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Tuesday, October 11, 1977
University Daily Kansan
Irish women, British group receive peace prizes
OSLO, Norway (AP)—Two women who started a peace movement in Northern Ireland are a London-based organization for women for nativistors who won Nobel prizes yesterday.
The Nobel committee of the Norwegian parliament awarded the 1977 prize to the London organization, Amnesty International, for 16 years of effort on behalf of "prisoners of conscience" and against torture and the death penalty.
The committee gave the 1976 prize to Betty Williams, 33, and Miaead Corrigan, 32, for organizing a broad-based "Peace People's" movement to end eight years of fighting in Northern Ireland between Protestant and Catholic extremists.
THE WOMEN launched the campaign
more than six months after the Feb. 1 deadline for peace prize nominations last year, when all 50 candidates were rejected by the U.S. Senate and Andrei Sakharov won the prize in 1975.
Williams said in London: "We've only been going 14 months and other people have been going for years. But I know how hard they are and perhaps all we have earned it."
Corrigan, moved to tears by the news, said in Belfast: "I accept the spirit on behalf of everyone throughout the world who works and longs for peace and the many people who have suffered and have been jailed in the interests of promoting peace."
THE PRIZES are worth $141,600 to
Amnesty International was the 10th organization to win the prize prize. In selecting it over $32 other candidates, the Amnesty International received a year dedicated to prisoners of conscience."
Williams and Corrigan and $145,000 to
Amnesty International.
The organization, the committee said, has given practical, humanitarian and unpaid support to people imprisoned because of their racial, religious or political beliefs.
Amnesty International was founded in 1961 by British attorney Peter Bentonen. Sea MacBridge of Ireland, a former peace prize winner, once served as its chairman. It claims to be the largest human rights organization in the world, with about 100,000
members in 78 countries, a budget of $1.5 million and a file of 4,000 cases.
THE ORGANIZATION attempts to win freedom for political prisoners through publicity and lobbying, sends them comforts and letters, cares for their families and hires lawyers and keeps watch on their court cases.
An Amnesty International spokesman said, "We are delighted to win the Nobel peace prize. We knew our name had been put on but we had no inkling that we did put him."
The Nobel committee cited Williams" and Corriganus" "initiative to end the violence which has marked the unfortunate disintegration of the United States, and which has cost so many lives."
The two Roman Catholic women began their movement in August 1976 after Williams saw three children killed by a runaway car whose guerrilla driver had been shot by British soldiers in Belfast. Corrigan was the aunt of the slain children.
for peace through conciliatory work," the committee said.
Despite threats on their lives by extremists, they organized peaceful marches of thousands of Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland, the Irish Republic and Canada. They were also joined to the United States to urge americans to stop sending money to the combatants.
SO WIDESPREAD was the sentiment in Norway for honoring them last year that Norwegian newspapers raised $250,000 and gave it to them as a "People's Peace Prize": for charity for a trust fund create jobs, care for orphans and repair the devastation in Ulfsbergh.
In a recent interview, Williams said the peace campaign had passed "out of the limelight" and become a "grass roots" effort by more than 100 peace groups.
"BECAUSE OF the Peace People, there are Protestants and Catholics who are talking to each other for the first time in 10 years, if not longer," she said. "The level of violence has dropped sharply. I'm not sure we're doing, but I'm sure we were a big factor."
The women were the seventh and eighth Britons to win the prize prize and the first from Northern Ireland. MacBride shared the prize with his Eisaku Sato in 1974.
Sixteen Americans have won the peace prize. The last was Henry Kissinger, who shared it in 1973 with his North Vietnamese negotiating partner, Le Duc Tho, for arranging a cease-fire in Vietnam. Le Duc Tho refused to accept the award.
More mail slows rate increase
WASHINGTON (AP) -The Postal Service, experiencing an unexpected rise in mail volume, is predicting a monetary surplus is fiscal 1979 for the first time since the deficit-plagued agency was formed in 1971.
One killed three hurt in accident
One Roman Catholic nun was killed and three others were seriously injured at 8:30 a.m. yesterday in a head-on collision on the Kansas Turnpike about one mile east of Lawrence, a Kansas Turnpike Authority spokesman said.
Killed was Sister Mary Benedicta
Catholic School in 2000. John's
Catholic School in 2000.
Sister Elizabeth Anizeck, 47, driver of the car, and Mary Mary Ann Bartolac, 43, principal of the school, were listed in poor condition at Lawrence Memorial Hospital yesterday. A fourth nun, Clare Clare Marie Gann, 38, was reported in fair condition.
*MAREAD CORRIGAN* and Betty Williams put in a deep conviction that in people of color there was no room for racism.
Kansas Highway Patrol investigators said the car, driven by Sister Aniczeck, was eastbound on a rain-slickened section of the turnpike narrowed to two lanes because of construction, when it was struck head-on by a car driven by Robert Clement, 72.
Coleman, 541 N. Michigan St., was not hurt, investigators said.
The accident is still under investigation.
The four nuns belong to the Sisters of Charity in Leavenworth and are members of St John's Convent and teachers at the school.
Police nab four after robbery of donut shop
The two juveniles, ages 15 and 16, fled on foot and were caught by police within one block of Winchell's. Police recovered $123 in a paper bag and an automatic pistol from
Police said one of the juveniles had entered Winchell's with the pistol while the other waited outside. Leedsma and a friend entered the car through the robbery, police said.
Before the youth announced his intentions, police said, one of the employees became suspicious and called them. Of course, the revived while the robbery was in progress.
The juveniles were bonded over to juvenile authorities.
Four men, including two juveniles, were arrested shortly after 3 a.m. yesterday in connection with an armed robbery at the Haysville Baptist Church in Chesterstown. SI. Law enforcement said yesterday.
As a result, officials say postal rates will not have to be increased as fast as was previously thought.
The favorable predictions are in a report by Senior Assistant Postmaster General for the State Department.
The report says the volume of mail reached nearly 92 billion pieces in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, an increase of two billion over the previous year. A five-year forecast in the report predicts volume will rise due to almost 100 billion by fiscal 1861.
THE CHANGED outlook for mail volume has a major effect on the financial picture for the agency and on what it must charge the public in postal rates. With many of the agency's costs virtually the same regardless of volume, more mail means more
Richard Ledesma, 24, and Raymond Zaragua, 26, both of Kansas City, Kan., were arrested in a car at 27th and Massachusetts streets, police said. Both were taken to the Douglas County Jail in lieu of $7,500 bond.
revenue for the Postal Service and thus less need to raise rates.
The new predictions of mail volume contrast sharply with a series of gloomy predictions issued previously.
BAILAR HAS said repeatedly that the outlook for mail volume is a major reason for bleak financial predictions for the mail agency. The Commission on Postal Service, in an earlier report last April, agreed with Bailar's assessment of future volume.
Postmaster General Benjamin Ballar, speaking on March 8, 1976, in Detroit, said, "Our mail volume for 1976, slightly over 90 billion pieces, will probably stand forever as the largest volume that ever上 the next five years volume will垒 up to $34 or $4 billion—and never recover."
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