Nobel Winner to Quit Land Mine Campaign

Jody Williams, joint winner of the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize, said she will keep her $500,000 share of the prize money but that she plans to step down as head of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, the organization with which she shared the prize. Williams, 47, said she will use the money to fund her continued work with the organization and to write a book about the success of the campaign. Since winning the prize, Williams has been taken off the payroll of the Washington-based Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation, which founded the campaign.