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NORTH EAST BAY 1 77C tj SERVING BERKELEY FOR 101 YEARS HyOi 25 CENTS PER COPY $300 PER MONTH Tuesday April 15 1980 101st Year No 187 Blow in 'in the wind UC historian wins Pulitzer Mailer wins second Page A winning cartoon Opinion Page Five Oscars for i Kramer Page By MARCY KATES BERKELEY A popular UC-Berkelev historv urofessor has won the Pulitzer Prize in history for a book about the aftermath of slavery in the United States Leon Litwack whose courses draw standing room only crowds on the Berkeley campus was awarded the prestigious prize for his book published in 1979 called Been in the Storm So Long: the Aftermath of Slavery The announcement of Litwacks Pulitzer was made Monday but it is not known if Litwack is aware of it yet because he is in the Soviet Union on a six-month Fulbright Fellowship teaching history to students at Moscow State University If he doesnt know about it yet he will soon said Robert Middle-kauff chairman of the UC-Berkeley history department I sent him a telegram today I think its marvelous" Middlekauff described Litwack as a fine historian an outstanding teacher and very deserving Its an absolutely first-class book and were all very proud of him Litwack is the only UC professor that longtime campus observers can recall winning his own Pulitzer Journalism Professor Ben Bagdikian and sociology Professor Richard Ofshe each shared a Pulitzer with others a UC spokesman said Litwacks book was called the single most basic book to read on the black experience during the l-G photo iy Mike Musielski ter and also provide some protection against the wind A worker anchors screens along a tennis court fence at Durant Avenue and Oxford Street in Berkeley The screens will help tennis players see the ball bet- years immediately following the overthow of slavery by historian Peter Koldun in a long and enthusiastic review last August in the Chronicle of Higher Education's Books and Arts supplement "Been in the Storm So Long" wrote Kolehin "is not only complete with a splendid richness of detail but enjoyable as well The book which took more than a decade of research was based on an extensive collection of interviews with ex-slaves that was conducted by the Federal Writers Project during the 1930s as well as accounts of Southern emancipation from manuscripts diaries newspapers and autobiographies Litwack a co-sponsor of Berkeley's first black historv course also teaches a general survey course on American history from 1865 to the present and seminars covering the Civil War Reconstruction and 19th century politics In 1971 he received a Distinguished Teaching Award for his development of a black history course and for his use of multi-media techniques in his history survey course Litwacks multi-media presentation which he presented each quarter as his concluding lecture has been shown on campuses across the (Turn to page 9 col l) Disclosure ruling hit by FPPC Alaska oil bonanza conies at expense of independents Many Iran students seek asylum in US major companies who cant get Alaskan oil are forced to watch long lines of cars queue up for cheap gas while their nearby stations stand empty "Chevron's prices to dealers in the Los Angeles area are at least 10 cents per gallon below that of all other major refiner-marketers in the area for all grades of gasoline Union Oil President Claude Brin-egar testified at an Energy Department hearing last week on the entitlements program With the entitlements program in place at least $15' million per day or $55 billion per year goes to the fortunate few" who produce and refine their own Alaskan crude said Brinegar w'hose company does not In the Bay Area and Sacramento some Chevron stations were charging about $1 per gallon for regular this week said Les Jones a research analyst for the California By MARCY KATES SAN FRANCISCO The Fair Political Practices Commission has challenged the ruling of a local judge that resulted in the public disclosure earlier this month of at least some of the financial holdings of the University of California regents Declaring that a ruling by San Francisco Superior Court Judge Byron Arnold was not adequate nor complete the FPPC filed a writ with the state Court of Appeals Friday asking that the judges ruling be overturned and that tne regents be required to fully disclose all of their financial holdings under the terms of the Political Reform Act Arnold's ruling required regents to publicly disclose any property owned in tne state and investments in companies that have done business with the university in the last two years or that forseeably may (Turn to Page 4 Col 1) Department of Transportation In the East Bay Chevron has been charging about $117 a gallon I didnt buy my gas there because the lines were too long" Jones said At independents near Chevron stations there were no long lines in fact very few cars at all because prices were averaging about $122 a gallon for the same grade of gasoline The Energy Department should have phased out the program when the price of foreign oil soared last year a spokesman for the Independent Refiners Association said Otherwise West Coast independents would not be in the position they are now of having to scrounge the market for Alaskan crude Only a year ago the entitlements program which was started at the time of the 1974 Arab oil embargo made sense to everyone in the industry (Turn to page 9 col 2) By MARCY KATES SAN FRANCISCO Many Iranian students and other nonimmigrant Iranians are seeking political asylum as a way of remaining in the United States the district director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service said today David Ilchert district director for the immigration service in San Francisco refused to release any numbers but he said that many Iranians had applied for political asylum as a result of a new directive issued by the immigration service in Washington Saturday that all Iranian non-immigrants including tourists businessmen and students will not be granted extensions of stay here except for com-' polling humanitarian reasons Ilchert said that these Iranians will not get extensions on their stays unless they are granted political asylum need immediate medical attention or have close relatives who are permanent resi-(Turn to Page 4 Col 3) By BOB BAST 1 l-G Washington correspondent WASHINGTON Big Alaskan Oil producers earned a windfall of $800 million between July and November last year much of it at the expense of small West Coast independent refiners by refining their own supplies of Alaskan North Slope crude The ongoing bonanza comes courtesy of the Department of Energys entitlements program which provides an incentive for Alaskan producers to hoard North Slope oil they previously sold to small and Independent refiners Energy Department officials admit that the entitlement program is economically outdated and that it is creating monumental prob-lesm Meanwhile the program gives the big oil companies with access to Alaskan oil the opportunity to sell gas for lower prices at higher profits than their competitors And although that means cheaper prices at some gas pumps for Californians now the bonanza for consumers will end while many small independents will end up weakened or perhaps out of business The scheme originally was created to force producer-refiners with large reservoirs of cheap domestic oil to foot part of the bill that independent refiners paid for imported and Alaskan crude Now according to Ashland Oil Co President Robert Yancey the entitlements program has outlived its usefulness and is perpetuating the very thing it was designed to prevent: fiscal harm to small and independent refiners The entitlement subsidy makes it possible for big producers like Standard Oil of California (SoCal) to undercut independents by as much as 20 cents a gallon at some of its Chevron stations in California Owners an operators at independent stations and even those of Tragic ending for Pride ofBHS 3n fRcmortj of Simmicltarolfijr Horn December 12 1957 Berkeley California Departed this life: April 7 1980 Oakland Cali lamia rr Friends said he talked of becoming a teacher aide in the Berkeley school district Harolds problems with the law began a year after his graduation with his first arrest In the next year and a half he was arrested six more times on charges that included forgery assault with a deadly weapon larcenty and burglary His parents and court officials confused at the bizarre turn in Harolds behavior urged him to attend therapy sessions at the Berkeley Mental Health Clinic He did for a while and his probation officer noted some progress But in early December Harold was sentenced to a year in the Alameda County jail for a burglary he had committed Details of what happened next are unclear Michael Schuchardt supervisor at the jail clinic today refused to talk with a reporter about the case But according to some accounts (Turn to page 9 col 3) health physicians not to conduct an autopsy because the examining doctors might contract hepatitis He was very very contagious a clerk at the coroner's office said We were told to handle him as little as possible It was a very different story in high school In addition to being student body president he participated in teacher-district contract negotiations as a student representative He was one of a handful of students to go to Washington DC as part of a political affairs program He had been active in church and was for a time in a choir He was also active in sports at school Harold had attended the College of Alameda after his graduation apparently hoping to complete his general education requirements before transferring to a four-year college His parents say he was interested in political science For a time he worked at the Shat-tuck Avenue Safeway Store and at the Lawrence Hall of Science By ROBERT MANOR OAKLAND The tragic death of Jimmie Harold Jr just a few short years ago the pride of Berkeley High School is likely to remain a mystery More than 150 of his friends and relatives attended his funeral Monday School district officials recounted the accomplishments of the 22-year-old Harold who had been student body president and it seemed destined for a bright future But a week ago he died of acute serum hepatitis at Highland Hospit-' al He had been taken there as a prisoner from the Alameda county jail in Pleasanton The details of his death are difficult to piece together because hospital and jail officials will not release much information An auto- Esy that could determine exactly ow he contracted the fatal disease was not done The Alameda County Coroners Office was advised by the public index Uncle Sam wants your money today Opinion Page 3- 27 25-29 24 26 Action Man Bridge Classified Comics Crossword Test tube genes an Aladdins lamp Events Calendar 2 Food 22-23 Horoscope 28 Lance Gilmore 19 New York Stocks 29 Opinion 13 Sports 14-17 Sylvia Porter 12 TV Entertainment 21 Vistas 19 20 Vital Statistics til 29 Weather 2 ibers who did not receive the l-G ie 843-4800 until 6:30 pm lor do- strategies scientists say they can develop organisms that may someday increase the nutritional value of food produce plentiful nonpolluting energy sources and even cure some genetic diseases such as sickel-cell anemia and hemophilia Consumers may someday depend on recombinant DNA for products ranging from the antibiotics they use to the antifreeze they put in their cars Among those industries already targeted for application of genetic engineering are energy production agriculture industrial chemicals food products pharmaceuticals forest products and mining Investment analysts say the burgeoning industry has billion-dollar possibilities even though its first commercial product is years away Its biology's time 'now" said Peter Farley president of the Berkeley-based Cetus Corp the largest of five industrial research firms most active in the technology "Biology is becoming more and I more applicable to industries wfiich (Turn to Page 4 Col 1) By WILLIAM JAVETSKI Amid microscopes tangles of wire and breakers of bubbling liquids scientists in laboratories nationwide are building factories in test tubes The factories are tiny cells manipulated by recombinant DNA technique or gene splicing to grow unlimited quantities of useful substances Someday scientists Say the technique may provide significant amounts of the world's medicine food and energy Scientists have already coaxed bacteria to grow several scarce and valuable products of human cells including insulin growth hormone and two substances that show great promise for treating cancer But as spctacular as these breakthroughs nave been in their ability to provide unlimited future supplies of these substances they may only serve as fanfare for the arrival of a scientific-industrial revolution in biotechnology Using recombinant DNA and other genetic engineering focus weather Fair and wanner Small craft advla- ory Forecast on page 2 ri.