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Author gives pessimistic but varied View of life

By MEREDITH LITTLE
Senior Staff Writer

Noted author Kurt Vonnegut
brought his fatalistic views and
cutting sarcasm to Transylvania Uni-
versity last night to speak on topics
ranging from the idiocy of Dan
Quayle to the ingredients of being a
good writer.

Vonnegut's speech, “How to Get
a Job Like Mine”, was the ﬁrst in
this year's William R. Kenan Jr. lec-
ture series. The audience flowed
into the aisles after both a 2,000-seat
and another 300-seat auditorium
were ﬁlled to capacity more than 30

minutes before Vonnegut’s appear-
ance.

But Vonnegut did not address the
topic of becoming a writer until al-
most an hour into his speech, choos-
ing instead to concentrate on the is-
sues of politics and technology
which so often fuel the satirical
ﬁres of his books.

His stop in Lexington was one of
eight appearances this fall after pub-
lication of his newest work, Hocus
Pocus. Audience members familiar
with Vonnegut’s work were not sur-
prised to hear him call it “very pes-
simistic, and discouraging, and
there’s no light at the end of the tun-

nel."

“Usuallylask that it notbeput on
sale, because if rock ’n‘ roll could
cause a lot of suicides, then this
book could do the same thing,” he
said.

He said he set forth a series of
predictions in his book. However,
these were not so much “predic-
tions” as jabs at current world
events.

“I predict that by the year 2000.
oil will have jumped to $39 a bar-
rel," he said. “I predict that by the
year 2000 crooks will have cleaned
out our banks to give our hard-
eamed savings to friends and rela-

tives. I predict that the president’s
son will be involved we will
have launched a billion-dollar space
telescope that doesn‘t work, I
predict that by the year 2000 Rocke-
feller Center will be owned by the
Japanese.”

He made his views clear on the
“piece by piece" sale of America to
the Japanese.

“I think it's a disgrace. I think it‘s
treason,” he said.

He lamented the decline of the
popularity of books among Ameri-
cans, citing a statistic that on a year-
ly basis only one out of 20 Ameri-
cans buy a book or check one out of

a library. and encouraged the audi-
ence to “marinate their brains in
books" rather than television or mo-
vies.

Apparently familiar with the lib-
eral bent of Vonnegut’s writings,
few people dared raise their hands
when he asked the conservatives in
the audience to show themselves.

“If you’re a conservative, you be-
lieve that everybody who wants to
own an AK-47 should have one,
and I don‘t know what a radical po-
sition would be compared to that,“
he said.

See VONNEGUT, Back page

tall meet tomorrow.

PREPARING FOR A NEW SEASON: A cleaning person at Keeneland sprays the walkway where the horses will parade to the post. Keeneland opens it

DI'OCL‘SS.

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enced the state

Arch on the Vorth Fork. Inc..

KURT VONNEGUT

Arch says

tried to

sway state

By GREGORY A. HALL
Senior Staff Woter

FRANKFURT. K). A lawwr tor Arch \liticral
Corp. claimed yesterday that LK 1.x trying to improper
ly influence state officials who are considering the
company’s application to strip-mine at the edge or
Robinson Forest.

The company, which has applied to mine land adia-
cent the eastern Kentucky torest. \Llitl the I nixerstay
has received preferential treatment in the pennitttnc

Arch‘s only response to public concerns \‘vtln the let
ter, which commented on deficiencies the state t'otrttil
in Arch‘s permit.

“There is no question that the University -ll Ken
tucky has attempted, through correspondence and Ctill‘.
ments. to misdirect the Cabinet and IIIlprpCIl) inila
ence its review of this application." the letter said.

Arch made the response at a pemiit conference lg.
the state Department of Surface Mining Rc‘clllilitliiwi.
and Enforcement.

Arch attorney Joseph Zaluski read the ZS-page letter.
which said that many of the deficiencies discovered in
the permit had no legal basis and that L'Is’. had antin-

a \Ul‘SIt’llar} of St

See ROBINSON. Back page

‘Hard work’ leads ticket to sweep of SGA seats

By MARY MADDEN
Staff Writer

In a landslide defeat of their op-
ponents, the
ticket of Misty
Weaver, Jill
Cranston, Su—
zanne Empson
and Rob Elhe—
nicky last night
won the right to
represent fresh-
men on the Stu-
dent Govem-

ment ELHENICKY

The UK Jazz Ensem-
ble will preform
at 8 pm. Saturday
in the Otis A.
Singletary Center.
Tickets for the perfor-

mance are $6 for UK
students.

INDEX

Football team
ready to be-
gin
Southeastern
Conference

play.

Association Senate.

“I feel great. I feel wonderful. All
the hard work has really paid off
now," said Empson, an undeclared
freshman. “It
was the team-
work between
the four of us. I
think that our
spirit pulled us
together.“

The two-day
freshman sena-
tor elections
were won,
Weaver agreed,
because of effort
and teamwork.

“It was our hard work. just work
ing as a whole,“ she said.

Votes cast at Lexington Commu-
nity College seemed to be the decid-
ing factor in this year‘s freshman
elections. Elhenicky received 140
votes at LCC; Cranston, 137; Weav-
er, I30; and Empson, 128. Their

CRANSTON

closest contender at LCC was Dave
McD0well, who received 25 votes
there.

Before the winners were an-
nounced, SGA
president Sean
Lohman congrat-
ulated all the
candidates “on a
good election."

He urged the
candidates who
did not win to
continue their
participation in
University activ- WEAVER
itres.

“If you didn’t win, stay involved.
I can‘t stress that enough.“ he said.

Voter turnout in the election was
considerably greater than that of last
year’s election, Lohman said.

“There were 954 people who vot-
ed this year I would say it's well
above 300 more people (than voted
in last year's election)."

Winners of special elections held
to ﬁll vacant seats in various colleg-
es were also announced last night.

Special election winners were
Adrian Jones,
graduate school;
Lenore Crih-
ﬁeld, social
work: Elaine
Parker, library
science; and Da-
vid Lilly. LCC.
said Tom
Bloom, SGA
election board
chairman.

Totals in the
those elections were:

- Graduate school: Jones, ll: Jim
Wheeler, 5.

- Social work: Crihfteld. 6; Kath-
leen Reese, 0.

- Library scrence: Parker, 5:
Chris Shutt, l.

- LCC: Lilly, ()3: John Boume,
l.

EMPSON

SGA

JIII Cranston

Stacy Keith
Chad Abney
Jeni Moore
Libby Howell
Doug Wilson

Kay Kim

Misty Weaver
Suzanne Empson
William Summers
Shea Chaney
Dave McDowell

Melanie Julian

Freshman Senator
Election Results

Rob Elhenicky

507
503
486
445
206
194
174
165
153
131
126
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Hurting from sanctions, Iraq pleads for help

By DAVID BEARD
Associated Press

A Soviet envoy carried a secret
message from Mikhail Gorbachev
to Baghdad and Japan's prime min-
ister met with Iraq’s No. 2 leader
yesterday in new efforts for peace
in the Persian Gulf. Five Europeans
used a l0-foot boat in a daring es-
cape frorn Iraq.

The USS Independence —— the
ﬁrst American aircraft carrier in the
gulf in 16 years — left the water-
way after a brief show of force. A
Navy warship enforcing a UN. em-
bargo on Iraq stopped a Sudanese
freighter from entering the Gulf of
Aqaba. the Pentagon said.

Iraq, hurting from the intemation-
al sanctions following its Aug. 2 in-
vasion of Kuwait. planned to argue
its case before the United Nations.
The world body. which has con-
demned Iraq’s invasion and placed a
naval and air embargo on the coun-
try, may consider stronger meas-
ures.

Iraq‘s UN. ambassador was ex-
pected to respond to President
Bush's suggestion Sunday that an
unconditional Iraqi withdrawal from
Kuwait could lead to "opportuni-
ties" toward a broad Middle Est
peace settlement.

British Foreign Secretary Douglas
Hll‘d. following up on Bush's sug-
gestion. said yesterday that Israel

must be prepared to negotiate the
Palestinian problem once Iraq with-
draws from Kuwait. Iraqi President
Saddam Hussein has tried to link a
pullout from Kuwait with Israel‘s
occupation of territories it captured
in the l967 Middle East war.

In the Middle East. other diplo—
matic attempts to resolve the 2-
month-old crisis continued.

chgeny Primakov. a senior ad-
viser to Gorbachev. arrived in
Baghdad carrying a message from
the Soviet president. Soviet diplo-
matic sources said. Its contents
were not disclosed. Tass quoted him
as saying in Baghdad that a nego-
tiated solution was needed “to avoid
a military explosion."

Gorbachev said yesterday he saw
no reason to send Soviet troops to
join the U.S.