Nobel Peace Prize Announcement Friday
President Reagan and Pope John Paul II are among a record 99 candidates nominated for the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize, and the winner or winners will be announced Friday in Oslo.
The nomination of Irish pop star Bob Geldof, organizer of African famine-relief concerts, did not make the deadline, but the Salvation Army is in the running again.
Although no complete list of nominees is available, the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s secretary on Wednesday confirmed some of the names that have been speculated on as candidates.
The official, Jakob Sverdrup, said nominees also include the organization SOS Children’s Towns and its Austrian founder, Herman Gmeiner; Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal, and the International Olympic Committee.
Others he mentioned are the international Scouting organization, anti-Nazi historian and writer Elie Wiesel, Norwegian missionary Olav Hodne, and imprisoned Turkish trade union leaders, who were nominated by Socialist members of the Norwegian Parliament.
The Norwegian news agency said that Roman Catholic Cardinal Paolo Evaristo Arns of Brazil, who has taken up the role of the poor, and Prime Minister David Lange of New Zealand, who advocates a nuclear-free zone in the South Pacific, are also on the list.
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