and young Jimmy has church, Jimmy used to well! as he suggests ....
have?
Inherited Rachel al tormel happy with the farmer status and his humble origins. In his autobiography, Why Not The Best?, he tells of his tough childhood during the Depression. The farm had no electricity used to run around with no shoes and often no shirt either Despite the segregation of the school and play and go fishing with all the black kids. That is how he got to know and understand them so But Carter's sister suggests that life for the Carter family was not as hard as Jimmy suggests. In an interview in The she says: "I don't think that Jimmy worked quite as hard as he says in his book. And we were not as poor we nada tennis court ponies and undoubtedly lots of things which the richest people today don't James Earl Carter Sr. had inherited thousands of acres of peanut farm. When James Earl Jr. took over in 1953 there were mousanes more when me enter prising youngster turned into a massive "agri-business" which is now valued at These friends in high places stood him in good stead for the governorship contest of 1970. But even more useful Carter's dirty tricks department. A number of scurrilous anonymous leaflets were put out in the name of his opponent, a liberal called Sanders, while Carter himself made none too subtle appeals to the racism of his white constituents. Route His route to the White House is well known. What is less clear is what Carter Jimmy's Georgia childhood is circulating. Jimmy Sr. went into the garden and found his young son by a fallen cherry asked the angry father. "Father', replied young Jimmy, 'I cannot tell a lie. Maybe I did, maybe I didn't."
Usually American elections represent some sort of choice between different sections of the ruling class. In 1976 there has not even been inal option. Economist was forced to admit that 'it all comes down to character, on every Issue Ford and Carter were in complete agree ment and had to struggle to differentiate On foreign policy, Carter, aided by Ford's famous gaffe, has been trying to present himself as more anti-Russian. But since Kissinger is hardly a friend of the Soviet Union, that does not carry much
The Movement for a Socialist Republic (Irish section of the Fourth Interments claiming responsibility for the murder. But one of these, the Red Hand Commandos, then denied responsibility and blamed British intelligence agents instead. In previous such actions it has often been virtually impossible to distinguish between British agents and Loyalist terror squads; it would come as no surprise to the anti-Unionist people if hard to find. This was not merely a desire to get rid of someone who represented all that is hateful to imperialism and Loyalism. Early on the morning of 30 October, a 20-year-old Catholic student, McCann, was abducted on his way home from a disco with a bullet in the back of his head. That evening two employees of the Belfast Telegraph were forcibly taken from the Crumlin Road in North Belfast and riddled with bullets in front of the 10-year-old son of one of them. Again, both were Catholics. But whoever were the assassins, their reasons and intentions are not Stephen the peace movement is largely discredited and reduced to an imperialis manoeuvre in the eyes of the mass of anti-Unionists - a sudden decline which has stripped away the veneer and laid bare the cynical militar intentions behind it. The exemplary action and resolve of the women of Turf Lodge has blossomed to produce a 'No-Go' area. Last week what local residents described as a 'mini-Motorman' was staged by British troops in an effort to get back into Turf Lodge. But it was repulsed by ocar women Thus in the space of a few days the British Army has suffered humilia. ting defeats and has seen its cover of respectability movement - being progressively smashed into smithereens. Short of a massive increase in repression, the British Army is incapable of dealing with the type of mass action displayed in Turf Lodge. And in the absence of any political initiatives from the British, the Army and Roy Mason are on their own and are losing.
The assassinations of Maire Drumm and the other three Catholic: RED WEEKLY 11 November 1976 • the peac