Word: nobels
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...award to Amnesty International marked the second time that the Nobel judges had paid tribute to its work: in 1974 the Peace Prize was given to Ireland's former Foreign Minister Sean MacBride, longtime chairman of AI's executive committee. There is no reason to criticize the duplicated honor. From its start 16 years ago as a letter-writing campaign by London Lawyer Peter Benenson, AI has become a potent force on world opinion. It now counts more than 168,000 members in 107 countries...
...reason for AI's effectiveness is its impartiality-a fact cited by the Nobel Committee. In its well-documented reports on torture and human rights abuses around the world, AI has cited Czechoslovakia as well as Chile, the Soviet Union as well as Iran. Much of the Nobel Prize money, said Chairman Thomas Ham-marberg, will go to build more local organizations in Third World countries in Asia and Latin America...
Williams and Corrigan believe the peace movement is going in the right direction. "When the movement started, it was only emotion," Corrigan said last week. "Now it is hard work." Among projects that the Nobel money will help fund are neighborhood cooperatives, efforts to find housing and employment to dissuade people from resorting to terrorism, and other social programs'. Williams and Corrigan also cite a statistic that argues for their success: since their crusade was launched 14 months ago, violence in Northern Ireland has been cut by half...
...dacha. As Rostropovich tells it, "Official people said I must kick him out. My wife and I did not find that reasonable. We explained our point of view?that each human being has a right to make of his life what he wants." In October 1970 Solzhenitsyn won the Nobel Prize. When the Soviet press increased its abuse of the author, Rostropovich became enraged and decided to write a letter of protest. Says he: "This was greatest step of my life?the greatest...
America's clean sweep of the Nobel prizes in 1976 was a hard act to follow. Last week, when seven 1977 prizewinners in the sciences were announced in Stockholm, five were again Americans. The awards, each worth...