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Zimbabwe refused to let Kofi Annan and two eminent colleagues visit the impoverished African country for a humanitarian mission, the three said Saturday. The former U.N. secretary-general, ex-U.S. President Jimmy Carter and rights advocate Graca Machel had planned to assess the country's needs...  

Former UN chief Kofi Annan and a high-level delegation to Zimbabwe have been refused visas as they 'hadn't consulted" Harare on their program. [AFP] The Zimbabwe government has prevented former UN chief Kofi Annan and past US President Jimmy Carter ...  

The Zimbabwean government has denied refusing entry to a team led by former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and former US President Jimmy Carter.  

The Associated Press 18 comments Former US President Jimmy Carter, former UN head Kofi Annan, and Graca Machel, wife of former South... Former US President Jimmy Carter, former UN head Kofi Annan, and Graca ...  

Jimmy Carter said it was the first time he had been denied permission to carry out a mission in any country.  

Voice of AmericaJimmy Carter Denied Zimbabwe Visa New York Times - 1 hour ago By CELIA W. DUGGER JOHANNESBURG - Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s 84-year-old president, clinging to power after 28 years in office, barred another famed 84-year-old - former President Jimmy Carter - from entering the...  

Nov. 22: Former President Jimmy Carter, Kofi Annan and Graca Machel during a news conference in Johannesburg. JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said Saturday that he and others planning a humanitarian mission in ...  

AP – Former US President Jimmy Carter, former UN head Kofi Annan, and Graca Machel, wife of former South African … JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said Saturday that he and others planning a humanitarian mission ...  

BBC AfriqueZimbabwe refuses Annan group visa BBC News - 1 hour ago Former UN head Kofi Annan and the former US president Jimmy Carter have cancelled a planned trip to Zimbabwe. They said the government had not granted them visas, making their two-day visit, with Nelson Mandela's wife Graca...  

Former US President Jimmy Carter, former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Nelson Mandela's wife Mrs Graca Machel of Mozambique Zimbabwe has barred former UN secretary general Kofi Annan, former US President Jimmy Carter and other prominent figures ...  

Times OnlineJimmy Carter Barred from Zimbabwe New York Times - 4 hours ago By CELIA W. DUGGER JOHANNESBURG - Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s 84-year-old president, clinging to power after 28 years in office, barred another famed 84-year-old - former President Jimmy Carter - from entering the country...  

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has barred the former United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, the former United States President, Jimmy Carter, and the advocate for the rights of women and children, Graça Machel, from entering Zimbabwe. The ...  

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Zimbabwe has refused to let Kofi Annan, Jimmy Carter and a South African human rights advocate visit the impoverished country for a humanitarian mission, the three said Saturday. The former U.N. secretary-general, the ex-U.S. president and rights advocate Graca...  

Laos News.Net Saturday 22nd November, 2008 The Zimbabwe government has refused entry to three eminent individuals of The Elders group, including former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan - forcing them ...  

Former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan canceled a visit to Zimbabwe today because of a a oelack of cooperationa from the government that U.S. President George W. Bush called a oeillegitimate.a ...  

The three are part of a group of prominent figures and former statesmen called The Elders.  

FORMER United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan is among a group of prominent figure who has cancelled a visit to Zimbabwe after being denied entry into the country by President Robert Mugabe's Government.  

Representing the Elders, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Lakhdar Brahimi, and I ...  

Beirut - Former US President Jimmy Carter is scheduled to visit Lebanon in December, the Lebanese Central News Agency (CNA) said on Wednesday. CNA reported hat Carter was scheduled to meet with Lebanese President Michel Suleiman, House Speaker Nabih ...  

Made endorsement yesterday after sit-down at Carter Center.  

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. During his presidential election campaign of 1976, he told reporters: "It was the darndest thing I've ever seen.  

World worker President of the Global Humanitarian Forum and former United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan looks on during a press conference in Geneva, Switzerland, on Tuesday. Annan on Tuesday defended former United States president Jimmy Carter for holding direct talks with Hamas in Syria.  

I haven't written very much about Obama's first round of appointments -- not really in love with them, but not hating them either, just trying to detect a pattern, and I think one is starting to emerge.  

Former United States President Jimmy Carter said in an interview with CNN this week he expected President-elect Barack Obama to waste no time pursuing Middle East peace talks once he takes office.  

It is a true challenge of this generation of Americans. One of the visitors to Camp David last week put it this way: “We’ve got to stop crying and start ...  

President Jimmy Carter - Address to the Nation on Energy 2^3-1<2^3; 60mb/d @ 5%p.a. steady growth => doubling every 14y; 1977; 1991; 2005...  

Pope John Paul II once declared that two solutions were possible to the Palestine-Israel conflict - the realistic and the miraculous. The realistic would involve a divine intervention, from heaven; the miraculous would be a voluntary agreement between the two parties! First, some remarks about...  

Carolyn Kaster / AP After leaving the Oval Office he started the humanitarian Carter Center and now reflects on the nonprofit's 25th anniversary in a new ...  

The Elders to visit Zimbabwe / Kofi Annan, Jimmy Carter and Graça Machel highlight escalating humanitarian crisis   HARARE, Zimbabwe, November 14, 2008/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Three members of The Elders plan to visit Zimbabwe in late November to assess the country’s  

Former President Jimmy Carter got a warm welcome from the third graders at Byron Elementary School Thursday afternoon. Carter, whose niece teaches there, read his book The Little Baby Snoogle-Fleejer to the children.  

ICONIC Politician, "Osagyefo Dr" Kwame Appiah Boateng, popularly known by Ghanaians around the World as Kwame Mayor, who made history in the United States of America by boldly making a political statement and becoming the first Ghanaian born to SYMBOLICALLY running for Mayor of Los Angeles, has...  

I recently watched the biography of Jimmy Carter on PBS. I actually learned a lot about Jimmy Carter from this three hour biography.  

Former President Jimmy Carter came to Byron Elementary School to read one of the children's books he wrote to third grade students.  

President Jimmy Carter slipped from Camp David to visit average Americans, including 12 people inside a Carnegie home, in a time of turmoil much like the present.  

Oct 1, 2008 12:00 am US/Pacific Today In History - October 1, 2008 Today is Wednesday, Oct.  

Sources say Siddique wanted to put biological agents in Carter's water.  

A plain recipe for the often overlooked cheese ring from a plain-spoken president who is often overlooked, himself.  

The Bush administration's $700 billion plan to bail out the financial industry is "extremely faulty," Former President Jimmy Carter said at a Tuesday night town hall-style meeting.  

Americans have not elected the next JFK. The next Jimmy Carter, maybe. For months now, Barack Obama and his handlers have done all they can to cultivate comparisons between their man and John Kennedy, from spending US$700,000 staging Mr. Obama’s “citizen of the world” speech in Berlin this...  

Jimmy Carter aspired to make government 'competent and compassionate,' responsive to the American people and their expectations.  

As a student of history, current events, and a political election news junkie, I love this stuff. But, something is really bothering me..... This elections reminds me of the 1976 election between the incumbent GOP President, Gerald Ford, who was beaten by Democrat Georgia Governor Jimmy Carte...  

ATLANTA—The Bush administration's $700 billion plan to bail out the financial industry is "extremely faulty," Former President Jimmy Carter said at a Tuesday night town hall-style meeting. Carter said he believes action is necessary but is ...  

Two Gainesville High School students, sophomore John Jennings and junior Kelly Mattick, got to meet former President Jimmy Carter over the weekend.  

From left: Jimmy Carter, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, former Algerian Foreign Minister Lakhdar Brahimi in Nicosia, 08 Oct 2008 Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter says Turkish Cypriots and their Greek counterparts ...  

and to the unnamed foreign donors who it's said ponied up $63 million in September to his campaign.  

It wasn't religion that broke up his marriage to Jane Fonda, Ted Turner declares in a new memoir. He says he was "upset" when he discovered his wife's "conversion," but "it wasn't because she had become Christian," the 69-year-old Turner writes in ...  

Australia's longest serving minister for foreign affairs Alexander Downer talks to Business Spectator's Isabelle Oderberg about the US election.  

Resonates, doesn't it? "Ich bin ein Berliner" "Tear down this wall, Mr Gorbachev" "We are the Change We have been waiting for."  

Postcard renderings by two Gainesville High School students have landed them a spot in the Peanut Festival parade alongside former president Jimmy Carter.  

Who the heck is Jimmy Carter? If Republicans have their way, he will be the ghost in the Obama White House, a frightful figure they will try to tie to the new Democratic president by conjuring up disturbing ...  

The Jimmy Carter National Historic Site (NHS) celebrates Election Day, today at the Plains Depot.  

Barack Obama is taking America down a path modeled by Jimmy Carter, and threatens to be as bad a president as his trailblazer. A unlikely guide unwittingly will help make the case.  

For most of my adult life I thought that my Dad was a Republican. He voted for Ronald Reagan during the 1980 election. I never asked him about it until last year. He told me that he voted for Reagan because he didn't like how Jimmy Carter was running the country. Reagan won 489 electoral votes...  

Barack Obama and his supporters have been drinking from a bottle of elixir labeled Hope. But the President-Elect knows as well as everyone else that there are gallons of bitter medicine to be swallowed if the economy is to be saved.  

The conservative Republican compares an Obama administration to that of former President Jimmy Carter: "The last time America bought into a campaign pitch for 'change,' candidate Jimmy Carter claimed to be '[the] leader, for a change.' He also claimed his administration would be 'not just peanuts...  

October 31, 2008, 2:14 p.m. Tucson Citizen letters@tucsoncitizen.com Jimmy Carter doesn't deserve a second term Barack Obama keeps trying to tie John McCain to the policies of George W. Bush, saying, for ...  

By Nick Cenegy JACKSONVILLE — When he moved to Jacksonville in 1988, Carter Jones bought the oldest house he could find and fixed it up. ...  

In case you didn't know, today is the 84th birthday of the man from Plains, Georgia; the 39th President of the United States, Jimmy Carter. Before serving the nation as President, Jimmy Carter served Georgia as a state Senator from the 14th district and as the 76th governor of Georgia. After...  

Is Jimmy Carter to Blame? If you look at the 1977 Community Reinvestment Act and the current banking crisis -Jimmy Carter is as much, if not more, to blame for the banking crisis, than Bill Clinton. While John McCain was willing to suspend campaign activities and go to Washington to work on a...  

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has described Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip as "one of the greatest human rights crimes on Earth." Mr. Carter was speaking Sunday, May 25, 2008, at a literary festival in Wales. He told The Guardian newspaper that the Israeli blockade has led to what he...  

Americans don't learn from history, we are about to choose the next president of the United States and there is the distinct possibility that we might elect someone who is worse than Jimmy Carter.  

John never blames a liberal for anything, ever. It gets boring how partisan he is when he skips over the actual facts. Everybody knows it was Carter and Clinton were the architects of this mess. Not a myth, not a bedtime story. John is just another arrogant liberal who confuses fact with fiction.  

The College is on the hunt for its seventeenth president after James Wright announced his June 2009 resignation.  

The presidential election is just one week away. Senators McCain and Obama are doing some crucial stumping in Ohio and Pennsylvania. News 3 wanted to get some perspective on campaign 2008.  

America’s worst former president continues to amaze and dismay. This is the man who trots all over the globe to oversee elections in foreign nations so as to sound the alarm when election fraud occurs. However, for some reason, Carter is dead silent as elections are being stolen by...  

A look at the young senator from Illinois and his pursuit of the presidency. Photo Essay Here's an overview of Jimmy Carter's tenure at the White House, 1977-81, and the years before and since.  

Submitted by Nigel Watson: Former us president Jimmy Carter is famous for having seen a UFO in October 1969.  

The year was 1976. Gerald Ford, the only un-elected president, had inherited a nightmare from Richard Nixon.  

On July 12, 1979, Carter rolled unannounced into Carnegie. His visit surprised everyone -- the press, the local police chief, even the dozen people invited to meet him inside a home on Charles Street.  

October 10, 2008 Can America Afford Another Jimmy Carter? When former President Carter took office in 1977, the Shah of Iran was a staunch ally of the United States, a mainstay in our standoff with the Soviet Union, thwarting the dream held since the time of the czars of pushing south toward the...  

The Atlanta Metropolitan Council held a reception for Cmdr. Dave Honabach at the Naval Air Station Atlanta's Pfeiffers Club on Sept. 23 where the submarine skipper gave a presentation on USS Jimmy Carter and the current submarine force.  

You know it's desperation time for McCain when Victor Davis Hanson plays the Jimmy Carter card against Obama: A great many moderates and conservatives are worn out and tired of Bush and Bush hatred, the ...  

... practitioners, educators and researchers gathered at the Carter Center to discuss the progress in addressing American children's mental health needs, ...  

Main born October 1, 1924, Plains, Georgia, U.S. 39th president of the United States , who served as the nation's chief executive during a time of serious problems at home and abroad.  

Even though I have to post another 9,750 cut and pastes in order to catch up, here is my imitation of Flolake: Link A Look Back At 1976 Election Gives Us Reason To Doubt Democrat's Sincerity Cheers That's a ...