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Show Page 32 THE HERALD. Prove Utah. Thursday. October 11. 1979 Vow to West States Carter Gives - L ! N M il'PIi President ALBUQUERQUE. Carter has eased the fears of nervous Western governors by pledging to protect the rights and environments of Western states even in the rush to develop more energy resources Carter, who lost every mainland western state in the 1976 election, gained some support among the West's eight governors and one lieutenant governor during a two-homeeting lasting until late Wednesday night The president made his strong state's rights statement on the issue the governors were most worried about water for development of synthetic fuels. The president will meet today with area civic leaders and then fly to San Diego to address a convention of the AFL-CIBuilding and Construction Trades Department. Brzezinski Issues Th ree Warnings To Soviet, Europe - WASHINGTON ) III DR. ALLAN MACLEOD of Tufts University, has been named a joint winner of the 1979 Nobel Prize for Medicine, were honored for the development of computer-assistetechniques. This photo shows Dr. Cormack with his body sharing the honors with Godfrey N. Hounsfield of Britain. They Telephoto) COR-MAC- K scanning device. (UPI American and Briton Selected for Sharing Nobel Medicine Prize (UPI) Zbigniew Brzezinski. presidential advjser on national security, has delivered two blunt warnings to the Soviet Union and a third one to the people and parliaments of western Europe. Speaking at a State Department conference of the Atlantic Treaty Association Brzezinski spoke carefully and slowly from a prepared text Wednesday. He addressed the Soviets on the subject of their troops in Cuba and other areas, and also on the dangers of a war by miscalculation in Europe. It was the first formal American statement on the subject of Soviet relations since a speech by Soviet president Leonid Brezhnev in Berlin last weekend. On the Soviet and Cuban troops in Africa and Latin America. Brzezinski said "it is imperative that tensions not be exploited. He repeated U.S. assurances of an American reaction in case of any Soviet threat to western Europe, saying, "there is no conceivable circumstance where we would not react to a threat to western Europe." He called for the western European countries to remove any doubt from the Soviet mind about western determination by going ahead with a medium-rang- e nuclear missile force to balance a Soviet force in eastern Europe. China to Buy Jetliners LONG BEACH, Calif. (UPI) - McDonnell Douglas Corp. has signed a preliminary agreement to sell a substantial number of DC-- 9 jetliners to China's national airline. Alaska, a Republican quipped All of the governors however, said they were pleased with Carter's cooperative attitude Gov Scott Matheson of Utah said the result of the meeting was "a partnership relationship in development of energy resources." The governors expressed particular concern with a proposed energy mobilization board, w hich would have the power to cut state and local red tape. The governors feared the board might trample the needs of the states Carter was subjected to moderate protests around the hotel where he stayed Posters supported Sen. Edward Kennedy in the Democratic presidential primary. And a group calling itself CANT (Citizens Against Nuclear Threats) maintained an vigil outside the hotel to protest a proposed nuclear waste dump in New Mexico. "1 strongly believe that we must preserve the essential and historical role of the states in the process of allocating water among competing needs " Carter said before the meeting. "I have and will continue to support legislative language to make it clear that federally supported energy development should be accomplished without or change of state water laws, rights or responsibilities." "The West is not angry (with Carter!." said Gov. Richard Lamm of Colorado, although Lamm said the West still is concerned in some areas During a news conference after the meeting, two governors Bruce Babbitt of Arizona and Bruce King of New Mexico said they supported the president. The others said it was too early to - commit. "I wasn't persuaded " Gov. Jay Hammond j 5 of VlordF NeWS in Brief 1 Coffee Price Again Hiked General Foods Corp.. the nation's No. 1 coffee roaster, raised the wholesale price of its Maxwell House ground coffee today by 15 cents to $3.33 a pound. General Foods' Maxwell House Division also boosted the list price of Yuban. Sanka and Brim ground coffees by 15 cents a pound. Consumers should find the price increases, which took effect today reflected on supermarket shelves within a month the current lag period before changes at the wholesale level are passed along to the shopper. Moonrocks Charge Issued - WASHINGTON (UPI) An internal memorandum charges the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is missing a much larger quantity of moon rocks and soil samples than space officials are willing to admit. The document, a copy of which was obtained by UPI, also charges a space program official told NASA auditors moon materials were being stolen but the case was not investigated further. The memo said more than 24 percent of the samples sent to various research scientists for analysis and study- under a $41 million grant program, were either unaccounted for or missing. - China Reports Oil Find - HONG KONG (UPI) China says it has struck oil in the South China Sea for the first time, sinking a deep well that gushes crude. The official Chinese news agency Xinhua said in a high-quali- curt announcement Wednesday the new well in the Pearl River estuary near Hong Kong began gushing light oil from a depth of 9.900 feet on Aug. 13. No foreign oil companies are involved in the ven- ture. Oil industry sources in Hong Kong said today details of the find were "significant" because it is the highest quality oil discovered by China and because Chinese technology made it possible to drill that deep. French Scandal Charged A newspaper has PARIS (UPI) charged that French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing took gifts of diamonds from deposed Central African Bokassa and French troops Emperor Jean-Bedspirited away the documentary evidence to prevent a scandal. The presidential palace said it was normal to receive gifts during state visits to foreign countries. It said similar gifts were given Giscard during his presidential safaris to the nation. The paper estimated the value of the diamonds at $220,000. Kurds Take 2 Iran Posts - Kurdish rebels seized TEHRAN, Iran (UPI) control of two government posts on the Iran-Iraborder in a seige that broke six weeks of relative calm ir the mountainous border region, reports reaching Tehran said today. q The Kurds were still holding an undetermined number of hostages, including 45 gendarmes trapped inside the Hani Garmaleh base after a major airlift effort Wednesday managed to rescue only five government troops. - V STOCKHOLM, Sweden (UPI) An American and a Briton won the 1979 Nobel Medicine Prize jointly today for their work in developing computer as- - fsisted techniques described as "the biggest breakthrough since the 'invention of the The award carrying a cash prize of was shared by Dr. Allan $192,775 MacLeod Cormack. 55. head of the physics department at Tufts University in Medford, Mass., and Godfrey New-bol- d Hounsfield. 60, head of the medical research division of Electric and Musical Industries in Middlesex, England. Cormack, who lives in Winchester, Mass., was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, moved to the United States in 1956 and became an American citizen 10 years later. ' The Nobel Committee of the W Karolinska Institute awarded the men first of this year's GODFREY NEWBOLD HOUNSFIELD the coveted prize for their work in Nobel awards tomography, a method of taking picconstruct, he succeeded in completely tures of the body that represents an imsurprising the medical world." provement over The Nobel Institute said a The citation from the Nobel Commitremarkable aspect of the development in the tee said the men were pioneers of the system was that Hounsfield built devlopment of the computeraided the machine, commonly known as the revolution about a which brought scanner or CAT scanner unin radiological methods. aware of Cormack's theoretical work is the "This biggest breakthrough in the same field. Uls since the invention of the Rudhe of the Nobel Committee said. The "computerized axial Rudhe said the technique would not tomography" scanners, which cost from $90,000 to $800,000 each, take the replace, but would complement The system is used in diagnosing pictures while the machine rotates around the patient's body. tumors, cancer and diseases of the nerThe device uses a ray similar to a vous system, the Institute said. to photograph sections standard Both men expressed surprise on beof the body. The pictures are then ing told they had won the award. enhanced by the use of a computer to "I had no idea. ... I'm astonished." said Cormack. "It's fantastic," said produce highly accurate, almost views. Hounsfield. "You've knocked me Prior to the development of the scansideways." ner, it was difficult to obtain accurate Cormack was the first to analyze diagnoses of the position, size and form from a theoretical standpoint the condiof tumors in deep parts of the body. tions for accurate pictures of en"With Institute the you could only see the tire biological systems, outlines of bones and organs as a grey said. mass without clear form or density," The Karolinska Institute said Hounsfield "was the central figure in the Thorgny Greitz of the Karolinska Institute said. field of computer tomography." Greitz said the scanner was par"He made the major contribution to into ticularly applicable to diseases of the tomography computer introducing medicine by constructing the first brain, liver and pancreas. The technique is said to be 100 times practical system applied to general more sensitive than conventional health care. With the CAT scanner, the entire "With an uncommon combination of foresight, intuition and imagination, brain can be examinhhiiee can be exand with an exceptionally clear amined in less than five minutes. Cormack has been dabbling in understanding of the optimal choice of for more than 20 years, as physical factors in a system which tomography must have presented great problems to much as a hobby as a major project. X-r- k I X-r- ." s. y y Police Puzzled by Body Two Miles From Crash - body of a The MIAMI (UPI) woman involved in an auto accident on a causeway between Miami and Miami ' Beach was found more than two miles from the site of the crash. Miami Accident Glaister said William Investigator Wednesday. "It's unbelievable. We're not going to charge anybody with anyshe got thing, we just want to know how "It's unreal," ' there." The woman Sevanda Margarita Hernandez Pancheco, 53. was riding in the bark seat of car with two friends bept. 29 when their vehicle was struck another car. V "v Friday Saturday iiie other women told police Miss Pancheco had been riding in the back seat. Her white shoes were found there and her pocketbook lay 25 feet from the but there was no sign of the wreck woman. A short time later Miami Beach police were notified there was the body of a woman lying in a street 2.2 miles from the scene of the crash. Officials speculated the victim had driver. been killed by a "The real puzzle is how she got from the auto accident to the beach, 2.2 miles away, in a few minutes," Dade County Medical Examiner Joseph Davis said. Sl L - Downtown Provo i ; ' University Mall, Orem " ' |
