University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, October 12, 1977
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Mexican prison riot ends; fourteen dead
GUADALAJARA, Mexico (UPI)—Police and prison authorities yesterday end rioting that killed at least 14 prisoners at the Obliatas State Penitentiary, but some inmates still roamed their cellblocks carrying weapons, officials said.
A U.S. consulate official said all 10 American prisoners were safe and uninfected.
Prison secretary Jose Luis Almanzar said police who were standing guard outside the prison since the fighting between rival gangs broke on Monday—reportedly in a dispute over the prison's drug trade—entered the jail at midmorrow yesterday.
The officers reportedly took up posts on the prison walls and watchtowers but did not go into the cellblocks where some inmates still roamed freely.
Almanzor said prison guards also returned to their prisons but there were only a few that were still at risk.
"The situation is apparently calm," he called to the authorities were taking a call of the authorities.
BUT HE SAId "only a part" of the prisoners involved in the disturbance had been disarmed. Monday's battle was fought with iron, iron bars, sticks and gasoline bombs.
Hundreds of relatives waiting outside the prison were denied entrance but were not detained.
Almanzar said that about 100 prisoners were involved in the fighting and that overcrowding and poor conditions also might have been factors in the disturbances.
"When you have four people in a cell designed for one, it creates a lot of friction."
There were reports that the two attacking groups had prepared a list of prisoners they had marked for elimination. Some 40 inmates, fearing they were on the list, were said to have taken refuge in the warden's office.
A spokesman for the U.S. consulate in Guadalajara said consular officials from the embassy in Mexico City were allowed to visit the prison with the 10 American prisoners held there.
One of the prime targets, according to one source, was a prison nicknamed 'the hunchback' who controlled the prison drug machine and was told to be hiding somewhere inside the prison.
AUTHORITIES SAID 14 inmates were beaten or stabbed to death Monday in fighting that started when inmates belonging to two leftist groups, the September 28 Communist League and the March 6 United States Forces, attacked another gang known as the "Jackals" in a battle for control of the prison's narcotic trade.
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Americans win Nobel
As Van Vleck's student at Harvard in the 1940s, it was, said Anderson developed this concept to explain how magnetic moments occur in the metal and silver that in pure form are not magnetized.
The Swedish Academy gave 1977 Nobel awards to John H. Van Vleck, 78, of Harvard University, Philip W. Anderson, 55, of Princeton University and Bell Laboratories, and Michael T. Cavendish, Cavendish Laboratory, and Ilya Praguine, 60, of the Free University of Brussels.
Anderson, a consulting director at new Labs and a Princeton professor, said at his bachloride Vermon, N.J., that it was a privilege to skate on the figures — "already great historical figures."
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP)—A 78-year-old American known as the "father of modern magnetism" and his former student at Harvard shared the Nobel prize for a discovery during a Briton. A Russian-born Belgian was awarded the prize for chemistry.
THE PHYSICISTS, who will divide a $145,000 prize, were cited for research on the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems—work already applied to development of the laser, new industrial equipment and copper spirals for birth control devices.
Prirogine won the $145,000 chemistry prize for winning thermodynamic theory, which deals with transforming heat into energy, to explain how order can exist within seemingly disordered environmental systems. An academy member said the
THE ACADEMY continued a trend of awarding the physics prize to two or more researchers and the chemistry prize to an individual.
Belgian's research could have a bearing on the development of solar energy.
Announcement of the physics prize was delayed by a three-hour debate over which of three groups of candidates on a secret list would get it.
Van Vleck and Anderson were the 43rd and 44th Americans to win the prize physics. Van Vleck, who is Hollis Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Harvard, said in Cambridge that the award was a complete surprise.
"So often prizes go to younger men," he said. "Anybody could help it feel helpful that it worked."
VAN VLECK began the work that led to the prize in 1927, only a year after the theory of quantum mechanics was stated. This theory, he said, enabled him to determine why certain materials are magnetic, and why they have the properties they do.
The academy said Van Vleck was the first to point out the importance of electron
correlation—the interaction between the motions of the electrons.
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