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...award to Amnesty International marked the second time that the Nobel judges had paid tribute to its work: in 1974 the Peace Prize was given to Ireland's former Foreign Minister Sean MacBride, longtime chairman of AI's executive committee. There is no reason to criticize the duplicated honor. From its start 16 years ago as a letter-writing campaign by London Lawyer Peter Benenson, AI has become a potent force on world opinion. It now counts more than 168,000 members in 107 countries...
...officials at all levels with letters seeking his release. According to MacBride, "The avalanche of mail is the biggest annoyance to most governments. Soon the issue is being raised at Cabinet level, and everyone is wondering whether the guy is worth all the trouble. The answer is frequently no." AI never claims responsiblity for winning its adoptees' freedom, explains Secretary-General Martin Ennals, because "no government likes to be told they are doing something under duress." Yet the group produces results: of some 16,000 prisoners aided since 1961, 10,600 have been released...
...reason for AI's effectiveness is its impartiality-a fact cited by the Nobel Committee. In its well-documented reports on torture and human rights abuses around the world, AI has cited Czechoslovakia as well as Chile, the Soviet Union as well as Iran. Much of the Nobel Prize money, said Chairman Thomas Ham-marberg, will go to build more local organizations in Third World countries in Asia and Latin America...
...While AI has grown steadily in members and reputation, Ulster's Community of Peace People, as the movement is now called, has lost rather than gained visibility in the past year. It no longer mounts massive demonstrations on Ulster streets, and Corrigan and Williams rarely take their courageous, much-publicized peace strolls through the city's tense confrontation zones. Some early supporters have defected after disputes with Ciaran Mc-Keown, an ex-journalist who has become the chief ideologue of the movement. Mc-Keown has switched the emphasis from protest marches toward projects of "community democracy" that...
...baseball trivia, as Don explains, because "you can't say 'baseball trivia'...it's a contradiction in terms. It's antithetical." Bert, a realtor in Oak Park, Michigan, keeps two sets of figures on his desk in September, 1973: the number of days remaining in Nixon's term, and AI Kaline's lifetime batting average calculated to his most recent...