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...often such courageous behavior is not rewarded. Last week, however, it was--handsomely if somewhat belatedly. The Norwegian Nobel Committee gave its 1995 Peace Prize jointly to Rotblat, 86, and the Pugwash Conferences he still presides over. The conferences--named for the small Nova Scotia fishing village where they began--were praised by the committee for recognizing "the responsibility of scientists for their inventions" and for bringing together "scientists and decision makers to collaborate across political divides on constructive proposals for reducing the nuclear threat." It was the third Peace Prize to be given to scientists for nuclear-disarmament work...
...days after a cease-fire was due to take effect (the truce was held up until gas and electricity connections could be restored to the besieged capital of Sarajevo). Shortly before the scheduled start of the cease-fire, the Serbs bombarded a U.N.-declared "safe area," killing a Norwegian peacekeeper and prompting a NATO air strike against them; while the Bosnian army used the following truce delay to make several advances of its own. The Serbs also renewed their infamous "ethnic cleansing," this time forcing thousands of women and children from towns in northwestern Bosnia and taking captive thousands...
...presenter for that award was a Norwegian official, who said he was delighted so many people would be moving to Hell, Norway...
...joint ventures to tap into the enormous oil and gas reserves scattered through Siberia, including the Timan Pechora basin above the Arctic Circle (where the recoverable reserves are estimated at nearly 4 billion bbl.). Canadian, American and other Western mining companies are prospecting for gold and other minerals. Norwegian and Japanese interests are negotiating to increase shipping between Europe and Asia by way of arctic waters north of Siberia...
...high that merchants in Cherski often find it more economical to import food products from Alaska than buy from elsewhere in Russia--and Alaska has the highest food prices in the U.S. The northern passage has been used by the military and some Russian shippers for decades. According to Norwegian economist Trond Ramsland, who has analyzed the costs and benefits of the northern sea route, it can provide a link between East Asia and Europe, vastly shorter and cheaper than the present voyage through the Suez Canal. Ramsland argues that shippers could move goods at an average cost...