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MTUCKY
The South's Outstanding College Daily
UNIVERSITY

LEXINGTON

OF KENTUCKY,

Vol. LX, No. 20

'Wail Anil Sec'

73

Was 'Dixie' Played?
Will It Be Played?
director, who obviously was not
By DARRELL RICE
eager to discuss the playing of
Managing Editor
Controversy and confusion "Dixie," admitted that the deseem to surround the playing cision as to what is played during
of "Dixie" by the UK Marching athletics events falls under his
Band at athletic events.
authority.
There is confusion as to whethBut he denied that the exer the band will play "Dixie" clusion of "Dixie" from the
at future events and there is even band's program has become a
confusion as to whether the song settled policy position.
was played at last Saturday's
Asked if the song would be
football game.
played in the future, Clarke
Despite urging from fans at would
"We'll just have
the game, the band did not play to wait only say,
and see."
which has drawn critthe song,
UK Acting President Dr. A.
icism in the past on grounds of
D. Kirwan, who has been apits having racial and reactionary
connotations, during gametime proached by the Black Student
Union on the subject of doing
Saturday. But the band reportedly did play it as the stadium away with "Dixie," said Monwas being emptied after play day that he knew of no policy
had ended.
change on the playing of the song.
"If they have discontinued
William Harry Clarke, band

Disgruntled Dems
Plan Power Change

KY. (AP) -- A group of dissatisfied Jefferson
LOUISVILLE,
Democrats has begun forming an organization with the
County
goal of changing the entire statewide structure of the party.
The group calls itself the Free
Stratford added that the group
Democratic Party and its steering
committee will meet this week was proposing to arrange a veto discuss a proposed constitu- hicle for the young people to have
their say, especially since he feels
tion.
they were "run over at the state
A. Stratford, the comStanley
mittee's director, said the new convention" earlier this year.
Noting that most of the new
group's objective is to make the
group's members were former
"democratic and responparty
supporters of Sen. Eugene Mcsive to the rank and file Demo-

the song, I heartily concur, but
I didn't order it," Dr. Kirwan
said. "I have not even communicated with Mr. Clark."
He also said "Dixie" has become a "symbol of a kind of
disloyalty to the federal government and of obstruction to pro-

..."

gress
Dr. Kirwan said he thought
it was about time "that we started
playing other tunes."
Several band members, although reluctant to discuss the

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matter, indicated that the playing of "Dixie" has been discussed
recently, with some saying they
understood it would not be used
in the future.
Some of the band members
said they were dissatisfied at the
possibility of not being able to
play the song, which has become a traditional institution at
UK for boosting morale, as is
the case at a number of Southern
universities.
One band member remarked,
"It's so ridiculous that 'Dixie
would cause so much trouble.
If we stop playing it, we should
also stop playing 'My Old Kentucky Home.' "

Anti-Rio-

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Kernel Photo By Paul Lambert

Foiled
Again!

To illustrate a point, two members of the
d
fencing club demonstrate the
fundamentals of the foil to followers. Shown
are Dr. Robert Henseley (back to the camera) and Steve Kennedy.
newly-forme-

Provision Attacked

t

ciple of federal interference in a some action might not take any
university's internal affairs.
against protest because the penWASHINGTON (CPS) ConSome feel that withholding of alty is too severe since the law
fusion shrouds the intent of the
loans and grants is unfair punishseems to insist on withdrawing
compromise anti-riprovision in
aid from students judged to viothe 1968 Higher Education bill ment, a third threat to a demonstrator who already could face late its standards," he said.
that could deny federal financial
A spokesman for the National
aid to campus demonstrators, but possible court action and school
Carthy's presidential bid, Stratcrats."
Association of State Universities
discipline.
ford spoke bitterly of the state
Stratford, a partner in the
opposition is already mounting
John F. Morse, director of the and Land-GraColleges reacted
because of the threat to academic
Louisville law firm, Campbell convention. The regular organiby quoting an earlier statement
zation did not care "what we freedom and the possibility of Commission on Federal Relations
and Stratford, added, "We want
of the American Council on Edusaying "threats of fiscal sanctions
thought" he commented.
to find methods of exploring issubjecting students to "triple jeocation, repeated an earlier ACE will not contribute to campus
"It was worse than being pardy."
sues."
statement to this effect.
stability but will more likely
He emphasized that thegroup ignored, they treated us conOfficials of education groups
"Efforts by Congress, however encourage more of the protests
work from within the party temptuously," he added.
would
amendThe Democratic National who had opposed earlier
understandable in the temper of we want to end."
by recruiting young people to
ments that would have automatiU.S. Office of Education offiConvention, he said,1 reinforced
the times, to establish still a third
at the precinct level.
work
the feeling of starting a new cally denied assistance are uncer- and additional system of sanc- cials will not issue a statement
He admitted that the success
"There was no tain what the preliminary version tions and penalties can only serve until the final Congress report
of the organization would depend organization.
means.
effort to see the other side's
to confuse theorderly application is ready. Commissioner Harold
greatly on how serious young
such
Howell has said he
But they are quick to voice of time-teste-d
are about becoming in- point," the lawyer said.
procedures," the interference with opposes
people
campus affairs
Continued on Page 7, CoL 5 opposition to the general prin- - statement said.
volved in politics.
because they constitute a "threat
Rep. William F. Ryan (D. to academic freedom."
-who tried unsuccessfully
N.Y.),
The compromise provision
to kill anti-riamendments this
said he is still opposed would deny federal financial assummer,
to allowing a school to "punish sistance to students or employees
students by withholding financial who are convicted of a crime
assistance." He also said he involving force, disruption, or
doesn't feel "Congress should seizure of school property or who
deal in this manner with people violate a university rule if the
institution judged the offense to
with whom it disagrees."
be serious and substantially disThe denial of all scholarship
funds seems unfair to many who ruptive.
Some 1.4 million students rehave noted that while students
ceive about $1 billion a year under
suspended from school rarely are the
programs affected.
barred for longer than one year,
The final reporting of the
those denied federal funds are
for three higher education bill was apnot eligible to
parently delayed because of disyears.
agreement among Congressional
Officers of the National Student Association are planning staff members over what their
bosses had agreed to disagreepossible legal tests should the ment
that could cause more deprovision be adopted and other bate on the issue. It is
possible
strategy.
that some legislators had secAn official of the American
ond thoughts about what apAssociation of University Propears to be leniency now that
fessors (AAUP) called such pro- Columbia students are again provisions "unfortunate" and noted testing. Earlier amendments ofthe "added complexity" in ad- fered in the House called for
Kernel Photo By Dick Wart
of
ministering federal assistance.
mandatory, automatic cut-of- f
Sam AW 11, editor of 1967 Kentuckian, receives the National LithoHerman Orentlicher, AAUP's aid for students convicted of
graphers and Printers Yearbook Award. Presenting the certificate is staff counsel, also said the procrimes during demonstrations.
Has j Rivard, representative cf Taylor Publishing Co., (left), as Crete hen
vision could "tie a school's
If the conferees are called
Marcum, editor of 1963 Kentuckian, looks on. The award is one of six hands" in dealing with students.
Continued on Pace 7, Co!. 1
"A university wanting to take
presented in the nation.
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Corruption Is A Way Of Life In Vietnam
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SAICON(AP)
"Corruption
exists in every country," Premier
Tran Van Huong said recently.
"But since Vietnam is at war,
corruption has been a little more
noticeable than in other coun-

tries."
Corruption appears in many
forms in South Vietnam and involves not only the Vietnamese
but Americans and the other allies as well.
It ranges from outright theft
and embezzlement to bribery,
graft and the sale of PX goods
on the black market.
It takes such forms as opium
smuggling from Laos to illegal
payments collected by civil servants in the countryside. There
is no part of Vietnamese life
where it does not exist.
Just how much has been siphoned off from American taxpayers is unknown. But it is
massive, in the hundreds of millions of dollars by anybody's
figures.

One "rock bottom figure" put
the loss to corruption at $272
million in the past five years.
$175 Million
A previous investigation

by a

team of Associated Press report

ers put the figure at a minimum
of $175 million for a single fiscal
year and that included only the
losses in PX supplies and economic aid, not the losses from
the billions being spent on the
massive American involvement
in the fighting.
Faced with this enormous
loss, the government and the
U.S. mission have taken steps
to reduce corruption.
The government has removed
17 province chiefs, fired dozens
of district chiefs and replaced
hundreds of lesser officials, most
of them for corruption.
Several military officers have
been tried for embezzlement, looting and other corrupt practices
and two have been sentenced

to death.
But the government's drive
so far seems to be only scratching the surface. Mai ThoTruyen,
minister of state in charge of
the anticorruption drive, admitted recently that he was moving slowly because of lack of
personnel.
Big Fish
The big fish, some in high
government posts, remain untouched. It does appear, how

ever, that the rate of corruption
is down in 1908.
The most effective action has
been improved control applied
by the U.S. government, whose
$30 billion annual investment in
Vietnam bean the brunt of corrupt practices.
The enemy offensives in February and May appear to have
reduced corruption among government officials.
Said one U.S. foreign service
official: "As long as we're in
this insecure position in the countryside, as long as Saigon is under siege and they don't really
know who's going to win, as
long as they don't know for sure
if the Americans will stick around
after the presidential election,
there won't be any real corrup-

tion."

CIA Man
"There is undoubtedly corruption in South Vietnam," said
Robert W. Komer, a former CIA
man whose position as deputy to
the U.S. military commander for
civil operations rates him the
title of ambassador. He added:
"I'm convinced that the amount
of diversion

is.

considerably

less

WORLD REPORT
From the Wire of the Associated Press

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officials, Czechoslovakian informants said Monday night.
Rebel
OWERRI,
Nigeria
h
Biafrans prepared for a
stand, ordering a total mobilization of men and material, in
Umuahia the only major town
left in Biafram hands as federal
troops closed in.
The federals were fighting

-

last-ditc-

toward Umuahia, and the
frans, crammed into a

Bia-

3,000-square-m-

triangle, showed no

signs of giving up.

cessation of US bombing of North
Vietnam if the issue were put to
a test.
Forty-thre- e
RICHMOND
and Australian ships will not be more Army reservists at Ft. Lee,
permitted to pass through Phil- Va., yesterday sought federal
ippine waters without obtaining court intervention barring the Army from transferring them to Vietpermission from the Manila govnam.
ernment.
LISBON-Prem- ier
The petitioners contend they
Antonio de
Oliveira Salazar's condition was cannot be legally called to acreported holding steady, one tive duty for more than 17 days
week after a stroke from which a year, except in case of a dehe was not expected to recover. clared war or national emergency.
Neither, they said, was involved
NATIONAL
in the presidential callup of last
SAN ANTONIO-Presid- ent
April, through which they were
Johnson signed a bill yesterday
into duty for 24 months.
providing for $63 a month extra pressed
WASHINGTON
Space
for each of 81 military members
agency officials will meet in early
of the crew of the USS Pueblo,
November to decide whether to
r
captured by North Korea. The' send three American Astronauts
Texas White House said the pay
around the moon the next month
increase will be retroactive to Jan.
if the first Apollo orbital flight
1.
is a success, a spokesman said
NATIONS-U- N
UNITED
Monday.
Secretary Ceneral U Thant, urgMILWAUKEE-Richa- rd
M.
ing a total bombing halt as an Nixon said
Monday that Humessential step toward meaningful
on the economy
Vietnam peace talks, expressed phrey's views
"would make him the most exbelief that a majority of the 124
President in American
members of the United Nations pensive
history."
would vote for an immediate
TOLEDO Vice President
Hubert H. Humphrey, in a live
telecast to Europe, declared,
"I'm not the prisoner of LBJ.
sengers and crew members, leaving only the hijackers behind.
MANILA The Philippines
announced Monday that British

INTERNATIONAL

PRAGUE Czechoslovakia's
leaden plan to go to Moscow
Tuesday or Wednesday, hoping to
arrange withdrawal by Oct. 28
of most Soviet occupation troops
in exchange for new controls on
the press and dismissal of some

auBOCOTA Colombian
thorities identified the two men
who hijacked and diverted two
Avianca airliners to Cuba Sunday as Castro sympathizers. The
government contends that the
theft of the aircraft was part of
a plot.
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Government posts are considered so potentially lucrative
that most of the four corps commanders, the 44 province chiefs,
the 243 district chiefs and thousands of lesser officials purchased

their jobs.
"They pay for the job and

recoup in whatever way they
can. They usually get two years
to recoup, those are the rules of
the game, of the system," said
a senior U.S. province adviser
with yean of experience in Vietnam.

Whatever you may accuse him
Reports
of, he has not captured me."
U.S. advisers recently comHumphrey went on to say
he has enjoyed a good working piled reports on 82 of the Delrelationship with Johnson and is ta's 92 district chiefs. Twenty
association of them were rated as inefficient
proud of his four-yeand "strongly suspected" of cor- with the administration.

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than supposed, but considerably
niption. The evaluation was
made on reports from Vietnamore than is acceptable."
mese, the chiefs' living standThe Viet Cong use corrupards, the homes they lived in,
tion in the South Vietnamese
their cars, the parties they gave.
government as an effective propaganda subject, but even the
Where do the province offiViet Cong are not immune.
cials get their graft?
A Vietnamese Cabinet minis"The rice mill owners, for
ter reported that farmers in the
Delta told him a numinstance, all pay the province
Mekong
ber of Viet Cong tax collectors chief for 'protection,'" said a
had been discovered dipping in- U.S. adviser. "If they don't pay,
to the till. Some were shot and some government soldier might
others sent to "D" zone, the get drunk and throw a grenade
enemy's rugged hideout north into the mill. The mill own en
probably have to pay the VC
of Saigon.
Vietnamese editorialists, pol- as well."
iticians and other critics of the
Other sources are taxes on
American presence enjoy raking road traffic, labor
organizations'
the Americans over the coals for bribes for licenses, payments for
their people.
"corrupting"
the right to export food to Saigon.
Been Around
An argument raised by some
has been U.S. officials that
But corruption
corruption itaround in Vietnam long before self isn't the main point.
the Americans. It is an integral
part of the Vietnamese way of
Most Competent
doing things. Many observers feel
"One of the most competent
corruption can be ended only by district chiefs in Vietnam is probaltering the system.
the most crooked in VietThe mountains of military ably said a
nam"
province adviser.
supplies, PX goods, U.S. com"He paid half a million piasters
modities and food, as well as
for the district and I'd say he
direct financial aid to the govback in the first year.
have just made it easier got it
ernment,
But during that year he arranged
and more lucrative to be cor- for fishermen to
get escorts to
rupt.
the sea, he cut off Viet Cong
For one thing, civil servants tax
collections, and he set up
are paid low salaries which must
a very active patrol program to
As a result,
be supplemented.
keep the Viet Cong off guard.
many government posts are so
and
lucrative they are bought
"He's still there, the district
sold, with the buyer assured of is very quiet and he's keeping it
making back quickly his purchase that way.
price and much more.
"As long as competence goes
The system works in many
along with the squeeze, the peoways. For example:
don't seem to mind."
The chief of construction in ple
a province south of Saigon received one million piasters to
build a road. He drew out the
money but loaned it to businessmen at interest rates of up to
50 percent for one year.
Excuses
For the rest of the year he
made excuses why work on the
road had not begun. At the end
of the year he collected the loans,
pocketed the interest, and returned the one million piasters,
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Like In America

Frustration Rallies French Student Protest
EDITOR'S NOTE; Following are
the first in a scries of articles
on European students by Brian
Draun, Executive Editor of the
University of Illinois Illini, who
visited England, Ireland, Italy,
Israel, Greece, France and Spain
during the summer and spoke
with hundreds of students, faculty members and administrators
there. The articles are reprieved
from the Illini by special permission of the author.)
By BRIAN BRAUN '
College Press Service
Four students met on a Paris
corner three blocks from the Sor- -

Cosmopolitan
Club Plans
UN Day

lx)nnc late in August to talk about
the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia. The huddle grew to 20
within minutes, and only an hour
later nearly 100 persons surrounding the St. Michel fountain were
hashing over the developments of
the preceding 24 hours and wondering w hat could be done in support of Czech freedom.
Announcements were chalked
on sidewalks and walls as the
students decided to meet for a
rally at the comer of St. Germain
and St. Michel that evening.
Four blocks after the demonstrators had decided to march to
the Russian Embassy, over 30 of
the demonstrators found themselves staring out through the
bars of Paris police vans.
The march had few repercussions outside the Paris student
community, yet its construction
and development make it a significant incident. Like its big sisters, the Berkeley 1964 riot and

they are again liound by a

Despite the prcsenceof literalof Americans and
other foreign students in the St.

appears remote and impersonal;
none of the tactics that were previously successful against parents
are now effective, so new paths
for persuasion are found.
Bound together as a powerful
interest group, the students are
able to use their common frustration as a maypole to rally around.

Michel area (many of whom had
been involved in American protests of various kinds), thedemon-strator- s
were nearly all French.
Buoyed by a feeling of security they derived from belonging
to the group, they were quickly
moved to action. Foreign students were alienated by cultural
differences and the existence of

the

already-establishe-

Confrontation
Sometimes the purpose for
their action is muddled by the
overriding motive confrontation
with wrong, confrontation with
the establishment (black) for liberation and justice (white). The
leaders come from roughly the
same mold. Believing in right
and wrong largely in terms of
absolutes, and with a powerful
need to lead and organize, they

group-m- ost

d

n

rule-lade-

administrative lxdy that

ly hundreds

of whom were Paris
Bank dwellers whose
communication lines and political interests were strongly established.
Middle Class
Among them demonstrators
(nearly all of whom were in their
late teens or early twenties), the
same environmental factors which

oslovakia."
A
former Sorbonne
student who lives near St. Germain in the center of the student district explained, "They
were marching in frustration.
They were genuinely mad at an
older generation they view as a
singular entity."

Graduate Named
County Demo Chief
UK

motivate American students
seemed to be present. The maNations Day and a
fund raising dinner were two the
ree
jority indicated by their appearParis student
topics discussed at last night's volt, the Czech demonstration in ances and speech that they came
French famimeeting of the Cosmopolitan
Paris began with an overriding from middle-clas- s
lies. As groups of them spoke
Richard Hite, a former UK
Club,
issue that had mass appeal.
Scheduled for Oct. 24, the
later, their idealism was readily student, has been appointed
United Nations Day will include
Student Unrest
apparent and their anger, distrust Fayette County Democratic prea panel discussion concerned
Like Paris and Berkeley, the and frustration with established sidential campaign chairman and
with a
topic in order demonstration was not organized politics was quickly recognizable. says he will "work to encourage
to have a change from last year. in a back room
It is not difficult to under- young people, including former
by outside agiThe purpose of the fund rais- tators who in turn incited the stand why these students are McCarthy and Kennedy suping dinner, for which no date students, but instead began with participants in this type of action. porters, to remain active in the
has been set, is to raise money the students' unrest which later They are brought up in homes Democratic party."
values that ofwith middle-clas- s
Announcement of the appointfor an emergency fund for the was
magnified through the orgaten directly conflict with what is, ment came Monday from Steve
international students.
nization of experienced student
in fact, the social norm. As J. Banahan, chairman of the
The club also hopes to plan and
leaders.
children they leam right and Democratice Executive
Comother cultural programs in order
The discussion at the fountain
wrong values, yet as they mesh mittee.
to utilize the foreign students'
Hite, 25, said he will try to
talents, which they feel are not provided an opportunity for the into the university community
they leam that grays fill the appeal to young people in partiorganizers, and they quickly begetting enough exposure.
came the planners and the procular and urge them to unite.
spaces between the extremes.
"We will have to work inside
Striving for independence.
tagonists. Like nearly every other
student demonstration, the AuWoods arson
gust Paris march was neither
is a crime.
unplanned nor spontaneous. After the catalyst appeared and the
III
rally was called, demonstration
A United

become the forces behind the
group action.
After the confrontation with
the police, I asked several students why they had marched.
A
girl told me they
had hoped to show the Russians
"they had made a mistake in
Czechoslovakia."
An arrested
leader answered, '"Like our confrontation with the University
and the government last May,
we marched tonight to show our
government and the Russians
what must be done about Czech-

May-Jun-

the party structure if we really
want to bring about change'

he said.

During the primary campaign,
Hite first supported Sen. Kennedy and later Sen. McCarthy.
Now he is striving for unity
and "a Democratic victory in
Lexington and Fayette County."
The new county chairman
helped organize the
Young Democrats Club in 19G2
and later worked for revision of
the Kentucky constitution.
He is perhaps the youngest
man ever appointed to that position in local politics.

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leaders met in a Left Bank coffee
house to determine the proper
course of action they knew their
decision could be forced later by
a series of inciting speeches at
the mass meeting.

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to excuse. Mr. Chandler, a Nunn
appointee to the University Board
of Trustees, seems to think he and
he alone should control this University. The faculty and students
should be kept in their place.
"The professors now control athletics and there's nothing we can
do about it," he said. "The professors also control the trustees
right now. This means that if the
tmstees picked a new president
right now, the professors would
do the picking. The rest of us
would just have to sit around and

watch."

What Mr. Chandler seems to
have forgotten is essential to an
understanding of the academic
world today. Students and faculty
have demanded and are demanding now that they be able to speak
and be heard. They are demanding
that they be able to run much of
their university. This is what Columbia is all about. This is what
is happening at Berkeley. Dr. Oswald recognized the trend, and did
much at this University to move
Kentucky in the right direction.
Politicians, Happy Chandler included, should wake up a bit. The
University of Kentucky should not
be a play thing to be adjusted to
meet their whims.

Republican Stands

ticket with regard to civil
The actual position of the Nixon-Agneliberties and freedom of inquiry is becoming much clearer as the candidates make further statements. And the position that the Republicans
are outlining is not too attractive.
Mr. Agnew's charge (since retracted) that Vice President Humphrey
is "soft on Communism" showed that the "New Nixon" might well
be running on an old platform. Mr. Nixon's avowed intentions to eat
California grapes at his pleasure without regard to the struggle of the
migrants who are fighting their exploitation obviously placed an appeal
to those who think the Reds are taking over.
More recently, Mr. Agnew has come out with a statement that government "should have the right to interfere in Academic freedom."
He made this pronouncement with regard to the question raised by
California Governor Ronald Reagan as to whether Black Panther
Cleaver may lecture at the Berkeley campus.
His statements on this issue place him and Richard Nixon clearly
in the same comer as George Wallace with regards to the questions
of free academic inquiry. How happy they are to be in that comer
remains to be seen. But clearly the Republicans should not be assumed
to be moderate just because they are slightly to the left of George
Wallace.
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Kernel Forum: the readers write!
To the Editor of the Kernel:
University of Kentucky students may
be interested in these quotes from last
Tuesday's report on George Wallace in
the Wall Street Journal.
"He stands there behind the bulletproof lectem, only his head showing,
nodding acknowledgement of the thunderous ovations greeting his denunciations of 'anarchists, Communists, and
pseudo-intellectual-

s.'

"Throughout the speech, the white
faces give Mr. Wallace rapt attention.
Many seem to know by heart the crowd
pleasers in his repertoire. When Mr. Wallace tells them what he would do if
demonstrators ever blocked his car, as
they once did to President Johnson, the
applause sometimes drowns out the punch
line. 'If a group of anarchists ever lie
down in front of my car when I'm president, it's going to be the last time
they ever do it.'
Though Wallace never refers to Negroes as troublemakers, black and white
alike readily translate his denunciations
into racist terms. This was vividly illustrated at a tumultuous rally in Milwaukee, when a racially mixed group
led by white civil rights activist Father
James Groppi arrived in the hall chanting, 'Hey, hey, Uncle Sam, Hitler's alive

Wallace wants
in Alabam,' and
a fascist state.'
"Up in the balcony a chubby teenage girl began screaming, 'Shut up, you
niggers!' over and over. 'I just can't
stand them,' she said. 'They just keep
on rioting for no reason.' Her companion,
old
a burly
snapped:
'I wish I had my old platoon here. We'd
march right through them.' "
Note the following especially:
"From the clean-cu- t
University of Kentucky students, Mr. Wallace won a surprising ovation for one of his standard
lines: 'I believe in dissent, but the average
man in Lexington, Ky., knows the difference between dissent and treason. When
I become the president, I'm going to
have my Attorney General seek an indictment against any college professor
who says he's for a communist victory
in Vietnam (thunderous applause). And
while we're at it, we'll grab some of
these college students by their long hair
and teach them a thing or two (laughs
and more cheers).' "
I ask, is the University of Kentucky
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