European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 07, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes monday october 7, 1985 world today Nobel peace prize nominee Elie vice right last april implored president Cagan not to visit Pitburg. Reagan Wiesel among nominees for this year s Nobel peace prize Oslo Norway up president Reagan jewish holocaust author Elie Wiesel and David Lange the anti nuclear prime minister of new zealand arc among the record 99 nominees for this year s Nobel peace prize. The peace prize to be announced this week is the first of the coveted Nobe shich have a Cash value of $225,000 this year. But the prizes Are priceless in terms of prestige. The winners in the sciences economics and literature will be made Public later. A record 60 individuals and 39 organizations have been nominated for the Nobel peace prize awarded in Oslo in accordance with the 1895 will of Alfred Nobel the swed ish inventor of dynamite who established the prizes be cause he was distressed his invention was used for non peaceful purposes. The peace prize Winner will be announced Friday. The norwegian Nobel committee acknowledged that Reagan Wiesel and Lang were among the candidates but declined to say Why or by whom they were nominated. Lang. A staunch opponent of nuclear arms whose poli cies have put his government at Odds with Lac unite states also has been in the forefront of the controversy sparked by the French secret service bombing of the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior in new zealand. Wiesel a nazi death Camp survivor who has chronicled the holocaust used a White House ceremony in his Honor last april to urge Reagan not to visit the military Ceme Tery in Pitburg West Germany where 47 Waffon a soldiers arc buried. Reagan defied widespread criticism and attended themay 7 or Cash laying ceremony at Pitburg which was Viking pictures of Mars reveal giant dust Clouds Washington a scientists examining close up pictures of Mars have discovered swirling vertices known As dust devils but no one knows if these dust Clouds play a role in the fierce storms that sometimes engulf the planet Cornell University researchers say they found giant dust devils while re examining pictures taken a decade ago by . Viking spacecraft orbiting the or red planet. In a report published in the journal science Peter Thomas and Peter j. Gierasch say the dust columns apparently form when the summer Sun heats warm air rising from Flat areas of the Martian surface. Hailed in West Germany As a Symbol of reconciliation Between former enemies 40 years after world War ii. Last year the peace prize committee was widely praised for choosing South african anti apartheid crusader Bisho Desmond Tutu. But previous awards have been controversial such As the 1973 prize shared by then . Secretary of state Henry Kissinger and North vietnamese Leader be due Tho for negotiating an end to american involvement inthe Vietnam War. There also have been years in which no peace prize was awarded most recently 1972. Nobel s will Calls for the prizes to be bestowed on those who during the preceding year have conferred the great est Benefit on in Stockholm Sweden where the science prizes arc awarded selection committee judges said americans an europeans dominated Lac final contenders. But keeping with a tradition of secrecy the judges have refused to even hint at who the winners might be. The Secretary of the swedish Academy said it was still pondering who would receive the Nobel prize in literature. The winners will receive a Nobel diploma a medal and a Check Worth a record 1.8 million swedish Kronor. Europeans and americans have dominated the science prizes in the past. Physics prize judge Sven Johansson professor of nuclear physics at the University of Lund said this was the Cas because of the High Cost of research. You must be absolutely at the top of the Field the whole time he said of winners. That costs Money and you must have Fine Large universities and research in 1983, american scientists swept the four science prizes. But last year european researchers nearly shut out the americans winning All but the chemistry prize which went to Rockefeller University professor r. Bruce Merri Field. In economics judges said the United states is Likely to maintain its Lead. Twelve of 22 laureates named since the Nobel memorial prize in economics was established Bathe Bank of Sweden in 1969 have been americans. The awards for Medicine economics physics and chemistry arc scheduled to be made Public next week. The Date for the literature prize has no been set yet but it always follows a thursday meeting of the swedish the awards ceremonies will take place in Oslo and Stockholm on dec. 10, the 89ih anniversary of Nobel s 7 million attend oktoberfest Munich up More than 7 million people including Many americans visited the 1985 of Lobar fest putting Down 5.5 million quarts of Beer 647,000chickens, 552,000 sausages and 142,000 pig and beef Knuckles. Only 150 people had to be carted away As helplessly drunk from beneath the festival tables. But a total of 4,500 were treated at Lac first Aid Post mostly for loss of consciousness and blood pressure complaints organizers said sunday the final Day. Fifty percent of the visitors were Munich natives and 8 percent were foreigners mostly americans Bri tons austrian and italians organi cars said. The visitors left 11,000 tons of rubbish behind. Organizers said the affair was mostly but a finn ran amok with a knife and Hurt a British couple. Two vietnamese also were Slabbed in a Fijohl a Turk was arrested for passing counterfeit 100 Mark notes and there were three cases of arson. Half hour hailstorm kills 20, injures at least 300 in Brazil Rio Dijaneiro Bra in a a violent Hail storm crushed houses destroyed crops and killed at least 20 people and injured 300 others in a farming town in Southeastern Ira in. Civil defense authorities said. The storm occurred in Itab Corinha do Mantina town if 12.000 people in the cast Central state of Minas Gera is about 450 Miles Northeast of Rio de Janeiro the ice was 5 feet thick in some places and jus crushed a lot of houses. People were found dead Cov ered with ice col. Fabiano do Oliveira Castro executive Secretary of the civil defense Bureau said by Telephone from his office in the state capital of Belchor Izoma. Castro said the storm which lasted less than half a hour knocked out electric Power and Telephone lines and left about 3,000 people homeless. Much of the crops of Coffee Rice and Black Beans was destroyed he said. Tenor Domingo arrives in Italy to begin filming of Othello Rome a after a fruitless search for rela Tives missing in the Mexico earthquake Tenor Placido Domingo has arrived in Italy to Start filming Franco Zeffirelli s film version of the opera Othello. Just As in the theater the show must go on Laid Zeffirelli who will be directing his first full scale opera film after we re on a tight schedule but we re All going to pull together and make it added Zeffirelli who Hai an 11-week shooting schedule in Southern Italy Crete and Venice where the Giuseppe Verdi tragedy take place. Domingo will Star opposite italian Soprano kit ii Ricciarelli As Desdemona and puerto rican Bass Bari tone Justino Diaz As the villainous Lago. Memorial to britons who fought in Spanish civil War unveiled London a a memorial to the 2,000 Bri tons who fought with the International brigade in the 1936-39 Spanish civil War has been unveiled by Michael fool former Leader of the British labor party. The memorial by sculptor Ian Walters depicts Fig ures making anti fascist salutes and stands in Jubilee gardens on the thames South Bank. More than 500 of the British volunteers were killed defending Lac Spanish Republic against Gen. Francisco Franco s nationalists who were victorious. Prime minister says Greece to Drill for Oil in Aegean sea Athens Greece up prime minister an Dreas Papandreou has reiterated his government s de termination to Drill for Oil in the Aegean sea despite a 1976 greek turkish agreement saying both countries will refrain from Mineral exploration and exploitation in the Region. The government considers it its inalienable right conduct research drilling and extraction in the Ore. Continental shelf of the Aegean Papandreou said. Greece and a consortium of four foreign companies agreed last week to join efforts in exploring for end exploiting Oil in the Aegean. Under the agreement the slate owned Public Petro Leum company Dep joined the consortium ending a lion Etc cd to disrupt greek Oil product China wildlife group begin study of endangered pandas Thepe wih a ukr China 5 forestry ministry and study of h w Hrc fund have a of year prove. Norfal inc Chr ill n d Bial Panda in Sichuan to or a � a pm mint report will deter i i it a8? Xinhua said a s and h he re incr and buteo of the am Bamboo whih a. A their Staple food Arrow of a rare flow Crin 1 "6 us cars a Catt a on in the South Central province arc know Lave starved and i about is million i
