MIT's The Weather , (-' Oldest and Largest Today: Cloudy, damp, 48°F (9°C) Tonight: Cool, 43°F (6°C) Newspaper Tomorrow: Mostly cloudy, 50°F (10°C) Details, Page 2 Volume 119, Number 20 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Friday, April 15, 1999 Zhu Speaks to Kresge Audience ..' On Sino-American Relationship " By Kevin R. Lang noting that the total U.S. deficit with are more than $30 billion apart. ASSOCIA TE NEWS EDITOR all nations was less than $200 bil- "I'm not trying to comment on On the final day of his six-city lion last year. While this figure may which number is the more accu- U.S. tour, Premier Zhu Rongji of the seem large, Zhu said, it amounts to rate," Zhu said. Zhu discussed a People's Republic of China dis- less than two percent of the U. S. Stanford University study which cussed trade relations and education- Gross National Product. "This is found that both nations use incon- al cooperation between the United very common in many countries," sistent methods regarding shipping States and China before a full-capac- Zhu said, speaking with simultane- and insurance on imports and ity Kresge Auditorium audience, ous English translation. "This is not exports, and that neither accounts Wednesday. such a serious problem." for value added in Hong Kong to Much of Zhu's address focused Chinese products. The actual U.S. M on Sino-American trade relations, Trade deficit values inconsistent trade deficit is most likely around notably the substantial U.S. trade Zhu also noted that U.S. and $36 billion, Zhu said. deficit. Zhu downplayed the issue, Chinese figures regarding the deficit Zhu attributed the deficit less to prohibitive trade regulations than to changes in the U.S. manufacturing scene over the past few decades. Chinese exports to the United States j. Secretary of Energy are primarily labor-intensive con- sumer goods which are no longer produced elsewhere, Zhu said. "This Tours Bates Lab type of import has absolutely no competition in the U.S. market," Zhu said. "These consumer goods - you wouldn't be able to find any- one to manufacture them in the United States." As labor costs increased in other nations, Zhu said, manufacturing shifted to China. Thus, while the U.S. trade deficit with China increased, it decreased proportion- GARRY R. MASKALY-TIIE TECII Chinese Premier Zhu RongJl addressed a packed Kresge Auditorium Zhu, Page 16 on Wednesday, wrapping up his nlne-day visit to the United States. LCSAnnounces New Building, Project The time capsule, designed by Gehry is designing the Gates By Jennifer Chung Frank O. Gehry, architect for the Building. The internal layout of the and May K. Tse Stata Center, will be opened in time building has not yet been deter- STAFF REPORTERS for the 70th anniversary of LCS in mined. The MIT Laboratory for 2033 - unless the cryptographic Computer Science celebrated its puzzle associated with it and LCS, Page 17 35th anniversary this week in a designed by Associate SIIAO-FEI MOY-THE TECH three-day celebration that culminat- LCS Director Ronald L. u.s. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson expresses his support ed Tuesday with the announcements Rivest is solved in less for Bates Laboratory In a visit to the facility Tuesday. of a $20 million donation and a than the 35 years the major new project. solution is designed to By Shao-Fel Moy Microsoft CEO Bill Gates pre- take. The capsule con- SPORTS EDITOR sented the donation on behalf of tains reference to such United States Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson offered his himself and his wife Melinda for the innovations as Project support to the researchers and employees of the MIT Bates Linear William H. Gates III Foundation. Athena, RSA Public-Key Accelerator Center in Middleton, Mass. during his visit Tuesday. The donation will be used to create Cryptography, x- This marks the first ever appearance by an energy secretary to Bates a new "home of LCS", to be named Windows, and Zork, the Lab. the William H. Gates building and earliest interactive PC Richardson's visit began with a meeting with ten researchers from to be part of the Stata Center for game. across the country representing Bates. During the meeting, the Computer, Information and researchers expressed their appreciation for the Energy Secretary's Intelligence Sciences. New Gates building work in amending the budget which originally had Bates heading for With the research project, The Gates Building a "cold shutdown" at the end of the year. Each of the ten representa- dubbed Oxygen, LCS plans to cre- will be situated where tives stressed the importance of Bates in the research they have done ate and use the support of existing Building 20 used to and will continue to do at the facilities. research to better tackle such issues stand, "in the middle of Bates Lab, which is operated by the MIT Laboratory for Nuclear as speech recognition and better campus, where LCS Science for the Department of Energy, is a national user facility and worldwide communication, belongs," said President has been a center for world-class experiments in nuclear physics for enabling technology to truly become Charles M. Vest. 25 years. Over 200 physicists from 52 institutions are actively utiliz- more user-friendly. "MIT is entering the in'g the Bates' facilities; about 120 Ph.D. students have been educat- Other events during the festivi- greatest change since the ed and trained at the lab. ties included the sealing of the LCS post-World War II era," In President Bill Clinton's fiscal year 2000 budget released on Time Capsule of Innovations and Vest said. "LCS is at the ANNIE S. CliO/-TilE TECH February 1, 1999, Bates' allocation would have been reduced from keynote speeches by Gates and heart of all of this." In presentations by LCS graduate students, Principal Research Scientist Tim As with the rest of the Michael Bosse G Introduces Argus, a city ", Richardson, Page 29 Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Stata complex, architect scanning device which captures Images Wide Web. from its surroundings to create 3-D models. ..' .'.-"f"--" --.J!.., Protesters and '., .. '~.,."~;~.,- ............~ ","', '-. ~.~ . 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'I"UIi ~ 1I.• )t II "" WORLD & NATION Study Finds Controversial Cancer Lawmakers Express Worries Treatment Yields No Clear Benefit TilE U:-lSIfINGTON PUST A controversial treatment for breast cancer advocated by many Over U.S. Balkan Campaign ~I patients and questioned by many insurance companies opposed to paying for it appears to be no better than conventional therapy for the By Bradley Graham officials to work out details of an NATO attacks should have hit hard- disease, according to the results of the first large studies testing it. and Guy Gugliotta emergency spending proposal that er from the first day and expressed The treatment involves giving near-lethal doses of chemotherapy TIlE WASIfINGTON POST some said will be close to $6 billion disbelief that the administration had drugs and then "rescuing" patients with transplants of bone marrow WASHINGTON through Sept. 30. not started planning for a ground to restore their immune systems. Although rare compared to other In grave exchanges notable for Senate Republican leaders hope war in Kosovo. "Limited actions breast cancer treatments, this one has become a major rallying point their lack of partisan polemics, Congress will pass the emergency beget limited results," said the sena- -!- for advocacy groups and critics of the newfound power of health Congress and the Clinton adminis- proposal by the end of next week, tor, who is seeking the Republican insurance companies to determine what constitutes appropriate care. tration Thursday began testing each and House Speaker Dennis Hastert presidential nomination. He and In five studies whose preliminary results were unveiled Thursday, other's resolve in escalating what (R-Ill.) promised a full-scale debate others pressed for a commitment for ... women getting the treatment showed no clear benefit when compared both sides agreed could be a pro- on the future in Kosovo. Thursday's at least the start of detailed planning to women receiving more standard doses of cancer-killing drugs. longed, expensive and potentially hearings marked the administra- for ground forces While few people expected the studies would settle the issue, the deadly intervention in the Balkans. tion's first public appearances in But Cohen and Shelton opposed results were intensely anticipated by cancer patients, physicians, For hours in Senate and House Congress to detailing the course of the idea. They voiced concern that .\!, advocacy groups and insurance executives. Results will be presented hearings, Secretary of State the war since the bombing cam- any move to consider a ground at a meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology next Madeleine Albright, Defense paign began March 24. option could stir divisive debate in month. Secretary William Cohen and Gen. "We are involved in a limited and the United States and Europe, \. Henry H. Shelton, chairman of the political war of incremental gradual- undercutting political support even Joint Chiefs of Staff, listened to ism," complained Sen. Pat Roberts for the air campaign. Shelton said Many Algerian Voters Stay Home worried lawmakers voice their anxi- (R-Kan.) at an Armed Services NATO military commanders had THE WASIfINGTON POST eties about the current air war over Committee session, echoing the frus- been specifically ordered by the "\0 ALGIERS, ALGERIA Yugoslavia and their misgivings trations of many members about the alliance's political body, the North Algerian voters stayed home in droves Thursday as lone presiden- about what the future may hold.