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Press, 22 October 1984, Page 6

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Prize-winner dies Dr Carl Ferdinand Cori, who with his late wife, Gerty Theresa Radnitz, shared a 1947 Nobel Prize in medicine, has died. He was 87. The couple received the award for medicine, and physiology for research that resulted in the discovery of the catalytic metabolism of glycogen, which is part of the body’s food storage system. Dr Cori, who received many other awards in his long career, was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, then Austria-Hun-gary, and was named after Carl Ferdinand University there. His father was a professor of marine biology. He went to America from Vienna in 1926 and became a citizen two years later.— Cambridge, Massachusetts. Police charged Ten police officers, including a former Intelligence chief, have been charged with the murder of two guerrillas fighting for Puerto Rico’s independence from the United States. The two, of the Armed Revolutionary Movement, were shot dead in July, 1978, in the island’s mountainous interior. The Et said they had been in a gun-battle after they attempted to sabotage a television relay tower. In Senate hearings on the deaths last year three policemen alleged the guerrillas were shot after surrendering—San Juan. Diplomat dies Veteran U.S. diplomat, William Foster, a former head of the Marshall Plan and first director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (A.C.DA), has died in Washington. He was 87.—Washington.