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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1977
Page
4
In Belfast British security chiefs say the Irish Republican Army Provisionals are losing Catholic support after eight years of conflict. Kneecappings rise, most victims Catholic, signaling internal splits and tightening security limiting IRA reach along the border.
AFL-CIO political arm COPA plans to withhold support and back rivals or pro‑republican candidates for lawmakers who opposed key labor bills. COPA backed 19 of 28 Senate candidates and 256 of 362 House nominees last cycle, but will be more selective next year focusing on labor issues. No hit list exists, but 30 to 40 incumbents voting against top labor priorities are under consideration.
Opponents led by Senator Edward M. Kennedy seek to strip business tax breaks and a $400 homeowner insulation credit from the $49 billion eight year energy package. A vote on Kennedy amendments could signal whether the Finance Committee approach to tax cuts for conservation and production will prevail over Carter’s fuel saving plan.
Totie Fields, 48, a vaudeville and television comedian known for poking fun at her health, had a cancerous breast removed after earlier amputation of her left leg and eye surgery. She underwent a modified radical mastectomy at Los Angeles New Hospital following hospitalization for exhaustion. Doctors acted quickly and she was expected to be discharged in about five days.
Revival services are in progress at the Pentecostal Temple Church of God In Christ 911 Bell Street each night at 730 through Friday. Elder Gray Deloach is evangelist and Elder O N Dennis is pastor. Public encouraged to attend. A miscellaneous shower is planned October 28 7 to 9 p m at Union Baptist Church cafeteria honoring Miss Beverly Brown to be married November 12 at 6 p m at the church.
A lawyer who co authored a book on the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr will defend James Earl Ray at his June escape trial in rural Tennessee. Mark Lane secured court permission to represent Ray arguing wrongful imprisonment and a need for an open, full King case presentation. Ray, 49, serves a 99 year term at Brushy Mountain Penitentiary after a 1969 murder conviction in Memphis.
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