Jimmy Carter celebrates 80th birthday Friday
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Former president Jimmy Carter celebrates his 80th birthday Friday, basking in newfound respect both abroad and from his own Democratic party, which shunned him for many years.
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Jimmy Carter twice failed to win the New York Democratic presidential primary. In 1976, he was beaten by Senator Henry M. Jackson of Washington State, but went on to win the nomination and the election. In 1980, he was beaten by Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, won nomination anyway, and lost the election.
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MORE than 500 people attended a celebration held at the Pakistan Club last night to mark the 128th birth anniversary of the Father of the Nation Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Former U.S. President Jimmy  Carter said on Monday international observers agreed that  leftist President Hugo Chavez won an Aug. 15 recall referendum  fairly despite opposition concerns over fraud in the vote.
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It was supposed to be the ultimate tribute, several days of parties and concerts to mark Fidel Castro's 80th birthday. But instead of listening to folk music and attending conferences on his legacy, Castro is expected to spend his birthday Sunday in bed, recovering from surgery for intestinal bleeding.
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Former President Jimmy Carter berated renegade Democratic Senator Zell Miller as a traitor for the starring role he played at last week's Republican National Convention, US media reported.
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Jimmy Carter became the second former U.S. president to win a Grammy Award when he was honored in the spoken-word category on Sunday for the audio-book version of his bestseller "Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis."
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Colombia marks the 80th birthday of its most famous writer, the Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
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Former President Jimmy Carter said Thursday the death of Yasser Arafat robs the Palestinian people of "indispensable leadership" and he joined other American Middle East analysts in expressing hope that Arafat's successors will find peace with Israel.
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A new book by Jimmy Carter in which he compares Israel's treatment of Palestinians to South Africa's Apartheid system has sparked a bitter debate over the former U.S. president's reputation as a peacemaker.
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Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe celebrated his 83rd birthday in lavish style Saturday despite mounting pressure on his regime as the majority of the population slides further into poverty.
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In an address to the nation in 1977, President Jimmy Carter called our nation's energy crisis the "moral equivalent of war." Several years later, he wrote in a magazine article that the attitude of the American people concerning conservation had changed.
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Jimmy Carter, whose presidency was marred by a hostage crisis, said Wednesday he is saddened by the kidnappings and killings of Americans in Iraq.
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Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter on  Monday expressed optimism that an ambitious campaign he is  spearheading to eliminate river blindness disease in Latin  America would succeed by the end of the decade.
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WASHINGTON - Former President Jimmy Carter warned yesterday that Florida&#39;s machinery is biased against Democrats, riddled with faulty computers and could create another Election Day nightmare.
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Jimmy Carterâs new book, âPalestine Peace Not Apartheid,â has drawn outrage for its apparent equation of the plight of todayâs Palestinians to the former victims of racial separation in South Africa.
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Former President Jimmy Carter, who  has monitored elections throughout the developing world,  predicted on Monday the U.S. presidential vote in Florida would  be as flawed as the 2000 poll there.