University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, October 19, 1988
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Nation/World
Parisian wins prize
Nobel award for economics given to the 'giant' who helped rebuild France
the Associated Press
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Maurice Allais, a Paris shopkeeper's son who became a "giant" of economic research at the Prize for economics yesterday.
"I've been mentioned so many times before, I just didn't think I would get it," he said.
The poverty and unemployment Alas saw when the United States met with the Great Depression of the 1930s turned him to economics from the engineering career for a more stable life.
Alais, 77, developed formulas making it possible for large enterprises to keep an economy in balance by regulating prices and allocating their resources. His theories on markets are based on economic theory of World War II
"He is a giant in economie theor-
e analysis," said Aarid Linbacke, of
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize
After the award was announced, Alais said he had given up of hope over winning the economics prize, which was established 20 years ago.
"He's been under consideration for a long time," Lindbeck said. "It took
According to the citation, Allais was honored "for his pioneering contributions to the theory of mark-killing and efficient utilization of resources."
a long time to investigate him because of the great volume and complexity of his works."
This year's prizes are worth about 80,000 Alisla is the first French national prize. It will be 1883 inaugure Gerard Debreu of the states was born in Calais. France.
Allais did his major work in Nazi-
ocisied France during the war. He publ-
ished "In Search of an Economic
Reform," and "Economy and
Interest" in 1947.
Of his change in careers, the laureate said, "My motivation when I was young was to improve the conditions of life, to try to find a remedy to many of the problems facing the world. That's what I was doing," I saw it as a way of lighting up boon.
Ecole Levay, le director of the Jacqueline de Mines, said, "He was the first French to study the economy in postwar France between 1945 and 1988, all the people who were in charge of the biggest employers and of the state planning apparatus."
Soviets view destruction of missiles
TUССОN, Ariz. — Eleven Soviet inspectors watched yesterday as U.S. military personnel using handheld power saw began the historic destruction of Air Force cruise missiles, in accordance with the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.
The Associated Press
Led by Army Major Gen. Vladimir Medvedev, the Soviets arrived at Davison-Manthon Air Force Base and viewed the destruction of 41 ground-launched cruise missiles, 41 protective canisters for the mobile weapons and seven transporter erector launchers during the next few days.
The Soviets, who flew from Travis Air Force Base near San Francisco aboard an Air Force C-141 starlifter, were met by a U.S. delegation headed by Brig. Gen. Roland Lolaste, director of the Special Operations Agency. The Soviets waved to news reporters about 50 yards away but made no statements.
The deployment started with several Air Force personnel cutting into a missile and an aluminum canister.
was a 21-foot device built in 1986 by the McDonnel-Douglas Corp. The missile was flight-tested at the Army's Dougway Proving Ground in Utah and before being shipped to Davison-Monthan in February.
Soviet inspectors and U.S. personnel sat on nearby bleachers as they watched the work, which produced a loud noise and acrid smells as the saws and fire extinguishers were positioned near the workers.
Also slated for destruction was a 56-foot, 78,000-pound launcher.
Nuclear warheads, fuel and guidance-related equipment were removed from each weapon, and warheads were returned to the Department of Energy for disposal. The team said Capli Kendell Pease, an OSIA spokesman.
Soviet inspectors have made two previous visits to the United States under the treaty, once in July and again in August. They are being escorted by 12 officials from Davis-Monthan and the OSIA.
A total of 443 intermediate-range cruise missiles
deployed in Great Britain and Europe are schedul
for destruction, within the first three years
Signed earlier this year by President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in October, 1985, 108 shorters. Pershing I-A and 234 Pershing II intermediates that the Army has deployed in West Germany.
The treaty requires elimination of all land-based nuclear missiles with ranges of 300 to 3,000 miles. The cruise missiles have a range of about 1,500 miles.
"The treaty does not eliminate the warheads"
powered by it. "It eliminates the ability to deliver the
warheads."
The warheads were not included in the destruction process, which air Force LT. Col. Donald Black said specified lengthwise cuts through the missiles, as well as cutting the launches in half.
He said implementation of the treaty was "a confidence builder on both sides, and an important first."
North says NSC exempt from ban on contra aid
USSR cuts arms shipments to Nicaragua
WASHINGTON — The judge in the Iran-case case yesterday ordered a hearing on a claim that the National Security Council was exempt from a ban on helping arm the contribs in the attack. The claim was made by Oliver L. Levin, a former employee at the NSC, who is being tried in the case.
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Soviet Union has reduced the amount and changed the types of arms it is shipping to Nicaragua, but it is too early to chart any fundamental change in Moscow's support for the Sandinista government, administration officials said yesterday.
The arms shipments "are down in dollar value and tonnage," said Dan Howard, the Dept. of Commerce.
The Associated Press
The hearing was scheduled for Nov. 3 by U.S. District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell. It will focus on defense claims that North cannot be prosecuted for complying with three co-defendants to illegally divert pro-
terms of individual shipments, there had been more port calls in Nicaragua this year by ships ferrying arms than occurred during the comparison. The data continue to unload smaller shipments, however.
In a brief scheduling order, Gessel said he was particularly interested in hessian cattle. He said that the congressional bans on U.S. military aid to the contrains, known as the Boland amendments, did not affect the National Security Council staff.
ceeds from the sale of U.S. arms to Iran to the contras.
necessarily conclude that this means the Soviets are backing off from their support for Nicaragua.
“Apparently, it’s a move from the supplying of heavy equipment, from builders to tanks to artillery, to providing them more sustainability, like ammunition supplies. You can draw your own ideas about what that is about. Certainly, the war-fighting capability (of Nicaragua) has not gone down.”
The judge said he also wanted to consider North's claim that the diversion of arms-sale profits wasn't illegal because the weapons sold to Iran weren't U.S. government property at the time.
During the first nine months of the year, the Soviets and their Warsaw Pact allies shipped about 14,300 tons of military equipment to Nicaragua and to Pentagon estimates released yesterday.
At a news conference, Howard also said that in
News Roundup
VETERANS ADMINISTRATION BILLS
PASSED: The Senate granted election-year benefits to one of the nation's largest interest groups yesterday when it approved bills elevating the department to administration to a Cabinet department and granting limited right to have courts review VA denial of benefits.
Both measures were approved on voice notes. The measure creating the new Cabinet department now goes to President Reagan, who is also responsible for the budget. A plan must be planned to the House for approval.
Neal Cassidy, the first foreign journalist shot in the 10-month Palestine uprising over Israel (AP)
TWO PALESTINIANS KILLED: Israeli troops firing plastic bullets killed two Palestinians—a teen-age and a year-old boy—and wounded a U.S. journalist during clashes yesterday in the occupied West Bank, Arab hospital officials said. An army spokesman confirmed the deaths and said five people suffered wounds from plastic bullets, including U.S. photographer
HURRICANE BATTERS COLOMBIA: Hurricane Joan, painting forecasters with its unusual path through the southern Caribbean, unleashed floods in northern Colombia yesterday that left 50 people dead or missing, officials said. Joan was headed toward the Colombian island resort of San Andres, 500 miles north of the coast on Monday. On Tuesday, the hurricane buffeted northern Costa Rica and winds of 65 mph before heading north to near Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Honduras.
KOREAN STUDENTS PROTEST. A man wearing a headband with anti-U.S. slogans jumped from the fourth-floor window of a campus building yesterday in Seoul, South Korea, and 400 students clashed with riot police in anti-government protests. Officials at Souls'
Yonsei University said Kim Kyong-ku, 32, a laborer, wrapped himself in a large South Korean national flag, shouted slogans against the United States and the South Korean government of President Roh Tae-woo, and then jumped. His hospital was equipped with two broken legs.
PREYTE USE PROTECTED: The use of the hallucinogenic drug pedye in American Indian religious ceremonies is protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the Oregon state Supreme Court ruled yesterday. The Drug Administration drug counselors who were fired and denied jobsless benefits for using the drug during American Indian religious ceremonies.
SUDANESE CHILDREN SUFFER: An estimated 260,000 refugees, mostly children, in Sudan starved or died in the gunfire of a civil war this year.
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