Carter Presidential Center

The former chief of staff at the Carter Presidential Center has been sentenced to 28 months in prison for impersonating former President Jimmy Carter and a Saudi prince in a scheme to bilk $650,000 from a billionaire. George G. Schira, 53, of West Palm Beach, Fla., pleaded guilty in June to nine counts of fraud. Judge Jack T. Camp said Tuesday that Schira could have "damaged the reputation of an institution that does much fine work."

A former executive director of the Carter Center whose resignation from the institution has been a focal point of the furor over former President Jimmy Carter's new Middle East book said his decision to step down was a matter of "intellectual honesty." In his first detailed public comments since his resignation last month, Kenneth W.

The answer is no. Definitely no. The person giving it was former President Jimmy Carter. He was at the first "meeting" of the California Carter-Mondale Alumni Assn. Sunday evening, a cocktail party where 100 campaign and White House veterans mingled on the brick patio at the Westside home of Dr. Roger Lewis and Hope Boonshaft-Lewis. When an out-of-office politician meets with his most loyal supporters, he's usually testing the waters.

Fourteen members of an advisory board to President Carter's human rights organization resigned Thursday to protest his new book, which has been attacked as unfairly critical of Israel and riddled with inaccuracies. The resignations at the Carter Center are the latest backlash against the book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid," which has drawn fire from Jewish groups and fellow Democrats, and led to the resignation last month of Kenneth W. Stein, a center fellow and a longtime Carter advisor.

Fourteen members of an advisory board to President Carter's human rights organization resigned Thursday to protest his new book, which has been attacked as unfairly critical of Israel and riddled with inaccuracies. The resignations at the Carter Center are the latest backlash against the book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid," which has drawn fire from Jewish groups and fellow Democrats, and led to the resignation last month of Kenneth W. Stein, a center fellow and a longtime Carter advisor.

On June 21, 1987, former President Jimmy Carter was the star attraction at a ceremony dedicating a rehabilitation center for former prostitutes near Bangkok. By his side was Agha Hasan Abedi, founder of the international bank that allegedly has assisted terrorists, drug traffickers, money launderers and spies. During the mid-1980s, it was not unusual to find Carter and Abedi closely involved together in philanthropic endeavors throughout the Third World.

A former executive director of the Carter Center whose resignation from the institution has been a focal point of the furor over former President Jimmy Carter's new Middle East book said his decision to step down was a matter of "intellectual honesty." In his first detailed public comments since his resignation last month, Kenneth W.

Former President Jimmy Carter is to cut a ribbon opening the reference room at the Carter Presidential Center in Atlanta today, making 6 million pages from his presidency, ranging from policy memos to jogging records, available for study. The library will be opened Wednesday to scholars, students and others. The library eventually will display about 27 million pages of documents, about 1 million photographs and hundreds of hours of film.

Former President Jimmy Carter will moderate a TV panel discussion on the Persian Gulf crisis. The two-hour special, "A Carter Center Briefing: Crisis in the Gulf," is scheduled for broadcast Sunday night on The Discovery Channel. "I do consider it important . . . that the present Persian Gulf crisis be viewed from a historical situation," Carter said in a statement. The discussion with experts and policy-makers will be taped Sunday at the Carter Presidential Center here.

A black-haired Amy Carter went virtually unrecognized during dedication festivities at her father's Carter Presidential Center. The 19-year-old sophomore at Brown University in Rhode Island dyed her blond tresses coal black during her summer vacation, but the light hair already is growing back, according to a family friend and center employee who asked not to be identified.

The former chief of staff at the Carter Presidential Center has been sentenced to 28 months in prison for impersonating former President Jimmy Carter and a Saudi prince in a scheme to bilk $650,000 from a billionaire. George G. Schira, 53, of West Palm Beach, Fla., pleaded guilty in June to nine counts of fraud. Judge Jack T. Camp said Tuesday that Schira could have "damaged the reputation of an institution that does much fine work."

On June 21, 1987, former President Jimmy Carter was the star attraction at a ceremony dedicating a rehabilitation center for former prostitutes near Bangkok. By his side was Agha Hasan Abedi, founder of the international bank that allegedly has assisted terrorists, drug traffickers, money launderers and spies. During the mid-1980s, it was not unusual to find Carter and Abedi closely involved together in philanthropic endeavors throughout the Third World.

The answer is no. Definitely no. The person giving it was former President Jimmy Carter. He was at the first "meeting" of the California Carter-Mondale Alumni Assn. Sunday evening, a cocktail party where 100 campaign and White House veterans mingled on the brick patio at the Westside home of Dr. Roger Lewis and Hope Boonshaft-Lewis. When an out-of-office politician meets with his most loyal supporters, he's usually testing the waters.

Former President Jimmy Carter has decided to skip the dedication ceremonies of the Ronald Reagan presidential library and museum near here on Nov. 4, upsetting Reagan's plans for a historic meeting of five living Presidents. Carter will be in Zambia to oversee the African nation's first democratic elections on Oct. 31, said a spokesman at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Center in Atlanta.