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U.S. talks with Soviets
should silence critics,
White House aides say

By BRYAN BRUMLEY
Associated Press

JACKSON

HOLE, Wyo. —

Secretary of

State James A.

Baker III said

yesterday that

the success of

his meeting

with the Soviet

foreign mini-

ster should si-

lence congres- BAKER
sional critics and dampen their
appetite for unilateral arms cuts.

Despite progress on talks to cut
strategic, conventional and chemi-
cal weapons and the signing of six
accords Saturday, Baker said the So-
viet Union still was a “military
threat."

“1 think it would be quite naive
for the United States to talk about
unilateral reductions of its strategic
arsenal," Baker said on the CBS-
TV program “Face the Nation.“

The Bush administration, he said,
remains committed to the Strategic
Defense Initiative and deploying
new classes of long-range bombers
and mobile missiles.

Baker's four—day session with So-

viet Foreign Minister Eduard A.
Shevardnadze yielded an agreement
to hold a summit in the United
States next spring or summer.

It will be the first meeting be-
tween President Bush and Soviet
leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev since
Bush's election and his inaugura-
tion.

In the course of the Baker-
Shevardnadze talks, the SOViets
also said they would withdraw a de-
mand that the United States agree
to curb work on the Strategic De-
fense Initiative.

Baker told a news conference Sat-
urday the USSR decision could
speed up the conclusion of
START, which could cut long-
range strategic arms.

Senate Majority Leader George
Mitchell, tempered his remarks
somewhat on another interview
program.

“The events of the last 24 hours
are certainly positive but I still
think there are a number of steps
that should be taken, should have
been taken previously," the Maine
Democrat said on ABC’s “This
Week With David Brinkley."

 

Soviets’ action
reflection of
inetemal strife

By BARRY SCHWEID
AssociatedPress

JACKSON HOLE, Wyo.
— The headlines were of
summits and arms control.

ANALAYSIS

but it is a desperate Soviet
economy that is melting a
range of bitter edges from the
Cold War and driving a re
duction in superpower nucle-
ar arsenals.

The Soviets came to this
Rocky Mountain setting in a
compromising mood and the
United States, mindful of
Soviet President Mikhail

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By TONJA WILT
Campus Editor

Last year Lexington Commu-
nity College officials thought
they had solved an overcrowding
problem when the Maloney
Building was opened. But with a
17 percent enrollment increase
this fall, LCC once again is faced
with a lack of classroom space.

“Often times we feel out-
manned. We are always behind.
Every time we think we’re
caught up, enrollment grows
again,” said Steve Thomas, LCC
dean of academic affairs.

The 678 extra students that
have enrolled this year have
forced LCC officials to be crea-
tive with space and use every
square inch available.

“We‘ve been able to help space
constraints by scheduling classes
all through the afternoon."
Thomas said. “We've tried to uti-
lize every available space. Just
about every room is being used
that can be used."

The University has asked for
three new buildings in its bienni—
al budget request. But even if
lawmakers approve the request,
funds for the buildings will not
be appropriated by the General
Assembly until early spring.

To meet the demands of more
classroom space. officials may

 

LCC running out of room
for increased fall enrollment

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have to offer some off-campus
courses.

“Obviously that building will
not be there next fall. We will
have to take some classes off
campus, in my opinion," said
Charles Wethington. chancellor
of the Community College Sys-
tem .

“We will have to find addition-
al space. it not here then some-

where," Thomas said. "I think it
would be a real shame II we
couldn't meet the needs oi the
people of the region."

One of the reasons lot the en-
rollment increase this fall, olli‘
cials said, is that there I\ a great.
er interest in higher education
among many Kentuckians.

“There are several reasons tlor
the enrollment increase). but lhc
No. 1 reason is there Just seems
to be a growing interest in Ken-
tucky. There is a growing inter-
est in Lexington Community
College," said LCC President
Allen Edwards. “More people of
all ages are realizing they have
to go back to school for better
Jobs."

And as long as Kentuckians'
interest in higher education in-
creases, Wethington said, so will
LCC’s enrollment.

“I think the number Wlll l'l\t‘
again next year." Wcthington
said. “LCC is on a path that is
on a growth. It's inevitable."

Although the number of stu»
dents has increased at LC C . :il’fi»
cials say the qaulity l\ the same.

“There is an ethic in this col-
lege about quality. I think the
quality is still there." Thomas
said. “We struggle to do this.
but that is a struggle we are
willing to deal with ix bait-yer “C
have to do."

 

 

‘Roots’ was a self-discovery process for Haley

Editor's note: This article conv
tains the writers observations and
comments.

By MICHAEL L. JONES
Editorial Editor

We are the direct descendants of
those people that prayed for a better
day. Be we white, black or polka
dot.

Alex Haley

It was 4:35 in the afternoon and
Alex I-Ialey looked a little confused.
Only half the reponers had arrived
for a press conference that was sup-
posed to began at 4:30, and he
wasn’t sure whether his speech at
Lexington’s Roots and Heritage
festival had been scheduled for 6:30
or 8 pm.

Student

By CYNTHIA LEWIS
StaffWriter

Scott Estes, a computer science
senior from Elizabethtown. Ky.,
said the T minus-9 minute mark
and counting is the most exciting
part of a space shuttle launch at
NASA.

“Each solid rocket booster pro-
duces 2.5 million pounds of
thrust," Estes said. ”All ground
support systems are started, ground
data recorders and on-board shuttle
systems and we run outside our
building (at Kennedy Space Cen-
ter).

"At T minus 6 seconds the
shuttle main engines start. You can
see the shuttle shake. The whole
vehicle leans forward. And the sec-
ond it comes back. it goes up.
When it goes off, it takes a few
seconds for the sound to get to the
complex where we are watching.

“The thrust from the rockets is
incredible," Estes said. “You can
actually feel it pounding on your
chest and the ground shaking

Not that he let it ruin his evcn~
ing. Haley stood in the lobby of
the Lexington—Fayette County
Government Building shaking
hands, answering questions and
smiling at everyone. He’s been
called a folk hero, a master story-
teller and a million other things.
but there is no doubt that above and
beyond it all, Alex Haley is a
gentleman.

Alex who?

Mention the name Alex Haley
and a few people may join in a con-
versation about one of today’s most
celebrated authors. Mention the
name Roots and just about anyone
over 15 years old will tell you what
it was like to be one of 130 mil-
lion viewers, the largest program
audience in television history,
watching as three generations of a
family was condensed into 12 hours
of television history.

Roots was an event. The book
sold more than 6 million copies in
hardcover, was printed in 30 Ian-
guages and was called “a cultural
landmark” by critics.

However, it was the mini—series
that brought the African-American
experience into almost every home
in America, forcing the nation to
confront 400 years of somewhat
shaky race relations.

Unlike other great American
writers like Ernest Hemingway or
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Haley has been
a writer whose private life never in-
terfered with the public‘s perception
of his work.

When he did speak — at the press
conference and at 8 pm. in Haggin
Auditorium on Transylvania Uni~
versity‘s campus — Haley spoke
about the things that he loved most
— history, writing and roots.

“My next book is about Hen-

ning, Tenn, where I grew up,"
Haley said. “lt‘s not so much about
me as people who were important
fixtures in that town. They were
kind of like role models to us."

Although Haley the au-
thor is revered around the world.
Haley the person insists that deep
down he is )tISl a man who was
once a daydrcamer in Henning,
Tenn.

He asks only that w hen the next
generation remembers him. they
say he “wrote things that were
meaningful and useful."

“I started writing when l was a
sailor,” Haley said. “I got intrigued
with trying to write — the idea of
putting words together."

Alex Haley. the writer, didn’t
come until much later than Alex
Haley, the man.

He spent two unhappy years in
college until he joined the Coast

Guard “to ma—

ture." He tried

writing stories.

and according

to his press re

lease “for eight

years. editors

rciCthd hundreds
of his manuscripts before finally
occasional ones began to be accept-
til.”

"I probably \\ me better now.
simply because I am experienced."
Haley said.

After 20 years in the Coast
Guard Haley began his second ca-
reer — writing for magazines. He
interviewed personalities like for
several magazines, including Life.
Reader's Digest and the then—newly
staned Playboy.

It was when one of those person-

HALEY

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gets education from NASA program

around you."

Estes, who participated in UK’s
cooperative education program,
worked in the Vehicle Engineering
Directorate in the Computer Soft-
ware branch with NASA at the
Kennedy Space Center in Florida
last January.

The program gives students the
opportunity to combine their class-
room experience with hands-on ex-
perience, Estes said.

“You get to apply a lot of what
you learn in the classroom on the
job and you are paid for it,” Estes
said.

Estes initially was supposed to
work only during the spring semes-
ter, but he was given special per-
mission to extend his internship
through August.

The branch where Estes worked
provided software support for all
shuttle ground, launch and landing
operations at the Kennedy Space
Center.

He was able to see three launches
during his stint at NASA. He saw

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Computer Science senior Scott Estes participated in UK‘s cooperative education program by spend-

ing an eight-month stint at NASA.

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Tide wins 15-3

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Scholar
says man
entering
era of hope

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pie to act as a cxttuiitiriity and work
against social iilllhlltc. recording
to a [minimum \iiit'ritiiri Faculov
gian,

Monika Hellwig. a protessor o:
theology at Georgetown L niversity
and past president of the Catholic
Theological Society, spoke to near-
ly 150 people about a “New Era ol
Christian Hope" in the first lccturc
of the Newman ('cntcr‘s Distin-
gurshed Speakers Series Friday
night.

Citing factors such as increasing
communication abilities. the rise of
the study of social sciences. an
“awakening ol the poor and op-
pressed." and a new t‘hrisuan atti—
tude of political and social action.
Hellwig said we now are [mug “in
an extraordinary moment of every»
thing opening up again."

“For all of these reasons, I'm
saying this is a real era of hope."
she said.

Hellwig said that early Chnstians
had a Vision of “God's reign" in
their own time that inspired them
to work to reshape and improve
their socrety. But a series of events
began to “diminish" that attitude.
she said.

Hellw1g said that in the early-1th
century, more people were conven—
ed to ChrisUanity. but with the in—
creasing numbers, Christianity es-
tablished too close an alliance with
worldly power.

Many Christians believed that
the reign of God had been realized
in their time and that the total ful-
fillment of God would cotne only
at the end of history. which led “to
a kind of sleepy acceptance ol the
status quo," she said.

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Women win
Kentucky Invitational.

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