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To: Mephisto who wrote (4946)	10/12/2002 11:24:37 PM
From: Mephisto	Respond to of 15516

Nobel Achievements: A Lifetime of Public Service The New York Times Editorial October 12, 2002 Jimmy Carter well deserves the Nobel Peace Prize awarded him yesterday. In four years as president and more than twenty as the most active and civic-minded ex-president of modern times, he has contributed substantially to peace, democracy and human rights. Not all of Mr. Carter's peacemaking efforts have succeeded, and his activities have often put him at odds with his successors. His own presidency was complicated by economic tribulations, the Iranian hostage crisis and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. But the totality of his career has significantly enhanced the cause of peace. Mr. Carter's presidential years brought the pathbreaking Camp David peace agreement in the Middle East and a human rights policy that saved lives and hastened democracy's return in Latin America. Since losing his 1980 re-election bid to Ronald Reagan, he has energetically sponsored election monitoring around the globe and successfully mediated crises in Haiti and North Korea that might otherwise have exploded into armed conflict. Mr. Carter has set an impressively high standard for what former occupants of the world's most powerful office can do if they have the determination and energy to continue in public service. An ex-president retains enormous international prestige without many of the constraints that limit a sitting president. By recognizing his achievements, the Norwegian Nobel committee encourages other veterans of the presidency, including the fiftysomething Bill Clinton, to reflect on their extraordinary opportunity for further good works. Mr. Carter has been considered for the Nobel Prize before. One reason he was chosen this year was the selection committee's desire to uphold the idea of a peaceful conflict resolution in what it diplomatically referred to as "a situation currently marked by threats of the use of power." That follows a valuable tradition of using the prize to send a contemporary message, exemplified by such past recipients as Martin Luther King, Lech Walesa and Nelson Mandela. The point would have been more eloquently made had the committee chairman, Gunnar Berge, refrained from explicitly interpreting the prize as a criticism of America's current presidential administration. Jimmy Carter's achievements are big enough to stand on their own. nytimes.com Copyright The New York Times Company