The State - News from March 9, 1987
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A 10-year-old Fresno girl who created a board game emphasizing world peace, will leave this week with 18 other students on a peace trek sponsored by San Francisco-based Children as Peacemakers. They will visit eight countries and visit with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and King Olaf of Norway. Michelle Alexander was 8 when she made up the game for a class project at Manchester Elementary School. Players, who move American and Soviet flags across a world map, are rewarded for compromises, sharing of inventions and other peace overtures, and are penalized for invasions of small countries and breaking off negotiations.
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