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...entrants, and in effect have given them a status close to citizenship. For six days they will undergo health examinations. Then they will be placed in the Jubilee Reception Center, where all refugees must be processed before going off to any of four camps: Argyle 3 and 4, or Kai Tak East and North. Like the Jubilee center, all are located on Kowloon Peninsula. In the camps the children will go to school, kill time, and wait for a sign from France, England or America...
Half of the physics prize will go to Kai Siegbahn, 63, of Sweden's Uppsala University, who follows in the footsteps of his late father Karl Siegbahn, the 1924 laureate in physics.* The other half of the award will be shared equally by two Americans, Nicolaas Bloembergen, 61, a Dutch-born Harvard professor, and Arthur Schawlow, 60, of Stanford. The prize in chemistry will go to Kenichi Fukui, 63, of Japan's Kyoto University, and Roald Hoffmann, 44, of Cornell University...
...student at an American school in Peking when he joined the Communist Revolution in 1948. Like "80 per cent of the students and intellectuals," says Yao, he "did not join because of any Marxist orientation, or because we were Russophiles," but because of the ruling government of Chian Kai-Shek--a regime he considered full of "the most corrupt animals, I won't even say humans...
...dimensions of the problem. A book based on her Stern disclosures became an instant bestseller in 1979 and has sold 1.3 million copies so far. What has astonished book publishers-and concerned many sociologists and parents-is the fact that 80% of those readers are teenagers. Explains Stern Reporter Kai Hermann: "Before the book came out, hardly anybody talked about drug addiction in West Germany. We assumed that we might capture the attention of parents, but we were not prepared for the explosion of interest among the kids...
DIED. Wang Shih-chieh, 90, Nationalist Chinese lawyer, scholar and leading diplomat, who as Foreign Minister from 1945 to 1948 participated in the peace talks between Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Tse-tung; in Taipei...