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CARTER TRAVELING TO CUBA ON PERSONAL BUSINESS? READ THE FACTS AND DECIDE!!!*** ATLANTA (AP) - James E. "Chip" Carter III, the son of former President Jimmy Carter, announced Monday he will lead a delegation of citizen ambassadors to Iran in May. Carter, 48, is vice president for International Development with The Friendship Force, a worldwide nonprofit group based in Atlanta. President Carter, whose term in office was blemished by the Iranian hostage crisis, announced the founding of the group in 1977. Since then, the Friendship Force has dispatched more than 500,000 citizen ambassadors in 3,600 volunteer clubs in 48 U.S. states and 60 nations.***

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We all know that credibility can make a good company great. In only its first year of business, TravelSmart has already established name recognition in the industry. First, Carnival Cruise Lines has gone on the record stating their belief that we will become the largest travel company in a few years, and maybe even less, and they have welcomed us to the industry with open arms.

Second, the Friendship Force is now affiliated with TravelSmart, andTravelSmart now offers the home stay vacation as one of our exclusive products.This Nobel Prize winning organization consists of a worldwide network ofTravelers who are 200,000 strong, 80,000 of which reside in the U.S.

TravelSmart's Chairman, Mr. Nabeel Esfahani, has recently been elected to the Board of Directors for the Friendship Force, and Dr. Wayne Smith who is the founder of Friendship Force also serves on the TravelSmart board of directors.

Some of the names that now endorse TravelSmart are Jimmy & Rosalyn Carter, KirkDouglas, Mohammed Ali, Eduard Shevardnadze, Andrew Young and Ted Turner. Talk about credibility!!!] …Luis Gonzalez.

Carter to visit Cuban biotech center *** HAVANA - As the strains of "The Star-Spangled Banner" faded in the wind at Havana's international airport, President Fidel Castro turned to his visitor and said, "It's been a long time since that happened." Jimmy Carter, the U.S. president who did more than any other to ease tensions with Cuba, arrived for a visit on Sunday - the first time a U.S. head of state, in or out of office, has come to the communist island since Castro's 1959 revolution.

While both men spoke of the desire to improve relations, Carter's visit comes at the latest in many moments of tension, following allegations last week by Undersecretary of State John Bolton that Cuba is seeking to develop biological weapons. Castro denounced those claims as "lies" in a speech Friday and challenged the United States to provide evidence. When Carter arrived, Castro promised him "complete access" to any Cuban biotechnology laboratory.

Carter is scheduled to visit a major laboratory Monday, the Center of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology on the outskirts of Havana.***