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19, 1970

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

The Drug Problem: First In

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Vol. LXI, No. 70

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One Student's Experience With Marijuana
EDITOR'S NOTE: Twelve percent of UK students are
estimated to be regular pot smokers. Of this number,
s
are estimated to have used other drugs.
Last October, Kernel reporter Ray Hill began researching the druft problem on the UK campus and the kinds
of drugs being abused. Since then he has talked to
pushers and users, psychiatrists, physicians, lawyers,
law enforcement officers and many others involved in
the drug problem. This is the first of a series of nine
articles and photographs revealing the findings of Hill's
three-fourth-

research.

By RAY

HILL

Kernel Staff Writer
Ted smoked pot a few times. As with many users,
he was introduced to marijuana by a friend. Ted's
experiences with pot are not necessarily typical. They
are merely the experiences of one individual with marijuana. Here is the way he tells it:
When I went to visit Joe last summer, I discovered
he had been smoking pot for several months. Because I
was curious and he enjoyed it so much, I decided to try
it.
One night we drove to the end of a deserted road
outside of town and parked. Reaching under the dash,
Joe withdrew a large envelope filled with marijuana. I
felt a tingle of excitement as I thought about what
we were going to do, and about what would happen
.if we were caught.
He poured some "grass" on a heavy cigarette paper
and deftly rolled a "joint." After explaining how to inhale, he lit the cigarette and took a long, deep drag
and handed it to me. I felt like an explorer entering

an unchartered wilderness as I put the glowing reefer
to my lips.
"How will I know when it hits me?" I asked.
"You'll know," he smiled.
We smoked a couple of joints and he asked me if
I was feeling anything yet. "No," I said. "I don't feel
any different."
He smiled and took a long drag off a new joint and
handed it to me. We continued smoking without saying
much. The stars were out and a warm breeze drifted
through the open windows.
"Are you feeling anything now?" he asked. I was look,
ing up at the stars and didn't answer right away.

Whaaat?"
"Are you feeling it?"
"Am I guess," I said. He started laughing. I had
meant to say, "I guess I am," but somehow the words
got twisted up and came out wrong.
We smoked all the grass in the envelope and drove
back to a coffee house in town. The house was empty.
He unlocked the door and we went inside.
He flipped a switch and soft red light filled the room.
Except for a few chairs and a sofa, the room was bare.
But the soft red light made everything seem warm and
comfortable. He stretched out on a sofa and I sat in
a chair. I didn't care if I ever moved again.

Silence gradually engulfed our conversation. My
awareness of my surroundings became less and less, condensing until I was aware of nothing but my thoughts.
Joe, the light, the room, the whole world no longer
existed.
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Student Involvement
University Senate To Hear Proposal
Establishing Student Advisers
By FRANK COOTS
Associate Editor
A proposal to create a Student
Advisory Council for every college and department on campus
is being presented to the University Senate Council today.
The document, which is an
amendment to the rules of the
University Senate, is titled "Student Involvement in Academic
Decision Making."
The Student Advisory Councils (SAC) would serve in a strictly advisory capacity on such matters as curriculum and evaluation
of faculty.
The councils would be composed of three to seven under-

Cwinn drew up the proposal, said
he saw the Student Advisory
Councils as a "key reform in academic decision making."
He said the document is purposely vague with regard to the
councils' duties because of the
"decentralized nature of the colleges and departments on campus."
He said it would be up to
the individual departments and
their respective advisory councils
as to what role the councils
played in any academic decision
making.

graduate and graduate students,
one faculty member cliosen by
the dean of the college or cliair-ma-n
of the department, and the
dean or chairman himself.
The students serving on a departmental or college advisory
council would of course come
from that particular department
or college.
One-Ye-

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Students would serve for one
year, beginning in April. Students
already serving on existing advisory councils, such as in the
Colleges of Agriculture and Engineering and the Department of
Political Science, would select
the new student members in

Key Reform
SC president Tim Futrell, who
along with vice president Jim

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Kentucky yd's And yr's
Seek Presidential Primary

FRANKFORT (AP)-- In
a rare vent ions, we urge this law,'
gesture of cooperation, the state's two said.
Young Democratic and Young
Bipartisan Effort
Kentucky operates under the
Futrell said he believes a side Republican leaders urged the 1970
effect of the proposed advisory Legislature Sunday to enact a convention system. From the precouncils would be an emphasis presidential primary law in Ken- cinct to eventually the state level,
conventions are held to determine
of the academic side of college tucky.
A joint statement was released which presidential candidate or
life. "It should make students
Don Mills of Lexington, pres- candidates will share the state's
identify with their academic dis- by
ident of the Young Democrats, vote at national conventions.
cipline instead of a Greek house and Lou DeFalaise of
Mills and DeFalaise said that
Covington,
or dorm."
- The
president of the Kentucky Fed- since their youthful organizations
CounUniversity Senate
both had endorsed the presidencil is expected to place the pro- eration of Young Republicans.
Senas we do that more tial primary, they believe it
"Believing
posal before the University
should be treated by them on a
Kentuckians should be given the
ate sometime in February.
level.
said the docu- opportunity to have a direct voice
Futrell
DeFalaise said he does not
in determining which presiden- know how
ment should pass the University
Republican Gov. Louie
Senate if it is "discussed in the tial candidate shall have the sup- B. Nunn feels about the proposal.
open" and not behind closed port of our respective parties at Mills said that "some among
our national nominating con- - the Democratic
doors.
leadership," favor it.
A presidential primary bill
passed the Kentucky House during the 1968 session, but was
bottled up in a Senate committee.
Mills and DeFalaise said that
even in 1968, when activity increased, especially in the Democratic party, no more than 25,000
Kentuckians participated in the
mass county and legislative conventions to determine the presidential choice.
"The primary would, by conservative estimates, bring out at
least 500,000 participants and the
could conceivably e.cn
) figure 1,000,000,"
reach
they said.
No Extra Cost

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In those disciplines where
there is no advisory council, the
college or department head, in
consultation with the presidents
of Student Government and the
Craduate and Professional Students Association, would select
the new student members. From
that point on, the students would
select the new members.

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It was an

Same Old
Story!

scene

Kentucky getting by Tennessee's
defense, making 54 percent of its shots and grabbing the rebounds on
the majority of the missed shots. Mike Pratt scores two points after
eluding several Tennessee defenders. The Wildcats, in posting the 2
win, remain aloj the .Southeastern Omferene standings. UK is 0
in the SEC, 130 overall. The loss virtually ended any title hopes Tennessee had. See pages six and seven for story and pictures.
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In addition, the statement

said a presidential primary
would not cost taxpayers a single extra cent.
"A May primary already is
held for the purpose of nominating our congressional candidates, and in three of the last
four presidential years Kentucky
has had a senatorial primary,"
Mills and DeFalaise said.
They said, "We have already
contacted a number of legislators from both parties who are
willing to support our measure
we expect that a bill will be
Introduced shortly."

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KERNEL Monday, Jan. 19, 1970

Mountain Craftsman Exhibits Primitive Art
By JAMES FUDGE
Kernel Staff Writer
Primitive sculpture. It flourished in the 19th century, and a
primitive sculptor is now generally thought to be a thing of the

past.
Edgar Tolson,

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(behind showcase) look on as admirers view Tolson' s carving, "Noah and the Ark." Tol son's show,
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Art Gallery, features the most comprehensive
collection of Tolson' s work ever assembled. The
collection was compiled by Bell and art professor
Michael Hall.
Kernel Photo by Dave Herman

'J & M' Undeserving Of Criticism
By DAN GOSSETT

Arts Editor
Most of the local and national movie critics and a lot
flickof the vocal
er freaks. have unreservedly
thumbed their artistic noses at
"John and Mary." Taking full
advantage of my authoritarian
relationship with this column,
I hereby thumb my artistic nose
at the clods who criticized what
I consider to be a fundamentally
fine motion picture.
Perhaps the major reason
"John and Mary" is such an
outstanding movie is that producer Ben Kadish and director
Peter Yates have managed to
take some of the tired and trite
techniques of old Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant pictures
and improve on them. The technique is the use of flashbacks
combined with the
thoughts of the two major characters. The twist comes into play
through the fact that while John
is talking about one of his past
experiences, you see the actual
flashback as Mary perceives it.
'Although the plot is a familiar one, Yates and screen
tried-and-tr-

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SHORT STORY
By RAY

HILL

well dressed man carrying
an expensive trombone case entered the restaurant. His face
was tanned, and his carefully
.trimmed hair was just beginning
to gray at the temples. He sat
down at a comer table and leaned
the case against the wall.
After lunch, he ordered a drink
and sipped it slowly. Occassional he would look at the trombone case, and his eyes would
y
assume a
expression.
He would stare at the case a long
time and then look away.
He finished his drink and
glanced at his watch. Then he
lifted the trombone case and
placed it on the table. Carefully,
he opened the lid. He withdrew
a shotgun with a sawed-of- f barrel. Slowly, calmly, he put the end
of the short barrel in his mouth,
closed his eyes, and pulled the
A

far-awa-

writer John Mortimer don't allow
it to become hackneyed. Boy
meets girl on Friday night, they
have a few drinks, go to his
modernistic pad and then leap
gleefully into the sack. The rest
of the weekend they spend playing silly games with each other
trying to figure out where each
of them is, sexually and mentally.

schmuck about the whole thing
and rushes off to spend four or
five hours combing the city for
her. When he gives up and goes
dejectedly back to his apartment,
he realizes that she had been
there all along. She had been
hiding in the kitchen contemplating the situation and a brook
trout. After a little kissy-fac- e
they decide that she is going to
move in with him. Then, back to
the sack.

He tries to come on like a
super cool bachelor, all independence and virility. At the same
The acting in "John and
time she is trying to impress
on him the idea that she is just Mary" is adequate and profesas sexually cool, independent and sional, but not spectacular. One
selective as he is and that she of the blurb quotes in some of
doesn't scramble into bed with the picture's advertisements says
Hoffman's
that
just any clown who buys her a ance Dustinexceeds his performwork in
here
drink. The game is called "justi"
and neither one "Midnight Cowboy." That is
fy your
totally absurd. In "Cowboy"
of them is very good at it.
Hoffman came up with one of
Both of them are on the remakes the game the stellar performances in any
bound, which
year. As far as Hoffman is coneasier to initiate. A leggy libidinous model has just moved out cerned, all that "John and Mary"
of John's apartment because of proves is that he is a consistently
his fascistic tidiness and his gour- fine actor and in the same class
met approach to eating and cook- with Rod Steiger and Alan Arkin,
who never turn in patently bad
ing, all of which he does himself. Mary just ended an affair performances.
with a myopic political hack
Mia Farrow is also very cred(Michael Tol an) who is married ible and proficient in this flick.
and drives around in a Mercedes. That is a little bit
surprising,
She finally gets tired of making
seeing as how she seems to be
it once a week between dinner freaked out on
monand midnight in a Plaza Hotel sters
(Satan and Sinatra).
room and gives him the air when
The Twentieth-Centur- y
Fox
he starts talking about divorcing
production is now appearing at
his wife and marrying her.
After Mary leaves John's the Kentucky Theater.
apartment in a huff, he suddenly
realizes he has been a real llllUllllillHIIIIIIIIIU!
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said of the show, "especially
for someone as old as I am."

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primitive sculptor who practices
the art now, and he does it well.
The people around Campton,
Ky., Tolson's home town, have
seen his work for years, but only
recently has it attracted the attention so many people believe
it deserves. And this attention
has not been limited to a small
area; it is almost national.
The exhibition in the Student
Center Gallery, which opened
Sunday night, is the most comprehensive showing ever assembled. Over 40 pieces of the
artist's work were on display,
ranging from small wooden dolls
to carved stone dogs of sandstone weighing over 200 pounds.
The show opened with 26
pieces of new work, then unsold.
By 9 p.m. they all were sold,
and orders for more were being
taken.
Tolson's works are quite diverse. One case held a small doll,
an alligator, a dove, an owl
and an Adam and Eve group,
including a tree with a serpent.
Another case held yokes of carved
and painted oxen, plaques,
another Adam, and Eve group,
and several walking sticks with
serpents twined around the shaft.
Perhaps the most complicated
was an ark, complete with animals and Noah and his family.
A man leans out the window,
and a dove, complete with olive
branch, is perched on his hand.
Tolson explained that he has
been carving, off and on, most
of his life, but that only in the last
five years, since he was "knocked

out of work," has he been concentrating his efforts solely on his
art. Only recently has he begun
to sell his works; before, he gave
them to friends and relatives.
Even though his work has received attention recently, it is by
no means pulling a small following. The Student Center Callery
was full nearly the entire time
with admirers, people buyingthe
works on sale, some talking to
Tolson about his art, and others
seeking his autograph. Not for a
minute was Tolson left alone; he
was always involved in conversation with a friend or someone
attending the show.
The desire for Tolson's work
is not limited to this area, though;
Tolson estimates there are two of
his Adam and Eve groupings,
by far his most popular, in almost every state in the Union.
The artist himself knows that
some of his works, though a limited number, are in Japan.
But even here his popularity
does not stop. Every year, Tolson
makes a trip to Washington to
take some of his carvings to the
Smithsonian Institute. An art
dealer from New York City makes
trips to see him and to buy some
of the carvings for an art museum
in New York.
Tolson himself was surprised
for the showing
at the turn-oin the Student Center, and was
more surprised at the number of
his works that were at the show.
As Michael Hall, who along with
Rick Bell compiled the works
for the exhibition, showed him the
works, some of which dated back
to 1944, Tolson recalled each
item and to whom he had given
or sold it.

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Every "tightwad" item
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* The Student Vote
In times when championing student causes is an unpopular avocation, two state senators deserve commendation for a recent bill presented in the Kentucky General Assembly.
Sen. Carroll Hubbard,
and Sen. Clyde Middlcton,
have introduced Senate Bill 75 that would provide voting
privileges to faculty and student members of state college and university
boards of trustees and regents.
The 1968 General Assembly displayed foresight and innovation whei
it provided for student members to the boards of trustees and regents
of all state colleges two years ago. The move gave Kentucky distinction
as one of the first states in the nation to make such provisions. That
The bill proposed by Sens.
step was a great one, but only half-waHubbard and Middleton would complete the step and give the Kentucky college student the voice he needs on his school's governing
board.
Kentucky is known for lacking in certain educational aspects, but
the passage of such bills by the legislature can hopefully be construed
as a look at better things to come.
In addition to the prospect of providing a future for student participation above the token level, the student vote on the Board of
Trustees should be granted as a natural reward. Kentucky's students
have illustrated many times their maturity and their ability to accept
responsibility. Even when student protests have occurred on Kentucky
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approach. There
campuses they have been conducted in a very
have been no demands or ultimatums, merely rational presentations of
student concerns.
Despite the unfortunate opposition from the office of Gov. Louie
B. Nunn, we are hopeful the legislators will recognize and put to use
Kentucky's most valuable resource, its youth.

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Is That All There Is To A Controversy?
JOHN A. PACKAGE
Is That All There Is?
On the night of November 20th at the
University of Kentucky student center
ballroom, I had the unique experience
of listening to an
professor,
Timothy Leary, express his views on

thinks exactly alike on all issues all of
the time. We are alike because of the fact
that there are, from a practical standpoint, a limited number of possible viewpoints on each issue; therefore, we will
be in agreement with someone, somewhere, on one issue or another.

By

Religion, Politics, Sex, and Drugs. I would
like to summarize my impression of the
speaker's viewpoints on those four sub-- :
jects. The speaker seemed to believe that
God created man and woman that they
might seek pleasure, that they were endowed with a sexual instinct so that they
might have a means of seeking pleasure,
that Marijuana exists to make life seem
more pleasurable, and that the purpose of
the political system is to allow and perhaps ensure the participation in pleasure
to one's heart's content.
At the conclusion of this hour-lon- g
speech one thought kept running through
my mind, "Is that all there is?" I would
have dismissed the experience as not being
worthy of more of my time were it not
for the fact that the speaker had received
more than generous applause throughout
his whole speech. Because of the apparent
approval of his comments and the gravity
of the content of the speech, I feel compelled to reply to it.
In the following discussion I will reply
to the speaker's comments as I recall
them as I had no means of recording
the speech verbatim. The first comment
that stands out in my mind is the statement that Cod's greatest gift to man is
"Grass"; that is, Marijuana. That statement was made because the speaker felt
that the drug, Marijuana, was perfectly
safe and that it increased sensuality. I
decided to investigate to determine if
Marijuana was considered safe by an authority other than the speaker. According to the Encyclopedia International
there is evidence to indicate that Marijuana is not safe. One can become psychologically addicted to its use and continued heavy use can result in mental
deterioration.
To reassure the audience that they
could act contrary to established norms,
the speaker informed them that tley were
individuals and that they could dress
as they choose and listen to whatever
type of music they choose. For those who
are concerned with being an individual,
individuality exists within us from the
moment we are conceived. It does not liave
to be proclaimed, earned, or acquired from
anyone or by anyone. It is a result of that
which I believed to be Cod's greatest
gift to man, tlie gift of intelligence; that
is, the capacity to think and to reason
as embodied in, and enabled by, our
brain. We are individuals
computer-lik- e
by virtue of the fact that no two of us

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The speaker then proceeded with an
old theme. He attacked the Victorian
Era by stating that the body is beautiful,
that sex is not a vulgar thing to be
whispered about, and that our young
women should be "love queens." I agree
that the human body is beautiful if that
means in the almost miraculous manner in
which it is designed and functions. If
it means that the body is beautiful to
look at, I think that depends on the viewer
and the particular body in question. I
agree that sex is not a vulgar thing to
be whispered about. I would go further
though and say that if sex is indulged
in simply for itself, it provides only a
temporary physical release that leaves
both the "love queen" and "love king"
disappointed, unsatisfied, and quite often
worried. I would suggest that if you would
be loved, be loved for the way in which
you think, feel, and act toward yourself,
toward life, and equally important, toward
others. You will then be loved long after your physical appearance has changed
and be remembered, by those who had
the good fortune to know you, long after
you have departed this life.
If my memory serves me correctly,
the speaker then shifted his attention
to a place called "Woodstock." The significance of this particular place, and
others like it, is that thousands of young
men and women from all over the United
States came together, helped one another,
shared their food, and generally practiced
the principle of brotherly love. In essence,
these young people were saying that love
is better than hate, that peace is better
than war, and that helping each other is
better than tearing each other down. I
agree wholeheartedly with those sentiments as do most people. Hie question
comes to my mind though, "Is that all
there is?". After all, we have thousands
of people congregating at athletic events
without violence resulting. If all we do
is blame our parents for the state the
world is in and then promptly seek escape
through an obsession with pleasure, wliat
will be our answer when our children
ask, "Why is the world so full of problems?" Can we blame our parents for the
wars of their generation and still allow
a minority of our generation to turn peaceful demonstrations into violent riots. The
real challenge in my mind is not just
being able to get along together to luve
fun, but to be able to work together to

build a better world; not just to protest
war, but to eliminate the causes of war;
not just to protest poverty, but to help
the poor learn the skills necessary to
achieve a better standard of living through
their own ability; not just to preach
" Utopian" ideals without offering a means
of achieving those ideals. Perhaps before
we criticize others, we should prove that
we are able to do better than they.
The speaker then shifted his attack
to "authority" figures. He stated that most
of our politicians are drunk in office
most of the time; that all politicians
are liars be they Democrats or Republicans; that our parents are hooked on
"down drugs" such as tranquillizers,
sleeping pills, etc.; that there are seven
million alcoholics in the United States
and one hundred thousand people addicted to Heroin; therefore, the older generation has no right to protest the use
of "safe" drugs such as "Grass" and
"L.S.D." As for the attacks on parents,
politicians, and other authority figures
not enumerated here, the speaker's comments are similar to the useless, erroneous,
overgeneralizations made by those people
that consider that all people who dress
differently are weird and all people who
protest war and killing are
From my own personal experience, I cannot say that my friends or my parents
are hooked on alcohol or on medicinal
drugs although they do use some of these
things in moderation on occasion. If the
speaker's figures are accurate concerning
alcoholics and heroin addicts, then there
must be approximately one hundred and
ninety two million and nine hundred
thousand people not addicted to either
alcohol or heroin. The only justification
that I heard the speaker make concerning the use of Marijuana or L.S.D. is
that he uses them, that life seems more
pleasant under their influence, and that
some unfortunate souls have allowed
themselves to become addicted to alcohol
and heroin, both of which are definitely
unhealthy.
The speaker seemed to question those
in authority; therefore, I think it only
fitting that we question his assumption
of authority. In the first place, he mentioned that he had used L.S.D. on hundreds of occasions and apparently had suffered no ill effects. He subsequently admitted that he was biased toward their
use. He stated that he kept
with the latest scientific information concerning drugs and their abuse and that,
in liis opinion, certain drugs are safe.
I might have been reassured by this individual's ability to digest all of the

mand of the English language enabled
him to describe his L.S.D. trips only as
"magic." My confidence was further shattered by the speaker's subsequent comment that only 20 percent of any group
would be emotionally and psychologically prepared for the use of drugs; therefore, if one would project those figures,
he would realize that only 20 percent
of any group could use drugs safely. In
order that the members of the audience
might learn whether they were a member of the elite minority that could use
drugs safely, the speaker offered the following scientific method for determining that fact. He said that each of you
would know in your heart whether you
could use drugs safely.
That last comment really "blew my
mind." Before any of you decide that you
know your own heart, before you decide
that this
professor is an authority on drugs, perhaps you might go
to the library and do some research on
your own. May I suggest that you start
with Readers Digest for the month of
December I960, turn to page 81, and read
the article that begins on that page.
For those of you too busy to do so,
according to the article, a young man
tried L.S.D. on two occasions. Those
two occasions were sufficient to cause
that man to be placed in a mental hospital. For those of you that may have
tried L.S.D. on several occasions and feel
fine now, you might investigate the meaning of the term "backlash." This means,
in essence, that one or even two years
after an L.S.D. trip you can lose control
of your mind as an after-effeof the use
of that drug.
I cannot believe that many of my
fellow students were impressed by the
content of Mr. Leary 's speech; but, if
you were, I suggest that you reevaluate
the speaker, the speech, and yourselves.
I suggest that you think about whether
you have so little confidence in yourselves and the members of your generation that you are willing to risk losing
control of your mind to seek escape
through alcohol, drugs, sex, or any other
means advocated by anyone so deficient
in themselves that they cannot face the
realities of life.
ct

To the individual or individuals that
made possible the opportunity for a speech
in favor of the use. of Marijuana and
L.S.D., I can only hope that you already have, or will in the very near
future, present a speaker qualified to offer facts to refute the wisdom of using
those drugs. I feel that it is extremely
important to discuss controversial issues;
scientific information concerning drugs however, if only one viewpoint is prewere it not for the fact that his com sented, a controversy does not exist.
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* THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Monday, Jan.

19, 1970- -5

Nigerian Govt. Returns Peace To Biafrans
LACOS,

NIGERIA

(AP)

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Nigeria Airways' poster calls this

"Here is a message for all peo- gawdy sprawl of
and
ple in the Eastern region: The
shanties, peace means
war is over. The war is over." many things to many people.
"I'm going to buy me that
Day after day, every hour on
the hour, Nigerian Radio broad- new car I've been waiting on
casts the news, following it with now two years," exults Slimone
an urgent appeal to "all misled Okowi, the taxi driver, snapping
Ibo brothers" to come out of the off a lovely three corner shot in
bush and help rebuild the na- the downtown
Popular Pool
rs

tin-roof-

tion.