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Tuesday, March 14. 1978

School
teaches
world
affairs

By MEL HOLBROOK
Kernel Reporter

Correcting misconceptions held by
students and the public about in-
ternational diplomacy is the purpose
behind the degree programs and
lecture series offered by the Pat-
terson School of Diplomacy.

“The School was founded because
of the will of the first President of
the University, James Patterson,”
said Dr. Vince Davis, director of the
School. “He specified very cleary in
his will that he wanted the Patterson
School to train young people for
international careers in diplomacy
and international commerce."

The Patterson School is the only
specialized international graduate
school in the Southeast and one of
only a dozen throughout the United
States.

“I feel we’ve got a responsibility
to four concentric circles,” Davis
said, “to our students, to the cam-
pus, to the general community, and
then to the rest of the US."

“lsolationist thinking has been
characteristic of the United States
Over the entire history of the
republic. People need to be educated
about this field. We reach out to both
spread the kno’wledge and to gather
it, too. We don‘t leave all the
gathering of knowledge in this field
to Harvard or Yale, either."

“Not only is this the goal of the
school, but it serves a more specific
purpose,” said Davis. “That pur-
pose is to educate the general public
about international affairs.”

The School each year sponsors
public seminars and conferences. In
the past. guest lecturers like fOrmer
President Gerald Ford, ex-U.S.
Secretary of State Dean Rusk, and
Britain‘s Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer Denis Healy have spoken to
students attending the School. Last
year Henry Cabot Lodge and Ford
spoke in the John Sherman Cooper
Lecture Series, established in honor
of the former US. Republican
senator from Kentucky.

“Last year Cooper, the US.
ambassador to East Germany, was
retiring and we wanted to get a
prominent Republican to speak at
this very special occasion," said Dr.
Vince Davis, director of the Pat-
terson School of Diplomacy.

Stansfield Turner, director of CIA,
will speak this April in the series.

Davis said many factors are taken
into consideration when deciding
who to bring to UK. “How much
money we have is a factor, of course,
and which political party is in office
at the time. As you noticed, Turner
is a Democrat, and there is a
Dem0cratic president in office. But
this type of political handpicking is
at! binding."

Continued on page 6

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local

STALLIONS WERE KEPT FROM THEIR t‘OURTING yesterday at some
Kentucky horse farms as breeders. federal and state officials and
veterinarians met to plan a fight against an imported equine venereal

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A lone construction worker walks across what
will eventually he the first floor of the new Fine
Arts Building as warming rays of sunshine
mingle with the rising superstructure. The newly

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Developed at UK

Program helps kids

By STEVE MASSEY
Kernel Reporter

A format designed by a UK doctor
to help severely retarded or multiple
handicapped children adjust to
living in a more socially acceptable
manner is in the final stages of its
threeyear validation process.

Known as Programmed En-
vironment. the project was initiated
by Dr. James W. Tawney when the
need was forseen for new and better
training of the developmentally
handicapped.

Sandra Deaton. acting director of
the Programmed Environment
program during Dr. Tawney‘s leave
of absence, said the primary pin-
pose of the program is “to give the
handicapped appropiate skills so
they can function in a more nor-
malized manner."

Dr. Tawney is director of
Programmed Environment, which
was started through UK‘s Depart-
ment of Special Education. He
submitted a proposal of his plan to
the Bureau of Educational Han-
dicapped in 1972 to receive federal
funding for the deveIOpmcnt of the
cirriculum. In 1975. money was
appropriated for validation of the
program.

The project has approximately 100

instructional programs covering
live areas of training that allow
handicapped children to live in a
more orderly fashion. The areas
include social ad justment. language
use. concept learning, motor
development. and self-help.

Teachers use a program manual
as a guide and source for im-
plementing procedural techniques
for each child. Most of the programs
have been deveIOped so the child
must complete and prove mastery of
a skill before advancing to a higher
task level.

Before teachers are able to work
with children, they must complete a
training session to learn how to
select programs, present and record
programs. handle instructional
problems and manage behavior. A
prospective teacher must pass a test
by more than 90 percent on each
section before advancing to the next
step.

The project is in a validation
process to test the outlined methods.
The process -. covering three
years. 75 teachers and nearly 225
students — is more expansive than
usual. but Deaton explained the
effort is needed to be able “to make
positive data—based statements

about the effectiveness of our
curriculum for severely han-
dicapped children.”

The cirriculum is being tested at
seven schools across the country,
including a preschool Operating in
Bradley Hall on the UK campus.
Three of the other six sites are in the
Boston, Mass. area; the remainder
are in Louisville, northem Virginia
and Alberquerque, NM.

The Bradley Hall preschool for the
severely handicapped is funded by
the Bluegass Association for the
Mentally Retarded. working in
cooperation with Programmed
Environment.

Positive results from the
cirriculum have already led to the
signing of a publisher to market the
finished product by 1979. After that,
Dcaton said, “We have plans for
related research in areas of infant
curriculum.”

Deaton emphasized the need for
continued research and im-
provement of programs available
for the severely handicapped
children. saying “Severally han-
dicappcd children have just recently
been accepted into public
educational programs. Before. they
were usually sent off to some private
institution or left at home."

cry of

University of Kentucky
Lexington. Kentucky

Arrest follows
loss of money

By Itlt'llAltD MCDONALD
(‘opy Editor

A secretary cmpIOyed by the
(‘ollege of Architecture for 16 years
has been charged on four counts of
theft by deception, stemming from
an alleged payroll embezzlement in
excess of $15,000.

As a result, the Office of Business
Affairs is conducting an internal
audit of the college.

According to Paul Harrison. chief
of the UK Police Department, Susan
t‘assidy Williams was arrested and
charged on Feb. 13 with four counts
of theft by deception of over $100, a
(‘lass 1) felony. Harrison said he
didn‘t know exactly how much
money was allegedly taken. but
estimated the amount at between
$0,000 and $8,000.

Ilc added that “the daily in-
\cstigation turns up more and more
(money i

According to Harrison. Williams
has waived the case to the Fayette
(‘ounty (lrand Jury on the advice of
her attorney, Walter (‘. (‘ox of
Lexington,

Williams and Cox declined to
«ommcnt on the case when con-
tacted last night.

17K employees are bonded under
the state‘s fidelity bond. according
to .lack Blanton, vice president for
business affairs. However, the
policy only covers losses over
$25,000. The $0,000 loss, Blanton said,
is “still a soft figure."

Blanton said Williams has been
discharged by the University.

Sources in the College of Ar-
iliitccture alleged Williams

prepared false payroll checks made
pay able to student employees in the
college, then iashcd thcin herself.
The alleged fraudulent checks were
discovered wlicn students began
l'(‘t‘t‘l\lng W 2 incomc tax forms for
amounts in cxccss of their earnings.

tmc stiidciit who hadn't worked in
the collcgc reported rccciving u W2
form

Although Architecture Dean
Anthony liardlcy and Assistant
Ilcan l’aiil l’inncy declined to
(Olnlflt‘fll on the case, they con-
tinued that these are the allegations
against Williams.

ilcorgc ltusclicll. assistant vice
president of business affairs. said a
spccial audit is planned for the
college of Architecture Although
thc procedures used in this audit will
be the some as those used regularly.
this is not the scheduled audit that is
itllltilit'tl‘d in, all colleges.

ltiisclicll said. “This has happened
three timcs that I can rcmcmr
bcr , . . in the past 1015 years.

“I can't comment on the details of
the case. but it has happened.“ said
ltuschcll. “thn you have 9000
cinployccs and a $200 million
budget. its inevitable when you're
dealing with human beings that this
will happen."

(:cnc Williams, the director of
orgaiii/ation and management
analysis the business affairs
division that will conduct the
audit said the audit hasn't for-
mally started. He said it will be
“\cry routine.“

ltusclicll said "perhaps there will
be some changes“ in the handling of
studmt payrolls because of the case.

Two children at the Programmed I'Invironnient preschool in
Bradley llall work on improving motor skills in an exercise
that has the children painting on potatoes. The design is then
transferred to a piece of paper by hitting it with the potato. 'I‘hc
cwrcise is part of cirriculum created D) I'K doctor James W.

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Some of the area‘s, and world's, most prestigious farms ~ including
Gainesway. Spendthrift, Glencrest and Claiborne, home of Secretariat —
have halted breeding as a precaution while the disease is investigated.

Federal officials have been trying to keep the ailment. Contagious Equine
Metritis, out of the United States. It took a severe toll last year in the French.
lrish and English thoroughbred indtstries.

UK College of. Agriculture, whose Department of Veterinary Science is
investigating the extent and possible cures for the disease. said there is not
enough information yet to determine the extent of possible damages.

state

OPPONENTS OF THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT OVERCAME
two months of parliamentary roadblocks in the state Senate and pushed
through a resolution yesterday to rescind Kentucky‘s 1972 ERA ratification.

Despite strong opposition by Lt. Gov. Thelma Stovall. its presiding officer.
the Senate voted 23-15 in favor of rescission and sent the controversial issue
to the House in the final week of the 1978 General Assembly.

The legislature ratified the ERA in 1972. A resolution to rescind that
ratification had been tied up in Senate committees since it was introduced

STATE Al'DITOR GEORGE ATKINS REPORTED yesterday that
Franklin County Judge Jack Goins owes the county and state nearly $70,000
in fines and forfeituros collected by the Franklin quarterly court in 1977.

Coins responded that his
books are clear [to said the
confusion arose because of a
program under which traffic
offenders can offset their lines
through blood donations.

(‘Ierks apparently failed to
record the blood donors. (toms
said. and consequently their
donations became listed as
fines and added to fees
collected.

Goins said he is try ing to get
a full list of citations from
State Police. He said he has
documents from the (‘entral
Kentucky Blood Bank in
lexington to bolster his claim.

Atkins said that it would take an additimial 2.000 cases in which fines were
paid in blood instead of money to account for the missing amount.

nation

TIIE IIIJM‘KEK OF \ l'NlTED AIRLINES 727 SERRENDERED
yesterday after the three i-rcwmcn who had remained on the plane jumped

from a cockpit window about an hour after the plane land-d in Denver for

refueling.

Federal agents approached the jet after the tl'l'iAnlt‘fl jumped The

hijacker then surrendered to agents.

The hijacker had said he has terminal cancer
The plane. which was hijacked over San Frani isrc Hay. first landed in
Oakland. where the 88 passengers and four flight attendants were allowed to

world

leave

Nll' fll .\Itll.l ('t' \.\ \III.IT \N'TS,

\ F;\.\ \Tlf'“. (iROl'l' that has

terrorized llolland on .indoff for a decade. struck again yesterday. seizing a
government building and at least 72 hostages in a shooting attack that left

five persons wounded, authorities said

The four to six gunmen wi-rc demanding freedom for comrades in Dutch
jails and a plane to fly all of them. along with hostages out of the country.

government officials said

weather

sl'ltlxi. \\ l: \‘Illl-llt TODAY with highs in the mid-50's and a 70 percent
chance of showers Tonight possibility of showers with lows in the lo's
Tomorrow's high again In the mid 50‘s

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'Gerrymandering’

Kenton's methods subtle

When he calls a session of the House of
Representives to order with a crashing gavel,
House Speaker William Kenton makes a forceful
impression. But when he’s working to achieve
political security, Lexington's 75th district
representative is more subtle.

Last week, House Bill 319, a measure on the
“consent” list, went through the House almost
unnoticed, with comment or opposition. But the
bill contained an important amendment that
recently has raised quite a few eyebrows: it adds
10 precincts to Kenton’s district, with smaller
change in other Fayette districts.

The changes seem tailor-made for the
Speaker’s political future. Last year, he defeated
up-and-coming black attorney Theodore Berry

by only 132 votes, in a district that is about 45
percent black. The 10 new precincts (from the
78th and 79th districts) are almost entirely white.

Gerrymandering is what it’s usually called.

Kenton has defended the change, saying that
the 75th district has rapidly declined in
population, and that more precincts were needed
to give fair representation. The changes were
discussed with and agreed upon by Lexington’s
other representatives, he said.

But representatives should be the last people
to decide who gets to vote for or against them.
Conside'ing that a general redistricting will be
done in two years, the amendment to HB 319 and
Kenton’s interest in it are improper, and the
measure should be removed.

Students deserve chance
to change residency

A case is now before the Supreme Court that
could endanger a policy used by most state
colleges and universities, under which lower
tuition fees are assessed to in-state residents
attending the school.

The controversy started when a group of
foreign students attending the University of
Maryland argued that by being residents in the
state, they should be entitled to pay in-state
tuition. The difference, at Maryland, UK and
other schools, is in hundreds of dollars.

A lower court decided in their favor, con-
cluding that the university’s consideration of
“cost equalization” was not as important. The
school has maintained that the students, whose
parents are nm-tax-paying foreign nationals
living in Maryland suburbs of Washington, must
pay state taxes to be consideed for lower tuition.

The case then, is mainly an argument just for
the opportunity to prove residmce. Although it
does not directly address the policy of charging

different tuition rates, it gives the court an
chance to offer an opinion on that procedure.

Four years ago, the court struck down a
Connecticut law that prevented students from
changing ti "' residential status after they had
applied to a university, no matter what the
conditions were. Public colleges and universities
must decide each student’s residency on an
individual basis, the court ruled.

The system of preferential treatment for
residents should be continued. State schools have
predominantly local interests, not just in fun-
ding, but in their instruction, research and
service. But out-of-state students should have an
opportunity to change residency, because there
are undoubtedly many who legitimately want to
relocate in the state where they attend school.

The Supreme Court now has the chance to set a
national standard on how much freedom should
be granted to transient students, and what
procedures should be followed.

    
   
 
 
   
 
 
  
   
 
 
  
   
  
  
    
 
 
  
     
    
 
  
      
  
  
  
  
 
 
 
 
  
  
   
 
  
   
   
  
 
  
   
 
   
  
 
 
  
 
  
  
   
 
 
   
     
    

 

 

Letters to the Editor

 

 

Think about it

The weather of late has rather
comically illustrated Lexingtonians’
dependence on King Automobile.
Indeed, this phenomenon is clearly
visible the year round. Every day,
these idiots sit in their cars
(presumably smoking cigarettes)
and wait for little lights to change
color, while I, the original madman
on a twowheeler, zoom down center
lanes screaming, howling, laughing
at these people.

You would think they would figure
it, yes, there is going to be a traffic
jam today at five o’clock. But there
they are, every day, sitting and
waiting, while others (out there)
choke, gag, dodge and hiss. And
when the lovely snow comes, they
curse the state for its blasphemous
weather, while blackening the snow
with their goddamned King
Automobiles.

Sure, there are solutions. . . ride a
bike, take a bus? No, that‘s too
simple for these dear mental
midgets. Anyhow, the real solution
to the problem, that lies far above
traffic jams, is a personal com-
mitment to an area. That‘s right,
marry a piece of land, like you might
a burb, or a rural community. You
see. when a fellow works where he
lives, he becomes committed — he
cares- and he lives with the
consequences of his behavior. If he
fogs up the streets with the vile
defecation of his King Automobile,
then he too must breathe it. After a
little while, when the little darling

figures it out, he won't want to shit in
the air and leave it behind. He cares.

Like I said, the problem lies far
above the traffic blues. Allow me
that symbolism. The problem
reaches into every dimension of "our
life. It is immense. Consida‘ per~
sonal relations. If you had to live
with someone that you just fucked
over, you might not have done it.

Somehow, my traffic jam is
getting complicated. If Peabody
Coal had its offices on a seam of
coal, I'll bet they wouldn’t strip
it. . . and if they did I'll bet they
would reclaim it.

Think about it.

Allen Holstein
Graduate student

More bottles

The bottling industry has been
spending many millions of dollars
each year in the various states to
defeat mandatory deposit
legislation. Their campaign hit
Kentucky with their full-page ad in
the Kernel and other papers
February 23.

The bottlers ask people to support
their bill, HB 253, instead of the
bottle bill. HB 253 would provide
state funds to hire people to pick up
the trash the bottlers produce. It
would also make funds available to
provide you with a litter bag when
you pick up your auto license tag.
How nice.

 

The Kentucky Kernel welcomes
letters and commentaries sub
mitted for publication. Articles
must include the signature, ad-
dress and phone number, year
and major if the wirter is a
student.

Commentary authors must
have expertise or experience in
the area to which their article
pertains.

The Kernel editors have the
final decision m which articles
are published. The editors
reserve the right to edit sub

 

Letters Policy

missions became of grammatical
errors, libelous statements or
unsuitability in length.

All letters and commentaries
become the property of rthe
Kentucky Kernel.

The best-read letters are brief
and concern campus events.
though commentaries shmlb be
shwtessay length.

Letters and commentaries
shmld be mailed to the Editorial
Editor, Room IN. Journalism
Building, l'niversity of Ky, 40506.

or may be delivered personally.

 

 

Recycling centers would be
established. Which would be more
convenient to you — take your
bottles to the nearest grocery or to
the nearest tax-funded recycling
center? Which seems more energy
efficient -- - to refill the bottles or to
break them up, melt them down and
make new bottles?

The ad tells us that people cause
litter. That’s right, but only a few
pe0ple, especially the manufac-
turers and promoters of cans and
non-returnable bottles.

That's what happened in Oregon.
After their bottle bill went into ef-
fect, the beer can virtually disap-
peared from the roadside. Yet the
bottlers’ ad says the bill reduced
litter by only 10.6 percent. That‘s
right, too. When you count every
cigarette butt. micronite filter and
gum wrapper you can find almost as
many pieces of litter along an
Oregon highway as before. You've
got to really get out and search,
thwgh; you won't see much just
driving along the highway because
the cans and bottles are gone.

The ad bold faces the figure that 50
percent of litter is paper. How long
will a piece of paper lie along the
roadside before natural biological
processes reduce it to carbon
dioxide and water? And how long do
you suppose the glass bottle or
aluminum can will lie there'.’

Agreed. The proliferation of paper
junk from the fast food industry is a
problem. and something Will have to
bc done to contain it. But first things
first. 'l‘op priority is a bottle bill.

The bottlers are fighting a losing
war and everybody knows it. They
will win this battle, but there will
eventually be a bottle bill. It will not
go away in Kentucky or any other
state, fine after another eventually
uill join the ranks of Oregon, Ver-
mont. Michigan and Maine.
(‘ongess will pass a national bill.
The bottlers are wasting enormous
sums on a lost came and generating
ill Will. They would be better off to
give their money to a worthy came.
May I suggest the Sierra Club or
Nature Conservancy?

Wayne ll. Davis
School of Biological Sciences

 

A 'media junkie’
She lives for journalism

My studies have begun to suffer
but I can‘t seem to resist this im-
ponderable obsession. It begins the
moment I wake and refuses to give
me peace even while asleep.

I am a media junkie. My friends
and spiritual advisers are no help; in
fact, they persist in turning me on to
new and better highs. I suppose I
could argue peer group pressure,

thmgh, without even” ‘ succeSSf'ully ‘

convincing myself. .. -

The first sound I hear on
awakening in the morning is often
the very same current hit that I
heard when I fell asleep the night
before. As much as I like Jackson
Browne, the FM stations are giving
his new album a terrific workout.
Hype for the upcoming concert.

 

judith
egerton

 

 

A hit of Courier-Journalism is an
absolute must. Without the daily
paper I suffer all the classic symp—
toms of drug addiction —»-
nervousness, irritability and
inabilty to relax. I confess that after
several failures to deliver, my paper
boy has experienced extreme verbal
abuse.

The days are difficult, to say the
least. The constant barrage of in-
formation from various outlets is
almost more than I can handle. I
have, out of necessity, ruled
bookstores off limits until the end of
this semester. It is impossible for
me to enter a bookstore and emerge
empty-handed.

I tremble when a sojourn to Mt.
King is essential to classwork. I
determinedly begin searching for

 

 

” Miriam it Kenn u; an m: an

one particular book for one par-
ticular paper, and before I realize
what I‘m doing, I‘m on the floor
between the stacks surrounded by
piles of books that have no con-
nection at all to the subject I‘m
researching, It's the old cliche -_
the more you see, hear or read, the
more you realize how limited your
knowledge is. It is delightful and
frustrating at the same time.

Except for the sound and visuals; ,

visiting friends could be likened to
an afternoon or evening in a
(‘hristian Science reading room. The
television blinks and flickers
soundlessly to the rhythm of the
stereo and conversation is randomly
interspersed with the sounds of
magazine and newspaper pages
turning.

Communication p‘ofessors know
whereof they speak when they
analyze the “narcotizing effects" of
television. I am happy to report that,
with very few exceptions, I have
almost kicked the CBS, NBC, and
ABC habits. I have moved into the
more mind-expanding realm of
M71“ and I love every minute of
it.

Despite the obvious dependence
public television has on government
handouts and corporate funding, my
addiction to it borders on the absurd.
Hours of study for college classes
have slid down the drain while I sat
glued to the uninterrupted
programming of KET. If deprived of
Monty Python or Meeting of the
Minds, I am certain I would be
plagued with severe withdrawal
pains. And (iod forbid that I should
miss the third segment of the
Dracida series.

Watching the General Assembly.
our very own state legislators in
action. is unbeatable real—life

 

 

 

drama. The actors play their role to
the hilt for the televsion cameras. I
watch the bradcast and guiltily
rationalize that seeing the political
system at work (and I‘m not being
facetious, either) is better than
reading the three chapters assigned
in my legislative process class. I
earnestly believe that television
viewing can be educational and
beneficial, but my history ‘ text
rcproachfully remains (In/my desk
with hardly a noticeable wrinkle in ,
the binding.

Magazines are my downfall. I
have even begun to use my friends to
feed my addiction. Became they
oftcn subscribe to magazines that I
don‘t. I rush over when news arrives
of a new issue, pounce on their coffee
table and indulge in hours of
shameful anti~50cial behavior.

There is only a temporary
treatment for this sort of affliction.
It is virtually impossible to effect a
permanent cure for a media junkie,
but if you are feeling fragmented,
experiencing the pressures of in-
formatiOn overload and magazine
mania, there is h0pe. The treat-
mcnt: cold turkey for at least seven
days, preferably in a tropical
climate with an abundance of
alcohol, smoke and suntan lotion,
and miles from a newspaper stand.
Missing Doonesbury for a week will
be tough, I know, but just remember,
it's only a comic strip.

And besides, you can always catch
up on the seven you missed by
rushing to the newspaper archives
at MI. King. Ah, and so it goes...

Judith ligcrton is currently being
l‘orcc-fcd intravenously with
"('harlic‘s Angels“ episodes in an
cffort to induce nausea and thus a
cure for hcr addiction.

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YSA plans to protest
new code, Davis Cup

By BRONSON ROZIER

In my last column I
described the need for
women, blacks and labor to
organize independently of the
system that is responsible for
inequality and the two parties
that maintain that system,
the Democratic and
Republican parties.

Since then, we have had
local examples of a beginning
toward what needs to be
done: the Lexington chapter
of the National Organization
for Women‘s celebration of
International Women's Day,
in defense of women’s rights;
and the Stearns Strike
Defense Committee‘s forum
on the United Mine Workers
and Stearns strike.

Nationally, the UMW
continues to show the power
that comes from relying on
their organized strength
rather than the whims of the
coal operators. The miners
continue to seek a decent
contract in the face of
President Carter's attempt to
shove the last offer down
their throats by using the
Taft-Hartley Act to force
them back to work without a
contract.

It is important to realize the
terms of the offer the miners
voted down by almost a two-
to-one margin: denial of the
right to strike locally,
regardless of provocations by
the company; any union
activist can be fired by the
company for being “actively
involved" in causing a
wildcat strike; and company
power to dismiss safety
committee members is in-
creased. along with miner
training on dangerous
equipment being cut in half.

Health benefits will cost up
to $700. the first time since the

. -1940’s'that miners have been

charged for health care.
Pensions are not enough for
many retired miners to live
on. And, while mining is the
most dangrmus occupation
(2000 miners have died in the
last ten years), the pay scale
will still be less than some
steel and auto workers.
While the mine workers
have shown their willingness
to rely on their own strength
and that of the working class,
they have still been ham-
pered by the union leadership
and some supporters' con-
tinued reliance on the
Democratic party at election
time; instead of trying to
build a labor party based on
the unions. If the United Mine
Workers would take the lead
in building a labor party. the

next time they went on strike
they would have a party that
would try to build support
throughout the labor
movement. They would have
a party that would protest
Taft-Hartley and the use of
the National Guard. As it is,
the union leadership supports
the parties that invoke Taft-
llartley. The lesson should be
clear: both unions and sup-
porters of the labor
movement should stop
supporting the “lesser“ evil
candidates and support a
party for labor.

Another important
example of what people can
do when they begin to drop
illusions of relying on the
Democratic party is the
demonstration of March 17-19
in Nashville against the Davis
(‘up tennis tournament, in
which a South African team
will participate. “Mr. Human
Itights" Carter is continuing
the American ruling class‘
sad record on Human rights
both at home and abroad.

For example. 13 of Am
nesty Intemational’s 18 new
cases of political prisoners
are in the United States —-- the
Wilmington Ten and
(‘harlotte Three in North
Carolina. Nationallly. the
(‘arter Administration 0p-
poses abortion rights for poor
women, refuses to take a
stand on whether gay and
lesbian people have the same
rights as other citizens. and
originally supported Allan
Ilakke in opposing af-
firmative action for 0p-
pressed minorities and
women. Internationally. the
('arter Administration
continues to arm the Shah of
Iran. who recently used those
arms to massacre Iranian
moslems in 'l‘abriz. The
administration also still helps
arm oppressive regimes in
Israel, t‘hilc. the Phillippines.
Korea and around the world.

Not least in the “Human
Rights“ campaign is the
continued $1.6 billion dollar
government and corporate
investment in South Africa.
’l‘he US. supplies material
and political support to a
regime of 4.1 million whites
who totally segregate 18
million Black Africans. 2.3
million (‘oloureds (mixed
Black and Asian) and 710,000
Asians. “Human ltights"
means 18 rnilion Africans
living in townships like
Soweto segregated from the
white city Johannesburg
where there is a curfew III
which Blacks will be shot on
sight. It means the pass card
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have cards giving permission
to travel in the country;
violation means im~
prisoumcnt.

The average wage for
Black workers is way below
whites it is fixed by the
legal system to one fifth of
whites. Education for whites
is free, Blacks have to pay.
Segregated areas , known
as Bantustansr are
reserved for the Black
popidation. ()n the Buan-
tustans more than ~10 percent
of the Black children die
before they reach the age of
ten. (lvercrowded ghettos like
Soweto lack adequate run-
ning water and electricty and
offer malnutrition. p0verty
and exploitation: this is the
apartheid system the US.
government supports.

Aparteid maintains itself
through exploitation of Black
labor through submiminal
wages. the restriction of
trade unions and outlawing
most strikes. This super-
exploitation of Black workers
is the basis of US. in-