Show “ ’ it : ' ' ' ' 4J'1 " “ NFL games packed with action rip-roari- ng -- AS Local chiropractor offers skills at area rodeos -- A3 B rTd g erlandslD V6H94 jloT6MMondaHJanuaiV6T20Q3' Voathor Mostly sunny ' with patchy morning fog -- PageA12 Update Cloninglissue aiJJ ews p a p e bqarflUtah©2QQ3j Suicide bombers kill 23 in Tei Aviv TEL AVIV Israel (AP) —Two Palestinian suicide bombers set off back-to-bablasts Sunday in a central Tel Aviv area crowded with foreign workers killing 23 bystanders and wounding more than 100 in the bloodiest attack in six months Hours later Israeli attack helicopters fired at least four missiles at metal workshops in Gaza City witnesses said Eight people were slightly injured The Israeli military ck said the workshops were used for making weapons including mortars and rockets borIn Rafah on the der Israeli forces destroyed a house belonging to an Islamic Jihad leader Palestinians said The A1 Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade a militia linked to Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement said the suicide bombers were its members Earlier the militant Islamic Jihad claimed Gaza-Egy- pt responsibility The twin blasts came just three weeks before Israel’s Jan 28 general election and could boost support for hardline parties including Likud the party of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon Sharon convened an emergency meeting of key Cabinet ministers Sunday evening Israef responded to two similar attacks in June — Jerusalem bus bombings that left 26 dead — by reoccupying most West Bank towns But with Israeli troops still in control of Palestinian population cen- ters Israel’s range of additional responses is limited particularly as the United States considers a possible strike against Iraq and wants to avoid friction with the Arab world over the conflict Israeli-Palestini- an See ISRAEL on A6 Efforts to ban cloning begin afresh in US By Peter N Spotts The Christian Science Monitor t It is either a profound development in biotechnology or — as many suspect — the new century's biggest scientific hoax yet Clonaid a Bahamas-base- d company owned by a religious sect called the Raelians is claiming that two babies produced by cloning have been bom — the latest just this Friday The company says it expects three more cloned babies to be delivered this month Regardless of the truth of Clon-aidclaims however the announcements are expected to trigger renewed efforts from the United Nations to the United States Congress to ban cloning Where supporters sec the practice as new way to have children the concept of human cloning jars with many people's religious beliefs Even the few scientists who are not morally opposed to reproductive cloning favor going slowly until questions of safety arc addressed Since 1998 at least 33 countries including 19 European nations have - ’s banned cloning At the UN talks are continuing over drafts of an international convention that would ban reproductive cloning of human beings Later this year Canada is expected to pass a cloning ban And in the US lawmakers in the House and Senate are expected to reintroduce measures first proposed last year Apart from the moral revulsion many feel about cloning human beings cloning experiments on animals show that the procedure is fraught with risk for the mother as well as the offspring “This will catalyze the congressional debate” says Michael Werner vice president for bioethics at the Biotechnology Industry Organization in Washington of the Clonaid announcements The company's claims have met with moral indignation from many religious leaders scientists and bioethicists Biologists outside the company — including Clonaid competitor Severino Antinori an Italian fertility doctor — have expressed deep skepticism about the veracity of the claims Dr Antinori last year indicated that his efforts to clone humans to help infertile couples were expected to result in several births this month Efforts to verify Clonaid's claims have foundered since the company's Dec 27 press conference to announce that the world’s first clone had been bom to an American By the middle of last week the firm had backtracked on testing It cited the parents' desire to retain their privacy after a Florida lawyer petitioned the state's supreme court to appoint a legal guardian for the baby girl The wwwhjnewscom L L Mitch MascaraHeraid Brian Lundahl owner of Beaver Creek Lodge and snowmobile rental talks about the path an a memorial placed at the location where a plane crashed 50 years ago military transport plane may have taken Journal as he stands near 50 years ago a 6 carrying soldiers home from the Korean War crashed near St Charles killing all 37 men aboard A memorial honors the victims C-4- C46 crash Jan 6 1953 Dingle StChadc!t By Darrell Edward Ehrlick staff writer T ime heals all things Some sage person penned those words at one point and other people thought so much of the phrase that it has been venerated to the level of cliche — suitable for the likes of high school term papers and -- greeting cards But whoever coined that phrase hasn’t been anywhere near St Charles Idaho And it's hard to imagine that person could comprehend tragedy quite like the incident low-gra- Hsrald Journal map de that happened on a remote mountainside SO years ago today Maybe Nephi Bott the man responsible for putting the huge stone memorial marker at the site understood a little about the loss After all Bott was the man responsible for helping to put a marker at the grave of Old Ephraim — the last known grizzly bear in these parts Maybe he saw some flicker of irony in the fact that one of the most untamed killing machines nature had ever created was itself destined to become the hunted See KOREA on A5 Bush to unveil 'Plan B’ to spur weak economy new goal is to boost business confidence Key By Ron Scherer The Christian Science Monitor NEW YORK — President Bush is about to become die first resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to propose two economic stimulus packages during his first term in office The Bush tax cut Part 2 — which the president plans to unveil at a Chicago appearance Tuesday — is focused largely on an economic recovery that is still not creating many new jobs Not exactly the performance a president can use to trumpet strong economic stewardship The Democrats are already letting Bush adjourned without extending unemployment benefits last November hers have run out along with most of her savings She's given up her Jonowyn Murray sits with her son Drake In her parents' ‘ now lives with an aunt since on north Philadelphia home July Friday Unemployed son 13 Murray is hoping and with another See JOBS on A12 See BUSH on A12 Congress extends unemployment benefits AP photo ! 4 He ti |