Nobel Peace Prize for Mandela?

Nobel Peace Prize for Mandela?

Wilmot Max Ramsay, Editor-in-Chief, The UMass Times, UMass/Boston.

(Mon., Feb. 12, 1990).  Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, the South African lawyer who was sentenced to life in prison and who was released from the Victor Vester prison yesterday proves to be a timely world Valentine, and advocate of love and peace.

     With Mandela's eventual long awaited release, and by acclamation, Nelson Mandela is viewed as the undisputed Nobel Peace Laureate of 1990.  The formal nomination which has to be presented to the Nobel Committee is expected to be delivered "sometime" to Oslo, Norway.

     Mandela, earlier today, held his first news conference at the home of Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

     The presidential-looking Mandela is expected to return to a hero's welcome today, from Cape Town, to his native Soweto where his people are vigilantly awaiting his return.

* EDITOR'S NOTE:  In 1993, Nelson R. Mandela shared the Nobel Peace Prize with President Frederik Willem de Klerk.