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Surface-to-air missile launcher, military medals stolen in break-inBronco, Ana Bárbara and more famous people mourning the death of DulceJimmy Carter's critics turned his name into a synonym for weakness over the Iranian hostage crisis. But by any measure, he also scored major achievements on the world stage through his mix of moralism and painstaking personal diplomacy. The 39th president of the United States, who died at age 100 on Sunday, transformed the Middle East by brokering the Camp David Accords, which established an enduring and once inconceivable peace between Israel and its most serious adversary at the time, Egypt. Carter again brought a sense of righteousness and nearly obsessive attention to detail to negotiate the return of the Panama Canal to Panama, defying furor by US conservatives. In two decisions with lengthy reverberations, Carter followed up on Richard Nixon's opening by recognizing communist China, and he began arming jihadists in Afghanistan who fought back against the Soviet Union, which would collapse a decade later. But Carter was crushed by Ronald Reagan in the 1980 election in no small part due to foreign affairs after religious hard-liners toppled Iran's shah and seized US embassy staff, whose 444 days in captivity were broadcast nightly on US television. Carter ordered an aborted rescue mission in which eight US troops died in a helicopter crash. Asked at a 2015 news conference about his biggest regret, Carter replied: "I wish I'd sent one more helicopter to get the hostages and we would have rescued them and I would have been reelected." The Iran debacle led to attacks that Carter was "weak," an image he would struggle to shake off as Republicans cast him as the archetypal contrast to their muscular brand of foreign policy. The former peanut farmer's public persona did little to help, from a widely panned speech pleading for shared sacrifice to an incident that went the pre-internet version of viral in which Carter shooed away a confrontational rabbit from his fishing boat. Robert Strong, a professor at Washington and Lee University who wrote a book on Carter's foreign policy, said the late president had been inept in public relations by allowing the "weak" label to stick. "The people who worked with Carter said exactly the opposite he was stubborn, fiercely independent and anything but weak," Strong said. "That doesn't mean he was always right, but he wasn't someone who held his finger in the wind allowing whatever the current opinion was to win." Strong said that Carter defied his political advisors and even his wife Rosalynn by pushing quickly on the Panama Canal, convinced of the injustice of the 1903 treaty that gave the meddlesome United States the zone in perpetuity. "Every president says, 'I don't care about public opinion, I'll really do what's right,'" Strong said. "Most of the time when they say that, it's not true. To a surprising extent with Carter, it was true." Carter, a devout Christian, vowed to elevate human rights after the cold realpolitik of Nixon and Henry Kissinger. Years after the fact, he could name political prisoners freed following his intervention in their cases, and took pride in coaxing the Soviet Union to let thousands of Jewish citizens emigrate. But the rights focus came to a head on Iran when Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi a Western ally whose autocratic rule by decree brought economic and social modernization faced growing discontent. Reflecting debate throughout the administration, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Carter's more hawkish national security advisor, believed the shah should crush the protests a time-tested model in the Middle East. Secretary of state Cyrus Vance, who would later quit in opposition to the ill-fated helicopter raid, wanted reforms by the shah. Stuart Eizenstat, a top adviser to Carter, acknowledged mistakes on Iran, which the president had called an "island of stability" on a New Year's Eve visit a little more than a year before the revolution that ultimately saw the shah flee the country. But Eizenstat said Carter could not have known how much the shah had lost support or that he was to die from cancer within months. "It was the single worst intelligence failure in American history," Eizenstat said in 2018 as he presented a book assessing Carter as a success. Uniquely among modern US presidents, much of Carter's legacy came after he left the White House. He won the Nobel Peace Prize more than two decades after his defeat at the polls. The Carter Center, which he established in his home state of Georgia, has championed democracy and global health, observing elections in dozens of countries and virtually eradicating guinea worm, a painful infectious parasite. Carter also took risks that few others of his stature would. He paid a landmark visit to North Korea in 1994, helping avert conflict, and infuriated Israel by asking if its treatment of the Palestinians constituted "apartheid." But the accusations of weakness never went away. Conservative academic William Russell Mead, in a 2010 essay in Foreign Policy magazine, called on then-president Barack Obama to avoid "Carter Syndrome," which he described as "weakness and indecision" and "incoherence and reversals." Carter personally responded in a letter that listed accomplishments on the Camp David accords, China, the Soviet Union and human rights, while describing the fall of Iran's shah as "obviously unpredictable." "Although it is true that we did not become involved in military combat during my presidency, I do not consider this a sign of weakness or reason for apology," he wrote. sct/sst/nro This article was generated from an automated news agency feed without modifications to text.646-ph 。

Welcome to the Week 17 grades! There's always a lot of drama in the NFL over the final two weeks of the season, and that was definitely the case in Week 17. The biggest surprise came in New York, where the Giants pulled off a stunner with a 45-33 win over the Indianapolis Colts . It was the shocker of the day for multiple reasons: For one, the Colts needed a win to keep their playoff hopes alive, but they're now eliminated after losing. On the Giants' end, the victory was a shocker because it likely cost them any shot at the No. 1 overall pick in the 2025 NFL Draft . Going into Week 17, the Giants were in control of the top pick and all they had to do was lose out, but they couldn't even do that. With that in mind, here are our Week 17 grades for every game that has been played so far, starting with the Giants' shocking win: N.Y. Giants 45-33 over Indianapolis Philadelphia 41-7 over Dallas Buffalo 40-14 over N.Y. Jets Las Vegas 25-10 over New Orleans Tampa Bay 48-14 over Carolina Jacksonville 20-13 over Tennessee L.A. Rams 13-9 over Arizona (Saturday) Cincinnati 30-24 in OT over Denver (Saturday) L.A. Chargers 40-7 over New England (Saturday) Seattle 6-3 over Chicago (Thursday) Kansas City 29-10 over Pittsburgh (Wednesday) Baltimore 31-2 over Houston (Wednesday)

Valparaiso hires longtime Marietta coach Andy Waddle to take over its football program

VALPARAISO, Ind. (AP) — Valparaiso hired longtime Marietta coach Andy Waddle as its new football coach, athletic director Laurel Hosmer announced Monday. Waddle is scheduled to be formally introduced on campus Wednesday. He spent the last 12 seasons turning around the Division III program located in Southeastern Ohio. There, he went 55-61 after inheriting a winless team. He led the Pioneers to their first 8-0 start last season and matched the 1920 squad's school record with a 13-game winning streak that started in 2023. In 2024, Marietta made its first postseason appearance since 1973. Waddle went 16-5 over the past two seasons and produced seven winning records over the last eight seasons. The Pioneers had only two winning seasons in the previous 20 years. “I think there is a great group of young men on the (Valparaiso) roster, and we’re excited to invest in those student-athletes and continue to add more high-quality people and football players to the program,” Waddle said of the program located in Indiana's northwest corner. “I think Valpo is not only an outstanding fit for me professionally, but also an outstanding fit for me and my family.” Waddle spent eight seasons working with the defense as an assistant for his alma mater, Wittenberg, where he was an all-conference defensive back. He also has coached at Mansfield University in Pennsylvania and at Maryville College in Tennessee. “His experience building success and winning culture as a head coach, passion for developing student-athletes on and off the field and high character made it clear he was the right leader for our football program,” Hosmer said in a statement. The move comes two weeks after Hosmer announced the school would not give Landon Fox a contract extension after his deal expired. Fox was 21-42 in six seasons at Valparaiso. Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here . AP college football: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/college-footballNew Delhi [India], November 23 (ANI): Delhi's Rouse Avenue court has recently issued Non-Bailable Warrants (NBW) against three persons in a money laundering case linked to Rs. 1200 crores bank Fraud case. This case is related to Amira Pure Foods Private Limited. Special CBI Judge Amitabh Rawat allowed the application of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) seeking the issuance of non-bailable warrants against the accused namely Karan A. Chanana, Anita Daing & Rajesh Arora. Also Read | Nana Patole, Maharashtra Congress Chief, Scrapes Through in Sakoli Assembly Constituency, Wins by 208 Votes. "Considering the facts and circumstances and the fact that all three respondents are named accused both in predicate offence and in this ED case and wanted to be arrested by the ED for commission of offence under PMLA and all of them deliberately and intentionally appears to be evading summons and not participating in the investigation at all and one or some of them having escaped out of India and LOCs being opened against them and for aiding investigation and proceedings further in this case, issuance of NBWs would be justified," Special Judge Rawat said in the order dated November 20. "Let NBWs be issued against said three respondents/accused persons to be executed through the concerned IO returnable on February 3, 2025," the court ordered. Also Read | Assembly By-Elections Result 2024: Ruling Parties Hold Sway in States; BJP Gains in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Rajasthan; TMC Reigns in West Bengal. It was submitted by the ED that summons were issued to the respondents but they have not complied with the said summons. Special Public Prosecutor (SPP) Manish Jain along with Snehal Sharda submitted that Even after the last summons was issued on September 3, 2024, and till date they have not joined the investigation under PMLA. It was also submitted that the respondents have deliberately, intentionally and knowingly avoided their presence before the IO in compliance with summons issued under Section 50(2) and (3) of PMLA. The Enforcement Directorate had moved an application for the issuance of non-bailable warrants against respondents namely Karan A. Chanana, Anita Daing and Rajesh Arora. ED had prayed for the issuance of open ended Non-Bailable Warrant against three respondents namely Karan A. Chanana, Anita Daing and Rajesh Arora to be executed through its officers. The Special Public Prosecutor for ED had submitted that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had registered an FIR on November 23, 2020, under Section 120B, 420 and 471 of Indian Penal Code (IPC), Act, 1860 and Prevention of Corruption (PC) Act, 1988 on the basis of complaint dated 17.11.2020 filed by Canara Bank. In the said FIR, it was alleged that the accused company M/s Amira Pure Foods Private Limited through its Directors/Promoters/Employees and others have committed fraud by siphoning and diverting funds, criminal misappropriation, criminal breach of trust, cheating, fraud, etc. by causing wrongful loss to the tune of approx. Rs.1201.85 crores to the consortium of banks led by Canara Bank. The Directorate of Enforcement, on the basis of the CBI FIR recorded the present case June 22, 2022 under PMLA. It was argued that an investigation conducted by the Directorate revealed that M/s Amira Pure Foods Private Limited was sanctioned fund-based and non-fund-based limits by a consortium of Banks led by Canara Bank to the tune of approximately Rs. 1367 crores from 2009 to 2016. The stated purpose of the loan as per the loan documents was, inter-alia, for working capital requirements. The account of the company was. declared as Non Performing Asset (NPA) on September 29, 2017. The account of M/s APFPL was declared as fraud by all the member Banks to the tune of approximately Rs 1201 crores. The company not only defaulted in repayment of interest but also failed to submit its financial statements, net worth particulars of guarantors, routed transactions outside consortium lenders, did not enable stock audits etc, it was added. Investigations by ED showed that said entity siphoned off/ diverted the borrowed money to the tune of Rs 734.20 crores through non-genuine and sham business transactions with various fictitious entities, which were used as conduit for the diversion of money of the lenders. (ANI) (This is an unedited and auto-generated story from Syndicated News feed, LatestLY Staff may not have modified or edited the content body)