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 Former President Jimmy Carter was about to be discharged from a hospital in Ohio after spending two days in the hospital for a viral infection that doctors said was the likely cause of an upset stomach.
Carter, 85, would leave between 12:30 and 1:30 pm Thursday (1630 and 1730 GMT), said Susan Christopher, a spokeswoman for MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland. Police cars, ambulances and SUVs were outside the hospital while television crews clustered for his departure.
Carter became ill when flying from Atlanta to Cleveland and rescue teams took him urgently to hospital as soon as the plane landed. Your medical team recommended to remain hospitalized for two nights to be monitored.
"President Carter thanked all those who have expressed concern about their health and have sent greetings", the hospital said in a statement late Wednesday.
The hospital stay Carter interrupted a tour to promote his new book, "White House Diary" ("Diary of the White House.")
The publisher canceled the acts which should assist Carter in Washington, including one at the Smithsonian Institution and had stopped public appearances Tuesday in Ohio and North Carolina. No one knew if he kept up the act scheduled for Thursday in Columbia, South Carolina.
Carter, who went from peanut farmer to governor and then president in 1976, has devoted recent years to promote peace and human rights, efforts that earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.
In the new book, Carter said that in his single term over-ambitious attempt to implement policies which confused and alienated voters of Congress. But he said it cost him reelection in 1980 was the crisis of American hostages in Iran and the Democratic primary campaign of Senator Ted Kennedy.

The secretive North Korean regime mentioned yesterday for the first time Kim Jong-un to announce that the third son of so-called Dear Leader, Kim Jong-il, has been appointed to the Central Committee of the Workers Party and vice president of the powerful National Defense Commission (NDC). Kim Jong-un, 27, and no political experience, stands as heir to the only communist dynasty and takes the reins of a country with nuclear weapons and plunged into a financial crisis that threatens to destabilize it.
Kim Jong-il, 68, whose physical deterioration is increasingly evident from the stroke he suffered in August 2008 general climbed on Monday his son Jong-a and five others, including his only sister Kim Kyong -hui. This and her husband, Jang Song-taek, vice president appointed last June to the CRC, is the anointed heir guardians and guarantors of the transition.
According to South Korean newspaper The Chosun Ilbo, the promotion of child and sister "is a sign that Kim Jong-il delegates power over his family and the military in the third generation." The scheme was founded by Kim Il-sung after the partition of the Korean peninsula by the victors of World War II (United States and the USSR). On his death in 1994, Kim Il-sung was appointed Lord President of North Korea and his son Jong-il inherited power.
Famine
Experts said the split in the ruling elite and near-famine situation in which people live can result in disturbances that the system and make dynamite to blow up the tight controls that plague the 24 million inhabitants. For the former South Korean Foreign Minister Yoon Young-kwan, the most dangerous thing would be for the military, emboldened by having nuclear weapons, "try to distract the people with bold and potentially destructive actions abroad."
China, one of the few remaining friends to North Korea, welcomed the scheme of "success" of the conference delegates, the first held since 1966. Beijing took the opportunity to reiterate its support for Pyongyang and the maintenance of "long-range strategic relations between the two countries." China, the architect of the negotiations for the denuclearization of North Korea, supports and encourages economic reform in that country to prevent their collapse.

The death toll in Jamaica because of the Storm "Nicole", who on Wednesday cleared, rose today to 12, the latest casualty figures released by the authorities of the island.
For the nine deaths recorded on Wednesday, joined three others following the collapse of a house under construction this morning, while the remnants of "Nicole" continue dropping heavy rains on the Caribbean island.
Apparently, the three men died in their sleep to fall apart a section of the house that was under construction.
The authorities reported that eight people still missing, so it is feared to have died as well.
There have been serious damage to roads, houses and bridges in several towns in the country, as well as crops and herd cattle.
At least 400 people seeking refuge in shelters in five of the fourteen districts and hundreds of thousands of people remain without electricity in their homes, authorities said.
Nine of the twelve people so far died were drowned when floods swept away by torrential rains that caused the dropped "Nicole" on Tuesday in the Caribbean nation.
Six members of a family died when their house was swept away by rising water levels in Liguanea, a sector of the Jamaican capital, and one was rescued by neighbors.
Moreover the rains have killed at least two farmers.
The ninth victim was a boy of 17 when he tried to cross a river in Harbour View, seven miles east of Kingston.

The Amnesty International (AI) said today that he is "dismayed" by the "limited" measures adopted Wednesday by the European Commission (EC) against France for the expulsion of Roma, has reported a statement.
"We are dismayed that the EC has accepted at face value the assertions of France that acted without discriminatory attitudes against Roma," he pointed the director of AI's European office, Nicolas Beger.
Brussels to receive without further explanations from the French government is "a slap" to the Gypsy people, he added.
For AI, the circular sent by the French government on August 5 by ordering the dismantling of Roma camps "is at odds with" the good intentions of France claimed the EC.
"It's a dangerous message that is sent to governments that they can abuse without retaliation minorities, has ruled Beger.
The European Commission (EC) has warned France in the case of expulsions of Roma and has threatened to initiate disciplinary proceedings if it does not remedy the defects of their legislation to align with the EU directive on free movement of EU citizens.
The EU executive has decided to send a letter of formal notice to France, unless the country this before 15 October a detailed plan to bring its legislation fully case with the European Union 2004.
That record would be based on the breakdown of the rules of free movement and not, as expected, in breach of the fundamental principle of non discrimination, which Brussels would not have gathered evidence to open an infringement procedure.

Candidates for the Presidency of Brazil fight every vote Thursday in the main cities and in a televised debate, the last day of campaigning for Sunday's elections, which the ruling Dilma Rousseff comes as a clear favorite.
The former chief of staff Rousseff, the Social Democratic former governor of Sao Paulo José Serra and former Environment Minister Marina Silva, the Green Party, multiplied public appearances while waiting to see their faces on a debate planned for local 22H00 (01H00 GMT .)
On Thursday the three candidates will meet in Rio de Janeiro, where they will debate hosted by TV Globo, which will be issued after the soap star of the chain, while preparing for the two-day campaign ban, Friday and Saturday.
Campaign committees and Serra Rousseff told AFP that both have small appearances on Thursday, although they will have public events in Rio, to be defined.
Marina Silva, meanwhile, has scheduled a news conference Thursday, after a successful and bustling appearance at Central Station downtown Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday night in which he called his followers to fight vote by vote to force a ballot.
Silva, 52, told his supporters "to society and move coherently discuss what is best for health, public safety."
"I keep growing (in polls) and I will stay in state campaign until the final moment," he said.
In both surveys Rousseff stagnant, with a 47-50% gain in first round, to Serra, who with a 26-28% would be in a modest second place with no chance of fighting the presidency, only Silva has managed to capitalize on recent days of the campaign to grow to 13-14% of voting intentions.
Serra, 68, who has been losing sympathy among Brazilian voters since he launched his campaign with a comfortable lead of 30 to 17 on the official candidate, called Silva similar to his supporters in the closing ceremony of campaign on Wednesday night.
"On Monday (the day after the election), nobody is going to rest. Rest of the campaign until November because we still have to work hard," he said to his followers, invoking them to continue seeking votes for there second round on 30 October.
The latest poll released Thursday, the DataFolha polling for the newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo, Rousseff gave 47% of voting intentions for Sunday.
That 47% of the voting intentions guarantees the dauphine of President Lula for 52% of the votes cast (minus blank and null), enough for victory in first round, for which it is necessary 50% plus one of votes considered valid or likely to be counted.
"To reach a second round, Rousseff would have to lose 6.3 million voters through Sunday, which is very unlikely," he said Wednesday Ricardo Guedes, director of the Sensus polling after the previous study gave Datafolha Rousseff drop some points in voting intentions.
The powerful former chief of staff of Lula, 62, is expected to vote in Porto Alegre (south) on Sunday, then fly to Brasilia where they will await the results with the president, his campaign confirmed to AFP.
Sources close to the Brazilian Presidency also indicated that both expect the result to the Alvorada Palace, the official residence of Brazilian leaders.
Serra meanwhile, voted at a school in Sao Paulo and wait for the results at his home in São Paulo, campaign sources said.
Marina Silva voted in the northeastern state of Acre, which is native.
Some 135 million voters are called to vote on Sunday in Brazil, for president, governors, and renew the Congress.

The president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, was wounded during riots in Quito on Thursday following a demonstration by security forces and is in the hospital, according to the daily El Universo. "
   The president suffered the injury after demonstrators threw tear gas and apparently has been battered with bottles, said on Channel One
   Correa had to leave the regiment number 1 of the Police, where he had gone to talk with agents, amid tight security.
   About 800 officers were outside the building, as part of a protest march to be given back to the Public Service Act. The President supports this legislation that seeks to standardize the salaries of all public officials subtracting, in some cases, certain bonuses that would be compensated with better pay.
   Sonorama radio station also reported that General of Police Freddy Martinez was being treated for a head wound.