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WHO'S THE REAL JIMMY CARTER?

Red Weekly No. 160, 22 July 1976 · p. 10 of the scan · 346 words

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in the future, particularly if the Palestinian Resistance suffers a dramatic setback in the Lebanese war. And socialists in this country will have to wage a difficult fight against the 'antiterrorist howls raised by the ruling class. Similarly the sewers of reactionary racist rubbish issuing from the pres and TV on the question of Amin must be answered with some hard facts:

Who trained this monster? Britain and Israel.

Who helped him to overthrow the the questions persist. and legally correct? Jimmy Carter may have won the Democratic nomination for the US presidential elections without much trouble, but Is the real Carter the candidate who told voters in Brunswick, Georgia, on 31 July 1970: I was never a liberal: I am and have always been a conservative'; or the one who is now telling adoring audiences: I've always been a liberal on civil rights and racial needs'?

Is the real Carter the presidential candidate who says the school integra non decision and me cia agrs Act 'were the greatest things that ever hap pened to the South; or the guber natorial candidate who in 1970 denied saying Inal the supreme court school integration decision was morally Is the real Carter the candidate who wrote in his autobiography that US involvement in Vietnam lacked moral principle; or the governor who urged Georgians to protest William Calley's conviction over My Lai and said he thought Calley was a scapegoat?

Is the real Carter the candidate wro in 1976 has inspired rock bands to play benefit concerts for him; or the one who seven weeks after the Kent State tragedy in 1970, promised to ammunition onto college campuses to put down disorder 'even before violence erupts"?

Is the real Carter the candidate who tells conservative businessmen in Mississippi: Mayor Daley is my friend: ne knows im ine only one waung to go against Governor Dan Walker for him'; or the candidate who campaign against the "powerful politicians"

It doesn't take much guessing, but don't miss the next issue of Red Weekly for the real low-down on Carter.

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