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...Earl Sutherland Jr. was hardly fazed when newsmen bearing rumors descended upon his home in Nashville, Tenn., last week. A professor of physiology at Nashville's Vanderbilt University, he remained calmer than the newsmen while a Swedish journalist in the group placed a transatlantic call to a colleague who was waiting outside the room at Stockholm's Royal Caroline Institute where the Nobel Prize Committee was voting. After a while, the Swede suddenly turned from the telephone and gave Sutherland the news: he had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology for his long study...
...effort to awake the citizenry to a shockingly neglected issue, environmentalists long cried out shrilly from any podium they could find. Now that they have succeeded in arousing the public conscience, the defense of the environment calls for a calmer and more constructive approach. That strategy has led increasing numbers of environmentalists to seek redress in the courts...
...Yugoslavs and Soviets were able to agree that some forms of economic cooperation and a general lessening of tension would serve their mutual purposes. Besides the fact that the Soviets want to build up defenses in the Balkans against Chinese diplomatic inroads, they also know that a calmer atmosphere there will speed their efforts in Western Europe to convene a conference on European security. For their part the Yugoslavs want a breathing space in which to carry out their political reform and get their badly inflated economy under control...
...Your article "A Quieter China in a Calmer Asia" [April 19] states that Thailand has received $1.5 billion in American assistance. That figure is an exaggeration and must presumably include the cost of construction of airbase facilities in Thailand, which were designed to be used entirely by the U.S. Air Force for the prosecution of the Viet Nam War. As to your statement that declining U.S. aid has persuaded the Thais that the times are changing, one only has to take a quick glance at the recent reports on Ping Pong diplomacy to see that even...
Reports Louis Kraar, TIME's Southeast Asia correspondent: "Slowly, these subtle shifts have added up to form some sharply definable trends: a marked cooling of fears about Peking, a perceptively calmer view of the Indochina war, a reasonably confident acceptance of the rapidly receding presence of both American and British military forces in the area...