Word: egill
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Norwegian Nobel Committee chairman Egil Aarvik admitted the choice could be interpreted that way. "If I were a Chinese student, I would be fully in support of the decision," he told reporters. The Chinese embassy in Oslo read it the same way. It denounced the award as an intervention in China's internal affairs. Wang Guisheng, the embassy press attache, accused the Dalai Lama of "subverting the unity of the nation...
Committee Chairman Egil Aarvik confirmed thatPresident Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S.Gorbachev were among the 97 candidates and"seriously considered" for the prize. Reagancalled the committee's decision "admirable...
...Raul Alfonsin of Argentina, and the World Health Organization. The five-member committee maintained a stoic silence until the formal declaration, which cited Arias for his "outstanding contribution to the possible return of stability and peace to a region long torn by strife and civil war." Afterward, Committee Chairman Egil Aarvik, 75, made clear the committee's intent. "We hope that the award will help to speed up the process of peace in Central America," he said...
...House misdoings came briefly back to life last week. Reason: the National Archives ) made public more than 250,000 pages of sensitive documents accumulated during the 1974 Watergate investigation of Richard Nixon. The papers come from the files of such top Nixon aides as John Dean, John Ehrlichman and Egil Krogh Jr. Among the newly unearthed gems...
...redoubling its efforts IBM ensured itself a share of the $2.8 billion market for home computer systems. Corporate pride was also at stake in the effort to snatch victory from the jaws of what was shaping up as defeat. "IBM didn't like having this black eye," says Egil Juliussen, chairman of Future Computing. "They wanted to figure out a way to help the machine along, and they did." #151; By Philip Elmer-DeWitt...