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Thursday, September 30, 1976

By KIM Y ELTON
Kernel Staff Writer

In an eleventh hour attempt to
register people who live on and off
campus in the south side of town,
Student Government (50) and the
UK Young Democrats t YD) have set
up booths today and Friday.

Charles Baesler, county clerk,
denied the 80 Political Affairs
Committee registration certificates
because they were too late for a
deadline set early this year, but the
groups have obtained certificates
from the local Democratic
organization.

Dexter Meyer, a Fayette County
teacher, tried to set up booths on
campus last week, but was told he
would have to get “recognition,”
which meant he would have to work
with a recognized student
organization. The Dean of Students
would then have to approve the
operations.

Meyer contacted Jim Newberry,
SG Senator and chairman of the SG
Political Affairs Committee, ”I told
him (Newberry) I would supervise
the writing of the forms,“ he said, as
well as those for YD.

Fayette County Democrats
supplied the certificates for both SG
and YD. “They gave them...to me
because I know the correct way to
register people,“ Meyer continued.

Meyer is supporting Mark
Thompson, a candidate for the
Fayette Co. Board of Education in
the fifth district. “I am interested in
school board elections," he said.
“But lam also a civics teacher and
interested in government, and the
responsibility college students have

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to participate in elections. I think I
should practice what I teach.”

One reason Baesler cited for last
week’s early deadline for
registration forms was the large
number of forms they had received
that were mistakenly filled out. He
told Newberry he was using all his
deputies to correct them, another
reason he could not send any
deputies to registration booths on
campus.

Baesler said registration is always
heavier in a Presidential year.
“We’re bogged down, but we’re
doing the best we can,” he said.

Also, the Board of Elections did
instruct him to set the early closing
date, he explained. Baesler is
chairman of that board.

Nancy Daly, 86 Senator and
Political Affairs Committee
member, went to Baesler‘s office
Tuesday to ask him for some ballots,
but he refused to give them to her,
she said. “I agree with Baesler we
filed too late,” she said, “butI think
he should have given them to us
anyway. We’re responsible and
we’re interested in registering
people."

Under the Kentucky Revised
Statutes 116045, any individuals,
voluntary groups, or political
parties should have access to voter
registration forms, said Mike
Moloney, State Senator, 13th
District. “As for sending deputies,
he ( Baelser) has the right to refuse,
but anyone should be permitted to

take numbered certificates."

Scottie Kenkel, League of Women
Voters member, operated a
registration booth on campus last
week. She received numbered

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an independent student newspaper

SC, Democrats extend
voter registration drive

ballots from the Clerk’s office. “I
had to sign out numbered forms,"
she said. “I was personally
responsible for them.”

However, Baesler’s office did not
force her to stop the registration
drives last week. “They said they
would prefer I did not work this
weekend because they would have a
backlog at the Clerk’s office," she
said.

Kenkel blames the problems of
campus organizations on poor
timing. “I think these groups should
have started earlier. They should
have been starting the first of
September.”

Despite this mix-up, anyone who
has not taken advantage of earlier
registration can still register today
and tomorrow. The SG sponsored
booths will operate today at the
Sigma Nu Fratern ty House, 422
Rose Lane, and on Friday at three
locations: the Student Center from
11 a.m. to 3 pm, the Margaret I.
King Library from 12 a.m. to 3 pm.
and at the Complex in the Commons
cafeteria.

Scott Lambert [seated in checkered coat] waits
sdemnly with others for the stadium bus yesterday

Afternoon vigil

University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky

afternoon. They‘re on the site of an unfinished
Student Government bus shelter.

Computer taps students for J-Board service

By KEITH SHANNON
Kernel Staff Writer

About 150 UK students will be
receiving an unexpected “free of-
fer” in their mailboxes in the next
few weeksiAnd they won’t be
obligated to buy a thing if they ac-
cept.

The “offer” is a chance to be

What’s the cleanest thing at UK?
A Funkhouser lab rat, probably

By LEONARD KICLSAY
Kernel Staff Writer

Watch out for the rats in
i‘unkhouser.

Far above the strolling students
below, 60 rats may help to unlock the
secrets of human physiology.

They are not ordinary rats; they
are gem] free. They are raised in
flexrblc plastic bags called
“isolators” and are given constant
care, and have never been exposed
to outside air.

They are the focus of the
gnotobiotic laboratory, headed by
Dr. H. Gordon, 3 Hungarian im-
migrant.

“(inotobiotic means known life,"
Gordon said. “All animals live in
association with other animals.
Right now, your body is teeming
with bacteria. fungi and yeast in
truly galactic quantities -~up to one
billion per cubic centimeter. They
are known life. We want to know
what role they play. Are they good or

are they bad? To find out, we must
study life without these fauna."

“You can’t kill off all the bacteria
in your body. They are likea dragon
with a thousand heads; when you cut
one off, another grows. So we study
rats which have been raised from
birth in a germ-free environment."

Taking care of those rats is Carl
Hatton’s job. It is performed on the
sixth floor of Funkhouser, where
Hatton works in splendid isolation —
except for his white rats in huge
plastic bags.

“I‘ve worked for Dr. Gordon for 13
years.“ Hatton said. “I'm alone
nine-tenths of the time, but there’s
always something to do. Everything
given to these rats must be
sterilized under 20 lbs. of steam at
250 degrees —bedding, food, water.“

Does Hatton ever get lonely?

“Oh, i did at first," he said. “But
you get used to it. We moved from
the Med Center eight months ago. I
didn‘t haveany windows there: i had

to walk out in the hall to see it snow
or rain. Now, atleast, I have a view.
If they ever put me in the peniten-
tiary, they can put me in solitary for
24 hours a day, it won’t be any dif-
ferent.” '

Gordon listed some possible
results of the research: “The most
newsworthy application of our
research would concern those people
that are born without defense
systems (against bacteria). Like
that boy in Texas who has to spend
his life in a plastic bubble. We could
find something that would help
him,” Gordon said.

“Our research can help cancer
patients who are treated with drugs
which inhibit growth of fast-
reproducing cells. Besides sup-
pressing malignancies, these drugs
inhibit growth of defenses against
infection. We can put such a person
in a germ-free environment, kill all
his bacteria, and we don't have to
worry about infection.”

Carl Hatton doles out germ-free water with sealed rubber gloves
toavold contamination. Above. a rat peers out at a dirty world

he’s never known.

selected to serve on the University
Judicial Board (J—Board). And the
choice of who receives the offer is
being handled by a computer.

The whole thing is part of a rule
change in the Code of Student Rights
and Responsibilities. The new rule
takes the human element out of
selection almost completely.

Until this fall the J-Board, which
has appellate jurisdiction in cases of
student disciplinary rule violations,
was selected through a process
which involved the submission of
nominations to the SG president by
the various senators. The
president then selected the final
members of the board with the
“advice and approval” of the vice-
president d student affairs.

Under the new rules, every UK
student is assigned a number by a
computer, and the computer ran-
domly selects 300 “candidates” for
the positions. Only the 150 students
with the highest numbers will be
contacted, with the second 150 held
in reserve.

After those 150 reply (through a
post card sent with the letter), the
top-numbered 28 students who
consent will become the “pool” from
which a 7-person J-Board will be
drawn for each case it must decide.

The shift from a subjective
Student Government selection to
random selection makes the process

easier and quicker, according to
Joseph T. Burch, dean of students.
The old process was “probably too
cumbersome" to work as effectively
as it should have, he said. Because
this process has a Nov. 1 deadline,
there will not be any delays, such as
the one caused last year by SC, to
affect the board‘s formation.

T. Lynn Williamson, assistant
dean of students, said the change in
the selection process won’t affect
him in dealing with students who
have been charged with committing
a disciplinary offense. The shift does
make him feel better about the
composition of the J-Board. “In the
past I had a question as to whether a
student had an option of getting full
due process.” he said. Williamson
said he was satisfied with the
fairness of the new method.

Burch said he thinks the shift
makes sense in terms of the function
of the J-Board. “Why should we let
the political machine choose it?” he
asked. Those students selected for
the J-Board “should have no
motives other than being students in
the University,“ he said.

Although the J -Board has not been
called upon to decide disciplinary
questions in at least four years, the
students who receive the letters
should “think seriously about ser-
ving as a part of their “citizenship
role“ in the university, he said.

T. LYNN WILLIAMSON
.. . new J-Board selection is im-
provcmcnt

“It is something thatis there to be
used if it becomes necessary,” he
said. “It's got to be there as a part of
the basic rights of students.”

 

Clearing sky

and warmer

The rain clouds will clear
today, but there‘s still a30 per
cent chance of rain. The high
temperature will be in the
upper 60‘s with a low tonight
near 50. Warmer Friday with
a high in the 70's.

 

 

 

Sports secretary Louise Gilchrist

will retire after 31 years of duty

By DICK GABRIEL
Assistant Managing Editor

“I’ve probably done everything
but coach and clean the restrooms,"
says Louiw Gilchrist, assistant to
theathletic director. That statement
pretty well sums up her value to the
athletic department.

Louise is retiring at the end of the
school year, reaching the magic age
of 65 in November. And when she
leaves, she‘ll take the invaluable
experience she has compiled during
her 31 years with the Athletic
Association.

Her duties are basically the ones
Larry lvy, the new assistant athletic
director of finance will inherit. She
arranges all transportation and
lodging for UK team when they
travel and works with Athletic
Director Cliff Hagan on budgetary

matters, among countless other
jobs.

Transpa‘tation is the fun part,"
she said. “You get to meet so many
interesting people. Dealing with the
conference people over the phone,
I've made more nice friends, some
of them I‘ve never even seen.”

Bernie Sh ively hired Louise in 1945
and since then, she has watched
three athletic directors, five football
coaches and two basketball coaches
come and go. But her favorite times
were the years of football coach
Paul “Bear” Bryant.

“I would say mainly because it
was my first taste of big time college
athletics,“ she said. "He was a very
interesting person. He acted like he
was so tough with that gravelly
voice but he was the most tender
hearted man I have ever met in my
life. You just couldn‘t believe from

seeing how tough he was on the field,
how warrnhearted and good he was
and how carefully he’d listen to each
boy’s problems.

“He was able to get the best out of
his players...mediocre players. But
he could get to them some how and
get their best efforts,” she said.

Becaue of Bryant’s interest in his
players, some of his old UK “pupils"
staged a dinner for him last year in
Louisville. Louise was the only
woman invited.

After Bryant left, Kentucky
football began to fan on hard times.
It changed the complexion of the
atmosphere, Louise said. It’s a
different place to work after a win,
but just as different after a loss.

“There’s nothing to compare with
the Monday morning after a winning

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“ ’m still

not a
crook’

“I am not a crook,” said former President
Richard Nixon, shortly before he resigned from
office in August, 1974.

Now, after resigning to “save America from
political turmoil,” and after accepting a pardon
“to save the nation from the anguish of
Watergate,” Nixon is still trying to prove that he
is not a crook. He has a hard road to travel.

In his forthcoming memoirs, previewed by the
New York Times, Nixon continues to assert that
Watergate was merely a partisan scandal used
by his enemies to bring him down.

Although only 164 pages of the manuscript are
complete, there is, nonetheless, no indication on
Nixon‘s part of remorse or apology.

The very same Nixon who brought us with-
drawal from Vietnam via Cambodia, and enemy
lists, which were used to exclude undesireables
from White House parties, is now presenting the
American people with his view of Watergate.

From the beginning, however, it is obvious
that his view of history is as shady as Sen.
Nixon’s beard. Reportedly, Nixon admits only an
error in judgment and expresses regret at not
having questionedhisaidssmqre closely-

More importantly, Nixon'den'ies all personal
responsibility for Watergate and claims it
caused him a great injustice.

While it is probably true that Nixon had no
prior knowledge of the actual break-in at the
Watergate Hotel in Washington, he cannot,
however, escape responsibility for the abuses
and cover-up that ensued.

Resorting to his often repeated defense —
blaming his enemies -the former President is
ignoring the painfully obvious fact that, in this
instance, it was his friends who did him in.

Scores of his most trusted aides and confidants
have been indicted and found guilty of crimes
ranging from filing false tax reports to ob-
structing justice. Even two of his personal
lawyers were disgraced in the scandal.

Dick Downey . . .

This week‘s column belongs to the
students. The following question was
posed to the people pictured below:

“A recent Playboy campus sexual ,
activity survey reveals that between as ‘-
1970 and 1976, the number of women :
graduating from college who were ' .

 
 

 

Strangely enough, Nixon would have the
American people believe that his closest ad-
visers and personal friends never told him
anything. But almost in the same breath, he
claims that there was nothing major to tell
anyway.

Of course, Nixon declined to prove his case in
court. Rather, he opted to accept President
Ford’s pardon and to take his case directly to the
American people. Sadly, there is probably a
large number of people who will take his ex-
planation at face value.

In light of his “inoperative statements,”
“disappearing tapes” and frequent reversals in
position, it is hard to believe that anyone would
credit Nixon’s account. But, part of the forgiving
and absent-minded public will soften and forget,
and then, tragically forget the ramifications of
Watergate.

Had the Watergate break-in been an isolated
incident perpetrated by cheap thugs, the im-
plications and repercussions of the event would
have been minor.

But Watergate was only the first boil to appear
waming the US. of a far more serious disease
that was permeating government.

In its zeal to protect the government, the Nixon
administration and its various law enforcement
agencies actually subverted government to a
greater extent than any of the dissenters could
have possibly accomplished.

It will be hard for Nixon to counter this fact,
considering his former aides’ track records in
court. But, if the excerpts of this incompleted
manuscript are any indication, Nixon will
continue to ignore the realities of the situation.

In so doing, he will once again deny America
the truth, which is comparable to his per-
formance in office. But, in a way, his story will
probably illustrate the ills that caused the
miasma of Watergate — an inherent lack of trust
in the American people.

as they were . . . A lot of men are
old-fashioned in their ideas . . . A lot

Diane Szrom
of guys just don‘t like to be chased

social work
graduate

student
Anthony (ii\ ens

political

 

still virgins dropped from 49 per cent
to 26 per cent. Surprisingly, the
number of graduating men whose
chastity was still intact increased
from 18 to 26 per cent-putting
women on a par with men in that
statistic. Can you give any insight as
to the reasons for this dual
phenomenon? “

The answers below speak for
themselves. However, I think
there‘s a story behind the arswers,
too. Almost every person that I
interview ed expressed themselves
on this subject with an openness that
can be correlated to the wide-open
sexual attitudes that are indicated
by Playboy‘s poll.

Something eke worth noting is
that the new conservatism we hear
about in today‘s students doesn't
seem to have affected them
sexually, for the most part.

Jed Smock definitely has his work
cut out for him.

I think it ‘5 part of the changing sex
roles to a more equal role for men

and women. Women are becoming
more liberal . . . And there‘s less
emphasis on men knowing a number
of women (“in the Biblical sen-
se?")»—yeah, in the Biblical sense!
There is less importance placed or.
conquest.

I think it could be due to the fact
that maybe girls are getting more
pidty about who they goto bed with.
Maybethey think sex is getting to be

Mark Saunders
business
administration
sophomore

a social thing, (so) possibly they
want a high social stud to go to bed
with, you know? Of course. no male
that I know is a virgin, so I don‘t
know whether the poll is true or not.

I think with the changing age,
women are becoming more
open. . . They‘re not as reluctant
now to go out andget what they want

   

  

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by women. and I believe that‘s why
there's been an increase in male
virgins. But I couldn't tell you too
much about that because] lost mine
a long time ago‘.

I don‘t think a lot of people really
tell the truth in polls like that. I
would say (the facts are) still more

  

Theresa (liven
social work
junior

than other way around. Men are
still more sexually active than
women, because that‘s just usually
the way it is.

I think people are more honest
abwt it. That‘s one reason why
women would say that there are

God ’3 candidate: Carter

By BOB BAIRD

It's getting near election time and
many of us are wondering who will
be the next president of the United
States.

Most of the candidates are making
their usual promises about what
they're going to do when they get in
office. It’s too bad that when many

 

commen tary

of them get elected they find many
of their promises are “impossible”
to terry out.

What would be nice would be a
candidate that really knew what he
could and couldn’t do and would be
honest about it. Even when the
promises are carried out, they don’t
really do that much to help the
country.

However, people are gullible.
They so much want to hear
something good and be able to
believe it, that when they hear a
candidate’s promises which sound
better than the others, they vote for
him.

Strangely, there is one candidate
who doesn’t make a lot of campaign
promises. Many people accuse him
of not taking sides on the issues.
Even so, this man is ahead of all the
rest.

This is the man that God is putting
into office. That is why no one can
stand in his way. If God is for him,
then who can be against him? He
rose out of obscurity and now leads
the race for the presidency. (Per-
sonally, I had never even heard of
him previous to this year.)

Who is this man? He is the next
president of the United
States . . . Jimmy Carter!

 

 

fewer virgins in colleges now. It
used to be a prim and proper thing
for a girl to be a virgin. . . (but
now) women are being more honest
in admitting having sex. I think it‘s
also the truth that males are more

Scott Taylor ‘” ,; '-
history ' I,
graduate "
student

 

honest about it now. It used to be a
big ego trip (for men) to talk about
sex: I think now it’s not such a big
issue . . . Men are being more
honest in not making up some big
exotic tale about it.

3% tat?!“

Sounds like some studs are
working overtime! Well, maybe
with gay liberation. the guys who
were afraid to admit that they

Mike Jones
accounting
sophomore

weren’t having sex with females in
the past are now admitting that they
don’t have sex with females.

 

Why doesn’t he make lots of idle
campaign promises like the others?
Because Mr. Carter is a man that
listens for the voice of God. This is
wisdom! A man seeks the will of God
on a subject will lead the country
bad: to where it needs to be, back to
what the nation was founded on,
bad to a nation that will humble
itself, and pray, and seek the
face of God!

What will happen to a nation that
will do this? Second Chronicles 7:14
says: If my people, which are called
by my name, shall humble them-
selves, and pray, and seek my face,
and turn from their wicked ways;
then will I hear from heaven, and
will forgive their sins, and will heal
their land!

Unknown to many, there are
countless Christians across the
country that have been praying for
God to bring the country a man that
will lead the nation back to Him,
which is why Mr. Carter has risen up
so quickly.

No, Carter hasn’t gone off the deep
end. He simply says, “I don’t think
they doubt my sincerity, but they
don’t understand. I don’t make a big
issue out of it, but neither do I
hesitate to say publicly that the most
important thing in my life is Jesus
Christ.” Amen.

Whether you understand it all or
not, no matter what your religious
convictions, you can rest assured
that a person who puts God first the
way Mr. Carter does is definitely the
best person for the job.

Christianity asks for the highest
moral standards known to man
There would be no dipping hands
into the till. There would be no
political favtrs under the table. We

I think there’s been an increase in
homosexuality, particularly in
men. . . As far as women are

Janet Tintle
social work
graduate
student

concerned, I think women’s lib has
sanctioned. . . women to have sex
now.

 

I‘m not so sure if this is hap-
pening .. .But I don’t really know
much about it—I’ve been cohabiting

Terry Ratliff
psychology
senior

for the last year—maybe that's one
reason (I don’t know much). I’m lust
not out there mixing it up. But it
sounds like a few guys out there are
gettin' out and about.

It’s kind of weird; I had no Idea it
was that way. It could be that (in
1970) . . . guys. . . could do
anything they wanted and they

 

 

all ask for our liberty and justice‘
today. Here is for the taking. Second
Corinthians 3: 17 says that where the
Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

So far, all our presidents have
been men like the rest of us, with a
tendency to sometimes make
mistakes. Carter realizes that as a
man, he also has limitations. This is
where it ends with too many of us.
Carter, however, has something
which he can hook directly up to
when criticla decisions need to be
made.

What is this extra power that
allows Carter, and any one of us for
that matter, to operate beyond the
capabilities of regular men? It is
none other than the Holy Spirit.

Carter himself has had an ex-
perience with the Holy Spirit that
has long been forgetten in all but a
handfulof Churches these days. This
is not simply salvation, but is an
experience subsequent to salvation
which supernaturally empowers one
with power from the Holy Spirit
which we all need and should
receive.

Mr. Carter explains it like this: “I
had a personal spiritual experience
that is difficult to explain to people
who have never had such an ex-
perience . . . I became uniquely
aware of the Holy Spirit as an in-
tegral part d my life. I learned that
I cannot depend on myself for
every need and to solve every
problem .. .I feel my limitations
more intensely. I used to deny my
limitations and conceal them. Now I
am much easier in my relations with
other people and with God.”

What could happen if we had a
Christian president who really
sought the face of God about the

, , nation’s problems? Well, we’ve seen
the meses that presidents get into

when they don’t rely on God.

Perhaps the office of the
presidency would regain the
prestige that it once had. Perhaps
mothers would once again wish that
their sons would grow up and
become president. Perhaps we
would really find out what “one
nation, under God” really means.
The possibilities are endless to
nation that will turn to God and stay
there.

Am I saying that you should run
right out now and vote for Carter?
BY NO MEANS! I'm just saying
that you’re crazy if you don’t!

 

Bob Baird is a junior Geology major.

Students’ views on sex correlate with Playboy’s poll

Beth McMahon
journalism
sophomore

didn’t have any kind of reputation.
Now, it’s turned that way for
girls,too. They can go ahead and do
it any time they want to, and it
doesn’t matter about their
reputation either. But I don’t know
why there would be more guys
who’re virgins. Maybe guys are
being more truthful . . .

 

It’s not so much the women
chasing the men; it’s the older men

A. W. Wright
philosophy
senior

mesin’ with the younger women
nowadays, too. Plus, the women are
a lot more liberal, and that helps,

too.

 

 

 

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Political safari

Rhodesia draws closer to settlement

WASHINGTON [AP] —
With British help, Secretary
of State Henry A. Kissinger is
maintaining the momentum
of his breakthrough toward
peace in Rhodesia despite
bitter black-white attacks on
certain settlement terms.

The secretary, ever since
returning from his 12-day
political safari through Af-
rica, has been demanding
lightning action by all parties
to get Rhodesian blacks and
whites around a conference
table.

His aim: to have a care-
taker government, with a
majority of blacks in it,

chosen by the end of Novem—
ber and certainly no later
than Christmas.

Journalists who accompan-
ied the secretary on his
mission were told by a senior
US. official that such speed
has been necessitated by
Russian attempts to wreck
the projected settlement. So-
viet Foreign Minister Andrei
A. Gromyo assailed it at the
United Nations on Tuesday as
a piece of “political gim-
mickry.”

The British government,
under Kissinger’s prompt-
ings, called on Wednesday for
constitutional talks for Rho-

desia to be held within two
weeks. probably at Living-
ston on the Rhodesian-
Zambian frontier. The Brit-
ish, who remain legally re-
sponsible for the breakaway
Rhodesian colony which de-
fiantly proclaimed independ-
ence 11 years ago, said all the
parties had asked for the
convening of the parley.

Ivor Richard, top British
envoy at UN. headquarters.
has been named as presiding
officer although he intends
leaving as much of the nego-
tiating as possible to the
black and white Rhodesians
themselves.

Lebanese militia flee front

Iunder attack by Syrian forces

BHAMDOUN. Lebanon
(AP) —A fierce Syrian tank
and artillery assault Wednes-
day forced Palestinian guer-
rillas to start withdrawing
from mountain positions
above Beirut.

The retreat followed ap-
peals from Palestinian leader
Yasir Arafat to Arab kings
and presidents to intervene
immediately “to stop the
slaughter of my people."

Egypt called for an Arab
summit meeting to deal with
the situation. _

Informed sources said
Palestinian leaders ordered
the pullback from the salient
north of the Beirut-Damascus
highway on the second day of
the Syrian offensive because
the guerrillas were facing an
overwhelming Syrian tome
and receiving little support
from their Lebanese leftist
allies.

Many of the Lebanese ir—
regular militiamen fled in the
face of artillery and rocket
fire and the steady armored
advance by the Syrians, the
sources said. Palestinian

communiques at first denied
any setbacks. But later in the
day they took on a note of
despair stressing that the
leftist forces were vastly

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outgunned and outnumbered
on the mountain front.
Backed by right-wing
Christian artillery, the Syr-
ians struck at dawn. moving
into the villages of Kfar
Selouan, Tarchich and Hazer-
ta just below the 7,000-foot
Jabal el-Knisse ridge. Witnes—

ses said the major resort
town of Hammana and a
string of adjacent villages
fell.

The western slopes of the
Lebanon Range were ablaze
with dozens of fires in the
thick pinewoods, small vil-
lages and luxury resorts.

Nixon’s memoirs maintain

innocent role

NEW YORK (AP) —
Former President Richard
M. Nixon will maintain in his
memoirs that he was innocent
of any wrongdoing in the
Watergate scandal and the
victim ofenemies out to bring

' him down,“- the New‘York

Times reported . Wednesday.

The Times, quoting
knowledgeable publishing
sources in Europe and the
United States, said Nixon will
depict Watergate as a par-
tisan scandal.

And though he will express
negnet he did not question his
aides more closely about the
Watergate break-in and will
admit to an error in
judgment, he will deny
personal responsibility, the

in Watergate

Times said.

Nixon will contend he
resigned as president to
prevent six months of
national divisiveness that
would have accompanied an
impeachment trial, the Times
said.

The newspaper said its
sources saw 164 pages of
manuscript dealing with
Watergate and Nixon‘s last
two years in office.

Executives of Warner
Books, which owns world
rights to the Nixon memoirs,
have been conducting an
internationalsales campaign,
the Times said. notably at the
recent Frankfurt Book Fair
in Germany.

subcommittee begins

review of state education laws

FRANKFORT. Ky. [AP] —
A group of legislators began a
review Wednesday of state
laws on education, with the
goal of weeding out the
unnecessary and recom-
mending new statutes where
needed.

It was the first meeting of
the Interim Joint Committee
on Education‘s subcommittee
on educational statute re—
view, which is making the
study under a resolution pas-
sed by the 1976 General
Assembly.

In calling for a review.
Senate Resolution 11 cites
“the vast number of statutes
relating to education and the
division of such statutes into
various chapters of the Ken-
tucky Revised Statutes.“

DrJames Peyton, planning
and research director for the
state Department of Educa-
tion, who sat in on the
meeting, said "one of the
things we would like to do is
turn up inconsistencies."

The group also intends to
check the laws for compre—
hensiveness, clarity and con-
formity with the latest judi-
cial decisions, said state Rep.
Don W. Stephens. l)-Lexing—
ton. the subcommittee

chairman.

The subcommittee‘s job is
then to recommend possible
repeals, additions. or
amendments for considera
tion by the 1978