PAGE 12, THE HERALD, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12,1977 Grand old men get prizes in physics, STOCKHOLM AP-A 73- year-old Amrican known as the “father of modern magnetism” and his former student at Hatvard University shared the Nobel Prize for pyhsics Tuesday with a Briton. A Soviet-born Belgian was awarded the prize for chemistry. The Swedish Academy gave 1977 Nobel awards to John Van Vleck, 78, of Harvard, Phillip Anderson, 55, of Princeton University and Bell Laboratories, Sir Nevill Mott, 72, of England’s Cavenidsh Laboratories, and Dya Prigogine, 60, of the Free UNIVERSITY OF Brussels. The physicists, who will divide the $145,000 prize, were cited for research on the electronic structure of magnetic and ‘‘disordered" systems-worl already ap- ied to development of the aser, new idustrial uses of glass and copper spirals for birth-control] devices. Prigoginw won the $145,00 chemistry prize for ex- panding thermodynamic theory-which deals with transtormin heat into energy-to explain how order can exist within seemingly- disoredered environmental systems, An academy member said the Belgian's research may have a bearing on the development of solar energy. The academy continued a trend of awarding the physics prize to two or more researchers and the chemistry prize to an in- dividual. Last year’s ch winner was William Lip- scomb of HARVARD. Announcement of the physics prize was delayed y a three-hour debate over which of three groups of candidates on a secret list America-Russia war inevitable says China SEATTLE, Wash, (AP) — Chinese leaders have concluded that a war bet- ween the United States and Russia is so likely that China must base its own national policy on that premise, says a British-born China expert. Felix Greene has just re- turned from a visit to Shanghai, Peking and Hangchou. Greene said Monday his latest visit focused on those cities because they were the centers of support for, and resistance to, the discredited ‘‘Gang of Four,” which includes Chiang Ching, widow of Mao Tse Tung. The Chinese have decided U.S.-Soviet conflict is inevi- table, Greene said, hecause of the intensifying military Arms concessions made by powers NEW YORK (AP) — The Times says the United States and the Soviet Union have made substantial concessions in an effort to achieve an agreement on strategic-arms limitation by Canada deplores death WASHINGTON (CP) — U.S. firms probably will receive only a small share of contracts for the Canadian portion of the northern natural-gas pipeline, a U.S. Senate committee was told Tuesday. Robert Blair, president of Foothills Pipe Lme (Yukon) Ltd., testitied that com- panies building the Canadian portion oi the line “will endeavor to purchase goods, materials, equip- ment and supplies from domestic (Canadian) suppliers.”” Senator Ted Stevens (Rep. Alaska) noted that the agreement on principles for construction of the $10- billion pipeline, signed by Canada and the U.S., says oods and services should supplied on ‘generally competitive terms.” But the National Energy Board of Canada has recommended that 80 per cent of the material and work for the Canadian section of the line be supplied by Canadians. Blair said he interprets the agreement to mean that U.S. firms will compete for contracts mainly on the U.S. portion of the line while Canadians will compete for the Canadian section. He said he believes that present expansion in the nadian steel industry will result in the capacity to roduce all the steel needed or the section of the pipeline through the Yukon. PROVIDE STEEL The troubled U.S. steel in- dustry, plagued by declining orders and layoffs, likely will provide steel only for the U.S. section of the ipeline, he added in an interview later. Blair told the hearing that the total costs of high Canadian content in the project ‘‘will not compare unfavorably”’ with U.S. costs, Much of the money for the Canadian portion of the line, however, will come from the U.S., he said. He explained in an interview that, spon- sors hope to raise $1.8 billion in anada and the remalning $2 billion needed for the Canadian section will come from the U.S. the end of the year. President Carter an- nounced earlier this month, after talks with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, that an arms pact was “in sight.” He did not elaborate. In a_ dispatch from Washington, The Times says that the U : ilk soften if TT curbs on deployment of large Soviet missiles, and Moscow will he less adamant about limiting the number of air-launched Cruise missiles aboard U.S. bombers. Officials say the still- tentative agreement wil! resemble the socalled three- tier arrangement outlined by U.S. State Secretary Cyrus I—PN(!N Geneva in May. CALLS FOR TREATY That arrangement called for an eight-year treaty that would limit the number of ballistic missiles and long- range bombers, with another ceiling on the number of multiple warhead missiles that each country could have. Under the compromise worked out earlier this month, the United States in effect agreed that the Soviet Union could modernize its force of about 30 heavy missiles, The Times says. In return, the Russians agreed to demand only tem- porary limits on the range of the Cruise missile, the chief instrument of an effective U.S. bomber force. These concessions would be part of a more complex agreement limiting the over-all number of missiles and bombers until 1985, says the newspaper. Since the United States now deploys about 2,100 missiles and bombers, the new agreement's ceiling would have no appreciable effect, but the Russians would have to reduce their forces by about 300. This reduction would be needed because under the terms of the first accord, signed in 1972, the Russians were allowed a larger number of missiles. “y m sorry —- we're not watching ‘Lamp Unto My Feat.’ " rivalry between the two superpowers. “History shows that arms races end in. conflict,” Greene said. “A witches brew is developing because of the rivalry aver raw materials — primarily oil, which is the lite blood of big industrial nations.” In response to the threat they perceive, the Chinese plan to increase their weaponry, he said. - DEFENSIVE WEAPONS “It (Chinese weaponry) is wholly defensive,’’ he said. “They have no long-range bombers. Only a fighter defense force. There is no big ocean fleet, just coastal defense vessels. “But to make the army more ‘sophisticated they need a higher degree of industrial capacity,” said Greene. Chinese education is being modified to allow the brightest children to go directly to college after high school to prepare to harness their special skills in in- dustry and defense, he explained. reviously, Chinese children have been required tospend two years ona farm cr in a factory right after high school. Greene said China plans toremain neutral in any war between the United States and the Soviet Union. The now-deposed “Gang of Four” created a climate of fear throughout China similar to the intimidation and paranoia that prevailed in America during the . McCarthy era, he said, Its members remain under house arrest. ' “The greatest error of the ‘Gang of Four’ was trying to limit the popular outburst of grief when Chou En Lai died,” says Greene. EVERETT, Wash. (AP)— Marijuana is far less dangerous to health than alcohol is, a psychology expert has testified in a trial expected to test the con- stitutionality of Washington’s laws against marijuana possession. Alan Marlatt, University Awards break tradition would get it. Van Vleck and Anderson were the 43rd and 44th Americans .to win the physics prize, shared last year by BURTON Richter and Samuel Ting when Americans swept all five Nobel prizes given. Van Vleck said in Cam- bridge, Mass., that the award was a ‘Complete surprize. So oftern -rizes go to younger men. An iy couldn’t help feeling that it is a cumination when you're 78 years ald.” The academy said van Vleck was the first to point out the importance of electron correlation-the interaction between the motions of the electrons. It said that as Van Vieck’s student at Harvard developed this concept to explain how magnetic “moments” can occur in metals such as copper and silver, which in pure form are not magnetic, Anderson said at his home in New Vernon, N.JJ., that it was a privilege t share the Nobel Prize with two “already great historical figures.” The academy said Mott spiders. ‘tomol spiders. slowl said, spiders along, Vincent said. Spider webs invade city SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — As San Francisco Bay area residents gaped skyward Tuesday at massive white webs floating above them, experts dismissed the phenomenon as an eons-old ritual performed annually by millions of young The mysterious substance, spotted in blobs as large as 20 feet long and several feet wide, appeared in the clear blue. skies and draped itself over cars, homes, trees and people. Pilots landing atSan Jose Airport said their crafts caught parts of the webs at 4,000 feet. . Stanley Bailey, a retired University of California en- ist, said that while the webs are not unusual in central California, even he was s spotted along the Pacific Coast. population boom among spiders. SPIDERS TRAVEL BY AIR Lennie Vincent, a graduate entomologist specializing in spiders at the University of California in Berkeley, said the huge webs are made up of millions of smaller ones woven by spiders so they can use the wind to migrate. - Vincent said the phenomenon is called ballooning and is a migratory technique common to almost all families of When young spiders craw] out of their egg cases, they climb up on a blade of grass or a twig, where the wind lls the silky web material from their abdomens, he ventually, the wind wafts the strands up, taking the Spiders don’t produce 20-footlong webs, he said. Instead, millions of smaller strands get tangled in mid-air. rised by the hundreds e said they portend a Spill clean-up take By TOM McDOUGALL HALIFAX (CP) ~ If there is ever an oil spill in the Arctic it will take decades for it to break down, the head of a U.S. research team on Arctic pollution sald Tuesday. Dr. R.M. Atlas of the University of Louisville who has been leading a study on potential Arctic pollution for the U.S. gov- ernment for the last four years, was addressing 4 seminar on oil spills in northern marine envi- ronment sponsored by the Bedford Institute of Oceanography. His team placed con- tainers of Prudhoe Bay crude oil in the water, on the ice, under the ice and an the bottom of the bay to determine how long each would take to break down. After two months, there was a significant degradation, especially on open water, but after that Possession test Booze worse than pot--expert _ of Washington psychology professor, was the first witness Monday in the trial “of Jim Smith, an Everett construction worker who claims pot smoking helped cure him of alcoholism. “Itis absolutely clear that aleohol facilitates aggressive behavior, while marijuana suppresses aggression and leads to assive or withdrawn avior,” Marlatt said. Because of delays by the prosecution, the case is coming to trial nearly a year after four Snohomish County sheriff’s deputies confiscated a pound of what To heal unemployment Immigrant limits down WOODBRIDGE, Ont. (CP) — Bud Cullen, federal minister of immigration and employment, says the flow of immigrants to Canada will be restricted in future because of high unem- ployement in the country. Cullen's reamrks were contained in a speech prepared for delivery to talian-Canadians at a convention Saturday of the Fogolars Federation of Canada. The speech was not delivered, The Canadian Press erro- neously reported Monday that Cullen had delivered the speech, An aide to Cullen said the speech was not delivered because when the minister arrived everyone was having a good time and “Mr. Cullen felt that his Italian hosts didn’t want to hear a long speech, so he ditched it and spoke very lightly.” In the prepared text that was not delivered, . Cullen said the number of persons who would like to settle in Canada “will exceed our ability to accept them,” _ He said the reduction in immigration will be ac- complished through legislation passed earlier this year, linking immigra- tion fo economic conditions. “We will continue to welcome immigrants as in the past,’ the text said. “But under the new law, the number we admit D more carefully planned in line with the needs and capacity of our country.” He said the new act has made provision for ac- ceptance on compassionate grounds for displaced or persecuted persons. and Anderson worked separately to contribute to Inowledge about - disoredered systems. These systmes exist within “non- erystallic” materials which have irregular atomic structures-a quality making it hard to treat them the oretically. Mott, celebrating over Marburg, West Germany: es rmany, wide Eis is a great honor because you ar not just awarded by a committein Stockholm -it is the result of the con- sidered opinion of scien- 7 chemistry. cetist all over the world who ” you are worth it,”’ The academy deliberated 5 minutes before an- nouncing the chemistry prize. It cited Proigogine’s evelopment of a theory of “dissipative structures.” Prigogine who. emeigrated to Belguim when he was 12 years old, very happy to get it but Lain very happy to ge ut I am also a iitile surprised there are many ‘top research people. ‘The prizes were the third and fourth Nobel awards given for 1977, The literature prize * was awarded last Thursday to Spanish poet Vicente eixandre and the peace rize Monday to Amnesty ternational. At the same time, Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan, acificists in Northern eland, were given the 1976 eace prize belatedly. zes will be given for medicine on Thursday and economics on Friday. They were established under the will of Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite. Canadian contractors to benefit from gas pipeline UNITED NATIONS (CP) — Canada deplored the death of black moderate. leader Steven Biko in a South African prison last month and has urged the South African government to stop abusing political ers P Canadian delegate - Willlam McGregor told the UN special committee. Alaska spill _ being checked FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP)— The Alaska Department of En- vironmental Conservation said Tuesday it is checking reports of an oil spill on the transAlaska pipeline, about 32 kilometres north of here. An employee of department's Fairbanks office said the spill had been reported to the agency by the Alyéska Pipeline Ser- vice Co. Tuesday morning. She said the spill was on an underground section of the pipeline at check valve In Arctic the rate for all samples slowed to almost no ' The oil's chemical com- position also changed little even after two years, he said. The team’s conclusion that it would take decades for the oil to dissipate is — supported by studies of an and spill on the tundra, Dr. Atlas said in an in- ‘terview. The spill occurred but. are. 10 years ago hydrocarbons - still present in the area. they said was marijuana in a three-hour search of Smith’s home. Smith testified Monday that the marijuana was from plants he had grown “because I didn’t want people who deal in drugs. around my family.” “E am guilty of possessing marijuana, but I’m guilty of no damned crime,” he said. Smith's attorney, Tim Ford, told the court it was being asked toconvict Smith of a felony “for something that does no harm to him or anyone else.”’ “We will show that marijuana is less harmful than (legal) substances with roperties that ruin people’s ives,” Ford said. Both prdsecution and defence agree the issue probably will have to be decided by the state Supreme Court, 68A, near Washington Creek on the Elliott Highway. ée Matz, director of the Fairbanks En- vironmental Center, said - however, the spill covere an area of about 1,600 square feet:. He said the oil was spotted last week and was reported to Alyeska at that time. He said the person who first noticed it — whom he morning a area oaaked by a had in- decades Oil degrades slowly in the. Arctic because the water is open only about two months a year. Dr. E.H. Owens, assistant rofessor at the Coastal tudies Institute of Louisiana State University, said in a presentation that the single most important factor in dispersing oil is mechanical action of wind, waves, tides, changing water levels and ice. Oil deposits remain longer in areas of high tides than in areas with little tidal change, he said. In a high tidal area each level of the intertidal zone is subjected to wave action for only a short period of time two times a day before the tide passes over or under it. Alyeska and other con- servation department of- ficials were unavailable for comment. lowance If you wish your business phone listed for your customers BOF AUTOMOTINES 638 G404 VILLAGE MERVS-GI8-1765 TERAACE OIL GURNER SEAYICES-638-4227 New Business's Not listed in our B.C. Tel Directory. 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McGregor said Biko’s death was the 20th amo political prisoners in Sou African jails in the last 18 months. “His death, the mest recent of this deplorable ~ series of fatalities, has precipated a renewed in- ternational outcry against the cruelty of apartheid and of the South African judicial system,” McGregor said. Shortly after Biko’s death, the Canadian Embassy in ' Pretoria sent a message of condolence to the Black People’s Convention of South Africa—of which Biko was honorary president-- and to his family- CANADA REPRESENTED A Canadian diplomatic representative attended Biko’s funeral and the South African government was advised of Canadian con- cers, McGregor said. “Indeed, Canadian in- dividuals and groups are continuing even now to make known their distress at the death of Mr. Biko and at the plight of other South African prisoners.” McGregor, general vice- resident of the Canadian bor Congress (CLC), said that the insistence of the South African government on repressing legitimate political activity among the lack majority will lead to increased frustration and violenee and eventual breakdown of relations among the races... -- Canada urged the South African government to recognize that fact, to take action now to renounce. all further violence, “‘and to accord an ‘unconditional release to all political prisoners and ' detainees,” icGregor said.