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...Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat on Friday, the Norwegian daily Aftenposten reported today. But the notion of honoring the duo, who clinched the Sept. 13, 1993 accord for Mideast peace, has reportedly tied the Nobel Peace Prize Committee in knots. Sources close to the deliberations told the Oslo paper that former Norwegian government minister Kaare Kristiansen, one of five Peace Prize Committee members and a longtime Israel supporter, has vowed to step down in protest because he still considers Arafat a terrorist. TIME Copenhagen reporter Julian Isherwood says the turmoil has prompted the committee to schedule an emergency...
MacLeod was outside Viktor Verster Prison in 1990 when Mandela walked out to freedom, clenched fist raised high. Last December he flew with him to Oslo when Mandela accepted the Nobel Peace Prize. Those were great public moments, but McLeod has some private memories too. "On a campaign trip he stopped at a home for disabled children. Some kids were singing, and instead of moving on, he went into their classroom and joined them in the song. Before he left, he singled out a little black girl and bowed so low that he could softly bump her forehead with...
...cosmetics makers, toy companies and bedding outfits. Reebok and Seiko, who had the wit to sign her up before she became a household name, have intensified their wooing. The former outfitted her family with Norway-proof togs; the latter held a dinner in her honor in the farmhouse near Oslo where the Israelis and Palestinians held their secret peace talks...
...disappeared in the early 1880s. After agreeing to pay $24 million for it, the police reportedly detained five businessmen and art dealers. But just as the art world got one masterpiece back, it lost another. Edvard Munch's painting The Scream was stolen from the National Art Museum in Oslo. It had been on display as part of a Munch exhibition in conjunction with the Lillehammer Olympics...
...mother stared at the television screen after the news about the secret Palestinian/Israeli negotiations in Oslo came out. She was looking at an image of Palestinian and Israeli flags hanging side-by-side. I looked at my mother. In her face I saw confusion. Although she was driven from Palestine to Jordan as a refugee many years ago, in 1948, it was still too soon for her to see the two flags together...