The Norwegian politician who quit the Nobel Peace Prize committee to protest its award to Yasser Arafat died. Kaare Kristiansen, who served 16 years in Parliament as a member and then a leader of the Christian Democratic Party and as an oil minister, was appointed to the Nobel committee in 1989. He quit after Arafat shared the peace prize with Israelis Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres, saying the Palestinian leader was “tainted with violence, terrorism and bloodshed.” Kristiansen, who died Saturday, was 85.
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