2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, January 14, 1998 NATION/WORLD Iraqi ploy h keeps off U.S.-led BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Using a bureaucratic ploy, Iraq once again pre- vented a U.S.-led arms inspection team from doing its job yesterday. The move drew new warnings that Washington will not tolerate interference in the U.N. program to find Iraq's hidden weapons. :'Team leader Scott Ritter, ready and waiting at U.N. headquarters in Baghdad, was left in the lurch when his Iraqi escorts f4iled to show up for a planned inspection tour of suspected weapons sites. The move was less dramatic but no kiss divisive than the actual blocking of ispectors that set off the last Iraq-U.N. crisis, when American inspectors were eventually thrown out of Iraq in November and arms inspections were halted for three weeks. Iraq's newest challenge - which came a day after it warned it would ban inspections by Ritter's team because it had too many Americans - produced a replay of last year's crisis rhetoric. Iraq's state-run press accused Washington of trying to "injure the digni- ty~of Iraq," and America's U.N. ambas- sador said Iraq was instigating a new cn frontation. I can tell you, patience is running out in a lot of Security Council capitals. The Iraqis are really pushing this to the brink," Ambassador Bill Richardson told ABC's "Good Morning America" The U.N. Security Council met for two hours yesterday to discuss the latest LIKE NORTH CAMPUS? YOU'LL LOVE WILLOWTREE! 1 and 2 bedrooms Plenty of Free parking Now leasing for Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall WILLOWTREE APARTMENTS 769-1313 Look for us at the U-M Housing Fair! EHO U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter (right) returns with two inspectors to the U.N. Headquarters In Baghdad yesterday. Ritter waited for half an hour for Iraqi escorts who never showed up. standoff with Iraq, and planned to meet again later in the day to draft a statement. Richardson told reporters "what we want to see is a very strong signal from the Security Council." Council President Alain Dejammet of France said all 15 members agreed they must give "unanimous support" to the chief U.N. weapons inspector, Richard Butler; who travels to Baghdad this week. "it really looks as if Iraq is looking for any excuse not to comply with its inter- national obligations toward the Special Commission and the Security Council," said British Ambassador John Weston. ie said that Iraq's failure to comply with U.N. resolutions "will certainly have consequences, and those consequences will not be the early lifting of sanctions." Iraq countered with its ambassador to the United Nations, Nizar Hamdoon, charging that the heavy use of American and British inspectors underscores that these countries have "the aim ofmislead- ing the Security Council and internation- al opinion about the facts in Iraq." CLONING Continued from Page 1 not halt cloning research. State Rep. Kirk Profit (D-Ypsilanti) is attempting to passI louse Bill 4846, which would prohibit "the making of human beingsil production labs"' statew ide. "This is not an effort to ban the cloning of human parts," Profit said. "For me, life comes from one source, with a capital S'' Profit said. "People are endowed with certain rights by their creator." When that creator is a lab sci- entist, "the whole notion of a patent on someone's life becomes a difficult legal and ethical issue,' Profit said. Groups such as Michigan Right to Life and Michigan Catholic Conference said that they support the ban. Human cloning "so undermines some of the fundamental principles of American society that the only solution is to preempt it," Profit said. LSA junior Aaron Freilich said he is not sure how much control the govern- ment should have on this issue. He also wondered about the ever-present ethi- cal issues involved. "If you create (a hunan clone), just from a cell, can you consider it a thing or a person?" Freilich asked. School of Public Health Prof. Toby Citrin said too much legislation would serve to confuse the issue further. "Knee- jerk legislative reactions are not the way to approach this issue," Citrin said. Also, not everyone agrees that cloning is an altogether bad idea, which has prompted some to challenge a preemp- tive ban. "This area offers many rich pos- sibilities for the advancement of human well-being," Cohen said. "It would be a pity if people like Seed caused legislators to block research in this sphere." But cloning humans won't be easy. "The thing that has been missed in the press is the difficulty," said human genet- ics associate Prof. Jerome Gorski. The sheep clone, Dolly, was created after about 277 tries, which is a much small- er success rate than in-vitro fertilization. Obstetrics and gynecology Prof. Robert Hayashi called Seed's proposal "appalling." "It shouldn't be done on humans at this step of the game," Hayashi said. Hayashi fears that human cloning could turn into the production of a superior race, where only people who are smart or good-looking are cloned. "It's so far from the natural selection concept," Hayashi said. "In- vitro fertil- ization is more natural. It can be refined as we begin to understand all of the mechanisms of the natural process." Though many scientists agree that it currently would be dangerous to attempt human cloning, it could defi- nitely happen in the future. "I think technically, it's probably do- able," said pathology associate Prof. Tony Killeen. "I'm r'ot at all supporting this as an ethical medical procedure because I don't think it is. (But) some- body will try it - that's human nature. "I don't see any real clinical or med- ical needs to clone people," he added. But Killeen said cloning animals could be useful for pharmaceutical pur- poses, such as breeding a strain of pro- teins into animal milk and using the milk to cure a human ailment. Gregory Christman, an assistant pro- fessor of obstetrics and gynecology, said production of hormones in animals might lead to better treatment of disease. "Cloning in animal species has some very noble goals, but for people I have a hard time with what the goal of human cloning is," he said. "In humans, I think it's reprehensible." "This is pretty striking evidence," said North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Low inflation in '97 should remain in '98 WASHINGTON - Cars, gasoline and chicken all grew cheaper in 1997, producing the nation's best inflation per- formance in 11 years. Economists say the good news should continue this year, permitting interest rates to stay low. Prices edged a seasonally adjusted 0.1 percent higher in December, hold- ing the gain for the full year to just 1.7 percent, the Labor Department said 1 yesterday.r That's about half the 3.3 percent increase of 1996 and the best perfor- mance since 1986 when plummeting oil 1 prices held the overall increase in the 1 Consumer Price Index to 1.1 percent. I Core inflation -- which excludes volatile food and energy costs - climbed 2.2 percent in 1997, down from 2.6 percent a year earlier and the 1 smallest rise in 32 years. Such price restraint is unusual at a 1 time of robust economic growth and 4 declining joblessness, and the Clinton 1 administration pointed that out.4 Sl as U', THE ATIO N. Smoking may increase artery hardening CHICAGO - Both smoking and passive exposure to tobacco smoke can accel- erate irreversible hardening of the arteries, according to the largest study eve to examine tobacco's effects on atherosclerosis. Smoking is one of the most important risk factors contributing to atherosclero- sis, which causes heart attacks and strokes, according to a report to be published in today's Journal of the American Medical Associafioii. The new findings, according to the American Heart Association, provide strong evidence to support bans on smoking in bars and other public places. A team headed by epidemiologist George Howard of Wake Forest University studied 10,914 people enrolled in a study of all risk factors for atherosclerosis. They found that smokers had a 50 percent increase in the rate of plaque accu- mulation in the carotid arteries, ex-smokers had a 25 percent acceleration, and peo- ple passively exposed to smoke a 20 percent increase. The risk was even greater for people with diabetes or hypertension. The finding is surprising because scientists had not known that, unlike cigarette- induced lung damage, the cardiovascular damage may be irreversible. Nor had they previously had hard evidence that secondhand smoke could cause this type. artery damage, the researchers said. Dr. Sidney Smith of the University of "Today's good inflation numbers mean that the combined rate of unem- ployment and inflation - the so-called misery index - is the lowest since 1967," raid Janet Yellen, who chairs the White House Council of Econoi* Advisers. White House Blue* Room is vandalized WASHINGTON - A woman touring the White House sprayed brown paint in the Blue Room yesterday, marring two historic sculptures, officials said. Tile woman, whose 3-inch paint can had been seen but not confiscated fr4 her purse by Secret Service agents; was being charged with destruction of prop- erty. Officials would not identify her or comment on a possible motive. a White House press secretary Mike McCurry said the woman caused more than $1,000 damage to the room's wall covering 'and defaced two "rather priceless" mar- ble busts of Christopher Columbs and Amerigo Vespucci. CLINTON Continued from Page 1 tional initiatives: the Hope Scholarship credit, Education IRAs, increased schol- arships and loans, and community ser- vice to pay for college. The Hope Scholarship, which the Georgia state legislature already has passed and many other states are con- sidering, gives a student's family a $1,500 tax credit in each of the stu- dent's first two years. University Director of Financial Aid Pamela Fowler said Clinton's proposal will help strengthen an already thriving federal program that granted $3,159,240 last year to 2,497 University students. "Any increase that results in an increased allocation in federal funds will allow us to make more awards to students and increase awards to stu- dents who already have it," she said. "This is always a positive thing for our students." LSA junior Jeremy Schaefer, who has participated in the work-study program for three years, said federal funding made it possible for him to afford to atfend the University. He hopes Clinton's new initiative will help even more stu- dents afford to attend the University. "It has helped me pay the bills," Schaefer said. "I've received roughly S2,000 each year. This would make it more affordable for most people in gen- eral. Even though both Democrats and Republicans are enthusiastic about Clinton's proposals to promote educa- tion, state Rep. Mary Schroer (D-Ann Arbor) warned that S70 million might not materialize into lagre increases to individual schools such as the University. "Seventy million sounds like an incredible amount of money" Schroer said. "I'm on the appropriation commit- tee and S70 million goes pretty quickly." SAROUND THE WORLD I I Catch a Ride to: 1 Israel: Palestinians must meet demands TEL AVIV, Israel - Setting the stage for a showdown with the United States, Israel's Cabinet adopted a 12- page list of conditions yesterday that it said Palestinians must meet before Israel will hand over more West Bank land. The Palestinians accused Israel of stalling and insisted they were fulfilling their commitments. Underscoring this claim - and the danger of renewed bloodshed - Palestinian security forces uncovered nearly a ton of explosives in a Hamas bomb factory. President Clinton reportedly expects Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to present a detailed plan for a troop pull- back at a White House summit Jan. 20. Two days later, Clinton meets Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. But Netanyahu's adviser, David Bar-Ilan, said the prime minister will likely give Clinton only a general out- line. Netanyahu said Israel only wants to ensure that the Palestinians fulfill their part of past accords. "If they fulfill (their obligations), no doubt we will move forward with a redeployient" he said During yesterday's Cabinet session, the ministers reviewed and approved a 12-page list of demands, most dealing with security. Remains of 7 war vets are sent home HANOI. Vietnam --The remains seven American servicemen killed i war that ended a generation ago were placed in flag-draped caskets at Noi Bai International Airport here yester- day and carried with military honors aboard an Air Force jet bound for home. Moments later, the giant C-141 Starlifter thundered into the mist- shrouded skies of Hanoi's winter morn- ing, and Sen. John F. Kerry, himself a combat veteran of the Vietnam.W said quietly to no one in particul . "Thirty years and going home at last." - Compiled from Daily wire reports. 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