NATION AND WORLD
October 18, 1984
The University Daily KANSAN
Air Force copter crashes; all six aboard are killed
MANILA, Philippines — A U.S. Air Force helicopter with six Americans aboard crashed in dense jungle north of Manila during a night flight operation yesterday, killing all aboard, the U.S. Embassy said.
Darkness and heavy fog prevented Air Force investigators from reaching the wreckage, 15 miles north of Clark Air Base, until early this morning, embassy spokesman Michael Anderson said.
The Huey 53 helicopter, from Hurburn Field, near Fort Walton Beach, Fla., was participating in a U.S. Air Force training mission with 60 miles north of Manila, Anderson said.
It crashed at 10:20 a.m. Officials do not know what caused the crash. Names of the victims were not immediately available.
Man missing in bomber crash
KAYENTA. Ariz. — Air Force personnel yesterday searched for a missing crewman from the unarmed B-52G bomber that crashed on a windswept mesa of a Navajo Indian reservation Tuesday. Five others survived and one died in a parachute jump.
The seven airmen aboard the plane bailed out when the plane apparently developed mechanical trouble.
Col. William Lorence Ivy, 32, deputy commander for operations of the 92nd Bombardment Wing, Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash., was listed as missing. Sgt. David William Felix, 26, Faribault, Minn., died when he parachuthed into a rock and hit his head.
Students protest Helms' visit
SALISBURY, N.C. — About 200 angry black students locked arms in protest and boycotted a speech by Republican Sen. Jesse Heslen yesterday during his first visit to the predominantly black university.
The protesting students at Livingstone College stood in silence outside a campus auditorium, ignoring helmets 'waves and bumps' the instructor when he tried to shake their hands.
Helms, who is locked in a bitter fight for re-election against Democratic Gov. James Hunt, charged that Democrats had organized the boycott.
"I came here to meet with the black students. Whether you vote for me or not is fine — and I know you won't," said Helms, who promoted segregation for a decade as a television commentator before being elected senator.
Compiled from United Press International reports.
U.S. biochemist wins Nobel award
By United Press International
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — An U.S. biochemist won the 1984 Nobel Prize in Chemistry yesterday for a revolutionary technique that advanced genetic engineering and drug development. Two Europeans shared the physics prize for proving the existence of the force that makes the sun shine.
sainte R. Bruce Merrifield, a professor at New York City's Rockefeller University, was named chemistry laureate by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for his method of creating protein molecules in a laboratory.
Harvard Professor Carlo Rubbia of Italy and Simon van der Meer of the Netherlands won, the Nobel Physics Prize for work proving the existence of what is known as the weak force, one of the four fundamental force
fields in the universe.
"I AM EXTREMELY pleased," said Merrifield, 63, at a news conference in New York, where colleagues, with some tears in their eyes, gave him a standing ovation. "It was a total surprise.
"Obviously, I haven't done this before. I am standing here shaking."
Credited with causing a revolution in chemistry, Merrifield was the first U.S. citizen this year to win a Nobel Prize. Each Nobel prize is worth about $190,000.
The Fort Worth, Texas native said he realized he had won the award when a weeping lab assistant had thrown her arms around him as he got off an elevator at Rockefeller, which he joined in 1969.
Merrifield was cited by the academy for his development of a simple rapid automated method for making peptides, the building block of proteins. Proteins are key components of living organisms.
HIS WORK "HAS greatly stimulated progress in biochemistry, molecular biology, pharmacology and medicine," the academy said.
The method of synthesis has great practical importance for the development of new drugs and for gene technology, which is research into recombinant DNA, the genetic code of life, the academy said.
Bo Malmstrom, chairman of the Nobel Chemistry Committee, said that without Merrifield's research, experiments now done in days would take years.
For the first time in 10 years, the physics prize was not won or shared by U.S. scientists. U.S. scientists have won 48 of the 123 physics prizes awarded and 26 chemistry Nobels since they were first given in 1901.
Rubbia, 50, and Van der Meer, 58, were cited for "their decisive contributions" in a project that began in 1976 and led to the discovery of "the field particles W and Z, communicators of weak interaction," one of four fundamental force fields in the universe."
THE WEAK FORCE was first theorized in the 1920s. The discovery of the W and Z particles by Rubbia and van der Meer — announced last year — confirmed its existence.
The weak force causes processes such as radioactive decay as well as the nuclear processes in the sun that control its power.
This year's last Nobel, the economics award, will be announced Thursday It was added in 1968 to the original five Nobels endowed in the will of Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite.
United Press International
WASHINGTON – President Reagan receives a kiss from actress Drew Barrymore, 9, during a White House ceremony for the Young Astronauts Program. Reagan and Democratic president candidate Walter Mondale spend yesterday in Washington preparing for their debate in Kansas City, Mo, this Sunday.
Toppling Sandinistas goal of primer, chairman says
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee yesterday said a primer giving anti-communist Nicaraguan rebels pointers on guerrilla warfare tactics — allegedly prepared by the CIA — undercut Reagan administration claims it is not seeking to overthrow the Nicaraguan government.
Rep. Edward Boland, D-Mass., the chairman, said the 44-page booklet "was prepared by the CIA and provided to the Contras in 1983."
President Reagan has maintained that U.S. support for the Contra rebels — whom he describes as "freedom fighters" — was intended to curtail aid to leftist guerrillas in El Salvador.
The cover of the document shows three rows of heads, each with a bullet hole.
THE PRIMER, ENTITLED "Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare," outlines how to "neutralize" officials, how to win support among the people and suggests portraying the Sandinista regime as "puppets" of the Soviet Union and Cuba.
"It is possible to neutralize carefully selected and planned targets, such as court judges, police and state security officials, etc." the primer said.
"For psychological purposes it is necessary to take extreme precautions and it is
assountely necessary to gather together the population affected, so that they will be present, take part in the act, and formulate accusations against the oppressor,' it said.
Rep. Thomas Downey, D.N.Y., in a letter to the House committee, said, "I find it hard to believe the U.S. government would place itself in the position of encouraging terrorism, but that is what the manual seems to be doing."
UNTIL THIS SUMMER when money ran out and Congress rejected Reagan's request for more, the CIA financed activities by the rebels, including the controversial mining of Nicaraguan harbors.
Boland said the booklet offered proof that "the secret war in Nicaragua is not directed against Sandinista arms shipments to Salvadoran guerrillas. The war is an effort to overthrow the Sandinistas.
"Administration officials have always denied this, but the manual clearly adopts the Contras' avowed aim of deposing the government in Managua."
Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., said the fundamental question was "did President Reagan know about the CIA's role in the preparation of this reprehensible document and 'if he didn't, what is he going to do"
— and if he didn't, what is he going to do about it?"
"Aiding and abetting a strategy of political assassination is unacceptable in American foreign policy," Kennedy said.
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