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Vol. LXV No. 66
Thursday, November 8, 1973

an independent student I newspaper

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By RON MITCHELL
Kernel Staff Writer

News In Brlef

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0 Diplomacy announced

'Another tape missing?
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0 Sirica sets sentencing

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MUNICIPAL COURT Judge James
Amato tallied 20,397 votes in Tuesday’s
mayoral election to narrowly defeat
Mayor H. Foster Pettit by 112 votes.

The final official tally, including all 135
precincts and 456 absentee ballots, was
announced Wednesday afternoon following
day-long tabulating by election officials.
Pettit later said he will file a request
sometime today for a recount of the voting.

Pettit notched 20,285 votes, receiving 255
of the absentee ballots. Amato received 210
absentee votes. After the machine totals
were compiled, Pettit would have needed
70 per cent of the absentee votes to win the
election.

THE MAYORAL RACE was the
highlight of the election, first in the history
of the merged citycounty governments.
Also elected was the Urban County
Council, consisting of 12 district
representatives and three at-large
members.

In a news conference following the 3:30
pm. announcement, Amato said the large
turnout of voters—40,682 out of some 71,804
registered voters—is indicative of the
interest by the voters and the fact cam-
paign issues were well~publicized.

He attributed the success of his cam-
paign to good organization and the sub-
stantial number of workers on his side. At
one time over 1,000 paid and volunteer
workers were involved in his campaign,
Amato noted.

THERE WERE NO apparent harsh
feelings between the two candidates as far
as Amato was concerned, and he said he
will seek advice from Pettit concerning the
transition to the new form of government.

Ariia to said the campaign was one of the
“best ever waged." He cited the fact that
he was opposing an incumbent and had no
previous governmental experience besides
the judicial branch as obstacles he
overcame to win the election.

The mayor-elect said he will evaluate
the city’s financial condition upon taking
office Jan. 1 to determine the feasibility of
reducing taxes, a major issue in the
campaign.

Continued on Page 4

O WASHINGTON—The United States
and Egypt have agreed in principle to
resume diplomatic relations ”at an early
date," the White House announced today.

The joint announcement made in
Washington and Cairo came at a time
when Secretary of State Henry Kissinger
and Egypt‘s President Anwar Sadat were
holding meetings in an effort to achieve a
permanent peace in the Middle East.

The White House said it was agreed that
two ambassadors will be exchanged
promptly.

e WASHINGTON — The testimony of a

presidential aide Wednesday raised a
question of whether part of yet a third
White House Watergate tape may be
missing or nonexistent.

The testimony followed notification to
US. District Court Judge John J. Sirica
that President Nixon ‘s personal secretary,
Rose Mary Woods, will testify at a hearing
into a White House claim that two crucial
presidential conversations on Watergate
went unrecorded.

Sirica had summoned Miss Woods to

appear.

0 WASHINGTON — Sen. George D.
Aiken, the senior member of the Senate,
said today that Congress should impeach
President Nixon “or get off his back.”

“We were elected to legislate and to hold
the President and his administration
accountable for their action,” the Vermont
Republican said in a speech prepared for
the Senate, his first definitive remarks on
the Watergate scandal.

0 WASHINGTON—Federal Judge John
J. Sirica today denied various motions by
six of the original Watergate defendants
for new trials or withdrawal of guilty pleas
and set Friday morning for their sen~
tencing.

The six are James W. McCord Jr., E.
Howard Hunt, Bernard L. Barker,
Eugenio Martinez, Virgilio Gonzalez and
Frank A. Sturgis.

0 LOUISVILLE. Ky.-—A leading op-
ponent of annual legislative sessions said
Wednesday that if advocates try to put the
question on the ballot again before 1978, it
will be challenged in court.

OSAIGON—More than 50 South Viet-
namese fighter-bombers blasted military
targets around the Viet Cong ad-
ministrative capital of Loc Ninh Wed-
nesday in the heaviest air blitz since the
cease-fire. the Saigon military command
announced.

The raid was called a punitive action
retaliating for recent Viet Cong attacks.

0 WASHINGTON — President Nixon
said Wednesday night he has ”no intention
of walking away” from the presidency
despite some demands that he resign.

Departing from his prepared text in a
broadcast speech to the nation on energy
policy, he said he would take every action
to remove any doubts the American people
may have of his personal integrity.

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Election marred

Lexington's recent election. highlighted by the closest
mayoral contest in the city‘s history. was marred on the
campus when several citizens were turned away from the
polls because of improper registrations.

UK‘s Student Government. one of several campus groups
to sponsor reregistration programs for members of the
community. admits as many as 50 persons may have been
turned away because of SG mistakes.

()nly a few students have aired complaints so far and they
said at the time of registration SG workers insured them the
forms were complete. In all known cases, only a fact or two
was left off the form. Yet without explanation, county of-
ficials declared the forms invalid.

David Mucci, SG administrative assistant and coor-
dinator of the program. said the omission of sex and age
information was the main reason for invalid forms. “We
tried to go over them when they were turned in, but it is
awful hard to get to everyone.”

SG secretary Judy McClain said, “The ones where sex
and status were omitted I filled in myself, for some I knew,
but others were thrown away."

Both of the statements point to irresponsibility on the part
of SG. By taking 500 forms to the County Clerk’s office
minutes before the deadline Sept. 24, the organization again
shirked its duty to those who trusted the program.

Sure it’s hard to check 500 forms in one sitting, but when
an organization commits itself to a project of such
magnitude, work shouldn’t end until every thing has been
properly completed. Throwing away incomplete forms was
the worst of SG‘s several errors.

In Louisville. for example, one woman who failed to list
her age (but admitted she was “over 21") was allowed to
vote. The State Board of Elections anticipated trouble this
year and made a special effort to allow everyone with a
reasonable excuse for improper registration the op-
portunity to vote.

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unjustifiably denied some citizens of a constitutional right.

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to count, and SG failed miserably.

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Acupuncture not magic

WASHINGTON — In Jing Nuan Wu‘s
house there is a plastic model of a man in
which all the acupuncture points are
shown with their numbers. Jing points out
that in classic Chinese medicine the
acupuncture points have names rather
than numbers and that the names suggest
both how the human body works and how it
is affected by outside forces.

This model, however, was manufactured
by the modern Chinese who, like us 0c-
cidentals, tend to regard acupuncture as a
technical procedure and not as an aspect
of a system of medicine which is grounded
on both a philosophical and ethical view of
the world. “The idea is getting rapid
results," says Wu, who is resigned to the
fact that medicine as the art of healing the
individual may not be possible within the
economics of the two vast mass societies
on either end of the Pacific Ocean.

WE‘RE SO accustomed to defining
medicine as tricks performed in the
operating room or the production-line
dissemination of chemicals that it takes a
strong wrench of the mind to imagine
there might be a completely different and
better way. Because it is so different and
because it is ancient and Chinese the
temptation is to treat it as magic exotica.

In fact, Jing is a 40-year-old Harvard
graduate who has lived most of his life in
the United States, speaks English per-
fectly and has already had a long career as
a businessman, an American
businessman. so there is no need to listen
to him through mysterious walls of
cultural separation. As a man of both
civilizations he has the vocabulary to talk
to his fellow American countrymen if we
don‘t mesmerize ourselves with Coleridge-
like dreams.

Wu turned to the study and practice of
Chinese medicine and philosophy when his
business and private life went boom. “It
was so traumatic, it was like dying," To
get himself back together he went back
into his own heritage, something he, as a
sort of Jungian, advises others to do. In the

 

course of his studies he learned that there
is a lot more to acupuncture than sticking
amazing needles into people to stop pain. It
is part of a much larger system of
therapeutics and health maintenance, for,
as Wu puts it, “The goal of this medicine is
to live 100 years with all of our faculties
and in good health."

THE SYSTEM IS largely unknown
because in China Wu says the classic books
on medicine are largely ignored for
political reasons; in the West almost
nothing is known because they haven’t
been translated. That's what Wu is doing
now, translating a text that is dated about
500 BC, although it is believed to be a
transcription of discourses of the Yellow
Emperor, who flourished 2,000 years
earlier and whose wife, Wu says, taught
the Chinese how to make silk.

The title of this book, “The Spiritual
Pivot," gives a clue as to how Wu regards
acupuncture. “What is acupuncture? It’s
just a little wound," explains Wu, who
believes the art was first discovered and
perfected in war during the Neolithic age.
“The names of the first needles then were
the lance. the bayonette and the sword,
and, classically, they were made of flint
and were called stone probes. Wounding
the body, of course, is to put it under great
stress, but in acupuncture we do it to put it

in balance. We’re trying to balance
stress."

A human being can put himself under
stress in many ways: by the wrong diet,
by living in a way that violates his own
nature or that of others, by going to ex-
tremes, by living contrary to the spirit of
one’s time. And here you get into ethics.
“Each person is responsible for his
sickness,” Wu says, elaborating that “It’s
like the Old Testament: If you do wrong.
you’re going to get sick. Of course, the
Chinese had no religion in the Western
sense. They had no sin, but the thing that
was closest to sin was sickness.”

  

  

 

By LESTER J. WARNER

As I picked up Tuesday’s Kernel and
read the headline “No vote today for some
students", I wondered why.

I didn’t stop to read it then, however,
because I was between classes, so I just
glanced it over and noticed that 50 students
could not vote in the election. Then I
thought to myself that the way my day was
going, I was probably one of them. And,
sure enough, I was.

I READ THE article again and again,
and each time I became more and more
infuriated, for I distinctly remembered
registering in the Commons. I also
remembered asking the people at the
registration table if they required any
more information, and they told me it was
all there.

Also, there were two other people
present at the time who knew me. One
heard me ask if the registration card was
complete and the other actually saw the
card.

The first person, Tom Willis, doesn’t
remember too much about the incident,
but the second person, Babs Oller, took the
card and looked at it. I got in contact with
Babs and she confirmed what I knew all
along—that my registration card was not
missing any information.

YET l READ that the cards thrown out
were missing information. I know that
mine wasn’t and that the people at the

a page of opinion from inside

Sure enough, voting
problems touch him

table were taking responsibility for
notifying me of any perceived error at
present or in the future.

Another point is that the errors were not
recorded on a list. I can’t help thinking
how convenient this is for them. Now no
one will know, but I do know. I remember
and so does someone else. That is two
people who know about one of 50 destroyed
voter registration cards; two more people
than anyone responsible for this incident
would like to see.

This brings me to the crux of the matter:
who is responsible?

I’M NOT GOING to say the entire
system is bad and that it never works, for
these are emotional generalities. Rather,
what has happened to me and 50 others is
an error, a very serious error, in the
system.

There exists the possibility that the other
50 may have had mistakes on their cards,
but why were they not made aware of it
at the time and place of registration, or
later when the errors were discovered?
Why is it that 40 to 50 registration cards
were destroyed without at least notifying
those directly concerned? Why were no
records kept of the errors? 15 it because
they were students and it really didn’t
matter?

It matters to me. I wantfurther evidence
that there was missing information. Since
all I have to worrry about is my card, I can
be sure about that. But can Ms. J. McLain

Nation has forgotten

By MARJORIE HERBERT

In three years we celebrate the bicen‘
tennial of our nation‘s beginning, but it
seems that we have forgotten a substantial
amount of history. We’ve become hazy in
our recollection of what brought about that
bloody birth.

Samuel Adams in the pre-Revolutionary
war years wrote to a friend, “It is to be
feared that the people will become so
accustomed to bondage as to forget they
were ever free."

That danger of forgetfulness is very real
now. We are so flooeded with news—news
of capers and compromises, scandals,
firings, new appointments, resignations,
indictments, investigations that we are
overwhelmed with the complexity of
current events. Things are happening so
fast and so many different threads of in-
vestigation are being followed that it is
difficult to say which are the core issues
and crucial actions.

I think that the Nixon adminstration is
banking heavily on that confusion. Our
President wants us to feel that things are
indeed very complicated so that he can be
the one to make them perfectly clear. But I
urge you to note at least the quantity of
accusations of corruption.

Have we become so confused and
forgetful that we no longer remember our
President’s oath of office? “I do solemnly
swear that I will faithfully execute the
office of President of the United States and
will, to the best of my ability preserve,
protect, and defend the Constitution of the
United States.“ Richard Nixon has not
kept that oath and therefore, I submit,
should be impeached.

Impeachment is a process by which
fitness for office is determined. Article 2,
section 4 of our Constitution provides a
method for removing the President from

office by impeachment for and conviction
of treason. bribery, or other high crimes
and misdemeanors. The process is one
where the House of Representatives by a
majority vote drafts an impeachment
resolution and the Senate presides at a
trial of impeachment. It is not a criminal
trial, and judgment consists of removal
from office.

Judge Story of the Supreme Court said.
“Impeachment is a political proceeding to
secure the state against gross
misdemeanors." Legal history shows
there is a well settled definition for high
crimes and misdemeanors—it
traditionally has meant serious miscon-
duct in office or a serious violation of the
law. Grounds for impeachment do not
necessarily include a criminally indictable
offense.

Now we ask, has President Nixon been
guilty of a serious violation of the law or
serious misconduct? First, Mr. Nixon
controls the bulk of evidence as to
violations of law, and until an independent
prosecution is completed that question
must remain open. But let us look at
allegations based on exposed or public
actions of the Nixon administration.

—Usurpation of the Constitutionally
founded war making powers of Congress in
the bombing of neutral Cambodia. The
chief executive deliberately concealed the
bombing from Congress and the American
people and has announced he would do so
again under similar circumstances.

—The President established within the
White House a personal secret police (the
Plumbers) operating outside the
restraints of law, which engaged in
criminal acts including burglaries,
warrantless wiretaps, espionage and
perjury.

«4The President and his closest aides
developed the “Huston Plan" for domestic

 

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and the registration personnel honestly
say that the great number of cards which
passed through their hands that day were
carefully checked?

THERE ARE MANY more questions I
could raise, but I think the important thing
is what can and should be done to prevent
this from happening again.

First, it should be initiated into law, if
need be, that no voter registration card
submitted with a name, phone number or
address be destroyed without first
notifying the party concerned.

Second, there should be set down, also in
law if need be, the responsibilities of those
aiding in registration, in order that one

  

may know just who, if anyone. was
irresponsible.

THIRD, THE voter should receive a
carbon copy for his personal verification.

There exists a multitude of other points
which need updating or modification.

In a way, good can come from this ex-
perience. If government acts, this
bureaucratic inefficiency can be
eliminated or prevented from happening
on such a large scale. Such action will also
help destroy apathy generated by such
bureaucratic evils.

Lester J. Wahner is an
Engineering sophomore.

much of its history

political surveillance and espionage by
such methods as burglary. wiretapping.
mail covers. and military spying on
civilians. These methods of political
surveillance were employed against
dissenters, political opponents. news
reporters and government employees.

~The President and his aides employed
governmental powers to harass and punish
critics of his administration regarded by
them as “enemies”.

——The President and his aides interfered
with a free press through the use of
wiretaps, FBI investigations and threats
of criminal prosecution.

—The President secretly recorded
conversations in his own office without
advising the participants.

—The President and a principal aide
offered a high federal post to the presiding
judge during the Daniel Ellsberg trial, and
for a prolonged period, withheld from the
court knowledge of the burglary of the
office of Dr. Ellsberg‘s psychiatrist.

«The President has perverted or at-
tempted to pervert the operation of
various federal agencies including the
Departent of Justice, the National Security
Council, the Secret Service, the State
Department. the Defense Department.
and the Central Intelligence Agency by
engaging them in political surveillance
and in the falsification of information
made available to Congress and the
American people.

—~The President has chosen to obstruct
the Watergate and other investigations
being carried on by the Special Prosecutor
by withholding or denying access to
crucial evidence even to the point of firing
the Prosecutor and threatening to defy a
court order.

The recent announcement of compliance
with the court order is supposed to defuse
the impeachment movement. but if one

stops to think, it is only a small part of a
very ugly picture. And even that com-
pliance occurred because of the firestorm
of impeachment threats.

While “obediently” turning over the
tapes. President Nixon has for the time
being sealed off a much more widespread
and potentially damning realm of in-
vestigation and evidence by firing Ar-
chibald Cox. the unfettered special
Prosecutor he promised the American

people.
The Nixon administration is decimated

by appointees facing criminal charges and
the air is thick with charges about the ITT
affair. the milk deal. the grain deal. and
secret contributions.

Don't we have the right to demand that
this man be held accountable? Is it not
appropriate that his fitness for office be
examined? Even if the President is per-
sonally innocent of many corrupt ac-
tivities. how can this be known if there i:
no impeachment procedings? What right
does Mr. Nixon have to ask the American
people to simply trust him?

If we accept this era of corruption as just
"politics" or the naturalstate of affairs for
a huge powerful nation. we have truly
forgotten our heritage.

Richard Nixon has three years left of a
term in office; by 1976 there may not be
much to celebrate. I urge you to think of
our nation‘s past and your personal
responsibility in determining what will be
in the future. Our Congress will not act
unless we as individual citizers express
our desire for impeachment proceedings.
Let us take a stand for public ac-
countability, for democratic Constitutional
government, for a government of laws and
not of men.

 

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Vote tallies completed
in urban council, state races

By RON MITCHELL
Kernel Staff Writer .
Fifteen Urban County (TounCIl

members—12 from various
districts. three from the county
at—largeelvvere confirmed win-
ners Wednesday after official
tabulation of all 135 precincts was

completed.
Winners in the unusually close
races included two slate—

members on Pettit's “Four for
Progress‘ team in the at—large
race. The at-large tallies do not
include the 456 absentee ballots
while the individualdistrict totals
take in the machine totals and
absentee ballot results.

SCOTTY BAESLER led all
council members with a 19.228
total. designating him as mayor
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Progress slaters. captured the
other two at-large seats. Hoskins
had 18,508 votes and Van Meter
tallied 17.970

The other Pettit team mem-
bers, Doc Ferrell, ranked fourth
out of the six candidates. He
received 17,510 votes.

In campus-area district races,
Pam Miller and Joe Jasper were
successful. Miller defeated
George Summers 1,747 to 1.533 in
the fourth district. Jasper
narrowly defeated William
Bingham by 11 votes, 561 to 550, to
capture the third district seat.

OTHER COUNCIL members
elected were: OM. Travis Jr. in
the first district; Robert Finn,
second district; Bart Peak, fifth
district; Cecil Frost, sixth
district; Tony Curtsinger.
seventh district; UK Dean of
Students Jack Hall. eighth
district; William Ward. ninth
district; Donald Blevins. tenth
district: Paul Rose, 11th district;
and William Carey, 12th district.

In the 12th district state
senatorial election. Joe Graves

defeated William McCann 13,265
to 11.269. Graves. currently state
representative from the 79th
district, is a Republican, McCann
a Democrat. ‘

Democrats William Kenton and
Tom Ward were unopposed in the
75th state legislative and 30th
state senate districts. Larry
Hopkins won the 78th legislative
district over Spencer Noe and
Democrat Don Stephens defeated
Republican Gene Cravens in the
79th.

FINAL tabulation of the votes
will be completed early today
when election officials tally the
absentee votes The absentee
ballots had been counted only for
the mayoral and i2 Urban County
Council district races. Counting
was scheduled to resume at 9
am.

It was noted that no races can
be affected by the outstanding
absentee ballots as the winning
margins are too substantial.

Pettit will file request
for election recount

Continued from Page I

“IF I FORESEE a surplus in
the budget, that will indicate if
the city is bringing in more than
we are spending. In that case I
would look at reducing taxes." he
added.

During the campaign Amato
continuously denounced Pettit for
not lifting a payroll tax imposed
after his opponent took office two
years ago. The tax was designed
to relieve the city of a budget
deficit incurred by the previous
administration.

Pettit maintained he was
waiting to examine the financial
condition of the new government
before he took any action on the
tax.

THE FIRST TASK of the new
mayor will be to organize the
other council members and
educate them on the workings of
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THE KENTUCKY KERNEL. November 8, 1973—5

Congress overrides presidential veto

By JIM ADAMS
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON—Congress
handed President Nixon a major
defeat Wednesday by enacting
into law over his veto its historic
bill to curb presidents’ war
powers.

The 60-day limit on presidents’
power to commit U.S. combat
troops abroad without Congress'
approval became law im-
mediately when the Senate
overrode the veto.

THE SENATE vote was 75 to
18, or 13 more than required.

The House overrode the veto
hours earlier 284 to 135, four more
than the two-thirds needed.

The war powers bill was op-
posed on the final vote by a
coalition of President Nixon’s
supporters and antiwar
congressmen who contended it
would grant presidents new
power to wage war up to 60 days
without congressional approval.

SEN. THOMAS F.
EAGLETON. D-Mo., called the
bill “blank-check authority to
carry us into war" and said
Nixon could use it immediately if

he wanted to send U.S. combat
troops into the Middle East.

But Senate Armed Services
Chairman John C. Stennis, D-
Miss., and Sen.
Humphrey, D-an., said the bill
was never intended to restrict
presidents’ war powers but in-
stead require that Congress
share the burden of committing
Americans to war.

Sen. John Tower, R-Tex., urged
that the Senate get “not so caught
up in the hysteria of Watergate”
as to enact the war powers bill
“to kick the President while he is
down.”

(,‘ONGRESS’ OVERRIDE of
the President’s veto was its first
in nine tries this year and the fifth
since Nixon became President.

After the House vote, President
Nixon issued a statement saying
it “seriously undermines this
nation’s ability to act decisively
and convincingly in times of
international crisis.”

The confidence of American
allies could be diminished, he
said, and “our potential ad-
versaries may be encouraged to
engage in future acts of in-
terna tional mischief. .”

Debris will speak tonight

on political prisoners

Jean-Pierre Debris, a French
citizen imprisoned two years in
Saigon for antiwar activities, will
visit Lexington Thursday and
speak on the political prisoner
issue.

Debris was arrested in 1970 for
participating in a “two-person”
demonstration against the war.
He had worked two years in South
Vietnam as a teacher on a French
government exchange program.

Since his release from Chi Hoa
prison in December. 1972 he has

traveled extensively in the
United States claiming 200,000
political prisoners are being
detained and tortured by the
Thieu government.

Debris will speak at 7:30 pm.
Thursday in Student Center room
206. He is sponsored by the UK
New American Movement.

On an Indochina Peace
Campaign speaking tour, Debris
has said American personnel and
technology perpetuate repression
of political dissenters in South
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INSPIRED BY the Vietnam
war, the bill was intended to
prevent the United States from
becoming involved in such a
conflict without Congress’
specific approval. Many
congressmen switched from their
traditional positions.

Nixon vetoed the bill two weeks
ago, calling its curbs on
presidential war powers “both
unconstitutional and dangerous.”

He particularly criticized two
sections:

The first requires a president to
withdraw any US. combat

forces he commits abroad on his
own after 60 days unless
Congress votes approval of the
commitment by then.

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