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...Overtown violence began at a neighborhood video-game arcade on 14th Street. Tall, skinny Nevell ("Snake") Johnson, 20, was playing a game called Eagle after work. Just past 6 p.m., two uniformed Miami policemen, Luis Alva rez, 32, and Louis Cruz, 22, came in on their own to scrutinize the place and its 30 patrons, almost all of them young blacks...
...week the Nobel panel opted for a middle ground between the bland and the flamboyant. It awarded the 1982 peace prize to two dedicated diplomats who are little known outside their circles of influence but who have campaigned long and hard for nuclear disarmament. The winners were Swedish Sociologist Alva Myrdal, 80, and Alfonso Garcia Robles, 71, a Mexican career diplomat who energetically sponsored the 1967 Treaty of Tlatelolco, which is intended to make Latin America the world's largest nuclear-free inhabited zone. Myrdal belongs to an even more elite circle. She is married to another Nobel Laureate...
...Alva Myrdal was appointed Sweden's Ambassador to India in 1955. As the head of Sweden's delegation to disarmament talks in Geneva between 1962 and 1973, Myrdal developed a pointed and somewhat naive cynicism about the intentions of the U.S. and the Soviet Union in their drawn-out negotiations to scale down the arms race. Says she: "They had been playing games with us, and often with their own delegates, pretending those years at the negotiating table were important, when all it was was a kind of occupational therapy. It was the two superpowers who were...
...Garcia Robles co-authored the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty that has now been signed by 115 nations. Since 1962, he has represented Mexico at the U.N.'s Disarmament Committee in Geneva, where he and Alva Myrdal became firm friends. Currently he is the chairman of the committee. The author of more than 20 books and some 300 articles on foreign affairs, Garcia Robles is said by acquaintances to be "obsessed" with the disarmament issue. The Nobel Committee's choice, says he, clearly demonstrates the world's growing concern for disarmament "in spite of our very modest achievements...
Modest indeed. As Alva Myrdal pointed out in The Game of Disarmament, the world had a total of 500 intercontinental ballistic missile launchers in 1962. Today there are close...