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Monday January 31 1:06 PM ET
Clinton Nominated for Nobel Prize
By DOUG MELLGREN Associated Press Writer
OSLO, Norway (AP) - President Clinton and American peace envoy George
Mitchell were among those nominated for this year's Nobel Peace Prize as
the
deadline ran out Monday.
Clinton was nominated for at least the fifth straight year, this time
by two Norwegian parliamentarians, Vidar Kleppe, of the right-wing Party
of Progress and
Steinar Bastesen, an independent.
``Clinton is president of the world's most powerful nation and
throughout his presidential term has been a guarantor and friend of
peace,'' a news release from the
legislators said. They said he was a key player in ending war and
conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, and defends human rights worldwide.
The Norwegian awards committee said it may not release the number of
nominations until its first meeting on Feb. 23.
The secretive five-member Nobel Peace Committee never releases the
names of candidates. However, those making nominations often announce
their pick. The
winner is announced in mid-October.
The Norwegian news agency NTB said Mitchell was nominated for his peace
efforts in Northern Ireland by an American congressman, who was not
identified.
Finnish lawmakers in December nominated their President Martti
Ahtisaari, whose term ends this month, for his peacemaking efforts in
Kosovo and Namibia.
Each year, the awards committee is flooded by nominations, many of them
invalid because they are made by those without nomination rights. This
year, invalid
nominations included one from a group of Serbian war veterans for
Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, blamed for much of the violence
in the Balkans
through the 1990s, NTB said.
Those with nomination rights include members of national legislatures
and governments, past laureates, some university professors and peace
groups, and awards
committee members.
The committee also accepts nominations postmarked by the Feb. 1
deadline, even if they arrive weeks later.
The Nobel prizes were created by Alfred Nobel, the Swedish
industrialist whose inventions included dynamite. The peace prize is
awarded in Oslo and the other
prizes in Stockholm, Sweden. The prizes are always presented on the
Dec. 10 anniversary of Nobel's death.
Last year's peace prize went to the humanitarian group Doctors Without
Borders.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20000131/ts/norway_nobel_peace_1.html
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BACKGROUND:
Updated February 25, 1999, 3:30 p.m. ET
"Dateline" airs Broaddrick's tale of sexual assault by
Clinton
WASHINGTON (Court TV) � A sometimes
tearful Juanita Broaddrick appeared on national
television Wednesday night describing how Bill
Clinton allegedly sexually assaulted her 21 years ago
when he was attorney general of Arkansas.
The story is not new. The Wall St. Journal broke the
journalistic silence last week by running a
commentary summarizing Broaddrick's version of
events and needling NBC for allegedly sitting on a
"Dateline" piece deemed too explosive to air.
Broaddrick alleges that Clinton asked to come up to
her Little Rock, Ark., hotel room during a nursing
home conference in 1978 the day it happened.
"I was a little bit uneasy, but I felt a real friendship
toward this man and I didn't really feel any danger,"
she told "Dateline."
He starts to, um, bite on my top lip and I tried to
pull away from him," Broaddrick tearfully told
reporter Lisa Myers during the interview. "And then
he forces me down on the bed. And I just was very
frightened, and I tried to get away from him and I
told him �No,� that I didn�t want this to happen but
he wouldn�t listen to me."
Clinton was, she said, "such a different person at that
moment � he was just
a vicious, awful person." Broaddrick said she eventually
stopped resisting
Clinton, explaining that it was a "real panicky, panicky
situation."
Asked what she now thought of Clinton, she replied: "My
hatred for him is
overwhelming."
So NBC finally aired Broaddrick's interview with Lisa
Myers, one month and
four days after it was taped, arguing reporters and
producers needed the extra
time to thoroughly check the complicated story.
Even before the Journal took up Broaddrick's story,
Washington insiders and
readers of such gossip nexuses as the Drudge Report or
The New York
Post's "Page Six" were abuzz with the tale of the woman
identified only as
"Jane Doe #5" in the Paula Jones court papers.
Attorneys for Jones, who was suing the president for
allegedly sexually
harassing her in a Little Rock hotel room, subpoenaed
Broaddrick, who filed
an affidavit claiming Clinton made no "unwanted sexual
advances."
"These allegations are untrue and I had hoped that they would no longer
haunt
me, or cause further disruption to my family," she said
in her Jones affidavit.
But she later told Starr's investigators the affidavit
was false.
Broaddrick told Myers she lied to the court because she
hadn't been ready to
come forward with her story then. When asked why she is
finally coming
forward now, Broaddrick said, "I just couldn't hold it
inside any longer." She
said she didn't want her granddaughters and nieces asking
her, "Why didn't
you tell what this man did to you?"
Clinton, who was attorney general of Arkansas in 1978,
refused comment
earlier in the day on Broaddrick's allegations, saying he
stood by the statement
of his attorney, David Kendall, who called the
accusations "absolutely false."
Broaddrick told NBC nobody tried to intimidate her to
remain silent and no
one paid her to keep quiet or to speak out.
Clinton opponents accused NBC of sitting on the interview
conducted by Lisa
Myers in order to protect the president and that the
interview, had it appeared
earlier, could have had an impact on the Senate
impeachment trial that ended
with Clinton's acquittal Feb. 12.
Broaddrick had met with investigators for the House
Judiciary Committee and
was interviewed by Ken Starr�s prosecutors.
The author of the Journal article, Dorothy Rabinowitz, a
member of the
Journal's editorial board, argued that several wavering
House Republicans
decided to vote to impeach the president after reading
material about
Broaddrick that was sent to the House by the independent
counsel.
House Majority Whip Tom DeLay had Broaddrick's tale in mind when he
announced last December that votes to remove the
president from office
would materialize "out of thin air" if senators examine
the evidence. He
advised senators, "There are reams of evidence that have
not been publicly
aired and are only available to members."
She said she went to a fund-raising event for Clinton
weeks after the alleged
assault.
"I think I was still in denial," she said. "And I still
felt very guilty at that time
that it was my fault by letting him come to the room."
Broaddrick said she didn't come forward in 1978 because
she felt partially
responsible for the attack because it happened in her
hotel room. She said she
also feared she would be skewered by prosecutors and the
press because she
was a married woman having an affair with another man,
who is now her
husband.
Broaddrick said she was unable to recall when Clinton
assaulted her, so NBC
determined that a nursing conference had been held at the
hotel where she
was staying on April 25, 1978. The network said it could
find no evidence
Clinton had any public event the morning of the alleged
assault and ample
evidence from various public records that he was in
Little Rock later that day.
As the Journal told it, NBC's Lisa Myers finally
convinced Broaddrick to tell
her story after months of making a case that her story
should be aired. Myers
spent the better part of January 20 taping Broaddrick,
with the promise that it
would air on the Jan. 29 "Dateline."
Meanwhile, the woman at the center of Clinton's impeachment scandal,
Monica Lewinsky, told ABC's Barbara Walters she wanted to
apologize to
the nation for the yearlong political ordeal triggered by
her affair with Clinton,
The Washington Post reported in Thursday's editions.
Walters interviewed the former White House intern last
Saturday, and the
Post reported on some highlights of the interview,
without direct quotes,
attributing its information to a source who was present
during the interview,
which airs next Wednesday on "20/20."
Lewinsky told Walters she still had warm feelings toward
Clinton, but she also
promised never to have an affair with a married man
again.
Court TV's Aldina Vazao Kennedy and The Associated Press
contributed
to this report.
http://courttv.com/casefiles/clintoncrisis/022599_broaddrick_ctv.html
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Try to convince the People of Yugoslavia if he's a man of Peace.
Bard
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