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United Press International
SAN ANTONIO — The Soviet
Union s accelerated military growth
has made it equal to the United
States in many areas and the Rus
sians could gain military superiority
in the future. Air Force Chief of
Staff Lew Allen Jr. warned Thurs
day.
“It is clear that the Soviets place
enormous store in military power,’
Allen told a luncheon of the Military
Affairs Council of the Greater San
Antonio Chamber of Commerce.
Allen, the highest ranking general
in the Air Force, avoided saying the
United States had fallen behind the
Soviets militarily but warned it
could happen unless America keeps
pace in the future. He said the U.S.
Air Force “is today the strongest
and best in the world.”
“In the past decade they (Soviets)
have gone from a position of notable
inferiority to one of notable equiva
lency in many areas.” (Allen de
parted here from his prepared text
which read, “In the past decade
they have achieved overall equiva
lence with the United States.”)
“They (Soviets) have tremendous
momentum for continuing military
growth and modernization, which
could provide them with a margin of
military superiority which would be
dangerous for us and our allies un
less we take the steps necessary to
counter those trends.”
Allen said that for more than a
decade the Soviets had invested
significantly more in armaments
than the United States.
“In the early 70s, the U.S.
enjoyed clear-cut superiority over
the Soviets in such areas as MIRV
technology, strategic missile accu
racy, and the quality of our tactical
fighter force in Europe. Today the
Soviets have closed the gap dramat
ically in these and many other areas,
thus adding significant quality di
mension to the massive quantities of
arms they have traditionally fielded.
As a result, the Soviets are seen
internationally as stronger relative
to the United States than in the
past.”
He listed as “particularly disturb
ing,” Soviet advances in accumulat
ing and improving their strategic ar
senal, and the fielding of three new
fourth-generation ICBMs, a new
bomber, and two new sea-launched
ballistic missiles and new strategic
submarines to carry them.
“They have also steadily im
proved their air and civil defenses,
complicating our task of maintaining
the assured retaliatory capability
upon which our present deterrent
strategy rests.”
Allen said the Air Force supports
the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
with the Soviet Union and praised
President Carter’s Camp David at
tempt to bring peace to the Middle
East.
“We have not lost ground to the
Soviets because of arms limitations,
but because the Soviets have pur
sued force modernization more ag
gressively than we have under those
arms limitations,” he said.
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2 Americans, 1 Swiss
share ’78 Nobel Prize
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"To continue to seek lowe ra .
gate levels — while maintain
verifiable and equitable baL
does serve our national sen,
Thus while we continue t
contain the Soviet strategic n J u ddy
threat through negotiation,w e ; u llen
also continue to modernize 0uri Lrepfl
strategic forces sufficiently
maintain real and perceiveden,
lence with the Soviet Union ’
United Press International
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Two
Americans and a Swiss won the 1978
Nobel Prize for medicine Thursday
for their genetic discoveries that
could help in prevention and treat
ment of cancer, diagnose the cause
of birth defects and play a key role
in the process of test-tube baby
births.
Sweden’s Caroline Institute an
nounced the $164,777 prize will be
shared by Drs. Daniel Nathans and
Hamilton Smith of Johns Hopkins
University in Baltimore, Md., and
Dr. Werner Arber of Basil Univer
sity, Switzerland.
The three were cited for their
“discovery of restriction enzymes
and their application to problems of
molecular genetics.” The restriction
enzymes provide the “chemical
knives” that chop chromosomes into
their component genes.
The research of the three scien
tists has been important to the study
of how to prevent cancer, birth de
fects and the study of the human
aging process. It has been useful in
the field of test-tube babies because
it can detect possible defects in the
egg before it is fertilized in the test
tube.
Nathans, 50, is director of the
Department of Microbiology at
Johns Hopkins University School of
Medicine. He has been at Johns
Hopkins since 1962, but in 1969 was
an American Cancer Society scholar
in the Department of Genetics at
the Weizmann Institute in Re-
hovoth, Israel. He is married and
the father of three.
Smith, 47, has been at Johns
Hopkins since 1967, apart from a
one-year sabbatical at the Univer
sity of Zurich Molecular Biology
Department in 1975. He is married
and the father of five.
Arber, 49, is married and has two
children. He was a research as
sociate at the University of Southern
California Medical School from
1958-59, and was visiting inves
tigator at the Molecular Biology
Department of the University of
California in Berkeley from 1970-71.
He was appointed professor of
microbiology at the University of
Basel in 1971, where he works at the
Biozentrum sponsored by the state
and Switzerland’s largest phar
maceutical industries.
“I’m absolutely delighted,’
Nathans said Thursday at the Johns
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had learned just moments 1.
that he was named as one old ® nev ’ ( |
men to win the prize.
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get to the lab,” he said.
The Medicine Prize, the
world’s top achievement, is the
ond of six Nobel Prizes awards
1978.
Last year, three Amerii
shared the medicine prize,
bars been bestowed jointly 37
since the awards were first gi\«|
1901.
A week ago, the Sw
Academy gave the Nobel priziftaynes’
literature to the Polish-AimaiKk
Yiddish-language author in-mber
Bashevis Singer. lour que
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Whistleblowers get |
protection under act
MSC AGGIE CINEMA
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The 1978
Civil Service Reform Act, now
awaiting a presidential signature,
represents almost all the changes
President Carter had requested —
and a bit more.
The act will bring a sweeping re
form of the federal civil service —
for the first time protecting
“whistleblowers,” allowing workers
to be fired for rudeness or ineffi
ciency, and providing promotions
for other reasons than length of serv
ice.
While seeking the presidency.
Carter campaigned strongly on the
need for changes in the civil service
that operates and sometimes stalls
the American bureaucracy.
He said when he became presi
dent he found the situation even
worse than he had thought, and the
bill was one of his top priorities.
Jules Sugarman, vice chairman of
the Civil Service Commission, and
Wayne Granquist of the Office of
Management and Budget, spelled
out for UPI Wednesday their as
sessment of the legislation.
At present, an employee can be
fired only if the government proves
with a preponderance of evidence
that the dismissal would promote
the efficiency of the service.
Under the new law, the govern
ment must have only “substantial”
evidence that an employee was un
suited for his job — for instance,
that he or she failed to perform a
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who couldn’t take shorthand. Joney fe
Or if a superv isor makes four [ing him.
ports in one year of an emplow McCro
being discourteous or rude til month
member of the public, the governm
ployee can be fired. Irovision.
An employee would not neces let, whic
ily be fired for receiving fourcit jp in tri;
complaints. The supervisor wotlHayne
have to rule on the validity oftlietftcCrory
Carter got even more protet Fimity 1
than he asked for “whistleblowwftange ft
At present, a whistleblower is pc IcCrory
tected only if he or she report ey John
violation of law. Under the refbn robably
the whistleblower will be protect! McCrc
for reporting gross mismanagemeii [e initiat
waste or anything that “endanpe a 8 e
the national health or safety. 1“®“ th
The whistleblowers will j F °the
guaranteed anonymity and will l /^ok
able to make their complaints eitk Med uj
to the new Merit Systems Prol«F* ne ve
tion Board’s special counsel ord P un tar
of the new inspector generals. F. ar 'v
A separate bill that Carter sigwi F
Thursday creates 12 inspectors 0 wl
eral, one each for most Cabineti
partments, the scandal-ridden Co l a oec
eral Services Administrationandts p am
Veterans Administration. f j n 1
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