Carter Renews Fight to Stop 3 Dams in Southwest Georgia, 30 Years Later

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OGLETHORPE, Ga. - President Carter has spent his golden years as a global humanitarian: a Nobel laureate pushing for peace in the Middle East, speaking out against the war in Iraq and battling to eradicate deadly diseases in Africa and Asia.

So the stage was a little smaller than he's used to when the 83- year-old stood before a squeaky microphone in the farming hamlet of Oglethorpe, assailing a plan to build three dams to provide water for drought-stricken Georgia, freshly picking a fight he won three decades ago as governor.

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Carter Renews Fight to Stop 3 Dams in Southwest Georgia, 30 Years Later

But there he was, warning the crowd of environmentalists in a calm but insistent tone that they're up against a formidable foe: The promise to "let people sprinkle their lawns seven days a week."

And to some in t...

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