The Michigan Daily-Tuesday, October 12, 1982-Page 5 Three Europeans win Nobel with medical breakthrough From AP and UPI BOSTON -Two Swedes and an English- $ man shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine yesterday for their research into a group of a body chemicals that affect human ills ranging from arthritis and high blood pressure to asthma and painful men- struation. Sweden's Sune Bergstrom, 66, and Bengt Samuelsson, 48, and Britain's Dr. John ,y~.' 'Vane, 55, shared the $158,000 prize for their " groundbreaking research involving a wide- ranging family of body substances known as " prostaglandins. Prostaglandins were discovered in the early 1930s, but only in the 1960s did scien- tists learn how to make modified versions, called analogues, that could be used to AP Photo treat specific disorders. THE CHEMICALS are now the subject of The 1982 Nobel Prize winners for Medicine or Physiology toast each other with champagne. They are from intense study, and about 5,000 scientific ar- left to right, Bengt Samuelsson, M.D., Sune Bergstrom, M.D., and John Vane, F.R.S. tides about them are published each year. 'Commission begins probe into massacre in Beirut - Among potential uses for the substances are treating heart attacks, high blood pressure, asthma, ulcers and blocked nasal passages., # "It's certainly most gratifying that your colleagues value the work that you have been fighting with for the past 35 years," said Bergstrom, 66, who is sometimes called the father of prostaglandin chemistry. IN RECENT years, related research has come to show the effect of aspirin in preven- ting heart attacks. For some years, anti- prostaglandin drugs also have been used to reduce the debilitating pain of arthritis. One form of prostaglandin called throm- baxane, is released by blood cells called platelets and helps blood to clot. But at the same time, another form of the chemical, called prostacyclin, is dispensed by blood vessel walls and has the opposite effect - it prevents clots from forming. Unitl 1976, Vane said from his Boston hotel room, scientists were unaware of "the strong effects of prostacyclin" manufac- tured by the walls of arteries to keep them clean. Charles Sweeley, chairman of the biochemistry department at Michigan State University worked with prize winner Samuelsson at East Lansing in 1970 on an analytical method that greatly facilitated further research on prostaglandins. Samuelsson was a visiting professor at MSU from January to June 1970. He and Sweeley collaborated on a paper dealing with analysis of prostaglandins in blood. .. Up to this year, Americans have dominated the science awards, with 57 win- ners in medicine alone. Britain was second, with 19 of the 132 laureates since the first prize was awarded in 1901. Nobel prizes are given annually fo medicine, chemistry, physics, economics;: literature and peace. Hussein, Arafat have 'identical viewpoints' From AP and UPI 0 TEL AVIV, Israel - A three-man ommission yesterday opened its con- troversial inquiry into the massacre of Palestinian refugees in Beirut, a probe whose outcome could determine the fate of Prime Minster Menachem Begin's government. The investigation, which the gover- nment agreed to under intense pressure from critics at home and abroad, is Israel's most important since the inquiry into the initial setbacks in the Iom Kippur War of 1973. That probe xonerated the government of Golda Meir, but she retired soon afterward. WORKERS installed iron bars on the windows of a building on the Givat Ram Campus of Hebrew University, where the panel headed byCheif Justice Yit- zhak Kahan is to conduct its work. the inquiry was expected to take several months. Some of the hearings will be open to the public. In advertisements in all Israeli newspapers, on radio and television, Israelis were urged to step forward with information about the massacre by right-wing Christian Lebanese Phalangists last month at the Chatila and Sabra refugee camps. Red Cross officials found 337 bodies in the camps. Although it is not likely the bodies of many of the victims ever will be recovered, Lebanese officials have estimated the actual death toll at about 1,500., NEWSPAPER reports have said Begin and Defense Minister Ariel Sharon will be called to testify. Both men have said they will accept the commission's findings. "All ranks of the Israeli Defense For- ces may apply to the commission without obtaining prior permission from their commanding officers," the appeal said. Initially opposed to a full state inquiry, Begin later relented. His Cabinet Sept 28 decided to establish an ce' microwave oven, a computer terminal, 4 IBM typewriters, and a refrigerator, police said. A small fire was set and a safe was tampered within a projection room on the second floor of Lorch Hall last Friday afternoon, police said. The suspect broke into the building at about 3 p.m. and set fire to a wooden chair. There was no fire damage in the room. The incident is currently under in- vestigation, Fire Department officials said. A typewriter was stolen early Friday morning from a locked office in the School of Education Building, police said. The method of entry is still unknown. -GREG BR USSTAR inquiry board with full subpoena powers of both documents and wit- nesses. Meanwhile, at the two refugee camps where the massacres occured, Lebanese soldiers conducted searches for guns and tore down shacks which had been built without permits. Panicked camp residents reported men in civilian clothes had entered the camps overnight, leading away several people. Lebanese paramilitary security forces attempting to calm the residents said the men were plain- clothes policemen, and that no further camp seaches would be allowed by people out of uniform. There was no ex- planation for the searches being con- ducted after nightfall. As the army searched the two camps where hundreds of Palestinian refugees were massacred last month, Western diplomats reported that a new con- tingent of 400 Italian troops will be sent to Lebanon on Wednesday to join a multinational peacekeeping force. That would bolster the American, French and Italian peacekeeping force to 4,200 men. the Lebanese government requested the force after the massacre of hundreds of Palestinian refugees in Sabra and Chatilla Sept. 16-18. kinko's Copis Our Xerox 9500 otters offset quaity & fast service OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK 540 E. Liberty St.-761-4539 Corner of Moynard & Liberty kinko's Co pies From United Press International Jordan's King Hussein and PLO leader Yasser Arafat met with "frankness, brotherhood, and under- standing" yesterday and shared "iden- tical viewpoints" in the talks on a federation between displaced Palestinians and Jordan. According to state-run Amman radio, Badran said Hussein and Arafat share "identical viewpoints toward the major issue of the fate of both our peoples, members of the same family." ARAFAT, visiting Palestinian fighters evacuated to Jordan under the cease-fire agreement with Israel, echoed the optimistic tone. "The Palestinians and Jordanians have always been brothers in blood," he told the Badr brigades of the Palestine Liberation Army. "We are seeking to coordinate the future steps of our., struggles, which will not stop until the Palestinian flag is flown over Jerusalem." A spokesman for Syrian President Hafez Assad, however, charged in an. interview that Arafat was not authorized to speak for the Palestinians. Hussein ... meeting with Arafat Woman jogger attacked A 26-year-old Ann Arbor woman was *ttacked Friday at about 7 p.m. while jogging on the 2300 block of Fuller, just east of Oakway, police said yesterday: An. unidentified man approached her from behind, tackled her, and attem- pted to rip her clothing off. A woman from Detroit was passing in a car and stopped to aid the victim. The attacker then walked away from the scene and has not been apprehended. Leather heist Leather goods valued at $10,750 were stolen from ,the Suwanne Springs Lather Co., 210 S. Main, Friday night, police said. The suspect forced a win- dow and stole several coats, briefcases, vests, and shoes. Sgt. Pepper's looted Meat, cigarettes, and $6,000 in cash were stolen from Sgt. Pepper's grocery store, 1028 E. University, early Thur- Aday morning, police said. 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