Word: andersson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although Altman and Cech did not collaborate directly, each benefited from the other's advances. "Like a Ping-Pong match, the ball went from one to the other," according to Bertil Andersson, a member of the Nobel Committee. Cech heard of the award while in Boston accepting another prize. "I am obviously excited about it," he said. "It was something that everyone has been telling me would happen, but I had no way of knowing when." What will the researchers do with their $470,000 prize? "I'll just go back to the lab and do more work," Altman said...
...baby and adult seals with ice picks and in some instances dragging the animals, only half dead, back to Norwegian flaying vessels. The King's comments were strong stuff, considering Norway's sensitivity to criticism from Sweden, its onetime colonial master and its archrival. Said Swedish Foreign Minister Sten Andersson of the King, before rushing off to Norway on a fence- mending mission: "He must have been very angry...
Sweden's Foreign Minister Sten Andersson moved quietly to bridge the Shultz- Arafat breach. He had visited Israel in March, seen the violence there close up, and discussed the situation personally with Shultz on a Washington visit in April. Shultz did not explicitly say he wanted the Swedes to act as intermediaries, "but I can read thoughts," Andersson joked last week...
...Sweden's Andersson and Egypt's Foreign Minister Esmat Abdel-Meguid told Shultz they still had a shot at persuading Arafat to take the required extra steps. In Geneva, Abdel-Meguid carried his plea personally to Arafat when the two dined together on Tuesday night. In Geneva, U.S. Ambassador Vernon Walters was asked by Momammad Said, a Palestinian-American adviser to Arafat, what Arafat must do to satisfy the U.S. "Just tell him to say in public what he said in private," replied Walters. Said passed this along. Andersson resumed his delicate persuasion, meeting twice with Arafat. The Arab moderates...
...Middle East, whose international chairman is former Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban. "Our effort was intended to clarify the ambiguities," said Rita Hauser, a member of the Jewish delegation and a New York lawyer active in the Republican Party. "I believe we have done that." Swedish Foreign Minister Sten Andersson called the meeting "a breakthrough in the peace process...