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LETTER FROM FITZ - 1979

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“Irish peace group heads accept Nobel with tears”

 

OSLO (AP)

Betty Williams and Mariead Corrigan, co-founders of Northern Ireland's peace movement, received the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize Saturday and appealed to mankind to "throw away your guns."

 

Peace Prizes in Oslo:

OSLO, Dec. 10 (Reuters)-Nobel Peace Prizes were presented today to two women who are campaigning to end bloodshed in Northern Ireland and to Amnesty International, which seeks to help political prisoners throughout the world. Before the award ceremony, 50 demonstrators sympathetic to the Irish Republican Army, which is fighting British rule in Northern Ireland, chanted slogans such as "No to the peace people" and "The fight continues."

 

Speaking for the peace movement, Malread Corrigan had tears in her eyes when she pleaded that "the power of explosives" be replaced by "the constructive power of love."

 

Miss Corrigan and Betty Williams were presented with the peace prize for 1976. The Nobel committee had delayed the award for 12 months to be sure that the Northern Irish peace movement was not a temporary phenomenon. Amnesty International won the 1977 award.

 

SPECIFIC PROPOSALS

 

Then the wolf shall be a guest of the lamb

And the leopard shall lie down with the kid;

The calf and the young lion shall browse together, with a little child

to guide them.

-- ISAIAH

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After a Talk, Begin Says 'We Like Each Other'

 

FOR PEACE

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The Weekend Pickup: White House counsel Robert Lipshutz, speaking at the 

testimonial to Phil Klutznick here Saturday night, made this significant point: "It is both symbolic and prophetic that the three individuals who are playing the most vital roles in the quest for peace in the Middle East are Menachem Begin of Israel, a devout Jew; Jimmy Carter of America, a devout Christian, and Anwar Sadat of Egypt, a devout Moslem." The modern version of the Three Wise Men at the same time or year in the same region?

 

 

JERUSALEM, Nov. 19-The leaders of Egypt and Israel, two nations that have fought four wars in 29 years, met on Israeli soil tonight.

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