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Article: U.N. UNITS WIN NOBEL PEACE PRIZE.(Main)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
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- September 29, 1988
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Byline: Arthur Max Associated Press
The Nobel Committee today named the blue-bereted U.N. peacekeeping forces patrolling the world's trouble spots as winners of the 1988 Nobel Peace Prize.
The committee cited the troops for building a confidence in the United Nations that allows it to play a growing role in global affairs. Peacekeepers most recently were dispatched to Iran and Iraq under a cease-fire negotiated in the countries' 8-year-long war.
The five-member committee praised the forces in Lebanon, Afghanistan, Syria, Cyprus, the Indian subcontinent and Iran and Iraq for subduing tensions where armistices have substituted for peace.
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