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Article: Costa Rica's Arias accepts Nobel with jab at `meddling'
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- December 11, 1987
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Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez, accepting the 67th
Nobel Peace Prize for a plan designed to end decades of civil war in
Central America, demanded Thursday that world powers stop meddling in
the region's affairs.
"In the name of God, at least they should leave us in peace,"
Arias said at the ceremony in Oslo University, in the presence of
Norwegian King Olav V.
In Sweden's capital, Stockholm, King Carl XVI Gustaf handed out
the Nobel literature, physics, chemistry, medicine, and economics
insignias to eight laureates from the United States, West Germany,
France, Switzerland and Japan.
Highlights of the day were the speeches in Oslo by Arias, at 46
one of the youngest ...