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...looked at the guest register for that day, and found a bunch of Israels and Utahs and Hong Kongs, as well as scattered representatives of London, Yugoslavia, Alberta, Tegucigalpa, Paris, Hungary and Oslo...
...represent perhaps the most egregious violation yet of regulations established by the 16-nation Coordinating Committee on Export Controls, the body that oversees the sale of Western high-technology products to the Soviets and their allies. After Washington protested in March to the Japanese and Norwegian governments, Tokyo and Oslo took action. Two Toshiba Machine executives thought to have been involved in the improper deal were arrested and charged with violating Japanese export laws. In addition, Toshiba Machine was prohibited from selling any goods to 14 Communist countries for one year. Though not directly implicated in the scandal, Toshiba Machine...
...1950s helped develop the first Soviet hydrogen bomb; by the early 1970s he had become an outcast among his own people as a result of his relentless campaign for human rights and disarmament. In 1975 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize but was not allowed to go to Oslo to receive it. In January 1980 he was arrested by the KGB after criticizing the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. He was then flown to exile in Gorky, where, despite a steady flow of criticism from the West, he has remained ever since...
...German Pacifist Carl von Ossietzky, a writer and opponent of Nazism who died shortly after being released from a concentration camp. Last week the son of a Jewish holocaust victim, himself a survivor of the death camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald, accepted the same Nobel Prize for Peace in Oslo for his work as witness and human rights champion. Before he began his speech, Author- Philosopher Elie Wiesel recited a Jewish prayer of gratitude, but the awful echoes of the occasion all but overwhelmed him. Accompanied to the podium by his 14-year-old son Shlomo Elisha, the Nobel laureate...
...torrent. Novels, essays, speeches and lectures all spoke tirelessly of the need to rescue the Holocaust from the silence of history. Last week Elie Wiesel's words of witness were honored with the Nobel Prize for Peace, which carries with it an award of $287,769.78. From Oslo, the Nobel Committee praised him as "one of the most important spiritual leaders and guides in an age when violence, repression and racism continue to characterize the world. Wiesel is a messenger to mankind: his message is one of peace, atonement and human dignity...