GORBACHEV'S NOBEL PRIZE IS ACCEPTED BY STAND-IN
Author: By Doug Mellgren, Associated Press
Date: Tuesday, December 11, 1990
Page: 2
Section: NATIONAL/FOREIGN
OSLO -- A stand-in for Mikhail Gorbachev, in accepting the 1990 Nobel
Peace Prize for him yesterday, read a statement by the Soviet president saying
mankind has reached "the moment of truth."
Gorbachev said problems at home kept him from attending the Oslo ceremony.
In Stockholm, Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf handed out gold Nobel Prize
medallions and diplomas at a ceremony for the 10 laureates in medicine,
literature, physics, chemistry and economics.
Literature prize winner Octavio Paz of Mexico received the longest ovation
from the crowd of 1,800 at Stockholm Concert Hall.
Each prize this year is worth about $715,000.
Gorbachev's acceptance speech was read by envoy Anatoly Kovalyov in Oslo
City Hall.
Referring to the past "unnatural division of Europe" and to Germany's
recent unification, the Soviet leader wrote, "We have begun to resolutely tear
down the material foundations of a military, political and ideological
confrontation."
In Moscow, Gorbachev said he regarded the 71st peace prize as "a
recognition of what we call perestroika and innovative political thinking,
which is of vital significance for human destinies all over the world."
Kovalyov said the $715,000 probably would be donated to worthy causes.
Joseph E. Murray of Milford, Mass., accepted the medicine prize on behalf
of himself and cowinner E. Donnall Thomas of Seattle, whose pioneering work in
bone marrow transplants led to a cure for most childhood leukemia.
Elias Corey of Cambridge, Mass., recipient of the chemistry prize for
discovering how to simulate organic synthesis in the laboratory, made hundreds
of medicines and other products easily available and affordable.
Richard E. Taylor of Medicine Hat, Alberta, Jerome I. Friedman of Chicago,
who won for work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Henry W.
Kendall of Boston shared the physics prize for experiments which helped prove
the existence of subatomic particles called quarks.
Harry M. Markowitz of New York, a winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in
Economics, spoke for himself and corecipients Merton H. Miller of Chicago and
William F. Sharpe of Stanford University. The three were recognized for
pioneering work in the theory of financial economics and how markets function.
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