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— Griffin Daily News Thursday, March 31,1977
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Mrs. Lillian Carter, left, mother of President Jimmy Carter was guest speaker at the
Auburn University Campus Club on Wednesday. (AP)
‘Miss Lillian’ thinks Jimmy’s
election ‘screwed’ Plains, Ga.
AUBURN, Ala. (AP) - “Miss
Lillian” Carter says she doesn’t'
think “Jimmy intended it to be
that way,” but his election to
the Presidency has “screwed”
the Carter hometown of Plains,
Ga.
The First Mother, here
Wednesday to address the
Campus Club at Auburn Uni
versity, told reporters that
Plains “is screwed" by the hor
des of tourists streaming
through the “Home of Our
President,” as a storefront sign
declares.
She said her other son, Billy,
is moving to Marion County
about 19 miles north of Plains
because his children have been
bothered by tourists.
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President Carter is report
edly disturbed by the com
mercialization of Plains since
his election. His mother said
Wednesday, “I don’t think Jim
my intended it to be that way.”
Mrs. Carter told reporters
that the only regret she has
about her son being elected
President “is about our church
being tom up. I don’t have a
church to go to.”
She said, however, that the
racial turmoil at the Plains
Baptist Church which culmi
nated in the recent resignation
of the Rev. Bruce Edwards be
gan long before her son was
elected.
She disclosed that she no
longer attends church, “and I
don’t know when I’ll go back,”
she added.
About the $2 million school
bond issue voted down in Plains
this week, Mrs. Carter said the
President would consider it a
personal defeat.
Her remarks to the Campus
Club included anecdotes from
her two years in India with the
Peace Corps. In sometimes
earthy language, she described
how she taught Indians about
birth control, “but, honey, they
didn’t care a thing about that.”
She said that while in India
she attended a huge wedding
where most of the guests “came
because they heard they were
going to give away Coca Colas.”
Offering a bit of parting ad
vice before she left Auburn
where she once served as a fra
ternity housemother, Mrs. Lil
lian said, “Just do your thing
and if you get criticism, stay
with it. That’s what I’ve always
taught my children."
FRONT ROW KISS
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -
While going from a rebounding
basketball, Connecticut’s Tony
Hanson was pushed out of
bounds and into the lap of a
little woman sitting in the front
row at the end of the court. The
team’s leading scorer and re
bounder got up quickly but be
fore he did he took time to kiss
the little lady on the cheek.
The lady he kissed was his
mother.
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Carter says he’ll ‘hang tough’ on talks
WASHINGTON (AP)-
President Carter says he’ll
“hang tough” when arms
limitation negotiations with the
Russians begin again in May
and that he has no intention of
dropping his human rights
crusade.
The President’s reaction to
Wednesday’s breakdown of
Strategic Arms Limitation
Treaty negotiations in Moscow
was relaxed and he said he was
not surprised.
But he expressed his determi
nation to pursue a major reduc
tion in nuclear weapons and de
clared: “I will not modify my
human rights statements.”
And, despite his expressed
desire to end the arms race, he
pointedly warned Moscow that
he will consider intensifying de
velopment of U.S. weapons if he
decides after negotiations in
May that the Soviets are not
acting “in good faith.”
The next round of arms talks
is set for Geneva in May with
Secretary of State Cyrus R.
Vance and Soviet Foreign Min
ister Andrei A. Gromyko head
ing the two delegations.
Carter will be in Europe that
month, attending an economic
summit meeting with NATO
leaders and conferring with
Syrian President Hafez Assad
about prospects for a negotiated
Arab-Israeli settlement.
He said he has no intention
“at this time” of meeting with
Soviet officials then.
After learning of the break
down in the Moscow talks, Car
ter told congressional leaders of
his plans to “hang tough” for a
comprehensive accord that
substantially reduces the two
superpowers’ arsenals.
And, in an impromptu news
conference, he told reporters
“there was no linkage” between
his advocacy of human rights in
the Soviet Union and Kremlin
rejection of the SALT proposals
taken to Moscow by Vance.
“But I can’t certify there is no
linkage in the Soviets’ minds,”
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Carter said.
Regardless, he said he would
not modify his statements on
human rights, which “are com
patible with the consciousness
of this country.”
The President said he intends
to “remain very strong in my
position” that the two super
powers this year negotiate not
just a superficial agreement al
lowing them to continue the
Assassination Committee
to lay rumors to rest
WASHINGTON (AP) - The
House assassinations com
mittee, granted two years to do
its work, will “lay to rest all the
rumors and rumors of rumors”
about the murders of John F.
Kennedy and Martin Luther
King Jr., its chairman
promises.
A sharply divided House ex
tended the committee’s life
through 1978 by a vote of 230 to
181 on Wednesday after its con
troversial chief counsel, Rich
ard A. Sprague, resigned.
Chairman Louis Stokes, D-
Ohio, said an unofficial count
had indicated that if Sprague
had not resigned, the committee
might have been killed by some
20 votes. He and other panel
members praised Sprague and
said he had been unfairly
maligned by the committee’s
former chairman, Rep. Henry
B. Gonzalez, D-Tex.
Gonzalez quit the panel last
month when its members and
the House leadership refused to
back his attempt to fire
Sprague.
Stokes said he expects to ob
tain a $2.7 million budget this
year. At one point, the panel had
asked for $6.5 million.
Stokes told the House the
committee is pursuing new
arms race but to freeze devel
opment of new missiles and re
duce launchers and multiple
warheads substantially.
“I am not in any hurry,"
Carter said. “It is important
enough to proceed methodically
and carefully.” He made no
mention of the expiration in
mid-October of an interim
weapons agreement.
Asked why the Soviets turned
leads and talking to new wit
nesses. But critics demanding
proof tried to force the first se
cret House session since the
1880 s to make the panel spell out
its evidence.
That effort was defeated 226
to 185 on Stokes’ argument that
leaks of the witnesses’ names
could put some of their lives in
danger.
Rep. B.F. Sisk, D-Calif., com
plained that at a closed briefing
on the evidence, “the only thing
I heard was that you have evi
dence that X overheard Y and Z
say something.”
Stokes cut short a news con
ference when he was asked re
peatedly about his contention
that a man who reportedly
committed suicide in Florida on
Tuesday would have been “a
crucial witness.”
George de Mohrenschildt, 65,
a Russian-born geologist who
was a friend of Lee Harvey Os
wald, was found dead of a shot
gun wound at his daughter’s
home in Manalapan, Fla., a few
hours after a House assas
sinations committee investiga
tor tried to see him.
A Dutch journalist, Willem
Oltmans, who had interviewed
de Mohrenschildt, told the panel
last month that the geologist felt
down the comprehensive pro
posal, Carter said he knew of no
“specific reasons” but guessed
that it was so substantive and
such a “radical departure”
from earlier goals “the Soviets
simply need more time to
consider it.”
Democratic congressional
leaders backed the President on
the negotiations and said Carter
is respected for refusing to
some responsibility for the
Kennedy assassination, appar
ently because he had an in
dication of what Oswald might
do and did not act to stop it.
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House Speaker Thomas P.
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