Word: honored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mood of Neilah, the final moments of the Yom - Kippur service," he recalled. "I saw myself as a child in Sighet, behind my father and next to my grandfather, praying with fervor." The reverie was soon interrupted by the clamor of journalists and international well-wishers. "This honor is not mine alone," Wiesel announced at a press conference later that day. "It belongs to all the survivors who have tried to do something with their pain, with their memory, with their silence, with their life...
...Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in West Berlin, has at long last won the Nobel Prize for his invention, which was cited by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences as "one of the most important of the century." Said Ruska, 79, who learned of the honor while at a health spa for treatment of rheumatism: "I am very happy indeed. I believed I was forgotten." He will receive half of the $290,000 physics award. The other half will be shared by two scientists at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory -- Gerd Binnig, 39, a West German...
...work is written in English), some African critics have accused him of shunning his ethnic origins. Such complaints may continue, but the Nobel Prize is likely to make Soyinka an even more formidable spokesman on his continent. The day after it was announced, Nigeria awarded him its highest national honor...
...Listen to the latest cares of that veteran traveler, Queen Elizabeth II, 60. She had dreamed for years of visiting China, and now that Britain has agreed to return Hong Kong to the People's Republic in 1997, the royal progress began last week. In Peking she reviewed an honor guard of the People's Liberation Army and enthusiastically joined the tourist crowds in the Forbidden City. Her hosts were so delighted with her that chain-smoking Leader Deng Xiaoping, 82, refrained from puffing during their two-hour lunch, and people along the route, which included Shanghai, Kunming and Canton...
...scored 1,281 goals in his career before retiring in 1977, follows such past marshals as John Wayne (1973), Gerald Ford (1978) and Lee Iacocca (1985) in kicking off the show. "To me it is like another World Cup," said Pele, who flew to California to accept his latest honor. "When you have a parade of the rose, it is much better than a parade of weapons. It should be a message to the world...