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Students
at some high schools in Illinois recently had some famous visitors. Among them
were Jimmy Carter, the former American president, and Mikhail Gorbachev, the
last president of the Soviet Union. Other speakers included former South African
president F.W. de Klerk and Shirin Ebadi, the Iranian human rights activist.
They were all in Chicago for an event in late April, the 12th World Summit of
Nobel Peace Laureates. The students prepared for the visits by working on a
human rights curriculum called "Speak Truth to Power." The materials come from
the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights. Manal Saleh got to
introduce Mikhail Gorbachev at her school, the Frederick Von Steuben
Metropolitan Science Center in Chicago. Manal is one of the top students
graduating this year. She will be attending Northwestern University in Illinois
on a scholarship for low-income students. Manal had not yet been born when Mr.
Gorbachev became a Nobel laureate. He won the Peace Prize in nineteen ninety for
helping to end the Cold War and working for nuclear disarmament. Manal also got
to introduce Mr. Gorbachev at the World Summit, where he joined the other
laureates. She says students often hear about the Peace Prize winners and see
them in documentaries. But having them appear in person, she says, makes them
and what they did seem so much more real. Mr. Gorbachev said at the summit that
he hopes more young people will work against global problems like poverty and
unemployment. He said young people have to be given a chance to take a stand, to
take a position in this world. At Von Steuben, the former Soviet leader talked
about his nuclear arms negotiations with President Ronald Reagan in the late
nineteen eighties. He also talked about growing up in a small Russian village
and studying law at Moscow University. And he talked about the need for
international cooperation, a theme of the World Summit.Students at Lincoln Park
High School in Chicago heard from Muhammad Yunus. He won the two thousand six
Peace Prize for his work with microcredit for social and economic development.
Mr. Yunus said he used his own money to make the first loan, about twenty-seven
dollars to women selling baskets in a market in Bangladesh.For VOA Special
English, I'm Alex Villarreal.(Adapted from a radio program broadcast
03May2012)
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