Word: nobels
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...resolution comes in the wake of last week's executions of political activists in Nigeria. The military regime in Nigeria, which seized power in 1993, hanged 11 activists, including environmentalist, poet and 1996 Nobel Peace Prize nominee Ken Saro-Wiwa. The executions have received worldwide condemnation...
...their readers in front-page articles to the parallels between the assassination of Rabin last Saturday and the slaying of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1961. The similarities are obviously striking: both Sedet and Rabin courageously dared to initiate peace when no one else would, both were awarded the Nobel prize for their commitment to a peaceful agreement and both have been killed by their own countrymen, namely extremists who resented the fact that Israelis and Arabs were finally attempting to abandon their longtime policy of hatred and war. The Boston Globe even published a picture of Sadat's daughter...
Saro-Wiwa, a nominee for the 1996, Nobel Peace Prize, was one of nine members of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People hanged after a murder trial that was widely condemned as unfair by the world community...
ROTBLAT'S NOBEL...
SUDDENLY A ROAR ISsues from the TV set. On the screen, a giant tongue of flaming gases erupts from the sun, and one bold statement after another is superimposed on the solar surface: "The idea behind it led to the Nobel Prize in Medicine," reads the first, followed by, "It's the most prescribed medication of its kind." As the sun is gradually eclipsed, the boasts continue: "It helps block production of stomach acid." "It's the world's first acid blocker." Then, against the glowing corona of a totally eclipsed sun, "And now it's available without a prescription...