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Vol. XClll, No. 91

University of Kentucky. Lexington, Kentucky

Independent since 1971

Kentucky Kernel

Established 1894

Wednesday, January 17,1990

Wilkinson proposes $1.032 billion tax hike over next 2 years

Calls for 7-cent cigarette tax

By TOM SPALDING
Executive Editor
and DAVID HALL
Staff Writer

FRANKFORT, Ky. — Calling it
a “bold, tiew course for the future,"
GOV. Wallace
Wilkinson pro-
posed a Sl .032
billion tax in-
crease in the
next two years
yesterday to fi—
nance higher
education and
other areas in
new.
To finance
what he called WILKINSON
the state‘s best budget in 10 years,
Wilkinson promised to cut taxes for
poor Kentuckians and make “those
who have been getting a free ride
for too long" pay higher levies.
“...It‘s time to help Kentucky
schools, it‘s time to help higher ed-
ucation it's time to give suffi-
cient pay rises," Wilkinson said at a
news conference at the Capitol.
“It's time to do those things."
Wilkinson said Thursday that he
would seek $206 million more for
higher education in the next two
years in addition to the other pro-
grams he is funding. but he didn’t

say until yesterday how he would
finance his aggressive government
spending plan.

And while the govemor acknowl-
edged that his revenue reform
package is a tax increase for Cigar—
ette smokers and corporations, he
said: “If you’re one of the hundreds
of thousands of people in this state
who earn less than $20,000 a year,
then this is almost certainly a tax
cut for you."

Even after outlining increases in
personal and corporate income tax-
es, an expanded sales tax on servic-
es and higher taxes on cigarettes,
Wilkinson was adamant that he had
not broken his carnpaing pledge.

“After two years of common sac-
rifice, after two years of cutting and
trimming and reducing atid then
going back and cutting some more,
we must face the harsh reality that
even our leaner, tougher state gov-
ernment will require $482 million a
year in new revenue in order to fi-
nance roads and bridges, teachers
and classrooms, cops and prisons
and other government services,"
Wilkinson said.

The actual tax increases proposed
by Wilkinson would amount to
$482.6 million in the coming fiscal
year and by $550.1 million the fol-
lowing year.

The governor promised to sell

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the tax package to legislators and
the public, btit he acknolwedged
there will be widespread opposi-
tion. “It‘s just a fight we have to
make," he said.

And the govemor still has to con
vince some lawmakers.

“The reason you are not seeing
us come forward encompassing this
proposal is that we have had no in-
put in this proposal," said John

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“Eek" Rose, Senate pro tcm. ’ ...I
think it‘s premature for anyone in
Kentucky, the press or whoever, to
expect us to endorse this proposal
at this time. But we are willing to
work in concert with the governor
to generate the money necessary to
carry on the programs iii the state "

Wilkinson said alter reading hl\

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Police investigating break-in
at N. campus residence hall

By TONJA WILT
Campus Editor

UK Police are investigating the
theft of several hundred dollars
worth of valuables from residents‘
rooms in Blazer Hall over the
Christmas break.

Blazer Hall, located on North
Campus, is believed to have been
burglarized Dec. 24 or Dec. 25, the
only days when no one occupied
the building, according to UK po-
lice chicf W. McComas.

The intruders entered the build-
ing through the loading dock door,
which was kept open during regular
business hours during the break.
McComas said.

UK police suspect that the in-

truders saw a note left on the front
door of Blazer Hall directing Lady
Kat basketball players returning
early to campus to enter the build-
ing through the loading dock door.
McComas said.

After gaining access to the build-
ing “someone broke into the mail-
room and got access to building
keys."

“They went through the second
floor with the keys, with the excep-
tion of a few rooms,” McComas
said.

Several televisions and VCRs as
well as clothing and jCWCll’)’ were
taken.

“When (the residents) came back
the 261b, that‘s when we found

some doors that were not supposed
to be open. opened.” said Bob
Clay, director ot residence lite.

Police speculate that the burglars
planned to re—enter the budding, but
residents had already moved in be-
fore they could return.

Locks were immediately changed
following the incident, said Penny
Cox, director of housing.

“We are taking measures to
whatever extent we can," Cox said.
“We have had all the locks changed
on the student rooms and the stu-
dents have been given new keys.
We changed the locks on every
door because the master key was
stolen.“

UK leaders satisfied with plan

By DAVID HALL
Staff Writer

FRANKFURT, Ky. _._ Gov.
Wallace Wilkinson‘s decision to
place taxes on Cigarettes and in--
crease tax rates on corporations to
increase funding for areas like
higher education met with satisiae
tion from UK leaders.

“Without seeing the budget ll
sounds good. It seems like an ex-
cellent step in the right direction,
said John Elder, spokesman for the
Board of Student Body Presidents.

Wilkinson’s revenue retorizi
package includes a seven-cent in-
crease on cigarettes. Elder said he
believes that the tax Wlll hurt the
state's tobacco industry, btit he said
that it is needed to itnprme illt‘ht‘f
education.

“Higher education is in dire need
of additional funds, and ll it takes a
cigarette tax to get these funds, I'm
for it," he said. “Tax on cigarettes
is definitely not more important
than higher education. It‘s .i good
move."

UK agriculture economist Milton
Scuffctt said that the cigarette tax
Wlll MOUSC some concern Wlll‘lill
the state.

“There Will be opposition, there
l\ no question about that," he said.
“A tax Will have some impact on

the needs oi tolxitco ()rdinaril).
we think it one pertcnt tax increase
will “tow .i one Ii.ill perccnt dc
cl'L'tI\k‘ lll (lilillllIH

\lntlz-nt (itivcrnnti‘nt Association
President \etitt Ioliintin said that
the emt-iiior's budget is a \lL'II ot
t‘l‘llllllxlll lt‘r supporters ol higher
education.

”It's good to see the governor
. itlllllltl around to oller higher ciii.
..inon more rtiottefl." he said

l.ohtnan \Jlll, however, that \\ il-
liison's proposed taxtng ot sonic
\L rvices like legal servites and
advertising will lace certain up
position lroin both legislators and
special interests.

”It s bad to tax iawwrs and not
t‘tzittors or otht-r prolessionsf he
\t’titl ~\lany laxivers‘ htite and th.it
there w Ill be .i Itiw \utt."

Iiihnitin said that although he I\
pleased with Wilkinson‘s expend;
ttzre package tor higher etliitatii r.
the llII‘-L'f\|l)i' must continue .I\
quest at reaching the level vi . t: gr
bin. hmark unncrsitics.

"Vie need more funding than .\
being ottered.” he said. "this \llli
hasn‘t [‘lll U\ at Ilil‘i percent tvl tor-
intila Itindine And even it titty
tnnd its .it It!» percent. we‘ll need
more nanny) t- » pttt I,I\ at the bed. h

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Hanging tags considered
a success by UK parking

By TONJA WILT
Campus Editor

Almost 200 parking permits have
been reported stolen or lest by fa»
culty and students this year, but t is
parking officials say their decision
to switch from window stickers to
hang tags was still a good idea

“As far as I'm concerned il
worked out very well. It has done a
lot for the students and employees."
said Don Thornton. assOCiate dircc
tor of parking and transportation.

The change for most of the per
mits, which was made last April,
was designed to increase conven-
ience. But it also has made a for
difficult situation.

“When you‘re faced Wllh the
possibilities of parking on the City
street or Commonwealth Stadium.
some people resort to stealing hang
tags,“ Thornton said.

Through December, 173 tags ot
23,273 active permits had been re»
corded as missing by UK parking
officials. Of those. 55 — or 32 per-
cent 7 have been recovered.

Three full-time parking control
otlicers check tag numbers against
a list of parking permit numbers re

ported lll\l or stolen Five part-time
parking -ontrol tillicers also I\\Ul.‘
titatiotn. Ill‘iptllll'ltl \chitles and re
spottl to parking complaints.

\\ lat-I some people try to
ilittltlf Y!:1‘E.’ own. "ltct .lifti ‘.l-‘ .i
\t'rv good iob," 'lhwcnton said

\ltitlcntsi h'i‘. "
\tit‘h li‘ttt‘lhx
haw been here for almost 30 tears
and IIK been going on as long as
lac been here It‘s because parking
I\ .i problem "

When a t. nation l\ I\\llk‘\l for re
ct‘lVln! stolen property the student
must appear in court. 'lhornton
said.

It the student has no prior record.
liavettc District (‘oiirt places them
iii the l‘iversions l-‘rottran'. where
they are requued to sene “I hours
ot community service, according to
Priscilla Johnson, a counselor for
that program. If the student identi~
ties where he received the tag. the
.v‘lllrl drops ch.1rges,she said

in addition to iudicial llslllln,
i’tornton said students caught ll\

stolen tags intist tncct with th:

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By MIKE EMBRY
Associated Press

UK’s College of Medicine will
be among five medical schools
involved in a national study on
ways to prevent or slow the de-
velopment of hardening of the ar-
teries, officials announced yester-
day.

Strokes are most commonly
caused by atherosclerosis. or har-
dening of the arteries in the neck.
More than 500,000 Americans
suffer a stroke each year, the
third leading cause of death in
the United States.

Researchers will try to deter-
mine whether lovastatin, a chlo-
resterol-Iowering drug. or warfar-

 

UK College of Medicine 1 of 5 schools
to research hardening of the arteries

in, an anti-blood clotting agent.
“will retard the progression of
atherosclerptic plaque in the ca-
rotid (neck) artery," said Dr. By-
ron Young, the principal invesu-
gator of UK’s College of
Medicine.

The National Institutes of
Health has awarded about
$200,000 per year for the five-
ycar study which also involves
schools of medicine at Wake
Forest University, Columbia Uni-
versity, the University of lowa
and the University of Tennessee.

“We will determine if either of
these two drugs retard or even
lessen the amount of artheros-
cloeris in the carotid artery,"
Y0ung said at a news conference.

Atherosclerosis I\ caused by a
buildup of cholesterol in the in-
ncr walls of arteries. The dept)»
its, known as as plaque. cause a
narrowing ot the vessels and de-
creases blood flow to the brain.
bean and other organs.

Blockage of a vessel to the
brain can cause stroke.

Almost 2 million people are
disabled by strokes every year.
Young noted.

“Most scientific investigators
believe that arthersceloris is the
most important cause of cardiac
disease and of stroke," he said.

Participants in the clinical trial.
of which 4i of a possible 200

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Soviet troops sent in to quell civil strife

By JOIN-THOR DAHLBURG
Associated Press

MOSCOW — The Kremlin sent
more than 11,000 reinforcements.
including Red Army units, to the
Caucasus yesterday to halt a civil
war between Armenians and Azer—
baijanis that has killed 56 people.

New clashes were reported, and
Tass said 2,000 people armed with
anti-aircraft guns and other artillery
were massing on hills around Na-
gomo—Karabakh, a disputed district
that has become a flashpoint for the
neighboring groups‘ ethnic hatreds.

Combatants in the region 1,250
miles southeast of Moscow had
seized stores of hand grenades. the
Interior Ministry said.

In Armenia, “demands are being
made to arm citizens and send them
to Nagomo Karabakh,” according to
the official news agency, and the
govemment newspaper Izvestia re-
poned 16 attacks on weapons de-
pots in 24 hours by Armenians
hunting for guns.

In one raid, 3,000 people stormed
a police station in Armenia‘s Ar-
tash region and seized 106 automat-
ic weapons, 30 carbines, 27 rifles,
more than 3,000 cartridges and a
grenade-launcher, the newspaper
said.

“We can‘t bring ourselves to pro
nounce it out loud. but what is
happening now in Karabakh, in

northern Azerbaijan, can unambigu—
ously be termed a civil war," corre-
spondent O. Shapovalm wrote in
the newspaper Kornsoinolskaya
Pravda.

“The madness is continuing." an
editor at Armenia's official Armen-
press news agency said from Yt‘rc»
van, the republic‘s capital.

Gorbachev and the Soviet PTL‘SItl'
ium declared a state of emergency
in the strife-torn mountain area
Monday night, empow cring the
government to deploy units of [In
Soviet army, navy and KGB tti pm
leCt lives and guard vIuiI InsItIIIa
tions such as railroads.

Internal security troops already in
the region have been incapable or
halting the most protracted ethnic
conflict in Gorbachev‘s nearly Im-
year tenure as Kremlin leader said
by Izvestia yesterday to threaten lll\
entire campaign for “pCI'CSlrttlltJ "
or economic and social reform.

More than 6,000 additional inter
nal security troops were sent yestcr
day to reinforce existing Interim
Ministry detachments, Tass said.
To assist them, more than 5,000
Red Army soldiers. who traditionalrr
ly carry heavier weaponry. aim
were dispatched. Tass said.

Soviet media did not say him
many total troops were in Illt' re-
gion.

Residents of Yerevan anti Baku.
Azerbaijan's capital. said by phuiic
that they had seen no sign yc~lcrtinx

E. Germany invest

Associated Press

WEST BERLIN — East Germa-
ny opened criminal investigations
yesterday into protesters who

stormed secret police headquarters
and the nation’s police chief said
demand for reform must not turn
into something resembling CHII
war.

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Azerbaijan violence
intensifies; 56 killed

night of the reinforcements’ arrival.

The Bush administration suppon-
ed (iorbachcv’s use of troops in the
Caucasus and criticized feuding
Azerbaijanis and Armenians for “re-
visiting old ethnic hatreds."

“We recognize the right of any
state to ensure the safety of its citi-
zens and It looks like that’s the pri-
mary concem at the moment," said
White House spokesman Marlin
Fit/.water.

The IIareup is the most violent
between mainly Mosicm Azerbaija-
ms and mostly Christian Ameni-
ttiis- since their decades-old feud over
Nagorno-Karabakh erupted in
bloody clashes two years ago.

The region. though predominant-
Iy Armenian, has been attached to
Azerbaijan since 1923, and the cur-
rent troubles were sparked by its de-
mand in February 1988 to be an-
ncxed by Armenia.

The Kremlin emergency decree
empowers local officials to ban
demonstrations and strikes, impose
curfews, censor the media, confis-
cate weapons, disband unofficial or-
canizations and detain people for up
to 30 days. Interior Ministry offi-

Warning strikes for higher pay
and faster reform hit several cities.
twinned with a condemnation of the
govemment decision to raise prices.

In Bonn, the West German capi-

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cials said they could not recall such
measures being taken in the coun-
try since World War II.

Gennady I. Gcrasimov, the For-
eign Ministry spokesman. denied
the decree was a backtracking in
Gorbachev's reforms. which have
led to greater openness and liberali-
zation of society since he became
Soviet leader in March 1985.

“I would not imcrpret this step as
being at odds with glasnost and de-
mocracy,“ Gerasimov said. “On the
contrary. the step opposes snar-
chy."

In a front-page community in ll-
vestia, Albert Plumik mic: “Per~
estroika has been forced to defend
itself. And it’s not its fault if to de-
fend itself and others. it needs the
help of emergency measues.”

Spokesman Vladimir A. Yan-
chenkov of the Interior Ministry,
which is in charge of police affairs,
said in Moscow the death toll in
the Caucasus had risen from 37 to
56in Azerbaijan and that 156 poo-
plc had been injured. ‘

Twoofthedeadwercmembasof
law enforcement agencies. he said.
Most of the victims were Armeni-
ans, the ministry said.

tal. Chancellor Helmut Kohl
bowed to pressure and scrapped
plans to sign an agreement on cloc-
cr ties with Communist Premier
Hans Modrow's caretaker mn-
mcnt before East Germany‘s May 6
elections.

Even members of Kohl's own
coalition said signing of such an
agreement must wait until a demo-
cratically elected government Iku
over after free elections.

Kohl told a news conference yr»
terday that help is needed for East
Germany's ailing economy. adding
that “the situation in the Games
Democratic Republic had gotten

Yanchenkov said authorities had
recorded 167 “pogroms,” or ethnic
attacks, and cases of arson.

The violence exploded Saturday
night with anti-Armenian riots in
Baku. People were burned alive and
a witness said women were thrown
from windows.

Fighting rapidly spread to Nagor-
no-Karabakh and nearby areas of
Azerbaijan, with the belligerents
using helicopters, armored vehicles,
machine guns and other arms seized
from government arsenals or offered
by their compatriots.

In the Shaumyan region of Azer-
baijan. fighters took an armored
personnel carrier and infantry fight—
ing vehicle and seized soldiers as
hostages, Komsomolskaya Pravda
said. The armored vehicle crushed a
police car in a “barbarian slaugh-
ter." the paper said.

Some of the fighters were mas-
querading as soldiers by wearing
their uniforms. it said.

80viet TV showed Interior Mini-
stry troops firing in the air as they
rode in armored personnel carrier
through an Azerbaijani village near
Nagomo-Karabakh to enforce the
emergency decree.

The ministry said the Azerbaijani
People's Front, a grassroots politi-
cal group that has organized anti-
Ar'menian protests, was preventing
arriving troop reinforcements trav-
eling to battle areas by blocking
roads.

more difficult“

The East Germany Communist
Party daily Neues Deutschland
called it a “street revolution" and
national police chief Dieter Winder-
lich said of Monday’s storming of
secret police headquarters:

“We have to do everything so
that the reform process can go for-
ward with the peaceful means that
have characterized it to date. to keep
it from resulting in occurrences re—
sembling civil war.“

Hundreds of thousands of East
Germans took to the streets Mon-
day to step up pressure against the
Communists, with protesters at the

People’s Front militants even
seized four tanks without ammuni-
tion from a railway station in Zaza-
ly, the ministry reported. Izvestia
said the gang took five soldiers
hostage. but later released them and
the tanks.

A large cache of explosives was
discovered in Azerbaijan in railway
cars headed for Armenia. Tass said.

In Nagorno-Karabakh, about
26.000 people — about a sixth of
the population — had been detained
and nearly 3.000 firearms and other
weapons confiscated since the con-
flict began, Izvestia said.

Azerbaijanis were said yesterday
to be continuing a virtual rail
blockade of Armenia's 3.5 million
people, cutting short fuel and other
supplies.

In Baku, detachment of security
troops patrolled the city and ar-
mored vehicles moved through the
suburbs of the Caspian Sea port,
Azerbaijani activist Alesker Siya-
bov said by telephone.

Siyabov, a member of the Azer-
baijani People's Front, said anti-
Armenian sentiment was still run—
ning high in the republic of 6.9
million people.

Tass said that 2.000 Armenians
were evacuated by ferry and plane
from Baku, an oil-producing center
of 1.7 million. Of the 220,000
Armenians who lived there before
the strife only a few thousand re-
main, it said.

igates storming of police headquarters

secret police building also breaking
into the counterespionagc area.

The conservative Die Welt daily
newspaper said in Bonn that Soviet
President Mikhail S. Gorbachev
was expected in East Berlin in two
or three weeks. It said Gorbachev,
himself the target of domestic un-
rest, plans a “massive show of sup-
port" for his longtime friend Mod-
row.

The government has pledged to
dismantle the secret police. but op—
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Cruise masters challenges in ‘Born on the Fourth of July’

BY ELIZABETH HAWOND
Staff Writer

For Ron K0vic, Vietnam was
like a bad acid trip that lasted for
two tours of duty and peaked when
he severed his spinal cord and found
himself crippled from the chest
down. What remained of his life as
a paraplegic was a series of flash-
backs of a war that he entered as a
hero and returned as a nuisance to a
country that wanted no part of Viet~
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in its different
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By JULIE GILKERSON
Staff Writer

It is said art is in the mind. This
is, in fact, what the artists of the
exhibit “The Presence ofAbserice:
New Installations" are hoping for.
This traveling exhibition of work
is a celebration of the artistic pro-

“Bom on the Fourth of July” is a
true account that intensely portrays
life of Kovic. played by Tom
Cruise in his most challenging role
to date, whose blind patriotism
leads him into eager participation
of a brutal war.

“America — either you love it or
you leave it," Kovic says as he pre-
pares to leave for battle. full of
idealistic and noble dreams as a
US. Marine and supported by a
mother who is buried in a pit of re-
ligious fundamentalism that leaves

no room to question an omniscient
God. His faith never fiounders as he
survives through the nightmare of
deafening M-l43 and howiuers rip-
ping through his lobes and the
smell of his comrades burning, ac-
rid flesh, the loss of his legs, mo—
bility and manhood.

Only after he retums home to a
belligerent country rocketed by the
fuel of the 19605 anti-war protes-
tors does he realize the true futility
in fighting a war that no one wants
—7 one in which men ilist‘ their

legs, courage and desire to live.
Director Oliver Stone of “Pla-
toon” fame does an excellent job of
blending a well-written script with
graphic moments of silent cincma~

tography. The stark brilliance of

each segment is intensified with
symbols and acute detail.
Reoccurring shots of the Ameri-
can llag, Independence Day parades.
and JFK’s inaugural address are in-
tertwined with the darker side of
America's history: the Nixon ad
ministration, police brutality at

Kent State and hippies burning
tlags and promoting “hair peace ”
With this style, the movie manages
to grip the audience With its poig~
iiant imagery and frightening \‘xlll-
liolism.

Willem Daloe offers a brief but
inspiring performance as another
.lisabled veteran who found the
American attitude so distasteful af-
ter returning from the war that he
escaped to Mextco.

His portrayal of bleak insanity ts
gripping and fomiidable an i cites a

glimpse of the man that Kovic
could have turned into if he hadn't
chosen to battle his handicap.

As an added touch, the soundtrack
for the “NH ie helps to add the extra
boost to make it a success. With a
surprise appearance by Edie Brickell
as a hippie nightclub singer and
various sll'iL'JL'\ from the Motown
era. the llluslc and compelling act-
ill! make the movie an excellent
debut lor the new decade.

Hum Uri l/lt’ fourth (IfJufy. rats
» ilr t ,"'ti1illll’ (1! South Park

of Absence’ exhibit offers unusual perspectives

cess.

“Presence" is a most unusual art
form in that the various universi«
ties aren‘t shipped 13 completed
works of art, but instead receive iii-
structions such as diagrams. :lides
and instuctioiis as how to re-install
the exhibit.

“Assembling this was challeng-
ing. We received pages and pages of
of technical information," said Han
rict Fowler, acting director of the
UK Art Museum. “It was also fun.
There was a great deal of creativity
involed with colors and descions of
how big to make drawings."

By leaving the installation up to

the tnuseum staff and art students
from UK and Transylvania each ex-
hibit “changes" some“ hat Wllh
each re-creation.

liven more important to the ex-
hibit is the way every piece, ex-
cluding one, uses the architecture as
an important medium in the total
picture. Features used include win-
dows, comers and doors. 'l hat even
further lends itself to the iiitlividtial-
ism of each piece.

The roots of this art form lie in
the conceptual art forms of the late
19605 and early '70s. The images
of the show have great relevance to
the 1980‘s when art became more

of a commodity and less of a
means of expression.

“This is the artists’ ObJCCllon to
the commercialism of art," Foxt ler
said.

The works are nothing short of
amazing. Paricularly interesting is
Krzysztof Wodiezko’s “The Real
Estate Projection." By using four
slide projectors, Wodiezko puts
you in a position to “View“ last
Grcnwich Village in New York
City. Looking out one of the three
“windows“ you might catch a
glipse of the bulldozers as they de-
molish the history of the area.
Gentrification of the village is a

controversial SUbJCCl not».

Also of unrest is Lorie Novak‘s
(‘ritical Distance, a work f‘tl‘fltl‘ti’
describes as “the greatest chat
lenge.” it involves tising four ~iitie
projectors and two disolves. ll 1\ a
series of slides focusing on UN .li‘w
sencc of a delitiate presence and l\
also perceived to be
autobiographical.

All 13 artists w Jtidith Harry.
Daniel Bureri, Daniel Collins, Dari
(irahm, Jenny “Oi/Cf, Patrick lre-
land, Justin Ladda, Sol LeWitt.
Btiky Schwartz, Leni Schwendiger.
Laurence Weener. Wodie/ko and
\ovak ,_ , are to he Corigrattilated

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Also (iL'u‘r'rlflL' thanks are Nina
.l't'i\illlt gue~t curator and those
w ho helped assemble the exhibit,
primarily Michael Brecknt‘r and
(la). (iatiticc.

(it special intrcst is Jenny Holz-
er‘s “'l rtiisiiis,“ excerpts of which
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be re-trcated iii the same setting, it
"wouldn‘t be the same thing. Some-
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McConnell files for re-election to Senate

Associated Press

FRANKFORT, Ky. —— When
Mitch McConnell sought to unseat
Walter “Dee" Huddleston from the
US. Senate. he said Huddleston’s
12-year seniority was not an :dvan—
lage and his membership 111 the mi-
nority party was a liability.

Six years later, McConnell is
singing a different tune in his own
re—election campaign.

This time around. McConnell
finds himself in the minority party
in the Senate as a Republican.
McConnell also is touting his ten
ure in the Senate.

”It's funny how the passage of
time will change your perspective,“
McConnell said yesterday.

During a series of stops around
the state to officially announce his

re-election campaign yesterday,
McConnell took pains to point out
his seniority and stature in Wash-
ington. McConnell said those at-
tributes will figure heavily in his
campaign.

McConnell said his relative
youth will also serve him well.

“The point is it's an advantage to
get there early and 1 got there at
42," he said.

There are two possible Democrat-
ic opponents for McConnell —— for-
mer Jefferson County Judge-
executive Harvey Sloane and Super-
intendent of Public Instruction
.lohn Brock.

McConnell has long said he be-
lieves Sloane will be his general
election opponent.

McConnell tried to put some
pressure on Sloane yesterday by

saying Sloane should win big be-
cause he has more money than
Brock and owns a comfortable lead.