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Article: Nobel Peace Prize Often Causes Fury
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- April 22, 2002
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OSLO, Norway (AP) _ For a peace prize, the Nobel sure can generate
fury.
The committee that awards the century-old prize has a tradition of
never second-guessing itself in public. Now it is engulfed in controversy
because some of its five members are saying the 1994 prize shouldn'
t have gone to Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres.
To the anger of Israel's supporters, the dissenters didn't extend
their criticism to Peres' co-laureate, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
Arafat shared the prize with Peres and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak
Rabin for the peace efforts, now collapsed, that included the 1993
Oslo Agreement negotiated in the Norwegian ...