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Announcing its decision from Stockholm, Sweden, the Academy described de Gennes as "the Isaac Newton of our time...
CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS. "Our responsibility is very small," Vitali Naumkin, the deputy director of Moscow's Institute of Oriental Studies, says today, adding that no one bears "entire responsibility." Fair enough. But Moscow led the charge to equip Saddam. According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, 80% of the major weapons systems procured by Iraq between 1980 and '89 came from three of the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council: the Soviet Union, France and China. Moscow alone supplied...
...disastrous spill of the kind that Iraq caused last week could destroy nesting areas for endangered sea turtles and spawning grounds for shrimp while poisoning tuna, snapper, sardines and anchovies, which are vital to local fishermen. "The ecosystems are endangered anyway," says Frank Barnaby, former director of the Stockholm Peace Research Institute. "Another million barrels of oil may be the last straw...
Before last week's announcement, one Nobel selection that warmed the Kremlin's heart was that of Mikhail Sholokhov, the court novelist who received the Literature Prize in 1965. He was allowed to go to Stockholm and deposit his check in a bank there. But in 1974 the exiled Solzhenitsyn accused Sholokhov of plagiarism. He claimed Sholokhov had based portions of his epic of the Russian Revolution and civil war, The Quiet Don, on a manuscript written just after World War I by a Cossack, Fyodor Kryukov...
...prizes are presented December 10, the anniversary of Nobel's death in 1896. The peace prize is given in Oslo, and the others in Stockholm...