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Note to the Nobel Peace Prize committee: Can you pick someone besides me this year? The honor (and the million-dollar prize) would be nice, but anyone you tap needs to watch his back. Mikhail Gorbachev won in 1990 and was tossed into oblivion in 1991. Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho were honored in 1973 for negotiating to end the Vietnam War - which didn't end until 1975, on terms hardly flattering to Kissinger. Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat were the winners in 1994; Rabin was assassinated, Arafat is embattled, and peace in the Middle East...
...deliver; Sinn Fein wants Britain to cut troops and guard towers in Northern Ireland before it gives ground on guns; Blair won't demilitarize as long as Sinn Fein, as well as the moderate nationalist Social Democratic and Labour party (SDLP) led by John Hume (who shared Trimble's Nobel Prize), won't advise Catholics to join a reformed police force. Full Story...
...South Koreans, whose protection provides the rationale for the massive deployment of U.S. forces on the Korean peninsula, see things differently. President Kim was awarded last year's Nobel Peace Prize for his "Sunshine Policy," which has opened an unprecedented rapprochement between the two states created by the Korean War. And the South Korean Kim came to Washington to seek Washington's blessing for - and involvement in - his continued efforts to reduce tensions along the last Cold War frontier. But President Bush and his advisers were plainly not going to sign their Korea policy over to a South Korean dove...
...presence in that government of Israel's most acclaimed dove - former prime minister and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres - is designed to mollify Arab and international concern over Sharon's hawkish reputation. As much as Sharon aides vow to get tough with the Palestinians, they're also careful to emphasize that he wants dialogue. But that dialogue is unlikely to be a continuation of the Oslo peace process: While he's undertaken to abide by formal agreements signed by his predecessors, he's made abundantly clear that he has no intention of picking up negotiations where Barak left them...
...Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of the nation's pro-democracy movement, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize while under house arrest in December 1991, and remains imprisoned in his home...