Show A2 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Friday September 27 2002 World D "" "I ©reemspam uraigMedl by CRATHIE Scotland (AP) US Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan received an honorary knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday and said he would always cherish the honor Greenspan who has steered the US economy through four presidencies was given the tumor in recognition of his contribution to global economic stability The 76year)Id economist accompanied by his wife NBC-T- V correspondent Andrea Mitchell at the queen’s Bal moral estate in the Scottish Highlands said “I am deeply appreciative of this honor which I shall always cherish" “It's a very unusual day for an economist" he said as he received the honorary knighthood in the softly lit library of Balmoral Castle which looks out onto the royal rose garden and the valley of the River Dee He joked with die queen and her husband Prince Philip grumbling that he was tired because the “British government put me to work Qoneemi The economist who arrived in London on Wednesday made a series of speeches to business leaders and dignitaries at both the Treasury and the Bank of England Treasury chief Gordon Brown and Sir Edward George Before the presentation Greenspan spoke of a close friendship with Brown and George and the gratitude the United States owed to its British governor of the Bank of England gave a dinner for event" he said “We in the ancestors “This is an extraordinary international community are especially grateful to our British forbears who several hundred years ago created so much of the financial infrastructure — and I suspect we probably take it for granted when we Greenspan on Wednesday night “I mule three speeches and Gordon Brown had me at the seminar on international development" Greenspan said “I argued very strenuously for the Bank of England to find a room for me to sleep" : ' AP photo Alan Greenspan right is his given honorary knighthood from Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II left with his wife Andrea Mitchell at his side at Balmoral castle in the Scottish Highlands on Thursday US Federal Reserve Chairman First ladies pledge to fight child poverty MEXICO CITY (AP)— poverty" she said “This can First ladies from across the be achieved with an educa- Americas pledged Thursday to tion We are the future of our world and I imagine that one help fight child poverty saying they must take an active role : day in the future when I am to help their husbands improve big I can arrive at a position ' the lives of the hemisphere’s like you have” most vulnerable citizens The 22 first ladies and govThe first ladies held daylong ernment delegates participat- sessions on child health eduing in the conference cation and development while : including Laura Bush agreed child-poverthat poverty plagues the entire experts met in parallel sessions hemisphere — including rich “I don’t know how we can nations like the United States talk of a better future for our and Canada ' nations if we don’t demonSome 15 million of Mexistrate today that we are capaco’s 35 million children live in ble of fillfilling alongside our poverty while Canadian first husbands our historic responlady Aline Chretien said 7 perfirst Mexican cent of the 22 million chilsibility" lady Martha Sahagun de Fox said dren under 6 in her country are poor Young Beroarda Temoxtle of Mexico’s Veracniz state told “Securing the best start for the first ladies about how she them is die best way to make used to sleep on the flow rad sure they are ready to conhike long distances from her tribute to a better country and Indian village to her school a better world" Chretien said She praised a Mexican pro“Too many children in Canada are being left behind in gram that provided her and others with better meals beds poverty” to sleep in and an education During their workshops the ' first ladies detailed the gov' through satellites and comput- ers ernment and private programs “I ask with all my heart that in their countries tackling die we unite and combat child heeds of poor families ty AP photo Franciscan friar points at the Giotto frescoes of the ceiling of St Francis Basilica in Assisi near Perugia central Italy Thursday At the top right is Giotto's fresco of SL Jerome which was pieced back together by a team of restorers exactly five years after a deadly earthquake sent the masterpiece crashing to the floor shattering It Into tens of thousands of fragments Below a dose up view of the restored Giotto fresco of SL Jerome i A Giotto fresco restored in Italy i ‘ ' Painting pieced back lesser-know- together five years after ssistiiuakes a Tenotiand ASSISI Italy (AP) — St Jerome’s white beard is largely gone his rich coak looks like it was devoured by moths and the roll of writing paper on his desk has disappeared But in a kind of restoration miracle much of the rest of the Giotto fresco is back on the soaring ceiling of St Francis Basilica Five years after an earthquake sent themasterpiece crashing to the floor in tens of thousands of fragments ' Like a giant puzzle knocked apart by an angry child the fresco was painstakingly pieced back together by a team of restorers who celebrated their achievement Thursday as this town marked the Fifth anniversary of a pair of powerful quakes hours apart that claimed 10 lives and destroyed homes and artwork across Umbria in central Italy The race to save the fresco which experts believe was painted by Giotto at the end of the 13th century began almost immediately after a huge chunk of the basilica's nave fell a distance of seven stories in the earthquake burying : : n and pieces frescoes of : other saints t 'They tried toi match pieces to an photograph of the priginal St ' carefully laid unmatched pieces on cushions of foam in crates and drawers “Days would pass when people would find nothing or maybe just a little piece” recalled one of the chief restorers Paola Passalacqua “Then suddenly we would remember seeing a certain piece in a certain drawer that matched It was a work of memory” Part of the ceiling above the altar also came crashing down in the second of the quakes including another priceless masterpiece a fresco by Cimabue who is considered the father of Italian painting Restoration work on some 120000 fragments of Cimabue’s St Matthew will begin in a few months aided by a computer that will try to find matches between the pieces and a photograph of the masterpiece Fragments of the Cimabue now fill 880 drawers in a cloister of the Franciscan basilica’s convent A computer might also have helped with the Giotto fresco but right after die quake there was no time to tailor programs to the enterprise said Passalacqua r eight 1 Vl-'tt- L A r two Franciscan monks and two workers in a mound of dust plaster and bricks on Sept 26 1997 After the bodies were pulled out volunteers and restoration experts who slept in a tent camp with some of die thousands left homeless in the quake started sifting through some 50000 fragments of the 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