CARTER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000101020005-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 28, 2010
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: April 10, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
10 April 1984
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Former President Carter said Tuesday night his successor, Ronald Reagan, is
making a mistake in refusing to enter negotiations to "alleviate tensions in
the world.''
With war threatening in the Middle East and Central America, deteriorating
American-Soviet relations and an escalating arms race, Carter said Reagan is the
only president in recent history to fail to engage in top-level negotiations
with world leaders.
" A continuing responsibility of a president is to negotiate to try to
alleviate tensions in the world, " Carter told an audience of about 2,800 at
Roanoke College.
Carter said his administration completed negotiations for the SALT II treaty
to limit the spread of nuclear weapons and mediated peace talks in the Middle
East.
' Reagan has personally placed negotiations at the bottom of his priority
list,'' Carter said.
Earlier, Carter told reporters that alleged CIA participation in the mining
of Nicaraguan harbors was illegal and "disgraceful."
Carter told a news conference before his speech that the White House decided
to place itself above the.-authority of the World Court.
He called it ''an unprecedented approach to international law and quite
damaging to our country's reputation among nations."
Carter said he supported his former vice president, Walter Mondale, for the
Democratic nomination. While Reagan uses his communication skills to escape
blame-for the mistakes of his administration, Mondale is an ''an orthodox
Democrat'' who knows how to handle the controversial issues, Carter said.
Carter reserved his harshest criticism for recent reports that the CIA had
directlf prvicE placino mines in Nicaraguan harbors. Carter said the
reports, if true, further erode America's image as a moral leader.
"I think it's a disgraceful thing for our country to do,'' he said.
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