CALIFORNIA IN BRIEF : SIMI VALLEY : Carter to Skip Reagan Library Ceremonies
Former President Jimmy Carter has decided to skip the dedication ceremonies of the Ronald Reagan presidential library and museum near here on Nov. 4, upsetting Reagan’s plans for a historic meeting of five living Presidents. Carter will be in Zambia to oversee the African nation’s first democratic elections on Oct. 31, said a spokesman at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Center in Atlanta. Carter recently sent a letter notifying Reagan that he would no longer be able to accept an invitation to join Reagan, President Bush and former Presidents Richard M. Nixon and Gerald Ford at the ceremony, Reagan associates said.
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