Show UNITED NATIONS RECEIVE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE by Melinda Johnson Contributing Writer Four months before the Nobel Committee Committee Committee Com Com- in Oslo Norway honored the United Nations Peace Keeping Forces with an award ward of the Nobel Peace Prize the Un United ted Nations Futurists honored them on the campus of Salt Lake Cont Community College The occasion was last Mays May's Memorial Day Commemoration organized by the I in cO cooperation with 11 the he Utah Dis War Veterans In this ceremony the UN Peace Keepers who sacrificed their lives in the service of f fI I remembered p together og th J wI with with Q I the the he Americans who lost their lives in ins service to our nation Service to peace was regarded as service to America as aswell aswell aswell well as to the United Nations Those who died were remembered regardless of differences in the uniform they wore The participation of the in organizing organizing organizing or or- the Memorial Day Commemoration Commemoration Commemoration Com Com- attracted the attention of both the Salt Lake Tribune and the Deseret News and resulted in lengthy articles including photographs in both newspapers on the day f following the event Deseret News staff writer Douglas D. D Palmer provided quotations quotations quotations quota quota- from four speakers Timothy M. M B Burke Senior Vice-Commander Vice of the Utah Disabled War Veterans Dr Michael Homer Dean of the School of Business Management and ancl Computer rr Education Joseph E. E E. E Black president of the United Nations Association Association Association As As- of Utah and Franco president of the United Nations Futurists at The playing of Taps by James McGuire Senior Vice- Vice Commander of the Disabled War Veterans was featured with photographs in each of the newspapers UN Gen Secretary General ral DeCuellar will accept the Peace Prize in Norway on Dec 10 The amount hardly hardly hardly hard hard- ly makes a d dent nt in the annual cost of sustaining UN Peace PeaceKeeping PeaceKeeping PeaceKeeping Keeping Forces in seven troubled areas inside Afghanistan between India and Pakistan between Iran and Iraq inside Lebanon inside Namibia Southwest Africa between Syria and Israel and inside Cyprus However the award helped spark a decision dedsion by the United States to release million of a million debt due to the United Nations for withheld withheld withheld with with- held assessments The inflow of funds rescued the United Nations from near bankruptcy The important role of the theUN theUN theUN UN Peace Keeping Forces was cited by bythe bythe bythe the US U.S. Senate in a September resolution resolution ti tion p recognizing our pur nations nation's legal obligation to clear dear away aw away its massive debt to tot the e uN 1 As th the UN I Peace Pe c Keeping r Forces move into new areas and take on new challenges it is anticipated that the annual cost may reach 2 billion a year Even so this amount would only equal 3 2 of the worlds world's expenditure on weapons on a single day A study published in 1985 by a nongovernmental nongovernmental nongovernmental non non- governmental liaison service to the United Nations entitled Making th the Connection placed the global cost of military services for 1982 at million million million mil mil- lion dollars |