THE NOBEL PEACE WINNERS
MYRDAL CRITICAL OF SUPERPOWERS' POLICY ON ARMS
Author: Associated Press
Date: Thursday, October 14, 1982
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Section: RUN OF PAPER
Although she is 80, Alva Myrdal shows no sign of slowing down the tireless
campaign for disarmament and world peace that won her half the 1982 Nobel
Peace Prize yesterday.
The "grand old lady of Swedish politics" resigned her last government
post, as disarmament minister, in 1973. But she continues to write and to
lecture without any sign of a letup.
During 11 years as a disarmament negotiator in Geneva, she became
increasingly critical of the superpowers and their unwillingness to disarm.
"The actions of those who lead the superpowers are governed by a deep lack
of reason and common sense," she said in an interview.
But "I have never, never allowed myself to give up," she said after
accepting the Einstein Peace Prize two years ago.
A campaigner also for population control, women's rights and child care,
Myrdal has been a member of Parliament and of numerous government commissions,
Sweden's first woman ambassador and a high-ranking official of the United
Nations. She has won five peace awards.
She was born Alva Reimer in Uppsala, Sweden, on Jan. 31, 1902.
She took her bachelor of arts degree in two years at Stockholm University
in 1924, and that same year married the economist Gunnar Myrdal, who won the
Nobel prize in economics in 1974. They have a son and two daughters. Their
daughter Sissela Bok is the author of the book "Lying," teaches medical ethics
at Harvard University and is the wife of Harvard's president, Derek Bok.
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