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...Nobel panel opted for a middle ground between the bland and the flamboyant. It awarded the 1982 peace prize to two dedicated diplomats who are little known outside their circles of influence but who have campaigned long and hard for nuclear disarmament. The winners were Swedish Sociologist Alva Myrdal, 80, and Alfonso Garcia Robles, 71, a Mexican career diplomat who energetically sponsored the 1967 Treaty of Tlatelolco, which is intended to make Latin America the world's largest nuclear-free inhabited zone. Myrdal belongs to an even more elite circle. She is married to another Nobel Laureate, Gunnar Myrdal...
...Alva Myrdal was appointed Sweden's Ambassador to India in 1955. As the head of Sweden's delegation to disarmament talks in Geneva between 1962 and 1973, Myrdal developed a pointed and somewhat naive cynicism about the intentions of the U.S. and the Soviet Union in their drawn-out negotiations to scale down the arms race. Says she: "They had been playing games with us, and often with their own delegates, pretending those years at the negotiating table were important, when all it was was a kind of occupational therapy. It was the two superpowers who were...
...Myrdal's efforts have made her a darling of antinuclear circles. In 1980 she received the inaugural Albert Einstein Peace Prize in New York City, an award presented by former U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance. Last year Norwegian pacifist organizations raised funds to give her a special People's Peace Prize to protest her having been overlooked by the Nobel Committee. Says Myrdal of her 1982 Nobel award: "The prize money will come in handy to support the peace campaign...
...Garcia Robles co-authored the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty that has now been signed by 115 nations. Since 1962, he has represented Mexico at the U.N.'s Disarmament Committee in Geneva, where he and Alva Myrdal became firm friends. Currently he is the chairman of the committee. The author of more than 20 books and some 300 articles on foreign affairs, Garcia Robles is said by acquaintances to be "obsessed" with the disarmament issue. The Nobel Committee's choice, says he, clearly demonstrates the world's growing concern for disarmament "in spite of our very modest achievements...
Sissela Bok's father, noted economist-sociologist Gunnar Myrdal, shared the economics prize...