European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 29, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes thursday september 29, i960 Nobel peace prize panel in session Oslo Norway a the Nobel committee met in secret wednesday to choose the Winner of inc 1988 peace pric with president Reagan and soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev mentioned As Lead ing annl Cnoc is. The five committee members were considering candidates drawn from an initial list of 97. The Winner was to be announced thursday. Avg an Oslo tabloid speculated thai Etc Agan and Gorbachev would share the pric for signing a treaty Banning inter mediate Range nuclear missiles. The paper said if they won the leaders would hold a Summit in Oslo in Decem Ber when they come to no capt the award. Others mentioned for the s.190,000 prize ranged from the . Peacekeeping forces in Lebanon to the head of the International soccer federation Joao a a Clang of Brazil. Egil Narvils. Chairman of inc Nobel committee said . Secretary general Javier Perez Dir Cullar was no on the secret list of candidates because he was not nominated by the feb. I deadline. As stipulated in the 1896 will of Alfred Nobel whose Fortune was built on his invention of dynamite the peace prize is announced in Oslo while the other prizes arc announced in Stockholm swe Den. The Karolinsky Institute Nobel As Sembly will announce inc prize in medi Cine on oct. 17. The next Day inc Royal swedish Academy of sciences names the Nobel memorial prize in economic Sci ence Ca aled by the Bank of Sweden in 1968 to complement the five prizes funded by Nobel s estate. The winners of the physics and chemistry prizes will be announced by the Sci ence Academy oct. 19. The swedish Academy which awards inc literature prize docs not give a Dale in Advance. By tradition it announces its Winner at exactly i . On a thursday i n september or october. Holge Pharo a consultant for the Nobel committee said the Lisl of Candi dates for inc peace prize was reduced to fewer than a half dozen. Pharo said the original list included 74 individuals and 23 organizations. The decision is by consensus. There is no vote he said. Aarvik said tuesday that a peace prize Winner will be announced Ai 2 . On thursday norwegian National news Agency nth reported. The announcement confirms that there will be a Winner this year. There have been some years inc committee has chosen not to award the prize besides Aarvik a retired journalist and former Cabinet minister the other committee members arc author Lidike Anderson history professor Francissc pc ruled former prime minister Odvar Nordli and Gunnar i. Steals Cal a pastor and head of inc Geneva based lutheran world federation. Last year the committee awarded he peace prize to president Oscar Arias of Cosla Rica for his Central american peace plan. Seventeen of the s7 laureates named since the first prize was awarded in 1901 have been americans More than any other nationality. World today China building up claim to disputed Island group Hong Kong up China is reinforcing its presence in the disputed spratly islands in the South China sea with enlarged military bases and Supply facilities and even a Post office China review said in its inaugural Issue received wednesday. The spratly made up of about 1,000 islets Sand bars reefs and Coral atolls in the South China sea an1 claimed by Vietnam Malaysia Taiwan inc Philippines As Well As China. The Hong Kong based monthly said China had sent a Fleet of ships and contingents of construction and engineering troops to establish physical control Over key parts of the Island group. The strategic area straddling key shipping lanes is the site of the latest military buildup in Asia because of the conflicting claims analysts have reported. Discord erupts in Hungary Over degree of openness Budapest Hungary a Sharp Divi Sions Over the degree of pluralism to tolerate in Hungary emerged As top communist officials took Issue with the Leader of the official youth Union for declaring thai communism is a Uto Pia published accounts showed wednesday. Reports in the state run Media on the first Day of a two Way meeting of the communist party Central committee indicated thai Many party members Are uneasy with the new openness and debate in Hungary. Philosopher for inc Toek i attacked youth Leader and politburo member Csaba Hamori s Utopia declaration As an example of what he called the tremendous confusion in the Heads of some party  the dissatisfaction and disquiet among the party membership is almost As Strong now As it was before the National party conference toe Sci said referring to a meeting last May at which Karoly Grosz replaced Janos radar As Leader. Malaysian of to buy european Jet fighters Kuala Bumpur Malaysia a the Royal malaysian air Force will buy Tornado ids Jet fighters made by a Munich West Ger Many based consortium to upgrade us fighting Power sir Force chief it. Gen Mohamed Ngah synd said wednesday. The air Force has selected inc Long Range inter Dillor strike variant of inc aircraft for its squad Ron he told a news conference. The air plane is built by Zanavia a consortium comprising British aerospace Meiser Schottl Bolkow Blohm of West Germany and a Ritalia  said the number of Tornado ids thai would be bought had not been decided bus added that an Roaf fighter Squadron usually has 16 to is aircraft. He also did not reveal the Purchase Picc of the aircraft. Leaked report on lab tests says holy shroud 14th-Century fake Rome a Laboratory tests show the shroud of Turin was made in the 14th Century and could not be the burial cloth of Christ the scientific adviser to the archbishop of Turin said he Learned on tuesday professor Luigi conc la said he has not yet seen the official report from the three laboratories that con dulled the Carbon-14 dating tests on the holy shroud but that All the leaks to the press dated it to the 14ih Century and somebody let me understand Fiat the rumours were  it is quite evident somebody sold out to the press said Gonella in an interview irom his Home in Turin. He refused to say who had told him about the results of the tests at Oxford University inc University of Arizona and the Swiss Federal Institute of technology Al the University of Zurich. The shroud 14 feet 3 inches longhand 3 feel 7 inches wide bean the faint blood stain of image of a whipped and crucified Man. Some have maintained inc herring Bone patterned Linen is the burial cloth of Christ while others hive dismissed it As a Clever forgery we Are certainly disappointed in knowing that the shroud has a medieval Date but this is because it is a cherished object. It s like having a portrait in your attic that turns out not to be a picture of your Grandfather. But you Don t love him less Gonella said. The shroud was removed april 21 from the Silver Chest where it is kept wrapped in red silk on an altar in inc Cathedral in Turin. Gonella said the British museum which coordinated the study with the three laboratories reportedly sent the test results to Turin by special courier on Friday the scientist said it was not the Church thai demanded secrecy and denied holding Back the results which he said will be made Public quickly after Pope John Paul ii is informed. However he said he could not give a Dale we Are very angry. We Are being accused of flying to hide the results accused of taking part in a conspiracy to hide inc truth of being afraid of the truth he said. Now everybody is sure we knew the results when we did t know in any credible Way he said adding Hal it was the three laboratories and not the Church that had asked for secrecy. The controversy in shroud of Turin bears the image of whal some believe is Christ s face. They asked for the Blind test. They said they would make no Effort to determine which Sample came from inc shroud. The raw data was to be sent Back to the British museum where the key to the code would identify the samples from the shroud. Then they would write up inc scientific result he said. Inc s Ana m in  Mcmili ins Sii Uipi us Luc aug Usu. Utu a i " that had asked for secrecy. Writ. More people to get aids this year than in All past years study says London a Al is will strike 150,000 people the virus but have not yet developed Al is. I a. I Kir mar Len in nil Rod urnet. Pair Inci 1988 150.000 How c3scs of fill Aid around the world this year More than in All past years combined an Independent report said. The study aids and the third world also said an increasing number of countries Are imposing aids Al laced restrictions on the entry of foreigners or Citi Zens resuming from abroad. The report released tuesday by the Independent study group Panos Institute added that the virus that causes aids appears to be spreading at the rate of one victim a , it seems Likely that a new person be comes infected with the his aids virus every min Ute " said the 200-Page report. According to some Esti mates from 5 10 10 million people Are infected with the t t t aids. During 1988, 1so.ooo new cases of full blown aids Are expected As Many Ai Are thought to have occurred in All the years of the epidemic so far the report  week. Or. Jonathan Mann director of the world health organization s aids program said in Vienna he estimates i million new aids cases Wilt be reported within the next five years a number consist ent with the Panos Institute s projections. But he provided somewhat different numbers for the total aids cases worldwide. He said 111,000cases have been reported to the health organization so far. But he estimated the total number of cases in the world is m least 250,000