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TEE KENTUCKY
Monday, Sept. 21, 1970

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After last weekend's "Rock
Bottom Music Fair," Dr. Phillip
Crossen, owner of the festival
site and a Lexington gynecologist
and staff member of the UK Medical Center, was arrested on
charges of contributing to the delinquency of minors, having no
alcoholic beverage license and
not having an entertainment license.
Crossen was released Sunday
after his arrest on $4,500 bond and
is scheduled to appear in Fayette
Quart eriy Court Tuesday to answer the latter two charges.
He will appear Wednesday
in the adult division of Fayette
Juvenile Court on charges of contributing to the delinquency of a
minor.
Sponsors Of Fair Controversial?
Crossen' s farm on Armstrong
.
Mill Road had been the site of
smaller rock festivals throughout
the summer. Last weekend's festival had the most extensive promotion of any and, possibly, the
most controversial backers (including the Zoo, a student col

lective; the Black Student Union" warned of police being present.
and the blue tail fly).
Many narcotics agents were idenIt was estimated that 3.000 tified readily.

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to 3,500 people, according to
Kennamer of the Zoo, or
1,000 people according to the
Louisville Courier Journal, came
to hear music and to enjoy the
atmosphere.
Most of the performing musi
talent.
cal groups were local-are- a
Finances In Question
The festival's financial outcome has not been determined.
Kennamer said only that bills
for the festival remain to be
paid.
If a profit is made, the money
will be split among sponsoring
groups with a large portion going to help bring Black Panther
party leader Huey Newton to
campus for a speaking engagement.
A strong feeling of community was evident at the Crossen
farm; food, drink and smokes
were shared ungrudgingly among
festival participants.
Periodic announcements during the festival, as well as
Jul-ian-

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individual

communications,

Crossfire
Bright Confronts Agneiv
On Nationally Televised Debate

Still, Fayette County Detective Ken Martin and Sgt. Joe
Albaugh said after the arrest of
Crossen that they infiltrated the
festival in plain clothes after receiving complaints that juveniles
were drinking on the premises.
Many of the persons present
at the festival expressed fear that
a massive arrest program would
begin soon. The Lexington and
Fayette County Police Departments covered the entire area
photographically Friday and Saturday afternoons.

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The picture at the top of the page depicts a couple enjoying
the open fields at the "Rock Bottom Music Fair," as a young
man watches. The bottom picture captures two men relaxing
by doing an improvised dance. The fair was attended by some
1,000 to 3,000 people. A two day affair, the festival started and
ended with sad notes. Shortly before the fair started rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix died. After the festival ended the owner of
the fair property was arrested.
Kernel Photos By Bob Brewer

Jones9 Kicks Symbolic

Upset Scored as UK Wins
By JEFF IMPALLOMENI
Sports Editor
In Kentucky's opening game
loss to North Carolina, Bobby
Jones kicked a
field goal
to tie the score at
The kick
was a high, wobbly one that
just managed to drag its laces
over the cross bar. Like everything else UK did that day, it
was flat.
Saturday Jones kicked another
field goal, and like the
first, it seemed to reflect everything UK did. It was a straight
kick and cleared the bar with
room to spare. More important, it
tied the score at 3 and gave
Kentucky the scoring lift that led
to its 16-upset of nationally
ranked Kansas State.
The score is a liftle misleading, however, because it was
a defensive battle from the beginning, and the crack of leather was
a familiar sound during the remainder of the afternoon.
"They were tough defensively," a Jubilant John Ray
said. "They were big and could
hit. We beat a good football team
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Student Government President Steve Bright will be
among six college "militants" who will confront Vice
President Spiro Agnew on nationwide television.
The discussion will take place on the David Frost
television show. Frost's show is a talk show and does
not have a network affiliation.
Lexington and Louisville stations do not carry Frost's
program.
Bright, who was arrested in last May's demonstrations,
left for the taping session in New Yoik City yesterday
afternoon.
There was no indication of why Bright was selected.
Bright, reportedly, had no idea why he was selected nor
did he know wlto the other five students were.
A discussion between Agnew and student "militants"
has been rumored for some time. Agnew committed himself
to the discussion at a news conference in Albuquerque,
N. M., last week.
Agnew said he hoped to persuade "militant students"
that "really what we're all looking for is freedom."

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Phillip Grossen Arrested
After Rock Fair Ends
By RON HAWKINS

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today."

Ray, looking more as if he had
taken part in the physical aspect
of the game instead of engineering
it, attributed the victory to UK's
defensive play primarily, saying
"they all played more like the
defense I thought they could be."
Still, he refused to single out
an outstanding player but called
the victory a "great team effort.
We just put it all together."

It is hard to imagine one individual outstanding performance Saturday or a defensive unit
operating more effectively than
UK did, but the offensive unit
indicated it has some problems
yet to be ironed out.
Ray used quarterbacks Stan
Forston and Bernie Scruggs in an
effort to try to generate a sustained drive, but it wasn't until
defensive linebacker Arvel Carroll
intercepted a Max Arreguin pass
that Kentucky was able to hang
up its first score.
Cecil Bowens, Kentucky's big
sophomore running back who
gained only 33 yards rushing,
scooted right end the final two
lead
yards to give UK a

target of him. "We told them to
go for the ball," Ray added.
"You get the breaks if you go
into the ball."
Another bright spot in the
victory was the sensational
punting of Dave Hardt. The big
defensive end kicked 13 times
for a
average, but many
times he had to sacrifice distance for accuracy.
Running back LeeQymerwas
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also impressive. The
injured most of the
pound junior,
early season, picked up 43 yards
and exhibited great second effort.
Several times he managed to pick
up extra yardage after he seemed
to be stopped.
The victory, played before a
crowd, brought
Actually Kentucky's ground back memories of last year's 10-- 9
game wasn't bad, but Kansas. upset of Ole Miss, and already
State's defensive line was able the Wildcat staff is figuring out
to drop UK quarterbacks for some a way to repeat last year's perlong losses, so much so that Ken- formance.
tucky wound up w ith a total of 26
yards on the ground.
Perhaps the main reason for
UK's success stems from the fact
that Kentucky's defense w as able
Because ofthe"significant deto get to KSU quarterback Lynn
The defensive unit fact mand for the Kentuckian by large
Dickey.
got to Dickey, and his successor numbers of students," student
Max Arreguin, so often that body president Steve Bright has
Kansas State was held to minus-9- 3 announced that the controversial
yards rushing an almost im- 1970 UK yearbook will
possible statistic to believe in this its sales through Wednesday,
Sept. 30.
age of offensive football.
Students may purchase the
"We shut off that Dickey,
didn't we?" Ray said with a big Kentuckian through the Student
smile, indicating that the line had Covemment at its office in room
been told to make a frequent 204 in the Student Center.
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Open forum on the UK Student
Code will be hrld on Monday, Srpt.
21 at 7:30 p.m. In the Student Center
Hallronm. Sneakers Include Tommy
Bell of the Board of Trustees, Steve
Bright, SG President, John Darsle of
the University Counsel, Jack Hall,
Dean of Students, and Dr. Robert
Zumwinkle, Vice President of Student
Affair. Open to the public. All interested persons are urged to attend
this meeting.
Associated Women Students' (AWS)
will have their first meeting of the
semester, Monday, Sept. 21 at 4 p.m.
in the President's Room of the Student Center. AWS extends a warm
welcome to all AWS Senators and
interested women to attend the meeting.
Chess Clab will have their first
meeting of the semester
Monday,
Sept. 21 at 7 p.m. in Student Center
Room 3fi3. A short Informal tournament will be featured. Interested persons are asked to bring their chess
sets and clocks. There will be a $1.00
fee for this tournament.
Free University Classes:
"Change Without Violence" at 7:30
p.m. in Room 111 of the Student
Center.
"Tennis: For Anyone and
at 7:30 p.m. in Room 203 Everyone"
of Frazee
Ball.
"learning Chess Basics" at 7 p.m.
in Room 204 of Frazee Hall.
"Enroanter Group
Theological
Seminary" at 8 p.m. of Room 204.
"Radical Politics" at 7:30 p.m. in
Room 205 of Frazee Hall.
"Research Group" at fi:3U p.m. in
Room 201 of Frazee Hell.

TOMORROW

ActUa Coalition (ACT) will meet
Tuesday, Sept. 22 at 8 p.m. in Room
245 of the Student Center. The purpose of the meeting is to coordinate
an
housing survey. All interested students are urged to attend.
Fall tryouts are from 7 to
Troapers
9 p.m. Sept. 22 in the Agriculture Science Auditorium and Sept. 23 in room
309 Student Center. Singers, dancers,

tumblers, instrumentalists
whatever
your thing is, come out and do it.
For further Information, call Buddy
Cash at
Environmental
Awareness
Society
(EAS) will present Warren Wright,
chairman of the Council of Southern
Mountains, to discuss strip mining in
Kentucky on Tuesday, Sept. 22 at 7:30
p.m. in Classroom Building, Room

tHi

Bloc Marlins will hold their first
meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 22 at 7
p.m. at the Coliseum Pool. All interested persons are invited to attend
7.
or call Anne Strunk at
Free University Classes:
"Leather Work and Shoe Repair"
from 9 at 2232 Zandale Drive.
"How To Make a Punch Bat"
at 6:30 p.m. In Room 204 of Frazee
Hall.
Classics In Educa"Contemporary
tional Literature" at 8 p.m. in Frazee
Hall In Room 201.
"Guitar Workshop" at 7 p.m. In
Student Center, Room 113.
"Selective Readings from the Texas
Book Depository" at 7 p.m. in Room
111 of the Student Center.
"Problems In Russian Literature:
The Writer and His Time" at 8 p.m.
in Room 115 of the Student Center.

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A faculty recital will be presented
by Walter Blanton, trumpet, and Paul
on Wednesday,
Moore, percussion,
Sept. 23, in William Seay Auditorium
(formerly Agricultural Science Auditorium) at :15 p.m. They will be
insisted by Carol Blanton, double
base, and Julie Owen, piano. The public is invited to both events free of
charge.
Attention Astronomy 1!)2 Students
(Spring Semester '"i)): The make-u- p
final for Astronomy 192 will be given
Wednesday, Sept. 30 1970 ats 7 p.m.
in Room 153 of the Chemistry-PhysicBuilding.
Sorority Open Rush extends until
December. All interested girls wishing
to the
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Kernel Thoto by Dick Ware

Grandmother' Fights Coal Traffic

KELLY FORK (AP)-- A
Knott County grandmother hopes to find out today
whether she legally can continue
to block coal truck traffic at
Kelly Fork Hollow in Eastern
Kentucky.
Mrs. Nancy Kelly stopped coal
trucks Saturday and lectured
drivers about hauling overweight
loads. She damanded that the
coal companies provide better
winter maintenance on a state
highway that extends to the foot
of Kelly Fork Mountain.
She claimed that she holds a

stretch of
deed to a half-mil- e
land upon which the road is
built. "I don't want them to run
coal on it until they agree to do
right, and until I get haulage
fees for them going through my
property," she said.
Her confrontation with truck
drivers forced one of the coal
firms, A.K.P. Coal Co., to shut
down loading operations Saturday morning.
State Police, answering a complaint from one of the mining
firms, spoke with Mrs. Kelley
and suggested she seek relief in

the courts. She told the police
she wants the operator of the
A.K.P. firm, Jolin Preece, to assure better maintenance of the
road.
She finally agreed to let the'
trucks use the road after mine
Fanner Couch
superintendent
said he would contact Preece.
Mrs. Kelly plans to ask Knott
County officials today how her
ownership claim on the section
of land could be enforded and
what rights she has in dealing
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House Hears Reforms

Draft Hearings to Go Public

WASHINGTON (AP)-Clo- sed
House subcommittee hearings
this week on the draft are going
to be at least partially exposed
to the public eye with some
congressmen demanding open
and broader study of basic reforms in Selective Service.
Rep. Jonathan B. Bingham,
says that when Armed
Services Chairman L. Mendel
Rivers,
urged House
members last year to hold off
on draft-reforproposals because
there would be a review this
year, they understood that to
mean their proposals would be
considered this year.
'Trying To Hold Rivers'
"I'm trying to hold Rivers to
his promise," Bingham said in
an interview. "I don't realistically except action on my bill this
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Another Win
In the internationally recognized football game (soccer), the University of Kentucky defeated Indiana University 0 at the soccer
field (next to Stoll Field). The only score of the game came in
third quarter on a goal by Eduardo Medina, an electrial engineering student from Bolivia. UK's soccer record now stands
Kernel Photo By Dick Llndstrom
at 1 win, 1 loSS.

Interior Department Okays
Neiv Pollution Regulations
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After
WASIIINCTON (AP)
years of prodding by Congress,
the Interior Department agreed
Thursday to ask industries to
tell the government how much
and what kind of poisons they
dump into the nation's streams.
The department said work toward making the first voluntary
national inventory of industrial
wastes will begin within a month.
But the public will not be privileged to all the information.
The decision was hailed by
members of a House Covemment
Operations subcommittee, one of
the congressional panels which
has long sought it.
But skepticism exists. Because
some of the information will be
kept secret, Rep. Henry S. Reuss,
said he fears a government coverup of the names of
polluters and where and when
they dump industrial wastes.
But Undersecretary of the Interior Fred J. Russell and David
D. Dominick, commissioner of
the Federal Water Quality Administration, said the public will
receive essential information.
What will be kept confidential
are trade secrets covering operations and processes of plants,
Russell said.
The policy will be to tell the
public what an industry is doing
with industrial wastes, not "how
s.,

he did it," Russell said. The information will be solicited by a
questionnaire sent to industries,
along with instructions.
Dominick said one thing that
held up the inventory proposal
was the extent the data obtained
would be confidential. He indicated also there had been disagreements by high officials.
Reuss demanded the names of
the officials responsible. Dominick and Russell held their ground
in refusing to disclose them.
But in Dominick's written
statement, he said the Bureau of
the Budget refused in 196S to
approve a proposed question- naire.

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review is on operation of the present draft system, not on reform
proposals.
Report Before Year's End
He said his subcommittee will
make a complete report before
the end of the year. He would
not elaborate but this presumably will recommend how the
House should proceed on draft
action before next June 30, when
the present draft law expires.
More than 50
proposals are before Rivers' committee.
Bingham's proposal which
has 25 House
would
three choices:
give
volunteer for military service, volunteer for a longer civilian service, or take their chances in
the draft lottery.
draft-refor-

Termination of Electoral College
Still Sought by Senate Leaders
WASHINGTON (AP)-Sen- ate
leaders looked today toward
making another attempt to force
a vote on a constitutional amendment to junk the Electoral
College in favor of the direct
election of presidents.
Democratic Leader Mike
Mansfield had said a second attempt to end debate today on
the proposal would depend on
whether a new attempt would
be more successful than an effort last Thursday, which failed.
Cloture Vote Failed
The vote then was 54 for invoking the Senate's debate-closin- g
rule and 36 against, or six

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short of the required
margin.
The amendment would do
away with the Electoral College
and give the election to the presidential candidate who received
40 percent or more of the popular
vote. Failure of a candidate to
receive 40 per cent would result
in a runoff election between the
two front runners.
Enemy of 2 Party System?
Opponents who succeeded in
beating back an attempt to invoke
clothe Senate's debate-closin- g
ture rule last Thursday say a
direct vote would destroy the
two-parsystem and eliminate
two-thir-

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Escapades goes
back to school . . .

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year. But there should be public
discussion and that's why these
hearings should be open."
Bingham announced he will
publicly release and discuss his
testimony after a closed meeting
Tuesday. Some other of the 19
House members testifying during
the week are likely to do the same.
Chairman F. Edward Hebert,
of the House draft subcommittee conducting the review said that is Bingham's privilege and said "the very reason
for the closed hearings is that
kind of Bingham's statement."
"This is not a circus maxi-munor a Roman holiday nor a
forum for political trapeze acts,"
Hebert said in a telephone interview.
Hebert described as accurate
Bingham's statement that the

the role of the states in the election orocess.
They were led by Sens. Roman
L. Hruska,
and Sam J.
Ervin,
d
Supporters
of the proposed
Supporters
amendment were admittedly
d
to pinpoint how
they could overcome the defeat
but said they would keep trying.
Since last Thursday's vote defeating the cloture move, Senate
debate on the proposed amendment has halted while action
proceeded on other measures in
the drive for adjournment of Con- gress by" the middle of next month.
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The Kernel's disclosure of the University's "Action Flan for Emergency Situations" brings to light many issues which have been hidden
too long in bureaucratic cellars. The plan itself is a commendable
effort of the part of UK's administration to prepare the school in case
of any disruptive action, whether the action results from student violence or a national emergency.

It is amazing that a community as large and intricate as UK is

so

handful of determined
vulnerable to disruption or destruction.
dents or outsiders could effectively paralyze UK for an indefinite time.
The University's
plan should serve to prevent such action
the various campus organisms in order that
by thoroughly organizing
they can continue to function in the event of an emergency.
The more important implications of the plan go far beyond merely
preventing the- school from closing for a couple of days during campus
unrest. Since the University is in a state of constant readiness it will
as it was last spring. Therefore the adminisnot be caught
tration will not be forced to resort to outside police agencies, certainly
not the National Guard.
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The University is now in a position to inform the Governor that
the University is able to care for its own. If we can believe his words
and not his actions, this will take a heavy load from the Governor's
shoulders. It will certainly improve the academic atmosphere for we will
know we are not constantly under threat of seize by the militia.

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The advantages of the plan definitely outweigh its drawbacks; howthat the emwho are to implement the plan were not consulted is a cause
ployees
for some concern. Evidently the plan has been discussed almost entirely at the vice presidents' level. Those supervisory personnel who
will be asked to perform extra duties and who might even be endangered during the implementation of the plan were allowed no voice
in the plan's formulation.
ever, there are some frightening implications. The fact

The most discouraging aspect of the plan must be the administration's reaction to its discovery. Perhaps never have so many top administrators contradicted themselves, individually and collectively, in so
many instances in so short a period of time. The discrepancies ranged
from cautious protective devices to prevarications.
The problem of public awareness was compounded by a refusal of
anyone in the administration to take responsibility for the plan. It was
only after the administration devoted hours to extracting its foot from
its mouth that Vice President Morris decided enough of that nonsense
was sufficient.

"Broadly interpreted, this 'Action Plan9 could solve
some of our major problems."

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Editorials represent the opinions of the Lditors, not of the University.
Frank S. Coots III,
Boh Brown, Editorial Page Editor
Jean Binaker, Managing Editor
Jiff Impallomeni, Sport's Editor
Dahlia Hays. Copy Editor
D.iviil King, Business Manager
I)on Kosa Cartoonist
Tom Bovileii, Bon Hawkins, Brailley Jed rips, Jerry Lewis, Mike Wines,
Assistant Managing Editors
Editor-in-Chi-

Morris' belated effort to ease a bad situation does not erase a fundamental lesson to be learned from this incident: administrators are not
always honest, motives are not always pure and the world won't always be rosy if we just leave those who run it free to do as they will.

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The Necessities for Survival: Education, Revolution

sudden holocaust at least on the level of
By CARY DAVIS
To advocate political apathy is to benature, if not war. Hence it becomes
lieve the events outside the university crucial that man educate lumself to the
destructive potential of his system so as
are unimportant (presuming that by "academic", SC means 'within the formal to take reformative measures before the
structure of the university'). But, by strong deterioration is irreversible. A great factor
argument from numerous sources, events in the difficulty of such education is the
complexity of the system which man is up
apparently threaten to destroy all of civilization. What should an education do if against in any efforts to redirect las
not at least facilitate survival? And how own
processes a comthat man has
can survival be attained without underplexity so
found it more profitable to look to the
standing of the crux of the threatening
problem, especially when it pounds at immediate reality before him as evidence
our back door? How shall we survive by of the structural adequacy of his system;
ignoring the back door in hopes that hence American pragmatism in its numsome newspaper will tell us who (or what) erous varieties.
is there?
socio-econom-

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"i poverty of understanding
I wish to spend the remainder of this
essay replying very indirectly, but nonetheless pointedly, to SC's third objective
condemning disruptive demonstrations. In
the process, I hope to argue soundly for
inevitable violent revolution in Western
society. Whether sound or not, I can hardly expect SC, given its horribly structured
perspective, to think carefully enough to
know whether or not their rationale has
been in principle destroy ed.
All individual and political ac tion must
be precedented by the acknowledgment
of the axiomatic value of human life. It
is at piesent indisputably possible to
present compelling evidence that the logical end of contemporary American society
System) is
(conceived as
either irreversible decay or, more probably,
socio-econom- ic

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tures of what might possibly result, or
rather, is resulting at present.
First, technological man has never
felt the need to approach his system theoretically, ie., structurally; hence he has
never learned to approach the system
structurally and because of this, he is
without a grasp of social, political, economic and philosophic principles which
will allow him to initiate necessary adjustment in the right places after he has
recognized society's faults. Without approaching society from the "disinterested"
theoretical level, technological men in
power are helpless in the light of revealed
social crises. He has only the process of

criticism which pierces down into the
implicit (but crucial) principles of social
man's existence, technological man has
no alternative butt to ignore the import
of the criticism by' accepting the critics'
right to speech on the one hand, but refuting it to himself on grounds of the very
system which is being attacked. Hence
(given sound argument) there is no avenue
for initiating reform through discourse,
that is, through dialogue between current
persons in power and the social critic.
And here I am speaking of reform that
extends far beyond the token response to
the Ralph Nailers and gets to the philo-sopliand implicit economic principles
which operate in Technocracy.

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hidden by the facade of outdated ideology

There is a poverty of understanding
of the interplay of social and economic
forces in Western technology a lack of
understanding which is hidden by the
facade of outdated ideology which rules
our every day life; an interplay of forces
which are intimately connected with technological man's sense of his own value,
but connected on the important level
which never reveals itself in any immediate causal terms.
This, in sketch, is the world in wliich
the potential revolutionary finds himself.
Such a sketch presents nothing which
is not already commonplace in conscientious socUl ciiticiiii, if not for the most
part conunon to every student as well.
Nevertheless, the stage is set for several
inferences (more like second guesses)
which serve as much more than conjee- -

trial and error as a means of solution a
means wliich brings necessary reform
much too slowly in the light of the present
crisis. However, there is a more basic
implication to be drawn from the preceding
paragraph.
Given the interdependencies of man's
and the structure of the system,
it follows that to persuade him of the inadequacy of the system is as well to persuade him of his own inadequacy as a
iustorical phenomenon and existential being; a persuasion we can hardly expect.
Such persuasion, nonetheless, would be
feasible were it not for the fact that,
since he does not approach society theoretically, he has no groundwork for replacing
the old system (and hence his old view
of himself) with a new one. The result
is that in the light of serious criticism, ie.,
self-imag- e

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The recognition of this merely
the crisis of nature and political
reality. Man's survival is at stake, not
only his standard of living; the existence
of mankind is in crisis, not Just an oppressed minority. A crisis of understanding is totally upon us y ielding the tragedy
of man who is unable to begin serious
perception of his condition; and it is not
the case of an inability to reform as much
as it is one of not reforming quickly
enough. The acceleration of technology
far exceeds our poor power to
adjust
our action in respect to a higlJy complex
system. Hence, something must be done
to force man to become aware of his condition by not allow ing him to lean on his
archaic system for rationalization. The
system must be destroyed by whatever
means necessary.
con-poun-

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Calif.

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lettuce strike launchttl by Cesar
Chavez in the Salinas Valley
"salad bowl" is a bitter union
battle that has pitted priest
against priest, grower against
grower and Mexican-America- n
against Mexican-AmericaFresh from the success of a
five-yestrike and boycott
against California table grapes,
Chavez has launched a nationwide lettuce boycott to gain recUnited
ognition of his AFL-CI-O
Farm Workers Organizing Committee.
The largest lettuce grower in
the
valley, made
famous in John Steinbeck's "Cannery Row," has signed with Chavez. Ten strawberry growers, an
artichoke grower, two tomatoe
growers and two other lettuce
growers are in negotiations with
UFWOC.
A majority of growers, however, has pledged to fight Cha1

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Prices Going Up

Operation Intercept a 'Success,'
Say American Customs Officials
SAN YSIDRO, Calif (AP) --

Prior to Intercept-Cooperatioyear after it began, the dope three out of four cars were waved
smuggling crackdown that began on after a cursory check. Now, a
customs officer in San Ysidro
as the controversial Operation
said, "three out of four get
is rated a rousing sucIntercept
checked. But we do it much faster
cess by American officials.
right now."
The intensive vehicle inspecVehicles due for a more detions that delayed traffic for up tailed
examination go to a secbolder stations
to six hours at
ondary inspection area where
have been relaxed under the new
called they are driven into tracks
version of Intercept,
mounted over a mirrored floor,
But the
Operation Cooperation.
enabling agents to spot narcotics
checks are still much more thorhidden under floorboards.
used to be.
ough than they
There customs personnel also
They've had the desired efprobe gas tanks for hidden botfect: the illegal drug traffic from
toms, secret compartments co