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no respect
If traffic signs could talk,
it’s likely the one which
halts traffic behind the
Classroom Building
would chastise the two
cyclists for failure to
heed a command.
Actually, the sign refers
to automobiles,
illustrating another
advantage of bicycling.
(Kernel staff photo by Pinkie
Foster)
The Kentucky Kernel
Vol. LXV No. 41
Thursday, October 4, 1973
an independent student newspaper
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY. 40506
TAMPERING WITH a system of tenure
that has widespread acceptance among
'Tenure
faculty and administrators at UK as well
as across the country would be senseless.
This is the conclusion of the ad hoc
Committee to reevaluate
promotion, as expressed in its October 1
report to the University Senate Council.
tampering
senseless'
tenure and
While alternatives to the tenure system
were discussed, “they were quickly
abandoned,
" said Dr. Joseph Krislov,
committee chairman and professor of
economics.
The committee could see little sense, he
said, in making intensive analyses of
alternative systems with no basis of
support on campus, and which would
require years of determined effort to get
adopted.
before the committee concluded
FOUR OTHER SYSTEMS were studied
ltwe
would work within the confines of the
existing tenure system."
By MIKE CUNNINGHAM
Kernel Staff Writer
News In Brlef
by the Associated Press
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o Coffey to appeal
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—One was to abolish tenure and have no
contracts, faculty and administrators
relying upon mutual trust.
—Another was to make contracts for
specific periods of time at specific
0 WASHINGTON Cost of Living
(‘ouncil Director John T. Dunlop says
more gasoline price increases can be
expected, despite the 2.5 cent per gallon
hike the council approved Friday. The
hikes are justified, Dunlop said.
salaries, a system similar to the one now
employed for athletic coaches.
—A third possibility was "rolling con-
tracts" with the length of the contract
increased after each renewal.
-—A fourth proposal was to retire sub-
stantial numbers of faculty after
reasonable periods of service, i.e., 20 or
more years, y'ving them an enticing
pension.
The committee in its report says, “None
of these alternatives seemed to be par-
ticularly attractive, either for the faculty
or the University. Some would involve
increased costs. Experience with any of
these alternatives has been practically nil
because almost all American universities
(97 per cent) have a tenure system.
Moreover, the tenure system at our
University has a statutory base, and any
recommendations for drastic change
would require legislative action.”
THE COMMITTEE recommended eight
changes in the existing structure,
however.
“There may be considerable ad-
ministration opposition” to recom-
mendation no. 7, which allows a faculty
0 “ASHINUTON — Donald H. Segretti
Wednesday catalogued his inventory of
tricks against 1972 Democratic
presidential candidates, apologized and
said they have no place in election cam-
paigns.
0 WASHINGTON — Lt. William L.
(‘alley Jr. appeals his conviction and 20-
year sentence in the My Lai massacre to
the US. Court of Military Appeals on
Thursday.
0 \\ .\SIIIN(BTO.\' President Nixon
acknowledged that bribery and kickback
allegations against Vice President Spiro T.
Agnew are “serious and not frivolous" but
declared Wednesday that the vice
president should be presumed innocent.
And he said he had never asked the vice
president to resign.
member to request a written statement
explaining why reappointment to tenure
has been withheld, said Krislov.
In recommendation no. 4 the committee
urges all departments “to set up
reasonable standards of performance for
their discipline.”
”This could cause considerable work,
and perhaps be fruitless,” Krislov said. He
added however that “there should be an
effort to detail and specify standards for
tenure.”
The thought behind recommendation no.
3, dealing with performance review, is that
“reviews of no non-tenured person should
be geared toward the question, ‘Is the guy
making progress toward tenure?’ "
Other proposals include an attempt to
formalize the faculty file system and make
it available to the faculty, relaxation of
rules dictating amount of credit to be
accepted for prior service at other in-
stitutions, and increased participation by
faculty in decision processes.
THE COMMITTEE while deliberating,
heard the views of approximately 57 in-
dividuals and groups affiliated with the
university.
Relief from the humidity spell should
come tonight as cloudiness decreases and
cooler air moves in. There's a chance of
showers today with temperatures near 80
and in the 505 tonight.
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No right to bear arms
The recent killings of six Kentuckians have catalyzed
discussion of reinstating the death penalty in the Com-
monwealth. However, few people have recognized the mur-
ders were ,carried out with weapons obtained from civilian
homes.
This points to one fact that too few Americans have ac-
cepted—deadly firearms should be controlled. Registration is
not enough. Weapons should be banned from the public
market.
No longer do we deserve a right to bear arms. This privilege
has been abused to the point that total prohibition of weapons
from the public is the only answer to a safer America.
After establishing a government, the first officials of the
United States recognized, through the Second Amendment to
the Constitution, a clear need for the right to bear arms.
However, this need was restricted to “a well regulated Militia,
being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the
people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."
Because we now have the National Guard, Armed Services
and effective police forces, private citizens have no need, or
right, to bear arms.
This generation has been reared on the false premise that
weapons are valuable. From the time we saw Roy Rogers to
the time we scored our first bullseye on the target range at
Scout camp we have been infatuated with deadly weapons. We
let commercial industry take advantage of us with scale
model weapons similar to those Elliot Ness used to wipe out
gangsters of the ‘20‘s. We now answer daily for our ignorance.
Because there aren‘t enough intelligent parents prohibiting
toy guns from children we continually witness this un-
forgivable exploitation of their minds. This society has
reached the point thatall guns, including facsimiles sold at the
toy counter, must be barred from private citizens.
The gun as a recreational hobby has outlived its use. True,
most of us owning weapons don’t abuse them but we are still
responsible for deaths. In effect, we offer unwritten invitations
to those intent on committing acts of violence when we store
firearms in our homes. It’s not too hard to understand how
criminals are able to obtain weapons when they want them
when such substantial numbers of citizens own guns.
When men enter two homes in this community and discover
four guns, we shudder to imagine the total number of weapons
owned by citizens of Lexington. Again, if there were no market
for weapons we could feel safe that no one would find one.
According to the Lexington Code of Ordinances, almost
anyone may purchase a weapon. The one ordinance that
requires registration fails to act as a deterrent upon those who
have no reason to own a gun other than a false sense of
security.
The Kentucky Revised Statutes allow the ownership of
rifles, shotguns and pistols. And until we see our ignorance and
admit our stupidity, we will continue to have senseless
slayings. We must act as responsible citizens and pull these
laws off the books.
Legislators must realize they are charged to some degree
with providing laws to protect the private citizen. It would be a
forceful and admirable piece of legislation that ban the
marketing of firearms to the public.
An indication of the abuse of firearms can be seen from the
Uniform Crime Reports of 1972 issued by then-Director of the
FBI, Clarence M. Kelly. Of the 15,832 murders committed in
that year, 10,379 or 65.6 per cent involved guns. Cuttings and
stabbings accounted for the next highest percentage (18.8).
The difference of the two figures is frightening. Practically,
guns have only one reason for existencebto kill.
Gun control and restrictive legislation is up to the people of
this community, state and nation. The sooner we sacrifice our
selfish motives, the quicker we make safe the environment for
generations to come. The most effective way to accomplish
this measure is through the complete restriction of weapons on
the public market.
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Straighten out facts
Dear Ms. Biggerstaff,
It is in my opinion that before you write
another article for The Kentucky Kernel
you should get your facts straight. In your
column, “Bad side of the moon [1", you
presented a very poor account surroun-
ding General Telephone and the strike
with the Communications Workers of
America, and I feel it is my duty to right
your wrong doing.
DO YOl‘ READ the Lexington
newspapers, Ms. Biggerstaff? The strike
between GenTel and the C.W.A. has and
will continue to be publicized in the daily
papers.
General Telephone has enough
operators to handle long distance calls, but
it's people probably like yourself who have
to call the faithful operator if a local line
has been busy for more than five minutes,
who are too lazy to pick up their directory
to look up a phone number and call the
operator. So next time you let the phone
ring 10 to 20 times for the operator, just
remember, we are more than likely
helping your friend who in the meantime is
LCIICISI
dialing your number but it is busy, so we
have to check to see if it is out oforder.
LEXINGTON HAS had male operators
for the last six years. In fact, Ms.
Biggerstaff, your “country town" was one
of the first cities in the United States to
employ male operators.
I grant you installation is behind, but
General Telephone offered to install the
communication lines in Commonwealth
Staoim, but were refused for fear the
construction workers would not cross the
picket lines.
Ms. Biggerstaff, why didn‘t you state in
your article that General Telephone is in
the process of expanding its faciliities with
the rapid growth of Lexington? This is
where I feel that you did not research your
material enough. and I believe that you
owe General Telephone and the readers of
The Kentucky Kernel an apology for
writing without knowing the facts.
A word to the wise, if you are a jour-
nalism major you should change your style
of reporting before you end up the least
respected reporter in Lexington.
Pam Surmont
General Telephone employee
Education-junior
Aura surrounds Agnewites
By KENT ROBERTS
With all the brouhaha about the impending
resignation of Spiro Agnew, a new aura has
surrounded Agnewites and the White House. Vic
Gold (in the Sept. 24 issue of Newsweek) has a
neologism to describe this atmosphere-
followers of an American political leader
(1969- ).) A disorder in which
paranoidal impulses are perpetually
supported by empirical evidence that
some person or persons in high position
are actually out to get the Vice President
of the United States.
To be more precise, the government has
become paranoid of a snooping captions press.
What a new change. Paranoia used to be
something that happened to others (remem-
ber?): to drug pushers, to underground
revolutionaries, and to a few government of-
ficials who feared a usurpation of authority by
the Spock-weaned crazies of the late '60’s. There
is now a new revolutionary kind of paranoia, like
no previous paranoia.
IN THE PAST. the public worried about what
are now considered the “Little Things" (you
know, like ”what ye shall eat and what ye shall
wear"); but now, concern has shifted to the
ominous “Big Things”: The Bomb, God or
wondering if there is an FBI dossier in
Washington with our name on it.
We no longer take things causally—already we
exhibit the early symptoms of paranoia: (1) We
look for specks of mercury in our tuna fish; (2)
We try not to breathe those nasty pollutants that
mutate our lungs; (3) We wonder what branch of
the government is listening to our telephone
converstaion.
Look around for fear and trembling—it is
found in people's eyes, in current books, in
newspapers and in television. Today, paranoia is
the State of the Union; the early ”70's will be
remembered as the Age of Paranoia.
But, when did all this madness and confusion
begin? In the late ’50’s, we pursued security; in
the ’60’s (under Kennedy), perfection. We no
longer pursue anything—we are the pursued. It
is the government that is pursuing—with all its
muddled bureaucratic tautologies, duplicity,
conspiracy trials, Presidential enemy lists, dirty
tricks campaign, ad nauseam.
PEOPLE WOULD still like to believe in the
“law and order” ethic but, until the government
catches up with public sentiment, people had
best bolt their doors.
It has been said that paranoia is just a kind of
awareness and awareness is just another form 0f
love. Perhaps. Maybe paranoia is a.feeling we
must all learn to live with. After all, what do we
have to fear~except for fear itself, each other,
dark alleys, bacteria, God, the CIA and Richard
Nixon.
Kent Roberts is a chemical
engineering graduate student.
a page of opinion from inside and outside the University community
Alger Hiss recalls
earlier ‘dirty tricks'
Presidential essay
By RICHARD M. NIXON
no: new YORK ‘rmes news senvrcs
The principles underlying the Gov-
ernment of the United States are de-
centralization of power, separation of
power and maintaining a balance be—
tween freedom and order.
Above all else, the framers of the
Constitution were fearful of the con-
centration of power in either individ-
uals or government. The genius of
their solution in this respect is that
they were able to maintain a very defi-
nite but delicate balance between the
Federal Government and the state gov-
ernment, on the one hand, and between
the executive, legislative and judicial
branches of the Federal Government,
on the other hand.
By contrast, in the British system,
the Parliament is supreme. In the pres-
ent French system the primary power
resides in the executive, and in some
older civilizations the judges were pre-
dominant. Throughout American his-
tory there have been times when one
or the other branches of Government
would seem to have gained a domi-
nant position, but the pendulum has
always swung back and the balance
over the long haul maintained.
The concept of decentralization of
power is maintained by what we call
the Federal system. But the pnnciple
is much broader in practice. Putting
it most simply, the American ideal is
that private or individual enterprise
should be allowed and encouraged to
undertake all functions which it is
capable to perform. Only when private
enterprise cannot or will not do what
needs to be done should government
step in. When government action is
required, it should be undertaken if
possible by that unit of government
closest to the people. For example,
the progression should be from local,
to state, to Federal Government in that
order. In other words. the Federal
Government should step in only when
' the function to be performed is too
big for the state or local government
to undertake.
The result of these somewhat com-
plex constitutional formulas is greater
protection and respect for the rights
of the individual citizen. These rights
are guaranteed by the Constitution,
not only by the first ten Amendments,
which specifically refer to them, but
even more by the system itself, which
is the most effective safeguard against
arbitrary power ever devised by man.
Yet the genius. of the Founding
Fathers is further demonstrated by the
fact that while freedom for the indi-
vidual was their primary objective they
recognized that uncontrolled freedom
for some would lead to the anarchy
which would destroy freedom for all.
Maintaining the delicate balance be-
tween freedom and order is, in my
view, the greatest achievement of the
American constitutional system. Inabil-
ity to maintain that balance is the
basic reason for the failure of regimes
in Latin America, Africa and Asia
which have tried to copy our system.
They invariably go to one extreme
or the other—too much emphasis on
the freedom of men to do anything
they please or too much emphasis on
controlling the excesses of freedom.
Each of these approaches leads inev-
itably to dictatorship either of the
right or of the left, a tragedy which
America will be able to avoid by con-
tinued dedication to the fundamental
principles of our Constitution.
This essay by President Nixon
was written upon his admission
to the practice of law in New
York State Dec. 6, 1963. Such
admission papers are normally
sealed, but this essay, was
released for publication when
the chairman of the bar’s
character committee told the
Appellate Court the statement
was the “finest” he had seen in
28 years.
Jean-Pierre Laftont/Gamma
By ALGER HISS
For several years—increasingly in
recent months—I have had a sense of
déia vu. The impression comes from
a series of incidents in recent political
trials together with disclosures seeping
out of the Watergate swamp. I am
reminded of parallels with incidents
in my Congressional hearings and
trials that began 25 years ago next
month.
These are my six parallels:
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(I) Tapping of telephones and bug-
ging of dwellings. Some weeks before
my appearances before the grand jury
that indicted me for perjury, my
lawyer was told by the F.B.l. agent
in charge of the Baltimore office that
the F.B.I. had three file drawers full
of my telephone conversations. The
agent remarked that there had been
nothing in the transcripts to support
the charges Whittaker Chambers had
made. The law at that time did not
permit me at my subsequent trial to
demand these transcripts, although as
early as the Olmstead case Justice
Holmes had called wiretapping “dirty
business.” During my trial and my
appeal, my home telephone was tapped
and my apartment was bugged. Simi-
larly the home and office telephones
of my lawyers were tapped. Tapping
of the lawyers continued-through the
period when they prepared a motion
for a new trial. I was then in jail with
no telephone to tap. But I have reason
to believe that as recently as a year
ago my telephone was once again
being tapped.
(2) Using as principal witness an
unstable informer beholden to the
prosecution. In the Berrigan case, the
chief prosecution witness was Boyd
Douglas, who had a record of impos-
tureship and tall tales and who, as
a Federal prisoner facing additional
charges, was under the thumb of the
prosecution. In my case Whittaker
Chambers had a similar record and
as an admitted perjurer could have
been indicted at the pleasure of the
Department of Justice. A young Con-
gressman, Richard M. Nixon, publicly
opposed the indictment of Chambers
on the ground that it would destroy
the case against me.
(3) Tendentious and prejudicial
press stories based on official leaks or
statements. In the Berrigan case, prior
to the indictment, J. Edgar Hoover,
Director of the F.B.I., testified before
a Congressional committee-that the
F.B.I. had discovered a plot to capture
Henry Kissinger and blow up heating
tunnels in Washington. Prior to and
during my trials there was a barrage
of inspired adverse publicity. including
the release (before my indictment) by
Mr. Nixon of documents Chambers had
produced which he claimed to have
received from me.
(4) Delay in producing Government
records as ordered by the court. In the
Ellsberg case this tactic was so mani-
fest that it led to sharp reproof by the
judge. In my case the confusion and
stress of a lengthy and complex trial
led my counsel to discover only after
the second trial, when it was too late.
that some papers ordered produced
had never in fact been forthcoming.
An instance of delay that, because of
perseverance by my counsel, did not
succeed; we had asked for Chambers’
passport file. The prosecution con-
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tended that it would take two or
three weeks to locate it. When we
obtained an order, on formal motion,
the file was produced that same after~
noon.
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(5) Forgery by typewriter. In the
Ellsberg case, a statement by E.
Howard Hunt, a member of the White
House “plumbers,” disclosed that he
had been granted access to State
Department files and had forged a
telegram from President Kennedy pur-
porting to order the assassination of
Diem. I noted that Hunt, unable to get
from the F.B.I. the kind of typewriter
used by President Kennedy when he
was in the White House, regarded his
forgery as a poor one because, he said,
since the Hiss case typewriting is
subject to special scrutiny. In my case
it was only after my conviction that
my counsel, on consulting a metal-
lurgist, discovered that the old Wood-
stock (which after my indictment we
had located in a junk shop) had been
tampered with to make its typing
conform to the typeface irregularities
of the machine that, on his retirement
from business, my father-in-law had
given to my wife.
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(6) Attempts to influence the trial
judge. It came out in the Ellsberg case
that Judge Byrne had met with
President Nixon at the San Clemente
White House during the trial to
discuss the possible appointment of
the judge as Director of the F.B.I., a
post then vacant because of Hoover’s
death. In my case, after the first trial
had ended with a hung jury there was
an immediate widespread attack, led
by Congressman Nixon, that the trial
judge, Samuel Kaufman, was partial to
the defense. 0n the day the jury was
dismissed, Mr. Nixon called for a
Congressional investigation of Judge
Kaufman’s fitness to serve on the
bench. This action. treated by a sector
of the press as a demand for impeach-
ment, was calculated to influence
whatever judge would preside at the
second trial. (Judge Kaufman was not
selected to serve at that trial.)
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These parallels illustrate Professor
Francis A. Allen’s point that political
trials are “particularly susceptible to
unwise and even abusive uses." This
susceptibility, the imbalance between
the vast power of the Federal Govern-
ment and the limited resources of an
individual defendant, plus the inevi-
table attraction of the media to such
cases, make it of paramount impor:
tance that in political trials there .be
the most faithful adherence to those
safeguards of individual rights (of late
so patently in jeopardy in our country)
that have been a major accomplish-
ment of the centuries-long develop-
ment of Anglo-American law.
Finally, I note with fresh optimism
that the present climate of opinion
should facilitate speedy action in the
case brought last fall by the American
Civil Liberties Union (under the
seldom-implemented Freedom of Infor-
mation Act) for release of all the F.B.I.
files in my case — files denied to
scholars and to the press until now.
My hopes, as they have always
been, are for vindication. I am not
interested in seeing the Biter Bitten.
iss?
Alger Hiss IS presently engaged
in an effort to convince in-
dividuals with information
about his case to come forward.
His account of the case, “In the
Court of Public Opinion." has
just been reprinted.
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By TRACY (EANTZ
Kernel Staff Writer
Whereas most colleges merely
have a Student Advisory Com-
mittee (SAC) in accordance with
the University regulations, the
College of Law has a different
set-up, the Student Bar
Association (SBA).
The SBA consists of all law
students and is run by a Board of
Governors made up of a
president, vice-president,
secretary, treasurer and a
representative from each year of
the law school.
ELECTIONS FOR 1973-74 were
held September 27. Richard
Joiner, second year student, ran
unopposed for president. Other
officers are Richard Wentz,
second year student, vice
president Robert Wohn, second
year. secretary; and Tim Green,
second year, treasurer.
All three class representative
elections ended in runoffs which
were held Oct. 2. Elected as first
year representative was John
Stewart and Ansel Davis for
second year. The third year
representative had no official
candidates, but Robert Elliott
was elected in a write-in vote.
The elections differ from most
student governing bodies. In-
stead of holding elections in April
for the coming year, SBA elects
its officers in the fall. Dave
Stosberg, outgoing SBA
president, feels that in this way
first year law students have an
immediate voice in the
organization instead of having to
wait until following years.
THE BOARD OF GOVER-
NORS is elected by the entire
school and is subject to their
demands. According to the
Association’s constitution, upon
petition of two third of the
Tra nscendental
Meditation
Free Public Lectures:
Wednesday 8. Thursday
October 3rd 8. 4th
7:30 p.m. Rm. 342
Whitehall C. 3.
Law students elect SBA
Board of Governors
general membership, any action
by the Board can be vetoed.
Twenty-five members can
propose a constitutional amend-
ment to be ratified by a two thirds
vote of those present at a
ratification meeting.
General meetings, however,
are infrequent. The Board of
Governors meets approximately
once every two weeks to take
care of any business or problems.
General meetings are at the call
of the Board or by petition.
The College of Law does
maintain an SAC. Its functions,
however, are very limited. This is
mainly due to its being composed
of basically the same people;
president. vice president, and the
three representatives of the
Board, with the editor of the Law
Journal and the Moot Court
Board President also included.
MOST OI“ THE college‘s
business is taken up by the Board
of Governors and the SAC is
primarily a formality in order to
“conform to University
regulations," said Stosberg.
The most important function of
the SBA is appointment of a
student to all faculty committees
such as admissions and academic
curriculum. By having a student
on these committees there is a
better balance of opinions, ac-
cording to Stosberg.
The bar does not deal solely
with academic and student
governing activities. It also plans
social events and performs such
services as getting block seats for
football games.
THE SBA ALSO organizes a
Law Day for seminars and talks
on current problems in law which
is open to all students at the
University.
Area agencies offer
scholars eye tests
By NORMANDI ELLIS
Kernel Staff Writer
Donovan scholars, UK students
60 years of age or older, have the
option of having their eyes tested
at one of four free eye-testing
clinics.
Visual acuity and glaucoma
tests, sponsored by the Council on
Aging, Health Department,
Lionesses Club and the Kentucky
Society for the Prevention of
Blindness, are being given every
Thursday in October.
THE FIRST TEST of the series
is being given today to Donovan
scholars only from 10 a.m. until
noon at the Newman Center. Dr.
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Georges Birenbaum, local 0p-
thalmologist, is conducting tests
and being assisted by trained
volunteers from the Lionesses
Club.
Those attending the clinic Will
be asked to present medicare
cards.
Glaucoma is a disease marked
by increased pressure in the eye.
damage to the optical disk and
results in gradual sight loss. in
the event suspicious glaucoma
tests are found, patients will be
referred to local opthalmologists
or to staff from the Health
Department.
FREE TESTING IS being
initiated on a small scale to
determine whether this type of
service will be beneficial to the
elderly. Dr. Earl Kauffman.
director of the Council on Aging.
and Ruth Bailey, program co-
ordinator and UK student
volunteer, expressed the hope
that if the program is deemed
successful, the Health Depart-
ment will adopt it on a city-wide
basis.
Later tests are scheduled at
Connie Griffith Nursing Manor,
Oct. 11, from noon-2 pm. for
manor residents; Bell House
Senior Citizens Center, Oct-
18, from 10 a.m.-noon and Oct. 25
at Emerson Center from noon-2
pm. for those residents.
Eligible persons will be ac-
cepted at the other locations, if
they miss an earlier clinic.
BECAUSE OF TRAN-
SPORTATION PROBLEMS for
older people, Bailey said, ”We’re
taking the clinics to them instead
of making them come to the
clinics."
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Footnotes
by Kaye Coyte
_—:
A new 'twist' for smokers
Bored with the same old Camels, Luckies and Winstons?
The tobacco industry has introduced a new gimmick to
stimulate their profits—the lemon-flavored cigarette.
Christened “Twist”. the company claims that it “tastes
fresher than ordinary cigarettes and gives you a smoother
cool. ” The new menthol cigarettes come in the 100 millimeter
length.
KKK after dark
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