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Mondale, too, faced the boos of antiabortionists in a high school gym in Tupelo, Miss. Outside the school, black youths who favor Mondale and white students from a segregated Baptist academy got into angry shoving matches. Mondale got a helpful introduction from Tupelo Mayor James Caldwell, who said of him, "He doesn't have to talk about his beliefs. He practices them. He doesn't have to talk about prayer in school. He prays at home." But when a questioner described the Democratic platform as "antireligion," Mondale replied, "I have my faith, and it's my whole...
...Industrial Union Department of the AFL-CIO has half a dozen unions involved in an organizing campaign in Tupelo, Miss., and it is about to start a drive in the Baltimore-Washington area aimed specifically at women employees. White-collar workers are a prime target for organizing...
...Decency, which in February became a member organization of the Coalition for Better Television. In 1977 he gave up his ministry in a suburban Memphis congregation to work full time for untainted television. He operates out of a dog eared three-room office in an unprosperous quarter of midtown Tupelo, Miss., assisted by a staff of two. The office contains one color TV set, with a video tape recorder attached...
Butler was referring mainly to the Coalition for Better Television, which brings together the Rev. Donald Wildmon's National Federation for Decency and other right-wing groups like the Moral Majority. Formed last February, the coalition is headquartered in Tupelo, Miss., where Wildmon lives, and claims support from 5 million families in all 50 states...
...Churches of Christ, asking which five television shows they found the most morally offensive; a spokesman for the church members termed the response "an absolute explosion." The church compared the findings of its survey with the views of the National Federation for Decency, which was founded in 1977 in Tupelo, Miss., and now publishes a monthly newsletter that attacks what it considers to be distasteful TV programs. Hurt's congregations deemed the five most offensive shows to be Soap (ABC), Three's Company (ABC), Dallas (CBS), Saturday Night Live (NBC) and Charlie's Angels (ABC). The chief...