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Kentucky Kernel

‘Vol. XCll. No. 77 Established 1894 University of Kentucky. Lexington, Kentucky Independent Since 1971

Tuesday, November 28, 1989

Universities say they should be part of reform

By MARK R. CHELLGREN
Associated Press

FRANKFORT, Ky. — Higher
education must be included in the
current debate on education reform,
university presidents told the panel
charged with drafting a constitu-
tional school system yesterday.

The concept of public education
also should be expanded to include
college and post- graduate work, said
Western Kentucky University Pres-
ident Thomas Meredith.

“Kentucky‘s public education is
not just kindergarten through
(grade) 12," Meredith told the Task

Professor
collecting
plants for
arboretum

By JOHN COONEY
Staff Writer

Robert McNiel may not have a
green thumb, but he is slowly ac-
quiring one.

McNiel, a professor in UK’s hor-
ticulture department, is helping to
develop a 50-acre “walk of Ken-
tucky" that will be in the lOO-acre,
$22.6 million arboretum behind
Commonwealth Stadium.

The “walk” will feature plants
and trees indigenous to Kentucky,
including rare species of trees such
as the blue ash, yellowwood, big-
leaf magnolia and aquatic honey-
locust.

About 10.000 plants are being
collected.

The “walk" is not expected to be
completed until well into the next
century, McNiel said.

“The project won't be finished
until the next five or six decad'
McNiel said. “It just can’t happen
in the next five or six years because
of the new native plant material.”

During the next decade, about
10,000 plants will be collected,
McNiel said.

McNiel and several horticulture
students began collecting the plants
about three years ago.

McNiel said that the work has
not been easy because of the large
number of plants in the collection
and because weather conditions
have not always been favorable
when looking for the items.

“Some days it's been snowing
and on others it’s been raining," he
said.

Most of the plants only can be
collected from September through
November and from February
through April, McNiel said.

“In the fall we collect ripe seeds,”
he said. “From February through
April, we collect some seeds, small
seedlings and cuttings. We propa-

See PROFESSOR, Page 3

Force on Education Reform. “Peo-
ple in our state want education at
every level more than they’ve ever
wanted it before.“

The presidents of the eight state
universities offered a list of sugges—
tions to improve education to the
panel that has been charged with
charting a new course for Kentucky
schools.

The suggestions ranged from rou-
tine. such as replacement of the
elected superintendent of public in-
struction with an appointed official,
to explosive, such as a repeal of the
current law that restricts property
tax collections.

Public education shouldn’t end
with high school, presidents say

On topics of governing local
school districts, Meredith, who was
the spokesman for the presidents,
said more state control should be
exercised over local boards of educa-
tion. Meredith also said that having
some board members elected from
at-large positions would help elimi-
nate some of the problems of local

boards.

A mandatory personnel policy
monitored by the state also would
help eliminate some of the em-
ployment antics practiced in dis
tricts.

On finance, the presidents said
schools should receive enough
money to provide an adequate and

Rolling Stone editor P.J. O'Rourke imitates a parakeet making an incoming artillery shell noise

last night. O'Rourke addressed an audience at Worsham Theatre.

O’Rourke tells tales

By MICHAEL L JONES
Editorial Editor

P. J. O‘Rourke, international
affairs desk chief for Rolling
Srone magazine and the self-
labeled “master of bonzo joumal-
ism," brought his offbeat wit and
political insights to the Wors-
ham Theatre last night and give
his insights trips to South Afri-
ca, lsrael, Central America and
Lebanon.

O’Rourke‘s speech, sponsored
by the Student Activities Board,

included one-liners on topics
such as:

The Berlin Wall: “It‘s the
only good concrete I‘ve seen iii
the Eastern bloc."

Democracy: “Not having it
is terrible, but getting it ain't so
great either."

East Germany: “How can
you make a nation of Gemians
into a poor place‘.’ It takes a gen-
ius."

Racism: “Racism is a very
simple thing as long as you pre-
tend you don‘t have any."

WHAEL CLEVENOEWKQMOI Sufi

of travels

Lebanon: “The Lebanese are
the nicest people in the world,
they just like to kill each other."

War: “People who don’t get
dead usually get rich things
never gets so bad that people for-
get to be corrupt."

The Cold War: “We put the
Soviet Empire on its knees be-
cause no one wants to wear Bul-
garian jeans."

Being a 19605 activist:
“The number of people who got

See O’ROURKE. Page 3

Pitino makes debut
as UK coach tonight

By BARRY REEVES
Sports Editor

Sports trivia buffs will have one
more question to answer after to-
night: Who was Rick Pitino’s first
opponent as UK basketball coach?

The answer is Ohio University.

“l’ll tell you what, I sure don‘t
see this as an enviable task," first-
year Ohio coach Larry Hunter said.
“I don‘t know if it’s an honor. but I
will say it's a privilege for our pro
gram to play somebody like Ken-
Lucky.“

When UK meets Ohio 7:30 to-
night at Rupp Arena, it also will

mark the first time a Pitino-coached
team has played in Rupp Arena.

Even though his team could have
one of the worst records in UK his—
tory, Pitino said he believes that he
and his team will receive a warm
welcome from the Rupp Arena
faithful.

“I think they’ll be typical Ken-
tucky fans —— behind us 110 per-
cent," said Pitino, who is in his
first-year as the Wildcat coach.

Even with the crowd behind him,
Pitino said he will be nervous be-
fore the game starts.

“1 got butterflies at Madison
Square Garden before the season,“

UK-Ohio U.

Records: UK 00, Ohio U.
1-0.

When: 7:30 p.m. tonight.
Where: Rupp Arena.
Radio: Live on
WVLK-AM/FM with
Caywood Ledlord and
Dave Baker.

Television: Delayed on
WKYT with Ralph Hacker
and Jim Master.

Pitino said yesterday at a news con-
ference. “1 got butterﬂies at Provi-
dence, and l even got them at Bos<
ton University before 100 people.
so I am sure that l’ll have some
butterﬂies tomorrow night.

See PlTth’), Back page

Black Velvet draws on

inﬂuences of U2
Story, Page 2.

equitable education and “new reve-
nue measures should be enacted it
necessary."

Members of the task force grilled
the presidents on the subject of
training teachers, and the presidents
acknowledged that changes are net-ll
ed in that system.

Eastern Kentucky LanL‘lsll)’
President Hatily Fundcrburk said
teachers need to concentrate more
on what is taught rather than how
to teach it. “We’re trying to get
more subject matter in there and
less methodology,“ he said.

The presidents emphasi/cd, how.
ever. that teachers mti~l \llii he

taught how to teach. Still, the pres-
idents said the colleges of education
are attracting good students.

“There are better students who are
going into the program now than
ever before," said Mary Smith. ll'l‘
tcrim president of Kentucky State
ljniversity.

There is still a problem. howev-
er, of the universities having to
make up what the public schools
tailed to provide to sludt‘nls. the
presidents \aiti

"They are students w ho need a lot
of individual help and attention."
said Morehead State l. lll\‘t‘f\ll}'
President (‘ \v‘lson (irotc

Bill to extend stay
for Chinese students

By VICTORIA MARTTN
Staff Writer

If President Bush approves a bill
that would give Chinese students
an extension to stay in the United
States after their visas expire, it
may still be the “lesser of two
evils” for UK and other universities
across the country, according to a
UK professor.

Pressure from the Chinese gov-
ernment could cause President Bush
to veto the bill, the Bush adminis-
tration said, which would force
some UK students from China to
return to their homes as soon as
they complete the school year.

But if Bush doesn‘t veto the bill
that was introduced by the House
last week, the Chinese govemment
may limit cultural and student ex»
change programs with the United
States.

Loms (how, a mechanical engi~
neering professor and former adviser
to Chinese Students and Scholars
Solidarity Union, which lobbied in
Washington, DC. several weeks

ago, said that he supports the bill
even if it means that the Chinese
govemment will cut off educational
programs.

“I don't think he (Bush) should
veto it (the bill)," Chow said. “He
should go with what Congress de-
cided. It would hurt a lot of people.

"There is no good choice, no way
that everyone is happy. If he vetoes
it. the Chinese government Wlli be
happy but there could be some
people here whose lives could be
damaged

"Some students can’t go back be-
cause they will not be safe i think
allowing the bill to become law
is the lesser of two evils in [hlS §1l~
nation.“

Syham Manns. immigrations
specialist in the UK Office of Inter-
national Affairs, also said that she
is opposed to the bill. but she said
she has not she has not yti consid-
cred its ramifications.

“The (Chinese) govemmeni lt‘t‘ls
that this ipassing the ML l\ :i dras—

Sce BlLL Pallt.‘ 5

17 from UK football
on SEC honor roll

Staff reports

l'K set Ll new recoil ~\.ii'i i ‘
players selected to litt‘ l "6’ N‘lilli

eastern Conference inoiiitiii Aux»
deinic Honor Roll. the intigiic an—
nounced yesterday

UK, which finished in? made a
clean sweep tn Nib) by claiming
both the College Football AxSOL'l'd'
tion and SEC top Spots tor academ-
ic achievement.

The Wildcats won the (PA Ata-
demic Achievement Awtud iw it‘llti‘
ing the nation with a 00 percent
graduation rate last spring. [K has
led or shared the title for most SEC
Academic Honor Roll selections
iivc oi the last six years.

'l'ht‘ 17 i K players xt‘it‘t‘lc‘d ill

the SEC Picadctiiic iirnor Rill
team is the most placed by a \ingic
~chooi \ll‘ic't‘ the tcam wis iormcd
’l litter. T he old ictord w as l.'. \t‘i
:2 the i riivcrsity ot Mississippi in
'tix'ﬁ

iltis i\ a gicat honor. and I‘m
war happy with the number o:
tuners we had do so well academi-
ally." l K coach Jerry Claiborne
\llti. “In all, II or out 1" players
\clccted were seniors. The) reali/c
inc importance oi their education
and it s proof that our student—
.tlilit‘lt‘\ progress at L'K.

~’l hanks also go out to our
t‘AlS ((‘entcr Ior Academic and
illltlrl‘di Senices‘) stall, which I‘

See L‘K, Page 3

Dig reveals Lexington’s past

By REBECCA MULLINS
Contributing Writer

Lexmgton was considered the
“Athens of the West" during the
late l8th and early 19th centuries.
according to a historical archaeolor
gist in the UK archeology depart
merit.

In a lecture. Saturday Kim
McBride said that in the 1800..
Lexington was larger than Pitts
burgh and had more art events to
offer than Cincinnati.

In the lecture, one of a series of
seminars sponsored by UK as a
part of the Saturday Seminars pro-
gram, McBride also discussed an ar-
chaeological dig underway on the
comers of Lime and High streets in

lexmgtoii.

The Fayette-Laban Count} gov
crniiicnt ordered in tall limo that
the area to he excavated, and in
:xllllllilc‘l I‘>X7 about I” archaeolo-
gist» in the l K archeology l‘lil
grtiiii began digging iii the two
Nodes

The land being excavated i‘c-
longed to the l..R. Cooke ("hevro
lct and Tom Wood Pontiac can deal
crsliips, and the archaeologists have
din: underneath the two dealerships
parking lots.

.-\l'tcr htilldo/itig trciichcs .it the
slit‘ and remoViiig several layers of
unlabeled gravel filling dllti sedi-
iiicht. the archaeologists discovered
the iciii.iiiis oi residential neighbor»
hwdx from the late 1700s.

On the l .R. (fooke lot, rcmnaiits
of the home of l.c\iitgiori's oldest
resident, Asa liirra. avert i-‘Lll‘iii
Farm made posts and rails dlld prob»
ably was Lexington‘s most inﬂucn
ital L‘IilLCl‘I in the mid—lWOs. The
archaeologists also found substan-
tial well water on the LR. (‘ookc
lot. some of which is believed to
have belonged to Farra.

The lime and High streets digs
excavated six cisterns and three
w clls, as well as an iron and steel
pipe system dating to I885.

These discoveries infer that l t’\~
ington had what McBride called an
“aheadrofthe-time" watcr .\_\ stcni llI
lht‘ lellls.

Notre Dame loss

confuses title picture
Story, Back page.

2 - Kentucky Kernel, Tuesday, November 28, 1989

DIVERSIONS

New band Black Velvet rejects the synthesized sound

Irish band
drew heavy

influence
from U2

By KAREN KRENIS
USA TODAY/Apple College
Information Network

Three years ago, Kieran Kennedy
found himself in a rather unusual
position. He had written nearly a
full album of songs, but he did not
have a band to help him play them.

So the Irish singer, songwriter
and guitarist did what any deter-
mined young artist would do. He
combed the streets of Dublin and
turned up a bass player (Shay Fit7~
gerald), a drummer (David Homer)

and a backup vocalist (Maria
Doyle). They called themselves The
Black Velvet Band and immediately
began rehearsing so they could start
playing Dublin clubs.

But even before the band had
forged much of a local reputation,
fate — in the form of U2 drummer
Larry Mullen Jr. —— stepped in.

Mullen happened upon a Black
Velvet rehearsal in late 1987 and
liked the band so much that he
asked them to cut a single for U2’s
Own Mother Records label. That
single. 3 wrenching rocker titled
“Old Man Stone,” became a local
hit and led to a record deal with
Elektra Records.

The resulting album, “When Jus-
tice Came,” is an imaginative mix
of American and Irish folk, blues,
and modern rock, with Kennedy's
thick, contemplative vocals the ce-
ment holding it all together.

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Young’s “Freedom" to Tracy Chap-
man's “Crossroads" and Bob Dy-
lan‘s “Oh Mercy," the Black Vel-
vet’s “Justice" is uncluttered and
virtually free of studio wizardry.

“I wanted to make an album that
has a warmth and humanity to it,"
said Kennedy in a telephone inter—
view from a tour stop in London.
“I didn’t want people to be alienated
by the instruments — I wanted
them to be enchanted by them.”

So instead of turning to synthe»
sizers, studio overdubs and meticu-
lous, layered recording methods,
Kennedy and British producer Peter

Anderson, who is best known for
his work with modern folk singer
Michelle Shocked. stuck to the
basics.

Instruments on “Justice" range
from Kennedy's consistent, smooth
guitar to the wailing accordion that
drives the title track and the electric
guitar that snarls its way through
“Old Man Stone” and “We Called
lt."

And because Anderson and Ken-
nedy wanted a clear, natural sound
to the album, "Justice" was record-
ed in live takes over a period of a
few weeks.

“If you want to capture the soul

of a song, you have to just go in
the studio together and play it,"
Kennedy said.

Now, all the band has to do is go
onstage and “just play it" for audi-
ences across America.

The Velvet Band is in the middle
of its first US. tour. For the first
three weeks, the band opened for
The BoDeans. a modern-music
group popular with the college
crowd. The Velvet Band will tour
with 10,000 Maniacs through late
next month.

Between the two tours, it’s a
good bet that the Velvet Band will
take on a few converts. But unlike

Kb Bowma
Arts Editor

many European musicians who
tend to view America with a con-
temptuous edge and insist they
aren‘t concerned with winning
American audiences, Kennedy said
he wants to take the country by
storm.

“I’m rarin’ to come to America.
It’s a brilliant country," he said.
“To a person who isn’t American,
it‘s still the land of glory. It’s got
your worst nightmares and your
biggest dreams and everything in
between.

“I hear there are states where
there are wheat fields as far as the
eye can see."

Book offers unflinching look at Huston

By MARK BESTEN
USA TODAY/Apple College
Information Network

On location in Reno, Nev., for
the filming of 1961’s “The Mis-
fits,” John Huston and a dazed, de-
pressed Marilyn Monroe repaired to
a casino, where Huston shortly
found himself down $50,000 at the
crap table.

Taking her turn, Marilyn in-
quired, “What should I ask the dice
for, John?" Not looking up, Hu-
ston replied in his booming, mel-
litluous voice, the voice of God in
“The Bible": “Don’t think, honey,
just throw. That’s the story of your
life."

Lawrence Grobcl’s The Ilustonx,
(Scribners; $24.95), is the story of
John Huston’s life as a lover and

f ighter, painter and practical joker,
father and master storyteller.

The inclusion of his parents and
progeny in the title and scope of
the book is at least partly a market-
ing gimmick, owing to daughter
Anjelica's fast-rising star. But this
is John’s story, and there is not an—
other like it in the history of the
cinema.

Huston was America’s most lit—
erary film director. He adapted the
works of Rudyard Kipling, Flan-
nerv O’Connor and Herman Mel-
ville for the screen, and collaborat-
ed with the likes of Arthur Miller,
Jean-Paul Sartre and Tennessee
Williams.

While reading about Huston‘s
exploits With these greats, it is so-
bering to consider that many of to-
day's wundcrkind directors proudly

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as their major sources of inspira-
tion.

Fond of claiming that he had no
distinctive filmmaking style, Hu-
ston sometimes chose a project
only because it bore no resem-
blance to any of his previous films.
Grobel’s detailed, incisive analysis
of his body of work bears that out.

Huston’s feverish, paranoid
“Treasure of the Sierra Madre” is as
dissimilar to the broad, sweeping
“Man Who Should Be King" as
that film is to his overlooked, har-
rowingly funny “Wise Blood."

But as Huston notes in his post-
humously broadcasted anti-smoking
spots, all of his films involve
some form of courage.

Cowardice was a trait he simply
would not tolerate in family,

friends or film stars.

Robert Mitchum said he believed
that Huston was trying to kill him
by refusing to use stunt doubles on
“Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison,” and
Montgomery Clift feared he would
lose his already tenuous grip on
sanity as a result of constant bully-
ing on the set of “Freud."

Indeed, Huston once said that the
best thing about being a director
was the sadism. Grobel shows that
the sadism did not always stop
when the lenses were capped.

Oscar Wilde said, “My talent for
my work, but my genius for my
life." The book suggests Huston
may have fallen somewhat short of
this credo; the myth and the man
converged in his own lifetime, but
the world was left with a wealth of
brilliant, iconoclastic films.

Skinny Bones, above, and Red Fly Nation will perform at the
Wrocklage Wed. at 7:30 pm. as part of an Amnesty interna-
tional benefit. Tickets are $4 for the over-21 show.

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Nation changed investments in 19805

usa TODAY/Applo College
htormatlon Network

Put simply, the 19803 changed
the financial lives of Americans.
Many financial products common-
place as the Meade ends either didn’t
exist or were mere seedlings 10
years ago.

Consider.

-CDs and savings: A decade
ago. you couldn’t walk into a bank,
plunk down $1,000 and buy a cer-
tiﬁcate of deposit paying eight per-
cent or better. Savers were stuck
with passbook savings accounts,
which weren‘t allowed to pay more
than 5 1/2 percent.

In December 1982, bank deregu-
lation was slammed into high gear.

O’Rourke

Continued from page I

laid after those demonstrations was
phenomenal.”

O’Rourke, a native of Toledo,
Ohio. graduated from the Universi-
ty of Miami of Ohio “not knowing
how to do anything," but when he
started writing for underground
newspapers, “I stumbled into some-
thing that I really loved doing."

In 1971 he started working at Na-
tional Lampoon where he became
editor in chief before resigning in
1981.

O’Rourke did freelance work for

UK places 17

Continued from page 1

headed by Bob Bradley.”

Kicker Kenny Willis, who ended
his career as UK’s most accurate
kick 'r in school history, was
nairtul to the SEC Academic Honor
Roli for the third time. Willis, who
is a mathematics major, connected
on '29 of 41 ﬁeld goals at UK dur-
in.. his career for 70.7 percent.

. c 'iher players made the Aca-
(It‘iillL .‘It "for R011 squad for the sec-
om tam:- offensive tackle Mike
Pt‘eilcr irtastrial/technical educa-
tion), linebacker Craig Benzinger
(marketing), quarterback Chuck
Broughton (management), defensive
tackle Doug Houser (public admin-
istration graduate student), and de-

Dig reveals
history of
Lexington

Continued from page 1

McBride said the archaeologists
also found glass bottles that once
lit-'J fake medicinal products, or
“elixers” of the traveling medicine
men of the pioneer days, with
.tames like “Hamlin’s Wizard Oil”
and “Scandinavian Blood Puriﬁer.”

There are more than 10,000 such
sites in Kentucky, according to
Richard Jeffries of the UK Ofﬁce of
Statc Archaeology.

.lI lfrics said the Office of State
archaei -iogy “locates and evaluates
i-cltaeiilogical sites being threa-
“nt‘tl by another source," records
til w-r anions of the site and decides

ticzhci ll is eligible for the nation-
..i wt.‘nd(‘t)l()glcal register. The UK
01' it. t: ol State Archaeology and the
Program for Cultural Resources
have Worked with federal agencies.

Professor
finds plants
for ‘walk’

Continued from page 1

gate sassafras from the cuttings. If
there is a frost in the spring, then
there will be no seeds in the fall.”

Droughts, such as the one two
summers ago, also have an adverse
affect on the project by drying out
and killing many of the plants,
McNiel said.

McNiel said that he has gathered
plants from about 100 counties so
far.

“There are only about three to
four dozen species in the area, so
it's pretty diverse,” he said.

Besides contributing to the cam-
pus arboretum, McNiel said the
plant-collecting project has been
beneﬁcial for students.

“It has helped those students who
want to get into nursery produc-
tion," McNiel said. “They're leam-
ing aspects of propagating different
species by seed.

“I’m studying the harvest of
these plant materials and ﬁnding
out what their root system is like."

Banks could pay a ﬂoating rate on a
new type of account — the money
market account. Ten months later,
they became free to set rates on
CDs and sell them in denomina-
tions small enough to accommo-
date more individuals.

Today, savers have $1.6 trillion
in money market accounts and CDs
of less than $100,000, and only
$405 billion in the old-fashioned
passbook and statement savings ac-
counts.

-Money funds: Money funds
were invented in the 19703, but we
learned to use them in the 1980s.
At the end of 1979, there were only
2.3 million money fund accounts
with total assets of $45.2 billion.
Today, there are 20 million ac-

tells of his

Esquire, The American Spectator,
Parade and other magazines before
joining Rolling Stone. He said he
joined Rolling Stone because it
was the only magazine that would
allow him to write offbeat intema-
tional articles.

Although he has traveled to sev-
eral dangerous areas around the
world, O’Rourke said his trips usu-
ally are “too interesting and excit-
ing to be scary.”

But he did admit that he was very
scared while in Lebanon. He told
stories of exploding car bombs,
having to walk to a guardpost with
a 50 caliber machine gun pointed at

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cent of major employers offer 401
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workers, or about 25 percent of the
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writing experiences

his head, and a parakeet at the
Commodore hotel that did a perfect
impersonation of an incoming artil-
lery shell.

“After Lebanon, you never want
to hear the word ‘religion’ again,”
O’Rourke said. “People get real
hard, real fast."

He said Lebanon also was full of
drugs, which added to the hostile
environment. Cocaine sold for
about $35 a gram.

“A war zone is not one of those
‘just-say-no’ environments.“
O’Rourke said.

He said he left Lebanon with a
lot of horror stories and also it ith a

on conference honor roll

fensive guard Mike Meiners (ac-
counting).

The remaining Wildcats who
earned a spot on the Academic Hon-
or Roll squad for the first time were
tailback Darren Bilberry (telecom—
munications), offensive tackle Tom
Crumrine (first-year law student),
offensive guard Bill Hulette (man—
agement), fullback Mike Knox
(management), offensive tackle
Greg Lahr (business), quarterback
Freddie Maggard (communications),
fullback Andy Murray (real estate),
offensive guard Todd Perry (biolo-
gy), free safety Ron Robinson
(public administration graduate stu-
dent). outside linebacker Dean
Wells (business), and outside line-
backer Tony Zigman (industrial/

technical education).

UK was followed on the Academ.
ic Honor Roll team by Ole Miss
with 15 selections, Mississippi
State, 13; Vanderbilt, 9; Florida
and LSU, 7 each; Georgia, 5; Ten-

nessee, 4; Alabama, 3; and Auburn,
7

Since Claiborne began coaching
at UK in 1982, the Wildcats have
placed more players ((18) on the
SEC Academic Honor roll than any
other school. Ole Miss is the clos-
est with 60 players selected in that
eight-year span.

To be eligible for the Academic
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O’Rourke said that one ot his
best articles, about his frustrated at‘
tempts to travel to Libya, came out
of one of the worst experiences in
his travels.

“The articles that come out best
are not always the experience that
is the best,” he said.

His favorite experience, he said.
was covering the departure ol i-‘crdi-
nand Marcos from the Philippines,
but he said that story was not one
of his best.

O'Rourke said his experiences in
South Africa were among the most
enlightening of his travels. He said
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