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Tuesday, April

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

11, 1970

SG
By DON ECER JR.
Kernel Staff Writer

The SG order, which calls the war in
Vietnam "an issue of major moral and
political significance which affects all
members of the University community,"
endorses the week's program as "an opportunity for all students to reflect on the
present war in Vietnam, the progress, or
lack of progress which has been made in
that effort in recent months, and the influence of that war effort on their lives
and the lives of all people."
Bright also endorsed "any action which
they (the students) deem appropriate as
individuals or collectively."
Bright's executive order also asks the

UK faculty to respect the "convictions"
of the students who do not attend classes
Wednesday and "to take no punitive
measures towards those students."

Three local groups are the main forces
behind the action on campus. They include the UK Student Mobilization Committee, the Lexington Peace Council and
the Transylvania SMC.
A spokesman for SMC, Arlene Robinson, indicated that the main opponent to
the movement on campus would be student apathy. "Since the war affects every
student directly, it's time to end the
apathy on the UK campus and increase
the involvement and awareness of the
growing militancy in Vietnam. Most students don't bother to keep themselves in-

formed."
In a recent press conference, the supmovement
porters of the campus-wid- e
stated that the purpose of the nationally
observed week was not to spread propaganda or to instigate violence, but to edu

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cate. However, the entire week is devoted to picketing, distribution of leaflets
and other activities which call for the
"immediate and unconditional withdrawal of all U.S. forces from Vietnam and
Southeast Asia."
referendum will end
A campus-wid- e
the week's campaign in which all students will be allowed to express their
views, pro and con, on the Vietnam situation. Other college campuses will also
hold the national referendum to conclude
the week-lon- g
program.
The SMC and the Peace Council are
hoping for a large turnout for the all day
teach-i- n
scheduled for Wednesday. It includes films, speakers, question-answe- r
periods, and open discussion forums.
Miss Robinson said that the groups
activities are
supporting the anti-w"at least as much participaanticipating
tion if not more than at last October's
moratorium."
Student apathy at Transylvania College seems to be the story, according to
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By DAHLIA HAYS
Kernel Staff Writer
"There should be no place
in the classroom at the University of Kentucky for mediocre
or poor teachers, no matter how
good their research."
With these words, newly elected SG president Steve Bright
expressed his opinion on the
"publish or perish" controversy
Monday night at the spring initiation banquet of Omicron Delta Kappa, senior men's honorary.
Quoting from the first draft
of a report emphasizing research
which he said had been sent to
e
faculty in the English
department, Bright said that it is
"past time to question the value
full-tim-

Kernel Photo by Bob Brewer

Presidential Premiere

Newly elected Student Government President Steve Bright expresses his views on the publish or perish controversy Monday
night at the Omicron Delta Kappa, senior men's honorary, banquet.
Seated left is fraternity president Bob Brown.

The First Of A Series

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By JERRY W. LEWIS
Kernel Staff Writer
As Pat Nixon toured Kentucky

Village Treatment Center (KV),
a state institute for juvenile delinquents just outside Lexington,
she commented to a group of
the youth, "One of you can be
President."
An interesting challenge for
the American Dream.
This is the first of a four-paseries oil Kentucky Village Treatment Center, focusing on the
"institutionalization" of juvenile
rt

delinquents.
For Kentucky Village is much
more than an outlet for student
volunteerism, a phenomenon the
First Lady was attempting to
view
As part of the state's Department of Child Welfare, KV is a
community of teenagers, ranging
in age from eight to twenty-onwho have been in trouble with
the law. Their average stay at
KV is four to six months.
The institute, however, is no
first-han-

e,

Steven Phcndunifcr, Transy's SMC repHe said that they had
resentative.
planned no major activities.
The Student Mobilization Committee
is sponsoring two separate picketing operations in protest of academic credit received for ROTC courses.
The first march was scheduled to take
place Monday in front of Barker Hall, the
housing unit for ROTC. There will be
another protest march at the recruiting
centers.
Also Monday and Tuesday, there will
be picketing and distribution of leaflets
at the ROTC building. Educational teams
will also be located at the dorms and
Greek houses in an attempt to explain
SMC's position on the war.
Wednesday there will be a boycott of
classes to stress the opposition of U.S.
involvement in Vietnam. Several speakers are scheduled for the day in the Student Center Ballroom.
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President Endorses Class Boycott

The UK Student Mobilization Committee lias called for a boycott of all classes
Wednesday as a part of its plans for National Vietnam Week, and Steve Bright,
the newly elected SG president, has issued an executive order endorsing the
plan.

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prestige?"

Concerning a related subject,
that of faculty evaluation, Bright
said that the faculty evaluation
forms used in the past "have
meant nothing," and proposed
that students be allowed to back
up the results of those forms
with votes on tenure and promotion committees.
Bright said that the desired
purpose of a University should
be the perpetuation of "ideas
and service to the students," not

"reputation."
"But it is useless to pretend
that this problem will be solved
without student involvement,"
he added.

It was Bright's first speech as
leader of the new Student Government administration, which began at 5 p.m. Monday.
Concerning the new adminis

tration, Bright said that he hoped
its beginning marked the end of
"a Student Government consistd
ing mostly of a
student elite."
Bright said his administration
planned to fulfill the
approach to Student Government" promised during his
campaign.
prestige-oriente-

"non-tradition- al

Two areas in which Bright
said the University is "dreadfully boring" are student organizations and the classroom.
Student organizations, said
Bright, should "banquet less and
do more." His criticism of the
classroom was much more extensive, including comments on "the

quality of teaching," thepublish-peris- h
issue, and the present system of faculty evaluation.
Bright was guest speaker at
the banquet, at which new members of Omicron Delta Kappa
and the ODK sweetheart were
announced.

Apollo In Trouble;
Emphasized AtKV M oon
Landing Off

longer called a reform school, a
term commonly applied to a
detention center for
prison-lik- e
children. Now KV is a treatment center.
Robert L. Good, the superintendent of KV, emphasizes that
Kentucky Village "has one of the
best group therapy programs in

the nation."

Group Treatment
"There has been a stirring
revolution in the thinking concerning juvenile delinquency
treatment across the United
the
States,"
superintendent
noted. "Instead of the old reform

of this research."
"It is time to admit that past
efforts in this area were not
enough and have not produced
sufficient results," he continued.
"We must ask: Is much of the
present research a contribution

to our University or the academic community, or is it nothing
to national
more than a short-c-

methods

which

really

didn't do anything, group treatment has leen most effective."

Without a doubt, new methods are needed to face the large
problem of juvenile delinquency.
For the state of Kentucky
alone, juvenile crime now costs
the taxpayers an estimated 9.6
million dollars a year. The question of how to prevent that total
from growing is a hard one.
Recently, sociologists have le- -

gun taking a closer look at the
"institutions."
It is a known fact that 40 percent of the inmates of Kentucky
prisons are known to have spent
time in delinquency institutions.
Many Get Worse
Milton Luger, director of the
New York Division of Youth,
previously declared before a
Senate hearing, "With the exception of a relatively few youth,
it is probably better for all concerned if young delinquents
were not detected, apprehended
Too many
or institutionalized.
of them got worse in our care."
In a report entitled "Juvenile
Delinquency in Kentucky," just
published by the Kentucky Commission on Law Enforcement
and Crime Prevention, a study
showed that 80 percent of 200
lx)ys released from the state's institutions in 1961-6were found
guilty of a new major offense before 1967.
The same study describes KV
as an "overcrowded and antiquated institution." It goes on
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SPACE CENTER, Houston
13's imperiled astronauts battled to bring their
crippled spaceship back to earth
today as Mission Control Center
considered a risky "superfast"
return that would propel them
home a day early and perhaps
save their lives.
"Yes, barely," flight controller Clynn Lunney said when
asked whether the three spacemen would make it back from
their aborted moon landing mission, suddenly cut short Monday
night when a violent rupture of
unknown origin ripped through
pressurized fuel tanks.
Officials are considering the
quick return to bring Apollo 13
back to earth Thursday because
they are concerned about oxygen
and water supplies aboard the
lunar module from which the
astronauts are drawing life support.
James A. Lovell Jr., FredW.
Haise Jr. and John L. Swigert
Jr. conserved these vital consumables as they raced farther from
(AP)-Ap- ollo

earth, toward a loop around the
moon tonight before starting the
homeward
quarter-million-mi-

le

journey.
Looping the moon is the

saf-

est way home, officials said, because Apollo 13 was close to its
target when the accident happened and already was on a
course that would take it around
the moon's backside.
The only powerpl ant available
is the lunar module descent engine, the one intended to lower
Lovell and Haise to the moon's
surface. The spacemen triggered
the engine 30 seconds early today
to adjust their course slightly
to a path that would take them
around the moon and bring them
back to earth late Friday if they
made no other maneuver.
If that engine had failed to
ignite, Apollo 13 would have
swung back toward earth but
would havemissedby some20,000
miles and would have been lost
forever in space.
To speed the homeward trip
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KERNEL, Tuesday, April H, 1970

Guard Duty

It had been quiet so far. Of
course, there hardly ever was any
trouble up here. Still, you never
could tell. Last month four Arvin
bought it when the Cong set up
a machine gun in the night and
fired into the compound.

His fingers drummed nervousthe hard turret lip. Taking
a practice grip on the
he swung the weapon in
a short arc. It swung easily on
mount.
its well-oile- d
He remembered the sergeant
ly on

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Fiction by Ray Hill, Kernel
Staff Writer.
That was the trouble. It was
quiet up here most of the time.
But you never knew when the
quiet would be broken with gunfire. Or when that gunfire would
be aimed at you.
He stood in the tank, his arms
resting on the rim of the turret,
his eyes looking out over the
long, deadly barrel of the machine-gun
into the dark. How
stupid, he thought, to build a
tank to protect a man, and then
put the gun on top so you had
to expose your head and shoulders to fire it. Just like the damn
army.

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of the guard's instructions. "Anything that moves out there, you
shoot it. There's nothing supposed to be out there. The only
thing you don't shoot that moves
is the guard truck when it conies

to get you. And it will have its

lights on. You all got that?" He
had nodded along with the rest
of them, all the while wondering
if everybody would be back for
chow in the morning.
He had heard that Karnes,
the first sergeant, sometimes
slipped away from the compound
and out to the guard posts to see
if the guards were awake. "I hope
he comes sneaking out here," he
thought. "I'll kill him."Heprob-ablwouldn't have. But Karnes
y

was mean, always chewing everybody out. All the men talked
about how they were going to
shoot Karnes someday. It made
him feel better to think he might
be the one to do it.
He shifted his weight from one
foot to the other. Again his fingers took up their nervous drumming against the tank. Jesus,
time was crawling.
Off in the distance an automatic rifle began firing near Phu
Bai. His fingers stopped moving,
and he listened. Quickly the staccato sound was joined by other
small arms fire. He looked around
the tank. It was silly to think
they were up here just because

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they were fighting down in the
village. They fought down there
every night.
He felt a hundred unseen eyes
hot with the urge to kill boring
into him, their owners ready at
any moment to let loose a fu
e like the one down in the
hamlet. A hundred yards behind
him, he could make out the dim
outline of the compound. Damn,
he wished he was back there with
the rest of the men instead of
out here alone in the night. Come
on, guard truck. Let me hear your
motor.
Abruptly the firing stopped.
It seemed strangely quiet now.
His fingers began their rhythmic
tapping again. Now fear really
began to creep through his mind.
If they weren't fightingthere anymore, they might pass by here.
They sometimes did.
Damn, this was stupid. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. What a stupid country. The little college he
had attended in the midwest
flashed through his mind. It had
been so easy then. Co to class
when you feel like it. Sleep when
you feel like it. Get drunk when
you feel like it. Why did I ever
drop out and join the army. Oh
damn. What a fool.
He was almost sure to get it
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Innovations Mark New Album
By

JIM FUDGE

Kernel Staff Writer
Sixteen Ton, Heavy Balloon.
A song? No, a band and a song.
Heavy Balloon is a new group,
an IS member rock group, and
"Sixteen Tons" is one of the
songs on their new album. The
title of the side, side one, is
fittingly enough 32,000 pounds.

"Barnyard Blues" and "Sixteen
Tons," both on side one are the
two best songs on the album.
"Barnyard Blues" is adapted
loosely from "Old MacDonald,"
but besides using the name, the
two bear little similarity because
in this rock version of a nursery
rhyme the farm is under water
in the middle of a river.
"Sixteen Tons" is Heavy Balloon's arrangement of an old folk
song done, instead of in folk

style, in rock. And surprisingly
enough, it comes out good. It
isn't often that an old folk song
can be adapted successfully to
rock, but the beat, the drums,
the bass and lead guitars all seem
to fit the song. Maybe it's just
that the current trend of songs
telling a story and commenting
on the world today has made it
easy to accept, but to me it
seems a really together version.

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there, like that guy of Hemingway's. Damn, that would be bad.
There was a muted cough
behind the tank, like when somebody has to cough and tries to
hold it back, but it comes out
anyway. Without thinking, without even knowing his actions,
he leaped out of the hatch,
grabbed his rifle and stuck it
over the back of the tank and
inside the tank and pulled the pulled the trigger. Nothing haphatch shut over his head. It pened.
There was another cough. But
closed with a loud booomp. This
is the thing to do. Close the hatch it was not from a man. A dog
and let them shoot. They don't crouched on the ground behind
have anything to penetrate this. the tank. It stood up and looked
He smiled inside the pitch-blac- k at him, gave one more distemof the metal enclosure.
pered cough, and wandered slowIf Karnes could see him now. ly off toward the compound.
He sat down on top of the
Damn if he wouldn't explode.
He almost laughed at the thought tank with his rifle across his legs,
of Kanies coining out here and his body shaking convulsively.
finding him cowering inside the He could have been dead. Lifttank.
ing Ids right hand up, he rubbed
It was stuffy inside and he his trembling fingers along his
was beginning to sweat. He jaw. Cod what a stupid thing to
raised the hatch and stood up do, to forget to put a bullet in
again. Rubbing his sweaty palms the chamber. He pulled back
against his fatigue pants, he the operating rod and a round
looked around. Damn this coun- clicked into the barrel.
In the distance he heard the
try. Just to get back to the states
in one piece. That's all any man sound of the guard truck. Then
could ask for over here.
he saw its headlights. His legs
He scratched between his legs. would barely support him as he
Oh, it would be bad to get it slid off the tank to the ground.
if they passed by this way. There
was no protection with your head
and shoulders exposed like this.
Why didn't they put a real tank
up here instead of this armored
personnel carrier with a fifty caliber on top? Because they don't
have to stick their heads up
through this damn hole and look
out at the night. That's why.
The hell with them. He ducked

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The rest of side one is fairly
good rock, but it can't compare
to the other two songs. "On My
Way Down" is a plea to a girl
friend, who keeps putting a guy
down. It's about how frustrated
he is becoming from her actions.
"My Very Own Sweetheart"
is fair, and "T.C. Topcat Blues"
falls down too. "Sweetheart" is
only decent light rock, and
"Blues," while being a break
from the rest of the songs on the
album falls short of being good
blues, or good music.
Side two, titled "Sixteen
Tons" has one good song, but
the rest, likeon sideone, fall short
of greatness. "I Don't Need No
Doctor" is a girl telling people
the only thing wrong with her is
that she "needs her baby" and
then she'll be alright. It's well
sung and well played, but it lacks
some depth.
"Owed to Sgt. Pepper" is
poor, with very little imagination to the whole thing. It's
basically some lyrics from the
Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper" album
strung together in a feeble attempt to form a song. The title
is accurate though; something
is owed to Sgt. Pepper, and it's
not thanks. An apology would
be more in order.

"Lead Zeppalin" and "Action" are pretty good in the
instrumental department, but in
content they go right down the
drain. If there was some way to
scrub away the words there would
be some pretty good rock music
left. Too bad.
There are some good songs
on the "Heavy Balloon" album,
but the rest do leave much to be
desired in the content of the song.
And it's too bad, because the
group has promise. The singing
is good, and the instrumental,
bass and lead guitar and drums
especially, are very fine. Maybe
by the next album they'll have

some good songs to put out, and
with the talent they seem to have,
they should become a popular
group.

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The Newport Jazz Festival
will be held July 10, 11, and 12,
1970 at Festival Field, Newport
deRhode Island. The week-envoted to a celebration of the many
facets of jazz will consist of three
evening and two afternoon cond

certs.

The music starts at noon Saturday with simultaneous drum,
fiddle and trumpet workshops in
different parts of the field. You
can stay with one, or sample
all three. At midaftemoon the
musicians and audience will gravitate toward center stage for a
concert of interesting trends in
the jazz of today. Participants
include Tony Williams, Chico
Hamilton, Art Blakey, Don Cherry, Sadao Watanabe, and many
others.
Saturday night the artists will
be Miles Davis, Nina Simone,
Herbie Mann, Dizzy Gillespie,
Rollins,

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Sunday night will feature Ella
Fitzgerald, the Buddy Rich Orchestra, Les McCaiui Eddie Hare
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avant-gard-

singer.

For information and tickets
write to the Newport Jazz FestiRhode Island
val, Newport,
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Problems
Continued From Page One
by 10 hours, Lovell, Haise and
late substitute Swigert plan at
9:40 p.m. EST tonight to trigger
the engine again to increasetheir
2,600 m.p.h. speed by 558 miles
an hour. That would land them
in the Pacific Ocean north of New
Zealand at 1 p.m. EST Friday.
Mission Control said at
still favored thisplan.
But officials huddled for a long
time to consider a "superfast"
return which would mean a longer burn of the lunar module engine. The result would be an
earth landing about 1p.m. Thursday.
Here is a chronology of key
events that led to the decision
to abort the Apollo 13 moon
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landing and bring the three
tronauts home.

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Lovell reports low oxygen readings on two
of the three
fuel
cells.
10:25 p.m. Lovell says "We
are venting something out into
space." He reports it apparently
is gas and that it caused the
spaceship to pitch and roll.
10:45 p.m. Spacecraft reports
fuel cell three is out, and oxygen supply in cabin is dropping.
One of two main electrical cir10:20 p.m. Monday
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10: 55 p. m.
Swigert says these
systems are flashing warning
lights: liquid gas pressurization;
fuel cell 1, fuel cell 3, main electrical bus B and suit compressor.
11:20 p.m. Astronaut Fred
VV.
Haise Jr. reports venting is
causing "a positive pitch rate,
and I can't stop it." Thruster
firing halts it.
11:40 p.m. Haise reports cab-

in oxygen pressure falling. Mission Control orders activation of
an emergency battery, and tells
astronauts it is considering using
the lunar module as a haven.
11:59 p.m. Mission Control
says all three fuel cells are off
and that only 15 minutes' electrical power remains in the command ship. Tells astronauts to
transfer through tunnel to LM
and activate its systems. With
oxygen flowing from the LM,
Swigert remains in command ship
to turn off $everal systems.

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ReDressive Efforts
For the past few years the Justice
Department has been searching for
disgrounds to indict political
senters under federal conspiracy
laws in an attempt to discourage
protest.
First there was Dr. Spock who
was indicted for conspiring to urge
people to turn in their draft cards.
Dr. Spock won his appeal, but not
on the grounds that the conspiracy
laws are unconstitutional.
Then there was the Chicago
Seven who were acquitted on the
conspiracy charge but found guilty
on the riot charge. This left doubt
as to the worth of conspiracy
charges.
So, in an effort to put aside any
fears that the conspiracy club will
no longer be used, the Justice Department has indicted 12 members
of the Weatherman faction of SDS
for conspiring to foment the violence that occurred last October in

act, regardless of whether or not
that act ever occurs. The
do not have to plan the
act together or even know each
other. All that is required legally,
is "a breathing together."
The government obviously feels
they have a good chance to get a
Chiconspiracy conviction on the
cago 12. This would be a precedent
of sorts if the conviction would be
upheld in a higher court and would
make it easier to get conspiracy
convictions on other, less violent,
political dissenters.
What this would do, in effect, is
establish a clear legal basis for the
government to muzzle dissent by
jailing opposition leaders and intimidating people in an attempt to
keep them from taking part in a
legal protest. (In the case of Dr.
Spock and the Chicago Seven

Chicago.
No one will deny that violence
occured last October or that the
Weathermen instigated it rather
than the police, but the constitutionality of the conspiracy laws remains in doubt.
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The judicial ruling held that centuries of experience have found that
freedom of speech, press and association are indispensable to the survival of a free society. These freedoms are inviolate, Judge Zirpoli
said, "until there has been a clear
showing of a compelling and overriding national interest that cannot
be served by alternative means."
The burden of proving such a grave
exception to the normal gathering,
of the
reporting and protection
news is placed on the Government
-- a proof that must be made to the
satisfaction of the court.

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This column is in response to all of the
circumaterial that has
lated on campus this year. It's alxmt
It would seem that those in- time someone from ROTC tells the
I am
terested in preserving the
masses alxmt the programs-sin- ce
I'll explain that proin Air Force ROTC,
quo could do so with other, less
gram; I hope someone from Army ROTC
laws. The government's
shaky,
will explain their program s(xn.
to use the conspiracy stick
Aerospace Science is the curriculum
can only mean a desire to usher in a that young men (and on a couple of
campuses, women) take for four years to
new era of repression.
become an officer in the U.S. Air Force.
The first year consists of learning
about the general military structure of
the U.S., the different commands of the
Air Force, and some sociological, politiNo such exception existed in the cal, economic and military theories such
case of Earl Caldwell, a New York as the concept of national power, causes
definition of war.
Times reporter, who was called and a
Two things that the cadets discussed
upon to give testimony about inter- last year that I remember poignantly are
views with Black Panther party the discussion of atomic power and the
members. While holding that Mr. ARM issue.
The scope and depth of atomic power
Caldwell had the same responsiis difficult to comprehend until one has
bility as any other citizen to appear learned some facts about it, and its nacadets
before a grand jury in response to ture shocked many of us-t- he
ruled that hope, as do people in the Air Force hope
a subpoena, Judge Zirpoli
have to use it again.
he was entitled to a protective order we never
The ARM issue brings up a point that
limiting the questions he could be I want to emphasize in AFROTC, we
asked. The attempt to quash the are NOT brainwashed, NOT hypnotized,
subpoena was denied but the court NOT told to revere the Chief of Staff of
the Air Force, the Secretary of Defense,
upheld the alternative remedy of nor the President. My class had a debate
restricting the subpoena "to protect on the ARM, and the majority was
Mr. Caldwell's confidential relaAGAINST the system.
In Corps Training, for the first two
tions."
basic drill
first years, the cadet is taught the
The Department of Justice
movements and leadership skills. In the
subpoenaed the reporter to testify third and fourth years, a cadet is an ofand to bring his personal notes and ficer in rotating leadership positions on
the field and on Staff. In all four years,
tape reportings, a requirement that an AFROTC cadet does not touch a weawas legally resisted by The Times pon, not even a saber.
In the second year of class work, the
with the support of many other
and communications cadets go into some more detail on the
news
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agencies
media. The second subpoena simply required his personal appearance, which Mr. Caldwell as citizen
and journalist must obey, subject
to the immunities ordered by the
judge.
The First Amendment, the rights
of the public and the responsible
functioning of the reporting process
have been sustained in San Francisco.

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Limiting The Subpoena
"Our liberty," said Thomas Jefferson, "depends on the freedom of the
press, and that cannot be limited
without being lost."
The effort by the Department of
Justice to infringe on a reporter's
ability to gather news and to protect confidential material has been
turned back by a United States District Court in San Francisco. The
opinion by Federal Judge Alfonzo
J. Zirpoli safeguards the public in
two ways: It upholds the grand
jury's right to summon a journalism
to testify; and at the same time it
upholds a journalist's right to protect private information and associations that, if revealed, could drastically curtail his ability to function
under the First Amendment.

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Air Force, the U.S. General Purpose
among the
Forces, and coordination
branches, and the history of military ami
political searches for peace from ancient
history to the present day.
At various times, we have talked alxnit
combat, discipline and the like, including
the My Lai case. Many of us came to
the conclusion that it would have been
better to disobey the Commanding Officer, rather than carry through the assignment. Now is that a case of blind
following?
I feel t