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Speaking of some things sounding familiar :

1979 : (LIBYA, BILLY CARTER & JAMES ABOUREZK -- See ADC) [SD Democrat James] Abourezk had been present in Libya with Billy Carter to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Muammar Qaddafi’s reign in 1979, and the next year he had founded the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), which allied with left-wing groups in providing legal support to advocates of Palestinian rights.80 ---- "Wilsongate: Motive, Means, and Opportunity," Original FReeper research | 11/21/2005 | Fedora

"If I get back in, I’m going to [expletive] the Jews."---- Jimmy Carter, in a discussion about failing reelection prospects in 1980

AUGUST 4, 1980 : (CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR REPORTS THAT LIBYA PURCHASED 300 TONS OF PARTIALLY REFINED URANIUM ORE FROM NIGER; LIBYA LATER PASSED IT ON TO PAKISTAN IN EXCHANGE FOR AID WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS TECHNOLOGY) A Christian Science Monitor article alleges that Libya purchased 300 tons of partially refined uranium ore from Niger, which it later passed on to Pakistan. Libya, it is suspected, hopes to receive nuclear weapons technology from Pakistan in exchange for this aid. --------"Mideast Nuclear Threat—Tale of Murder, Intrigue," Christian Science Monitor, 4 August 1980. -- via "Libya Nuclear Chronology, 1968-2004," NTI.org, Libya Profile, Chronology, http://www.nti.org/e_research/profiles/Libya/4132_4135.html 1985 : (PAKISTANI BANKER AGHA HASSAN ABEDI, FOUNDER OF BCCI, DONATES $4 MILLION TO THE CARTER CENTER)

How Tyranny Came to Zimbabwe - Jimmy Carter still has a lot to answer for "In April 1979, 64 percent of the black citizens of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) lined up at the polls to vote in the first democratic election in the history of that southern African nation. Two-thirds of them supported Abel Muzorewa, a bishop in the United Methodist Church. He was the first black prime minister of a country only 4 percent white. Muzorewa's victory put an end to the 14-year political odyssey of outgoing prime minister Ian Smith, the stubborn World War II veteran who had infamously announced in 1976, "I do not believe in black majority rule--not in a thousand years." Fortunately for the country's blacks, majority rule came sooner than Smith had in mind.

Less than a year after Muzorewa's victory, however, in February 1980, another election was held in Zimbabwe. This time, Robert Mugabe, the Marxist who had fought a seven-year guerrilla war against Rhodesia's white-led government, won 64 percent of the vote, after a campaign marked by widespread intimidation, outright violence, and Mugabe's threat to continue the civil war if he lost. Mugabe became prime minister and was toasted by the international community and media as a new sort of African leader. "I find that I am fascinated by his intelligence, by his dedication. The only thing that frustrates me about Robert Mugabe is that he is so damned incorruptible," Andrew Young, Jimmy Carter's ambassador to the United Nations, had gushed to the Times of London in 1978. The rest, as they say, is history................."