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Pamantasan alumni awardees. Secretary Dante A. Ang of the Commission on Filipinos Overseas (center)shares the limelight with Gen. Ricardo de Leon (left) and the Western Police District chief, Chief Supt. Pedro Bulaong,after being honored by the alumni of the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila during their grand homecoming at theManila Hotel Friday. De Leon and Bulaong received the award for law enforcement and Ang for public relations.

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Cut taleof thetapes—Enrile

House probers welcome Gloria’s decision to keep mum

■ Prof. Edgar E. Escultura has been cited by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for his work on the Grand Unified Theory.PHOTO BY ALBERT GARCIA

Laarni, 6 others facepolice questioning

Dr. Johannes Hieber told Esculturathat “we have read your work on theGrand Unified Theory and deem it wor-thy of a nomination for the Nobel Prizefor Physics.”

Dr. Lars Jonhagen in an e-mail thatEscultura received on June 15 said: “You,sir, have demonstrated such a high levelof understanding of Physics and, as such,your nomination is very special.”

Professor Escultura teaches mathemat-ics at the University of the Philippines.

He was in the news recently for having

disproved Dr. Andrew Wiles’ “proof” ofFermat’s Last Theorem.

The Grand Unified Theory (or more col-loquially known as the Theory of Every-thing) has been somewhat of a Holy Grailof modern physics.

Albert Einstein spent the last 30 years ofhis life trying to formulate the GUT withno success.

Scores of physicists all over the world,led by Stephen Hawking, the Lucasian Pro-fessor of Mathematics at Cambridge, andRoger Penrose, professor of mathematics

TWO members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences confirmed inseparate messages that Prof. Edgar E. Escultura has been nominated

for the 2005 Nobel Prize for Physics.

at Oxford, have been working on GUT fordecades.

Last month, Escultura received theMichel Prize from the University of Luynesin France, for his work on analysis andfoundations of mathematics.

The award was conferred on him by Prof.J. Raymond, who, as it happens, is also anominee for the Nobel Prize for Physics.

Escultura studied at the University of thePhilippines and at the University of Wiscon-sin, where he earned his PhD in 1970.

He was a former mathematics and sci-ence editor of The Manila Times. He alsointroduced the new mathematics and themathematics of the new physics at TheManila Times School of Journalism.

Nobel nomination:What it takes

THE process of selecting a win-ner of the Nobel Prize in Physicsstarts in September, about a yearbefore the prize announcement.The prize-awarder in Stockholm,the Royal Swedish Academy ofSciences, sends invitations to sci-entists, members of academiesand university professors in nu-merous countries, asking them tonominate candidates for theNobel Prize for the coming year.

The nominations reach the Acad-emy of Sciences between Septem-ber and February. Many candidatesreceive more than one nominationand therefore the number of can-didates is fewer than the nomina-tions submitted. In recent years,about 250-350 persons have beennominated annually.

During the spring and summer,five members of the Nobel Com-mittee, the working body of theAcademy, go through the nomina-tions. In recent years the Commit-tee members have been extendedto include adjunct members withthe same voting rights as the regu-lar members. The nominations re-ceived by the Committee are in-vestigated with the help of spe-cially appointed experts.

In early autumn the Commit-tee is ready to present its recom-mendations to the Academy.

In the beginning of October adecision is taken by the Academyof Sciences through a vote. Thisdecision is final and without ap-peal. The Academy can chooseone, two, or three candidates.

See NOMINATION A2

BY JEFFERSON ANTIPORDAReporter

SEVEN personalities, led byLaarni Enriquez, the mistress ofdeposed President JosephEstrada, are expected to appearbefore investigators on Tuesdayafter they were implicated inthe attempts to destabilize theArroyo administration, asource in the Philippine Na-tional Police said Saturday.

Summoned for questioningby the PNP Criminal Investiga-tion and Detection Group(CIDG) were Enriquez; theformer Armed Forces chief ofstaff, Joselin Nazareno; formerArmy chief, Jaime de los Santos;Lt. Col. Dioscoro Reyes from thedefunct Presidential Antiorga-nized Crime Task Force; HoracioMorales; the actor Rez Cortez;and Angelito Santiago.

Enriquez has been identified

BY MARICEL V. CRUZReporter

THE committees in the Houseof Representatives that will in-vestigate the tapped conversa-tions of President Arroyo wel-comed Malacañang’s decisionnot to comment on the tape or

submit any reply.Rep. Gilbert Remulla of

Cavite, chair of the HouseCommittee on Public Informa-tion—the lead panel in the in-quiry—said in a radio inter-view Saturday that he and thefour other committee headsrespect the decision of the

President, and stressed thatwhatever will be her responsewill be noted in the officialrecord of the committee.

Remulla said that now thatthe Palace has chosen not tocomment on the tape, he has as-signed the Committee on Pub-lic Order and Security to talk to

foreign experts who are willingto authenticate of the tape forthe inquiry.

He stressed that the joint com-mittees intend to conduct thehearing “in aid of legislation’and not to prosecute anyone.

But he said the testimonygiven by the resource persons

can be used for any proceed-ings, including an impeach-ment trial.

Remulla hopes to get hold ofthe master tape, which formerNational Bureau of Investiga-tion official Samuel Ong claimsis in his possession.

See ENRILE A2

See MUM A2

BY EFREN L. DANAO Senior Reporter

SEN. Juan Ponce Enrile on Satur-day urged all political leaders toforge as soon as possible a com-mon agreement on how to resolvethe current political turmoil “in-stead of treating it like a long-run-ning telenovela.”

“President Arroyo and her ac-cusers must resist the urge to keepthe people in suspense, as if tokeep them glued to a runningtelenovela, while the economy andthe very life of the nation head fordestruction and ruin,” he said.

He noted that the lingeringdoubt caused by the allegedtapped conversations had pro-vided the opposition with a “po-tent weapon” to weaken the presi-dency and perhaps to demolish it.

“But beyond waging a propa-ganda war, we are called upon touse all available avenues to ferretout the truth, especially becausethe nation can ill-afford to be in anindefinite state of confusion, un-certainty and turmoil,” he stressed.

Enrile has urged PresidentArroyo to confront the “seriousaccusations against her,” butadded that her accusers “equallyshare the burden of proving theircase before the people.”

Enrile, the senior member ofthe Senate, said that a good start-ing point is for political leadersto try to arrive at an independ-ent and mutually acceptable wayof ascertaining the authenticity ofthe alleged wiretapped conver-sations between the Presidentand former Election Commis-sioner Virgilio Garcillano.

He warned that the countrywould remain “confused and di-vided” if political leaders fail inthis attempt because they mis-trust each other.

by the military intelligenceagent, Vidal Doble, as the sourceof funds of the whistleblowerSamuel Ong. She has deniedDoble’s allegation.

The source said the CIDG hadmailed the summons to the sevenpersonalities, who are expectedto appear before the CIDG headoffice in Camp Crame.

The CIDG sent the summonslast week and expects the re-spondents to receive them onMonday, the source said.

The PNP chief, Director Gen-eral Arturo Lomibao, said at apress conference Friday thatDoble has denied he was thesource of the tapes containingthe wiretapped conversation al-legedly of President Arroyo andan election commissioner, as al-leged by Ong, a former deputydirector of the National Bureauof Investigation.

See POLICE A2

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