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Article: Rows over Peace Prize rock Nobel Committee

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October 12, 1994
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IT ARRIVED like a storm in a Norwegian tea cup. A press report that the normally secretive Nobel Committee not only leaked the names of this year's Peace Prize winners ahead of the official announcement but also revealed details of stormy meetings and threats of resignations has rocked Norway and plunged the selection committee into crisis.

The cause of the row, according to the Oslo daily Aftenposten, is the apparent decision to give the 7 million Kronor ( pounds 622,000) award to the Israeli Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin, and the PLO Chairman, Yasser Arafat, for their landmark peace accord.

While both men were hotly tipped to receive the award, possibly along with members of their ...

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