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Article: Jimmy Carter To Accept Nobel Peace Prize
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- December 8, 2002
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OSLO, Norway (AP) _ Jimmy Carter gets the Nobel Peace Prize on Tuesday
in a ceremony that the chairman of the Norwegian committee behind
the award says is 24 years overdue.
Carter, now 78, would have been included in the 1978 Peace Prize for
mediating the Camp David peace accord between Israel and Egypt, but
he was nominated after the deadline.
So the former American president is being honored "for his decades
of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts,
to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and
social development."
Carter's stay in Oslo will be marked by three days of events, starting ...