And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 09:29:46 EST
>
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Nobel Winner's Story Challenged
>Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 06:13:22 EST
>
>Nobel Winner's Story Challenged
>
>.c The Associated Press
>
> NEW YORK (AP) -- A new book by an American anthropologist claims key details
>of an autobiography written by Rigoberta Menchu, the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize
>winner, are untrue, The New York Times reported today.
>
>``I, Rigoberta Menchu,'' first published in 1983, describes the author's
>painful history growing up as an uneducated and oppressed member of the
Quiche
>people in Guatemala.
>
>Ms. Menchu became an internationally acclaimed spokeswoman for the rights of
>indigenous peoples, based largely on the best-selling account.
>
>But anthropologist David Stoll concludes that Ms. Menchu's book ``cannot be
>the eyewitness account it purports to be'' because she repeatedly describes
>``experiences she never had herself.''
>
>Stoll's book, ``Rigoberta Menchu and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans,'' is
>based on archival research and nearly a decade of interviews with more than
>120 people, the newspaper said.
>
>In September, Ms. Menchu refused to address Stoll's criticisms, dismissing
>them as part of a racist political agenda intended to gain publicity.
>
>A reporter from the Times, using contacts provided by Stoll as well as others
>found independently, also conducted interviews in Guatemala that contradicted
>Ms. Menchu's account, the newspaper said.
>
>Some of Ms. Menchu's relatives, neighbors, friends and former classmates said
>main episodes of her book had been fabricated or exaggerated.
>
>A land dispute, central to the book, was a family quarrel, they said, not a
>fight against rich landowners of European descent. A younger brother who Ms.
>Menchu said starved to death never existed, they said. And Ms. Menchu, who
>claimed she never went to school, attended two private boarding schools on
>scholarships, they said.
>
>Geir Lundestad, director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, told the Times
that
>he was aware of Stoll's work, but ``there is no question of revoking the
>prize.'' He said the award was not based exclusively on the book.
>
>AP-NY-12-15-98 0612EST
>
> Copyright 1998 The Associated Press. The information contained in the AP
>news report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or otherwise
>distributed without prior written authority of The Associated Press.
>
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