Aquino, Waite Among 84 on Peace Prize List
Philippine President Corazon Aquino and missing British hostage negotiator Terry Waite are among 84 nominees for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said today.
Committee Secretary Jakob Sverdrup would only confirm the names of Aquino and Waite on a secret list of 56 individuals and 28 organizations he said were proposed for the prestigious award.
But sources close to the committee said another candidate is “Band Aid” organizer Bob Geldof of Ireland, nominated for the third time for organizing a musical extravaganza that raised millions for the starving in Africa and reportedly runner-up to last year’s laureate, Holocaust author Elie Wiesel.
Other candidates, the sources said, are militant African National Congress leaders Winnie and Nelson Mandela, nominated for the second year for their struggle against South Africa’s racial separation policies known as apartheid.
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