaired pieces for museums and Deere ft Col, but of hie work comes from ordinary peopld hoping to have, the leg on a -porcelain doll repaired, or a diipped or cracked fomily heirloom restored. Not all the pieces he restores are For eotne pieces, the only real value the place it' holds in' the heart of the own er For. others, like the owner of. the rare tin car, the value increased from 2X)0 to 1 lf ifeagoodreetnrationjob, it can bring the value of the piece back to 95 percent; Mr, Sheiey said. A real rare piece can be brought back to 10Q percent cf its value.

Theres no profoeelon ljke it, Mr. Sheiey, of eoofowest Rock Wand, said cf hie Job. Tt'e so much more rewarding than commercial art work, he said. So often, the piece has-sentimental value and Im able to meke tfae piece enjoyable again. When a piece baa a chip or crack, the eye goes right to that vot and thafd all you sea." There's no auefo thtog as ah easy Job, Ur.

Sheiey said. Iheyre all toughuntil tfaeyYe Reatontion is a long proceee. PLEASE SEE I SHEUYp A2 tte A dating guru oftera his tip for Interaction between the sexes. 11 DaaTt deni ea past adatake The most effective way to move beyond our. mistakes is to apologize for any pain we might have caused and to resolve to do better in the future, and then act upon it, says Dear Abby.

BS SPORTS HM af Ream auatab It.Was Hall of Fune day at the Lady Luck Caeino. Four hall-offonwre in Sour sports were on hand fin: a meet and SPWt.FL Maid daahedi The Quad City Mallards will be without flm ftvorite John Batten after he was suspended fir a. team rules violation. Bt Paakara batlar Rwaat The (been Bay Packers remained in a tie atop foe NFC Central after heating St Loulain a game maned by penalties. CHUCKLE Notice In a British form Held: The former allows walkers to cross the field for free, but the bull charges.

Running across this field takes a man IS secopds. Bull does it in 10. ABOVI; John Sheiey worts on restoring a piece of pottery In hie studio. The Rock Island resident is considered one of the best pofoeiajn restorers In the United States. He ebn repair breaks and cracks so they are invisfote to the human eye.

RNMlt Using a paintbrush, Mr. Sheiey applies the flnish-X tng touches to a Roseville teapot In Ns Rock Island studio. INSIDE jC2 ObRusriss JC3 Speak Out. iMsdsioa 2 Clwlflsd Cornice commsnwy Jobs A Money PLEASE SEE I11IA0IIA2 JU TVNHul MWi COMING.TOMORRO Gene may help hearts grow own bypass Dan Saskowski telle you how to the best weight machine. UTI Several of the patients have been spued tiw need for leg amputations.

Others have been freed of conatant pain. Several even have found that their toenails have atartsd to grow again for tiw first time to years. Isner said MRI scans and X-rays show improved circulation, and tiw Hood pressure to tiw patients legs has increased something that never happens by itself to audit Ryan Dieckman will be on hand at toady Street Stadium for Davenport Assumption's Iowa Cl" 4A aecondraund playoff grata against Iowa City High, arowra experiments by early next year. Drs. Michael Maim and Victor J.

Dzau cf Brigham and Wonwna Hospital to Boeton are using gene thenqnr to try to make traditional bypass surgery work better. Over time, about half of tiw blood vessels used to reroute Mood to the heart or tiw lege become clogged. Their goal Is to alter tiw grafts genetically eo this does not happen. There are literally hundreds of gene therapy concepts. This is the first wave that I bubbling over into clinical use, said Dr.

Sanders Williams of tiw ttotaer alty of Texas Southwestern Medt' leal Center to Dallas. This is opening a door to genetic therapy to cardiovascular disease, said Dr. Valentin Fuster of Mount Sinai Medical Crater to New York City, incoming president of tiw heart association. So for, 30 patients wlfo severely cloned arteries to their legs have received injections of laboratory-made versions of the human bcm that makes vascular endothelial growth foctor, a protein that prompts blood veseel development during growth to tiw womb. Of these, Isner said 16 have responded for growing new Mood vessels that carry blood around tiw blockages.

genes to cure a variety of human ills. But until now, then has been little firm evidence that tt will do any good. This is tiw first time that ray geM therapy has been shown to be nUninaHy successful, said Dr. Jeffrey Isner of St Elizabeths Medical Crater to Boston. Reports by Isner and another team working one different gene therapy approach were presented Sunday at a meeting of tiw American Heart Association.

If their promising but preliminary findings stand up to more rigorous testing, geM therapy may eoma-day prove be an important way to control heart disease, tiw nations biggest killer. ORLANDO, Jla. (AP) Scientists tinkering with gene therapy think they have found a way to make bad hearts grow their own bypasses. The idea is to Inject extra genes directly into tiw heart tbat will trigger tt to sprout mw blood vessels. Ifall goes wen, these win work at least as wen aa the one surgeons stitch Into place during coronary bypass surgery.

80 for, doctors from Boston have tried the gene therapy on people wfth dangerously dogged arteries in tiw legs, where tt seems to have spared some from threatened amputations. For several years, scientists have talked about manipulating Dan Saskowski He said he bee asked the Food end Drug Administration for permission to start the therapy on patients with blockages to their hearts, which biologically are virtually identical to clogged leg arteries. He hopes to begin times- TSSOMtECiO1 EEJU SJONJH EVVE BJVTWWW.QC 0 NUNE.COM 1.

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