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s i on a id her [pm. e told ofind of the • The ' The and 6 d and traffic ersity Police ■ydist 11 be will thei :ives >g is( on. lates: FEn- e for npus tions ed in V have Texas work, renter (hold d in a order Center esday Road n of a tation ?d for idents THE BATTALION TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1978 Page 3 70 are ready for A-bomb United Press International SYDNEY, Australia — About 70 people who believe the Soviet Union will launch a nuclear war this month have settled into a remote doomsday city,” complete with bunkers, to wait out the attack. The group, which includes businessmen, pharmacists and teachers, is housed on a remote 19,770-acre ranch near Bourke, 400 miles northwest of Sydney in New South Wales. The doomsday fugitives paid $575 each for what they believe will be a chance at survival after a Communist nuclear attack, the Sydney Sun-Herald said Sunday. Their village and bunker complex, sustained by provisions in tended to last for a year, was sponsored by 41-year-old Melbourne businessman John Strong, whose 1973 book, "The Doomsday Globe,” predicted an imminent nuclear attack. Strong s calculations for the nuclear catastrophe are founded on parts of the Bible and his own computations based on the size of the great pyramids in Egypt, the newspaper said. Strong said the book of Daniel in the Old Testament enabled him to fix the time of a global catastrophe at October, 1978. His own figures, the result of a complicated mathematical process, indicate the holocaust will occur no later than 1979. “All I’m going to say is that I’m holidaying here with some friends,” Strong said when questioned by a reporter. Strict security surrounds the village. Visitors can drive four miles onto the ranch but are then stopped. Ricky Gribling, a Melbourne woman who visited the ranch two weeks ago to see some friends, reportedly said Strong had predicted the day of doom would be Oct. 2. Failing that, it could either be last Sunday or Oct. 31, she told the Sydney newspaper. But in any event the destruction of the world reportedly is a certainty by Sept. 23, 1979. The community members will not even drive automobiles near the well-hidden bunkers for fear of leaving tire tracks that they believe would guide the Russians to them, the newspaper said. 0 > Sr Vance opens Africa summit United Press International PRETORIA, South Africa — Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, head ing a team of five Western foreign ministers, opened crucial talks Monday with South African leaders to seek a peaceful transition to independence for Namibia (South West Africa). The talks began as one of the territory’s major political groups said it would defy a possible decision by the Pretoria summit meeting to postpone planned December elections. American sources said before the five ministers resumed the after noon talks, that Vance had met privately with Prime Minister Pieter Botha and personally handed him a letter from President Carter. The sources would not say what the letter contained. Vance and the foreign ministers of West Germany, Canada, Britain as well as France’s deputy foreign minister, aim to persuade Botha to accept a United Nations proposal for an April 1979 election super vised by 7,500 U.N. troops. Last month South Africa rejected the plan, insisting on a smaller number of troops and calling for a Dec. 4 election. If the talks fail, South Africa could face punitive U.N. trade sanc tions and increased guerrilla activity. After two hours of discussions with premier Botha, the five minis ters started detailed talks with foreign minister Roelof Botha and defense chief Gen. Magnus Malan. The Democratic Turnhalle Alliance, one of Namibia’s major politi cal groups, cabled British Foreign Secretary David Owen saying it would not yield to either the five major powers or the South African government “in our determination to have elections this year in which the moderate and decent people of Namibia can demonstrate that they, and not the Marxist terrorists, comprise the overwhelming majority of the population.” The Soviet-backed guerrilla movement SWAPO (South West Afri can Peoples Organization) is boycotting the Dec. 4 polling and has warned it would escalate insurgency operations if the elections are held. Commenting on the South African plan to conduct its own election, Owen said Sunday: “It is quite inconceivable for us to accept the result of this makeshift election.” Ated for decision-making research U.S. prof wins Nobel in economics ent , de- ifthe were nilar town also ;cted United Press International STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Pro- ;ssor Herbert Simon of ittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon Uni- ersity, a pioneer of modem busi- administration who explained ow business decisions are made, londay won the Nobel Prize for conomics. “lam very pleased, delighted, as- unded,” Simon, 62, said at his ome in Pittsburgh after learning pat he had won the $165,000 /ard. “One does not go around waiting ir lightning to strike. Simon was the fourth American to : honored in the three Nobel Jrizes awarded so far this year. He Iso was the seventh American to inn the honor in economics. The Swedish Academy of Sci- nces cited Simon “for his pioneer ing research into the decision- laking process within economic or- anizations.” Modem business economics and dministrative research are largely ased on Simon’s ideas,’’ the ademy said. Simon said his work was “an at- mpt to modify classical economic leory which assumed they (busi- ssmen) had perfect information nd that they were able to make any implicated computations. The work that I did tried to take into account limits on people’s abil ity to compute and deal with incom plete information and sometimes overwheling information,” Simon said. Unlike the other prizes instituted by the late Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite, and awarded since 1901, the economics prize was established by the Central Bank of Sweden in 1968. The economics prize was first awarded in 1969. The previous awards were shared by six Ameri cans, three Britons, two Swedes, a Soviet, a Dutchman and a Norwe gian. Simon’s scientific output has cov ered science theory, applied math ematics, statistics, operations analysis, economics and bvisiness administration. “But he is, most of all, an economist — in the widest sense of that word — and his name is as sociated, most of all, with publica tions on structure and decision making within economic organiza tions, a relatively new area of eco nomic research,” the academy said. The academy in explaining Si mon’s achievement said: “In his epoch-making book “Ad ministrative Behaviour,’ and in a number of subsequent books, he described the company as an adap tive system of physical, personal and social components that are held to gether by a network of intercom munications and by the willingness of its members to cooperate and strive towards a common goal.” Simon developed his ideas to an extent where they could be used for scientific studies, but they also applied to the systems and tech niques of planning, budgeting and control that are used in modern business and public administration, the academy said. WHEN YOU BUY A CALCULATOR, THINK ABOUT WHO’S GOING TO TAKE CARE OF IT. At Loupot s. We re One of The State s Largest Calculator Dealers For A Reason — We Look Out For Our Customers Buy A Calculator From Lou If Anything Goes Wrong With It Within 30 Days, He’ll Replace It With A New One. 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