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Thursday, April 20,1978

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an independent student newspaper]—

Senate approves
school changes

By DEBBIE MCDANIEL
Kernel Staff Writer

A College of Engineering selective
admission proposal was approved
by majority vote yesterday at the
University Senate Council meeting.

The new policy, effective this fall,
states new requirements for upper
and lower-division admission and
allows seva'al options for entry into
specific engineering degree
programs.

The council approved the ad-
missions policy after learning of an
increase of almost 700 un-
dergraduates in the engineering
college this year. According to a
council member, 15 percent of these
undergraduates aren’t elegible
under the program’s approved
admission changes, but he said 85
percent of that number are expected
to fail.

According to the new policy, high
school applicants must have ACT
math and composite scores in the
top half for college bound students.
College studaits transferring into
the lower-division engineering
proyam will need a minimum 2.0
GPA in math, chemistry, physics
and freshman English.

To advance into upper-division
courses, students will need a
cumulative minimum 2.0 GPA in
freshmen English and course
sequences of freshmen chemistry,
physics, and calculus. Completion of
60 semester-hours which 'are‘ ac-
ceptable to the degree program will
be mandatory.

The admission changes don’t
apply to currently enrolled

eng‘neering students. The college
plans to notify graduating high
school seniors interested in
engineering of the new admission
requirements.

In other action, the council ap-
proved a Graduate School proposal
allowing the Dean to drop graduate
students who have passed the
qualifying examination but exhibit
academic deficiencies.

The proposal was approved by the
Graduate Council before reaching
the Senate Council and contains
recommendations regarding new
rules governing termination
procedures. These rules include the
creation of a document clearly
stating the following criteria for
graduate students: admission
requirements, expected academic
and professional standards,
examination methods, and the time
and manner of required student
evaluations.

If the results it this evaluation
show definite academic weaknesses,
the student will receive a warning
notice and be given a specified
improvement period. If after this
time the student shows no sign of
improvement, the graduate faculty
would meet to discuss the evaluation
and take a vote on a termination
decision.

According to the proposal,
students must be notified of their
evaluation results and receive
written notice from the Dean
regarding their termination.
Students will be allowed to appeal
the recommended termination to the
Graduate Council

Continued on page 8

Happiness

By GIL LAWSON
Kernel Staff Writer

The UK Placement Service has
been using a new appoach in
helping students get jobs they want
and acccording to director Jim
Alcom, it's working

“Life Career Planning” is the
name of the concept the Placement
Service is using. Alcom said the
object of Life Career Planning is to
“get the individual to start looking
and thinking about how to control
their life and work at what they
entry.”

In previous years the Placement
Service only set up interviews with
prospective employers for students.

The service now offers an eight-
hour course that helps students

fltoday

relate the their skills to the job
they’re interested in.

In the course, the Placement
Service provides information with
which students can establish
priorities in matters such as the
amount of leisure time they require
and the area in which they would
like to live.

Harry Jones, Placement Service
assistant director, said five to 35
students participate in each section
of the eight-hour course. “We try to
let it meet the needs of the group,”
Jones said. He added the course
looks into work values and life
values and relates them to the type
of employment students want.

Alcom said this new approach
stresses the importance of being
happy with an occupation and en-

Looking good

to keep her transit dry today, either, since the forecast

Landscape architecture sophomore Jennie Russell
was slightly soggy yesterday after she took her sur-
veying test in the rain. She probably wouldn’t be able

calls for scattered showers.

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Steve Hirsch

Placement Service uses new ’l..ife Career Planning’
to guide UK students to more satisfying future

joying one’s residence and leisure
time.

He beleives Life Career Planning
has been successful. “The recruiters
come back to us and tell us the
students are doing better in their
interviewing,” Alcom said

He added the Placement Service
also helps undeclared students
choose a major and advises those
having problems choosing a
profession.

“The big thing,” he said, “is to get
the students thinking about what
they want to do and where they want
to live, even if they’re only fresh-
men.”

Alcom said there are six steps to
take once the student decides what
job he is interested in:

Register with the Placement

 

 

campus

Voting for Student Government positions began
yesterday, with turnout at the polls reported as
“good.“

Fred P'Pool, agricultural economics senior and
chairman of the election board, said he was quite
pleased with the turnout. About 1,500 students voted
yesterday.

i think that‘s pretty good," P’Pool said. “I would say
by tomorrow we'll probably have 4,000 votes. Some
people think I‘m too optomistic and say 3,000—5.000.
Last year we only had 2,600 (votes in the 86 election)."

Results from elections will be proccessed tonight
starting at about 9:30. The winners will be announced
outside the SG offices on the first floor of the Student
Center about 11:30 tonight.

inside

“POPCORN." A CARTOON SERIES by Perry
Coope- and Editorial Assistant B. Eric Bradley, debuts
today. Check out the first panels on page 4.

state

COLLECTIONS FROM THE COAL SEVERANCE
TAX. upon which Kentucky relies heavily for income,
fell sharply last month. but the total in the nine fiscal
months is well ahead of the previous corresponding
period.

Revenue Commissioner Maurice Carpenter said
yesterday the decline in March reflects the nationwide
coal strike and bad weather for February.

Only $5.3 million was collected last month compared
with 99.] million in March 1977.

THE STATE VETERINARIAN‘S office announced
yesterday that 54 more thoroughbred mares and one
stallion have been released from a breeding quaran-
tine imposed after the outbreak of a highly contagious
equine venereal disease.

JD. Wolf, assistant director for livestock sanitation,
said the horses were released after tests for contagious
equine metritis, or CEM. proved negative.

nation

Tlll-I l'NlTED STATES WAS PREPARED TO
DEN-2ND the Panama Canal if the Panamanian
military had tried to take the waterway by force,
President Carter‘s chief spokesman said yesterday.

“It is safe for you to assume we would be prepared to
defend American interests and the canal, as we have
been," White House press secretary Jody Powell said.

The White House statement was prompted after
Panamanian leader Gen. Omar Torrijos declared that
his regime was ready to sabotage the canal had the
Senate defeated the second of the Panama Canal
treaties on Tuesday night. The treaties relinquish U.S.
control of the international waterway by the end of the
century.

Torrijos said after the Senate‘s vote that if the treaty
had been rejected, “we would have started another
struggle for liberation." Torrijos said the close vote
placed the Panama Canal “within two votes of being
destroyed."

weather

('I.Ol'l)\' “IT" A :m PERCENT (‘llANCl-I of
scattered showers today, high in the upper «its to low
.305. Mostly cloudy tonight with low in the mid 1305. and
the high tomormw will be in the fits.

 

 

Service and sign up for an interview.
This consists of filling out a
registration form and providing
recommendations and references.
The student can also add a grade
transcript and personal resume. The
Placement Service keeps these
records for eight years and will send
the records to off~campus in-
terviewers.

Research the company you plan
to interview with and find out as
much information about it as
possible. Alcom said it is important
to show interest in and knowledge of
the company when being in-
terviewed.

Go through a practice interview
session with a friend and find your
weak points. Keep practicing until
you are comfortable with any type of

History 354

question the interviewer might ask.

Attend the interview you signed
up for: do not cancel appointments
unless absolutely necessary. Alcom
said it is important to be punctual
and properly dressed.

After the interview write in-
terviewer and ask if he or she needs
any further information. Also thank
him or her for the interview.

If the company asks you to make
a visit to the home office, do ad-
ditional research on the company
and the community in which you
might be living.

The Placement Service also
publishes two bulletins to help
students and alumni looking for
jobs.

A recruiting bulletin is put out
twice monthly which lists recruiters

who will be on campus.

An alumni bulletin with job
openings and requirements is
published and sent to unemployed
alumni.

The service has a Career
Resource Library which provides
information on job requirements,
living areas, summer jobs, in-
ternships and resume composition.

The library also has several slide
shows and films on interviewing
techniques, Life Career Planning
and companies students can expect
to encounter.

Alcom said he would like to see
more students take advantage of the
resources that the Placement
Service makes available. “Some
students take advantage of it, but
not a majority,“ he said.

The focus is on terrorism
in new history course

By GAIL MCCULAH
Kernel Reporter

Acts of political violence have
been prevalent in recent headlines;
the names and places have almost
become household words: Yassir
Arafat, the PLO, Entebbe, the Red
Brigade, Lebanon.

Although UK is physically and
spiritualy removed from the events
associated with these names,
students in one course are studying
the past, present and future of
terrorism.

Robert Tri, a history doctoral
student. is teaching a course called
“Terrorism in Historical Per-
spective” (History 354). Tri
described the class as “a historical
survey" in which he and his students
“seek to find the roots of terrorism

The class, designed by Tri, is self-
paced and completely in-
dividualized.

The 17 students enrolled in the
course, most of whom are history
and political science maprs, are
requ'red to complete six reading

units, write a short reaction paper
after each unit and write a major
research paper.

One of the study units involves
terrorism as it exists today its
cames and underlying purposes in
the unit. the class discusses Black
September‘s slaying of Israeli
athletes during the 1972 Olympics

Tri presents the Black September
raid as the Arab group‘s way of
getting the public‘s attention. The
gucrillas didn‘t hold the athletes
personally responsible for the Arab
lsracli conflict. Tri said. but
believed all Israeli citizens were
guilty since they represented Jewish
society.

The class covers other topics.
including the origins of modem
terrorism. terrorism in fiction. the
ideology of terrorism and counter-
tcrrorism tterrorism by the
Establishment). It also explores the
personality and psychological
makeup of terrorist groups

"There is a category of terrorism
called psychotic terrorism." Tri
said. “but it is a misnomer to

classify tcn'orism on a whole as
insane "

The class also examines the future
of terrorism and its rcationship to
tcchnological ndaanccmcnt. Ac‘
cording to 'l'ri, many political
analysts are worried about the
possible use of nuclear weapons by
terrorist groups.

One reason it might be possible for
terrorists to gain access to nuclear
powcrcd weapons. 'l‘ri said. is that
“highly developer! countries tend to
ignore terrorism " He said this
attitude could lead to a dangtrous
amount of laxrty in the control of
nuclear material

Although designed by Tri. the
tcrrorism course was supported by a
grant he received last summer from
thc l'K Extcnsion (lass Program
Evening t‘lass [)lllSltm, and was
promoted by Dr Stephen Langston.
tuslsltilli \It‘t‘ president for
academic tillz’tlrS. Dr John
Stephenson, dean for undergraduate
studies. and Dr Raymond llctts.
director of undergraduate studies
for the l)cpartmcnt of History

 

  

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I guess that a lot of people think
this is a pretty glamorous oc-
cupation. I am referring of course,
to my position as a writer for the
Kernel. I‘d like to talk with you a
moment about my preferred

position.

Okay, sure, there are some in-
valuable fringe benefits to this job.
I mean, I am virtually guaranteed
a seat in any restaia‘ant after I wait
in line. I can cash my checks
almost anywhere with two valid
forms of identification, provided
one of them has a picture. People
usually know my name after I
introduce my self and hand out my
card. Red lights turn to green for
me after a relatively short period
and I may often turn right on red.

Now, before you turn magenta
with envy, there are a few things I
should clear up. I have to confess
that these convenient privileges do
not in any way compensate for the
torment and frustration of this job.
You see, I have said some very,
very insightful things on these

 

Glamour
The one thing his

job doesn’t have

pages and no one, and I mean no
one has noticed. I would like to give‘
you a brief runtbwn of the
revelations that you have missed
on these pages:.

1) 0n4Apr. 1978, I predicted that
UK would take the NCAA cham-
pionship.

2) On 17 Feb. 1974, I was the first
non-union rug cutter to recognize
that Eddie Huncker was not Ed
Ames.

3) Last semester, I reported that
Montparnasse did not serve orange
juice.

4) No later than June of last year,
I revealed that Helen Reddy had
enlarged her breasts through
surgay, not prayer.

in) I also proved to the world
that Paul Williams was not Helen
Reddy in drag and that fact alone
could have saved the American
public ten or 12 dollars.

5) A couple of weeks ago, the
mystery about the break of “Rocks
Off” was solved for all practical
purposes. You could have known
what Keith Richards moaned
during that song. Don't think I’ll let
a cat like that out of the bag any
time soon.

6) I said, on 3 Aug. 1975, that Will
Phunt would not give up without a
fight.

7) As early as March of 1972, I
foresaw an irreparable riff bet—
ween the Beatles which would lead
to their breakup.

8) Thanks to my astounding
literary expertise, I showed the
intended meaning of the line “No
man is an island" is “No mayon-
naise in Ireland."

9) Years before he was
recognized as the world's foremost
monogynist, I said that perhaps
there was a strong chance that
Richard Burton might be a
potential alcoholic.

10) Last week, I produced
evidence that Tom Swift Meets the
Grain Freaks was not written by
Edgar Allen Poe. In fact, it was not
written at all. Mr. Poe did pen Toni
Swift Meets Charles Nelson Reilly.

Well, how do you feel now?
Pretty stupid, huh? Okay, I’ll give'
you one last chance for redemp-
tion. Show me you’re still out there.
Decipher this puzzle: evilanamt-
seinnufehtruoy. Send your answer
and $2.50 to: Rm. 114, Journalism
Bldg.

John (.‘ooke is an English junior.
His column appears on every
editorial page of every Thursday’s
Kernel.

 

 

Socialist editor to speak

The Lexington In These Times
associates‘a‘rrsponsuring a public
talk by the paper’s general
manager, Nick Rabkin, this week.

 

comment

 

In These Times is an independent
socialist newspaper, published in
Chicago. It is part of a renaissance
of socialist thinking and practice
that has occurred around the world
in thelast twenty years. Its goal is to
make socialism a public issue, in-
troducing the idea to the main-
stream of American life and in-
stitutions.

In These Times stands for
democratic socialism. We reassert
the socialist commitment to both
liberty and equality. A movement
for social equality without the
commitment to liberty. as the
historical record testifies, can never
achieve genuine equality, became
the people, as the movement ac-
cedes to power, are deprived of the
right to practice self-determination
in mutual relationships.

Liberty, without the commitment
to equality, on the other hand, as the
history of even the most wealthy
capitalist societies reveals, never
achieves genuine liberty for all, and
threatens its destruction for each,
because the people are deprived of
real access to practicing liberty, to
exercising their rights and assuming

their responsibilities in directing
their-“own social and personal af-
fairs.

Liberty becomes the power and
privilege of the few, an instrument
for the mainpulation and ex-
ploitation of the many. As the mask
for narrow self-interest destructive
of community and mutuality of
social responsibility, liberty
divorced from equality discredits
genuine liberty itself and places it in
jeopardy to disillusion and cynicism.
Liberty arrayed against equality
dissolves real liberty in its won
vitriol of “law and order,“ vigilante
coercion, intolerance of dissent and
non-commercialistic diversity, and
kneejerk reaction.

In the United States, the material,
social and cultural developments of
the 20th century have established
the conditions for the achievement
of both liberty and equality, just as
they have pitted the two in the most
intense opposition. Either they will
be reconciled and realized together,
or we will have a society where both
continue to be dishonored and
degraded if not altogether lost.

United States history presents us
with a storehouse of experience in
people's efforts to achieve the
combined development of liberty
and equality. In the industrial era
since the mid-nineteenth century,
those efforts lay at the heart of
abolitionism, populism, Afro-
American national and civil rights
movanents. the women’s movement

andl bor and socialist movements,
inc u g the similar and more
diverse movements of our own times
in the past two decades.

Through United States history, the
popular aspiration for both liberty
and equality has fed both the utopian
optimism of the brighter, more
generous image of America and, in
the rhetoric of the guardians of the
Corporate Way, the routine
hypocrisy of everyday bminess and
politics. The growing doubts about
their combined achievement un-
derlie the sinking pessimism
spreading among thoughtful persons
about the shape of America’s future.
If there is an honorable American
Dream, this is it — the wedding of
liberty and equality.

This point of view runs directly
counter to recent statements by
leading defenders of capitalism,
such as the Trilateral Commission,
which argues that the struggles of
poor and working people for equality
are undermining our liberties by
weakening our economic system.

We believe democracy will sur-
vive only with democratic popular
control of capital investment
decisions made in the interests of
people. not profits.

Nick Rabkin will speak on the
prospects for a popular American
socialism at 7:15 pm. tonight at the
Lexington Public Library, 251 West
Second St. Everyone is invited.

Tom Parsons
Lexington In These Times associates

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Letters to the Editor

 

 

Parking

It should come as news to nobody
that the'e is a parking shortage
around UK. However, when you
hear the word shortage, the action of
conservation should automatically
come to mind. Yes, I do mean
conservation of parking spaces.

Why is it that when some drivers
come up to a space big enough for
two cars they carefully park their
car squarely in the center? In doing
this they derrive the next driver of a
parking place. Certainly some of
these drivers that drive large cars
figure that twoof fliélf?‘ warrior:
fit in the space, y should~
realize that some people drive
smaller cars that might fit.

It has been said that all is fair in
love, war and parking, but after you
have succeded in finding the parking
place that you wanted, don’t deprive
the next person of a parking place--
please pull your car up that few
extra feet.

Ric h a r d
Topical

M c I n t e e r
major sophmore

Reeks

Yesterday’s article “Many are
qmlified — Choices are difficult” is
certainly misnamed. It states that
only eight candidates are “deser-
ving of comideration.” This number
strikes me as being few indeed. It is
admirable of the Kernel to make our
decisiom so clear. By informing the
students that there are only two
major candidates for president, and
providing the students with quotes
from interviews with these two
experienced men, I’m sure that you
have saved many students the in-
convenience of judging the third
candidate themselves.

Being that third candidate I must
wonder why interviews were sought
with them and not myself. Anyone at
Monday night’s forum (Kernel staff
excepted) was aware that three
major groups were seeking Student
Government offices. Unfortimately
the most influential student medium
has effectively eliminated one group
from consideration. I’m sure that
candidates Lobb and 'I‘ichenor were
as surprised as myself at the em-
barrassment caused by this
omission. Whoever decided that I
have only “good ideas and a fresh
attitude" surely must have been
groping for words in a rather
deficient mind. The hopelessly inept
attempt of representation reeks of
shit, as does the Kernel.

As for my good ideas and fresh
attitude—I believe they will be
applied to some profit-making
conoem rather than the betterment
of student affairs.

Dennis Reynolds
86 Presidential Candidate

Boycott

After observing the recent
demonstration on our campm
protesting our government's
policies, I couldn‘t help but think of

how this group was overlooking the
most obvious and effective method
of grotest they could use. They
should simply boycott our country’s
universities.

Just imagine what a blow that
would be to our colleges! Think of
what a hard time we would have
filling our campus housing and how
empty our classes would be!

So, the next time our government
begs them to enroll in our unive-
sities, they should simply reply,
“Due to the policies of the ‘Fascist
American Pig' govemment, we feel
that to attend your schools would be
hypocrisy," and stay home.

“ " " ' 'J’i'ni‘ iiié'c’uiiuiii“
Mining Engineering junior

Paraquat

Recently the media has been
scattering annoying evidence that
significant quantities of illegal
marijuana, imported from Mexico,
may inflict permanent damage to
the lungs of American pot smokers.

In a joint effort of the American
and Mexican governments to
combat the illegal smuggling of
Mexican marijuana into the United
States, the Mexican authorities are
using a chemical spray, “paraquat”
to inhibit marijuana growth. It seems
they apply the herbicide to newly
discovered fields of the weed, at-
tempting to control it, but dten
before the plants can die they are
harvested and smuggled north to
American consumers.

Newly released government
documents reveal that the US.
Department of Agriculture warned
the State Department 27 months ago
not to use the herbicide paraquat in
its anti-drugg spraying program in
Mexico. According to the Zodiac
News Service, the scientific studies
conducted by the Department of
Agriculture informed the State
Department, in December of 1975,
that paraquat posesses greater
potential health hazards than any
other herbicide known.

Despite this warning the State
Department and the Drug En-
forcement Agency supplied funding,
advisors and airplanes during the
next two years to Mexican officials
forthe application of paraquat on
marijuana fields south of the border.

Now the US. Department of
Health. Education and Welfare
(HEW) reports the poison is being
found on up to 20 percent of the
marijuana smuggled into the United
States from Mexico. HEW secretary
Joseph (‘alifano has warnedthat this
highly toxic herbicide might
produce irreva'sible lung damage
known as "fibrosis“ in pot smokers.

The first cases of paraquat
poisoning. caused by smoking
contaminated weed, have been
reported in San Francisco‘s Haight
Ashbiry Medical Clinic. Zodiac
News Service reports that Dr. David
Smith has treated three persons
suffering from pulmonary
hemorrhaging. Smith says the
disorder is characterized by
"respiratoy distress.“ accompanied
by the coughing up of a foamy
discharge discolored wwith blood.

The doctor also reported the three

subjects as “heavy users” of con-
taminated marijuana. Each subject
learned through independent studies
the pot they had been smoking was
contaminated by the herbicide
paraquat.

In spite of these cases American
officials insist that they cannot tell
Mexican officials what to do. The
State Department and the White
House stated that all they can do is
”inform Mexico of the paraquat
problem and let the Mexican
government decide on its own if it
wants to continue the use of
paraquat.”

The State Department is unable to

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explain meme 9f the inlo'riii'ation

regarding. pariqua't has -' beer 'for-

warded to'Mexlcan authorities.“I

The National Organization for the
Reform of Marijuana Laws
(NORML), a lobbyist for the
decriminalization of marijuana, is
trying to file suit against the US.
govemment’s irresponsible role to
the American public in its Mexican
anti-drug efforts.

James A Nelson
Arts and Sciences junior

’What a riot’

What a riot, Mark Mann! (Kernel,
Apr. 17, 1978, editorial section) I
guess that the essence of that eqml
station that we “assume among the
powers of the earth to which the
Laws of Nature entitle us,” the
essence of those liberties which
inhere in human beings, those
“unalienable rights" he in reality,
not with a person dignity per-
spective but with a “membership
dues paid yet, buddy?" aprroach.

Oh, dear, better watch out, you tax
evaders; Iranian, French, German,
Canadian, etc. students; Mexican
crop workers; visiting am-
bassadors; overseas vacationers;
UN delegates: for you are a class of
humans below Mark’s, h'a rights
exceed yours (if you have any in this
country at all). Your fate is left up to
his mercy, for, you see, he belongs to
the “club." He has paid his dues.

Karen Gruneisen

Junior ,

Thanks

We would like to express our
sincere appreciation to the faculty
and students of the University of
Kentucky for tolerating our recent
helicopter equipment lift to the top
of Kirwan Tower.

Enroute, weather, for the second
time, delayed the arrival of our
helicopter and forced cancellation of
the II am. lift. We are grateful to
the safety personnel, officials and
administrators of the University for
their understanding and coopa'ation
in allowing us to reschedde the lift
for that afternoon.

Finally, a special thank you to the
occupants of the Kirwan residence
complex for their patience airing
the evacuation of their buildings.

Grasis Corporation
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The Italian situation

Terror's turning point

This comment Is the first of popular dissatisfaction,
two parts. Pm two will scores considerable gains.
appear tomorrow. The PCI, having its base in
the factory working class,
By MICHELE PAVON comes out of the ideological

ghetto in which the Cold War
Thursday, Mar. 16, 1973, had confined it in the spring

9:15 a.m. Rome. Aldo Moro, Of 1947.

the president and most March 1969. Bombs are
prestigious leader of the found on trains in several
Christian Democratic Party locations in Italy. It is the
(DC), is kidnapped by a beginnilg of what will be
commando of the Red called the “strategy 0f ten-
Brigades. sion.”

Spring 1969. Student protest
commentary

explodes in high schools and

universities. The “Hot Fall”
It is immediately clear that
this episode represents a

of 1969. Steelworkers, the
turning point in the strategy

most advanced segment of
the labor movement, engage
of terrorism in Italy. Instead
of confusion and insecurity,

in a long struggle with steel
the new goal is to spread fear

corporations for a new

contract. The corporations’
and panic among the masses
What kind of support can

determined effort to stop the
steelworkers is defeated. The
ro sl‘k theRedBl-i ades victory opens new prospects
50;}: 1):? What is: the for the entire labor
ultimate ma] of the forces movement. Since then,

which are backing them? workers have played a
Why was Moro the “right” central role in the country’s

target? democratic institutions.

For the answers to some of December 12, 1969. Milan.
these questions, and A bomb, placed in the Bank of

 

during this period by Italian
businessmen like Monti,
Garrone, Pesenti (oil and
sugar magnates) and by
American individuals, some
of them made directly by
ambassador Graham Martin.
The latter contributions are
part of some $50 billion gival
to the Italian right by the US.
since World War II. The MSI
also receives money and
armaments from Greece and
sends some of its militants to
be trained in military camps
in that country.

One of the militants, Mario
Merlino, actually infiltrates,
along with a police agent,
Valpreda’s anarchist group.

It will take years to fully
discover the role of Gian-
nettini, a member of the
fascist cell in Padua. This
rightist journalist was an SID
(the Italian ve‘sion of the
CIA) agent and represents
the key to the whole story.
The desperate attempt made
by important representatives
of the police, the courts and

the DC to cover this agent's
affiliation with the SID,
showed that the fascists had
been a tool in the hands of the
secret agencies, used to try to
roll back the labor
movement, the student
movement, the whole left.

In planning and executing
this strategy, called the
“tension strategy“ and
continued to this day, the SID
cooperated with national and
international forces. This
analysis, then barely believed
by even the PCI, is now part
of the modern history of Italy,
accepted even by a con-
siderable part of the DC.
Despite the concerted effort
of reactionary forces to
defeat the worker movement.
popular determination to
fight neo—fascist terrorism
grew significantly during this
period, bringing millions of
Italians into the political
arena.

Michele Pavon is a graduate
student in Mathematics.

 

Agriculture, kills 16 persons
hypotheses on others, we and wounds nearly 100. In-
vestigations are immediately
directed toward an anarchist
group, the weakest in the so-
called extraparliamentary
left. The “monster” is soon
recognized to be anarchist
Pietro Valpreda. Another
anarchist, Pinelli, “commits
suicide” after an in-
terrogation in the police
station. The story has
similarities to the JFK
murder. In both cases there is
a fabrication by the police
intended to make people
believe that a lone leftist is
responsible for the crime and
to hide the real perpetrator of
the crime. Valpreda and
Oswald are designed to be the
“monsters" before the
criminal acts even take
place.

Soon, the work of thousands
,of leftist militants provides a
different version of the facts.
A fascist group, led by at-
torney Franco Freda, editor
Giovanni Ventura and neo-
Nazi Pino Rauti, was
responsible for the bombs on
the trains and in the bank.
The group was based near
Venice and could count on
important national and in-
ternational protection and
support. This group was one
of the militant arms of the
neofascist MSI party.

The role of the