President Carter has been known for many accomplishments over his term as president and after. He lead the coalition that has reduced incidence of Guinea worm disease from around 3.5 million cases from the date 1986 to less than 542 now a days. This makes it most likely to be one of the few diseases to be completely extinguished since smallpox. He had observed 94 elections in 37 different countries just to help establish and make democracies stronger. He focused on peace talks with Ethiopia,Eritrea,Liberia,Sudan,Uganda,the Korean Peninsula,Haiti,Bosnia and Herzegovina also the Middle East. He had helped establish village-based delivery health systems in all communities around Africa. With trained officials to teach medicine and apply. He had made international standards for humans rights and voices of individuals stronger for defending rights that they had deserved. He worked hard to ensure efforts for improved health care and less discouragement against people with mental sickness.
The Iran hostage crisis was a diplomatic crisis between Iran and the United States where American hostages were held in Iran prisons for 444 days. From the date of November 4th 1979 to January 20th 1981. This was stopped after a group of Islamist students and militants supporting the Iranian Revolution took over the American Embassy in Tehran(Iran's Capitol). Carter became furious and ended up telling the Iran government that the United States would not yield. After two negotiation attempts the United States military attempted a rescue mission to save the people who were trapped in prison. This mission called operation eagle claw was a failure causing the death of eight American servicemen, one Iranian civilian, and the destruction of two air crafts. Eventually Iraq invaded Iran. This caused the Iranian government to go into negotiations allowing the two captured to be released back into the United States after signing the Algiers Accords.
The Algiers Accords had five provisions. The first provision states that the United States was not to intervene with political or military in Iran's internal affairs. The second was that the United States was to remove a freeze on the Iranian assets and trade sanctions of Iran. The third Provision was that both countries would end litigation between each others governments and citizens. The fourth was the the United States was to ensure that the United States court decisions for the transfer of property of the leader would be enforced and the 5th was that all debts from Iran to the United States were forgiven.
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From what I have read president Carter had many good intentions but on his negotiations he had given way too much away for things that were not of that high of value.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_hostage_crisis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algiers_Accords
http://www.cartercenter.org/about/accomplishments/index.html
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