Former US president rebalanced the one-sided power calculus between Dublin and London
A chara, – Your columnist Kathy Sheridan paid a stirring tribute to former US president Jimmy Carter on his 100th birthday , citing the Camp David agreement, US relations with China, the SALT II disarmament accords with the USSR, the West Bank crisis and climate change: all major projects of his administration. President Carter is celebrated as the US president who, more than any other, put the cause of human rights at the centre of his presidency.
Ranged against the Four Horsemen, and equally active and determined, were the British prime minister James Callaghan who telephoned Carter repeatedly urging him to hew to the traditional US policy of “non-interference” and his son-in-law the former journalist Peter Jay, the British ambassador in Washington.
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