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· Red Weekly No. 161, 29 July 1976 · pp. 10-11 of the scan · 602 words

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page 10 of the scan

J.C. CAN SAVE AMERICA!

cratic Governors' Conference urging all Democrane presidentiar candidates not to make the Vietnam war an issue. As he said at the time: "We should have appreciated and supported Nixon's efforts: Carter was indeed a leading "hawk' until the war was all but lost.

conversion about his supposed "liberalism'. In 1970, he proclaimed: *I would run as a local Georgia conservative democrat...I'm basically a redneck. And as for being a peanut farmer, he is no more that than Henry or walking on water?

There is the same pattern of sudden as any of them.

So it does not really matter a great deal if there remains a confusion about Jimmy Carter's real policies-a confusion which has made observers wonder "which is the real Jimmy Carter'. In fact the riddle has a simple answer, and a clue can be found in the story Carter's mother tells of how her son was faced with the prospect of the end of his term as Georgia's governor. After being asked what he was going to do next he said: I'm going to be president.

And from that every thing else flowed. Because if nothing else, Carter is no fool. To be successful he has had to swim with the tide.

If this meant being a redneck in the 1970 election for governor, Carter was a redneck. If in 1976 this means ap pearing as the lost soul of America's goodness, Jimmy Carter will make that appearance. If it means aligning himself with George Wallace, he will do that, if it means quoting Bob Dylan. he will do that as well. In short he is the ultimate opportunist.

As such he is not, after all, such a bad symbol of 200 years of American free enterprise. Of course, when the interests of that system are threatened, Carter will cease his equivocation. Thus he has been unequivocal about his opposition to abortion and about his opposition to the closed shop But on other less crucial issues, Carter will hum and ha. He will say anything, do anything to climb to the top. His polities are his own successes, his concerns, his own triumphs Jimmy Carter is American capitalism Geoft Bell

page 11 of the scan

DAMNING EVIDENCE of the terror systein of the Shah of Iran has been exposed by an occupation of the Iranian consulate in Geneva.

Some 2,800 pages of documentation were discovered, revealing Geneva as the international headquarters of the 'Bean' - the code name for SAVAK, the Shah's secret police. The "Bean' operates from Iranian embassies in several European countries, including Britain, in cooperation with friendly services* - intelligence units of OLIC CURELES.

SAVAK was created by the CIA and the Israeli security organisation MOSSAD after the Washington inspired coup in 1953, which toppled the nationalist regime of Mossadegh and brought the present dictatorship to power. Red Weekly 29 July 1976 -he+ olon CAlL LEE Iran ly processed. But it would come as no surprise. After all, British intelligence was centrally involved in bring ing SAVAK's paymasters into power in 1953 after the Mossadegh Government had nationalised the oil industry - in which Britain had a complete monopoly.

Blood Certainly the Iranian Connection has been kept alive and well through the visits of Healey, Callaghan, Barbara Castle and Tony Benn - all this year! If the substantial trade links between Iran and Britain start to decline, it will not be for want of effort by these leaders' of the labour movement. Mean while SAVAK will ensure that the ground is kept free of subversive weeds and well watered with the blood of

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