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Description: This image was taken by the Evening Standard on the 12th of February 1984 but was not published. It depicts former United States president Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn arriving at the Pascal Street Stadium for the Lloyd Morgan Lions Clubs charitable trust dinner.

The article “Relaxed Kiwi hospitality showers Jimmy” was written by Warren Barton:

“…

Mr and Mrs Carter's visit to Parewahawaha Marae on Saturday afternoon was one of the highlights of their weekend stay in Palmerston North.

It was part of a relaxed but busy schedule for the couple, which culminated last night with the former President's address to the fourth annual Lloyd Morgan Lions Clubs charitable trust dinner in the Pascal Street stadium.

It produced the only sour note of the visit, when 37 shouting, placard waving demonstrators representing the Latin America Solidarity Committee picketed the stadium.

They drew a friendly wave from Mr Carter.

…”

The protestors had been expected with a staff reporter publishing on 11 February:

"THE city's Pascal Street Stadium will be picketed when former President Jimmy Carter addresses a dinner there tomorrow night.

The picketers, members of the Palmerston North Latin America Solidarity Committee, will be protesting against United States growing intervention in Central America. They say they fear US troops will be used in the fighting there.

Committee spokesman Bob Aiken said the committee believed that, during his visit, Mr Carter would be helping win New Zealand support for US intervention in Central America.

Mr Aiken said US hostility to the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, and to the guerrilla forces in El Salvador and Guatemala, had begun under the Carter presidency.”

Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter jnr) served as the 39th President of the United States of America, between 20 January 1977 and 20 January 1981. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022 for his work in conflict resolution and advancing human rights in the decades since serving as president. His wife Rosalynn Carter (nee Smith) spent 5 decades advocating for causes in mental health and caregiving support among many others. Together, they founded the Carter Center – which works today to foster world peace and health programmes. Jimmy Carter died at the age of 100 on 24 December 2024. Rosalynn passed a year earlier, on 19 November 2023.