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Article: Carter and the guinea worm.(former president Jimmy Carter)(Editorial)
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- The Christian Century
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- May 10, 1995
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Once more the globe-trotting peace missionary, Jimmy Carter, has surprised the diplomats," writes George J. Church in a recent essay in Time. In late April the former president was in Sudan where he negotiated a two-month cease-fire in what has been, according to Church, "less a civil war than an exercise in mutual extermination." Following on peace missions to North Korea, Bosnia and Haiti, Carter's Sudan trip raises again, says Church, "the oddly unnerving specter of Carter, in his sensible shoes, and armor of self-righteousness, tackling the world's diplomatic problems one by one. "
Church lists the usual criticisms of Carter's diplomacy: Regarding North Korea, ...