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Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, 48, is a quiet, slightly built Argentine whose shy smile and modest appearance belie an iron resolve: he is a dedicated champion of Latin America's poor and oppressed, and, by proxy, of Argentina's 6,000 desaparecidos-"those who disappeared," most either kidnaped or liquidated in the Argentine military's harsh, four-year-long antiterrorism drive. As such, Pérez Esquivel is an avowed nonviolent foe of the ruling junta in Buenos Aires. As a result of last week's Nobel honors, he is now, irony of ironies...
...Peace Prize committee chose Pérez Esquivel from a record list of 71 nominees. Although virtually unknown outside human rights circles, he edged out such candidates as President Jimmy Carter (for his Camp David efforts), British Foreign Minister Lord Carrington and Zimbabwe Prime Minister Robert Mugabe (for their successful endeavor to end the war in Rhodesia), Swedish Disarmament Activist Alva Myrdal and Pope John Paul II. Pérez Esquivel, said 1976 Peace Laureate Betty Williams of the Northern Ireland Peace Movement, is "the greatest living radical pacifist leader." Noted the Nobel committee: "He is among those Argentines...
...message Pérez Esquivel preaches is simple. A devout Roman Catholic, a sculptor and onetime professor of art and art history, he gave up his academic career in 1974 to found and head Argentina's Servicio Pazy Justicia (Peace and Justice Service). The group is dedicated to human rights throughout Latin America and to what Pe>ez Esquivel describes as "both spiritual and moral support, and practical aid for those who suffer." Specifically, that means organizing help for the needy in the continent's sprawling slums and its impoverished countryside. A disciple of Mahatma Gandhi...
González dominated the debate from the outset. He attacked the Suárez government for its "failure to fulfill election promises" and ticked off the country's economic woes, the increase in crime and the deterioration of government services...
Suddenly Suárez found himself no longer the only credible Spanish leader of national caliber. Shaken by the attack, he fell back on the defensive, urging "change without risk, which is the only way to reconcile authority with liberty." As the debates ended with a diminished mandate for Premier Suárez, a newly self-confident nation took satisfaction in having passed another political test. One result of the corrida was clear: Spanish democracy had demonstrated its vitality and resilience...