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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.
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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.”
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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.
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