Yahoo! March 16, 2001
Castro Up for Nobel Peace Prize
OSLO, Norway. 15 (AP) - Cuban President Fidel Castro (news - web sites) has
been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on behalf of developing
nations, a Norwegian politician announced Thursday.
Hallgeir Langeland, a left-wing member of Parliament, said he knew his
decision to nominate the Cuban leader might be seen as controversial.
But he said Castro deserved recognition for helping other nations despite
the hardships of U.S. sanctions imposed on Cuba after his communist government
seized power in 1959.
Cuba is a small, poor country that still has managed to send doctors,
engineers and aid workers to developing countries, said Langeland.
The awards committee last month announced that 132 Nobel Peace Prize
nominations were received by the Feb. 1 deadline. It never reveals the names or
comments on candidates.
Some of those nominated for the 2001 peace prize are known because those
backing them announced their choice.
They include U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan (news - web sites), U.S.
peace broker Richard Holbrooke, Chinese Falun Gong (news - web sites) movement
founder Li Hongzhi, and former President Carter.
The winner of this year's prize will be announced on Oct. 12. The Nobel
prizes were first awarded in 1901, and are always presented on Dec. 10, the date
their creator, Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, died.
Langeland has nomination rights as a member of a national legislature.
Obituaries in the News / Emilio Milian
By The Associated Press, Woodfin Camp Gary Herman Adel
Hussein Benny Martin Emilio Milian Thomas O. Morton Jr. Gyula Obersovszky
MIAMI, 16 (AP) - Emilio Milian, a radio commentator whose strong opposition
to terrorism and violence almost cost him his life, died Thursday after a long
bout with kidney and heart trouble. He was 69.
Although Milian was best known for denouncing communism, he spoke against
activists who used terror to try to spur democracy in Cuba.
He became popular among many Cuban exiles in Miami during the 1970s with his
radio show on WQBA-AM.
Milian left Cuba with his wife, Emma Mirtha, and their three children in
1965 and headed for Mexico. Several months later, they arrived in Miami, where
he bought a print shop and began working part time at WMIE, the station that
eventually became WQBA.
Milian criticized exiles who considered themselves patriots for carrying out
terrorist bombings. His outspokenness cost him both of his legs in a car bombing
in 1976. He underwent 11 operations in five months and eventually began walking
again.
In 1989, he was back on the radio for a different station, WWFE-AM.
His last radio job was on station 670-AM. His son, ex-Broward County
prosecutor Alberto Milian, took over his father's two daily programs late last
year after Emilio lost his voice the same day Alberto failed to win a race for
the Miami-Dade County state attorney's office.
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