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Article: Former President Carter to accept Nobel Peace Prize 24 years after glitch kept him from winning
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- AP Worldstream
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- December 9, 2002
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Dateline: OSLO, Norway
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
with a news ...