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Volume LXIX, NumberZO
Thursday, Septemberls, I977

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SCB gets top films
at dollar admission

By THOMAS CLARK
Arts Editor
and RUTH MATTINGLY
Kernel Reporter

Rocky, Network, All The Presi-
dent's Men. Marathon Man, The
Front. All were top moneymakers in
1976. All were nominated for Acade-
my Awards. All were critically
acclaimed.

And all will play at the Student
Center Theatre this semester for a
$1 admission.

Every night the Student Center
Board (SCB) presents a feature film
as part of its annual Cinema Series.
The films may be seen by any UK

student, faculty member or staff
personnel.

The films are scheduled nearly
three months in advance. Schedul-
ing, promotion and presentation are
all the work or the SCB Cinema
Committee.

Sharon Kimball, University advi-

sor to the committee, said that
each year the group receives cata-
logs from some 50 distributing
agencies listing their films for rental
use. The committee then plots a
tentative schedule using student
suggestions, faculty advice and
available film dates. ,

After a schedule has been worked
out and film reservations confirmed,

U of L ads questioned

UK answers

By STEVE BALLINGER
Editor-in-Chief

FRANKFORT—A state Council on
Higher Education study of Ken-
tucky's community college system
was officially released yesterday at
a council meeting along with addi-
tional comments from UK.

The additional work was needed to
“clarify and correct” the report,
according to UK President Otis A.
Singletary, who said the comments
were not a challenge to the study.
The report urges that UK continue to
direct the 13 two-yearl schools.

recommendation. said Singletary,
as well as the recognition of a
“financial plight" among the com-
munity colleges.

One of the report's recommenda-
tions which Singletary disputed
called for UK to appoint a represen-
tative of the community colleges to
the UK Board of Trustees.

Representation of different inte-
rests on the board is a constant
problem, Singletary replied. UK has
given berths on its panel to students
and faculty, though they are not
from community colleges, and that
was done long before such a move

the board signs contracts for each of
the films. For this semester, more
than 80 films have been contracted
with some 20 distributors.

The contracts are of a different
nature than those signed by a
commercial theatre. Being a student
organization, SCB qualifies for a
non-theatrical contract.

This type of contract, while allow-
ing SCB to rent films at a cheaper
rate, requires that admission be'
restricted to UK students, faculty
and staff. Otherwise SCB would be
competing against regular theatres.

Continued on page 5

re port

A major problem identified by the
council's report, which the UK
comments agreed with, was how to
organize an effective central ad-
ministration at UK and still give the
colleges freedom to develop indivi-
dual programs.

When the Council approved the
distribution of enrollment growth
funds to state universities, council
member Jackson White, of Lexing-
ton, proposed a motion opposing
university advertisements as a
means to increase state funding.

White referred to a Monday

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University of Kentucky
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As a bid spotter at the Keencland
Sales Pavilion, Dale Rouk (ab-
ove) must master a complex
language of gestures. He’s been
coaxing higher bids at Kceneland
for four years. Robert White the-
low) is a veteran. too. He's been
cleaning up after the sales ring
merchandise since 1936.

UK concurs with the study on that “become a national fad," he added.

Mountain study
center proposed

Louisville Courier-Journal story a-
bout the University of Louisville's
advertising campaign. U of L Pres-
ident James G. Miller was asked to
explain Public Information Director
James McGovern’s remarks that
using advertising to increase en-
rollment was necessary to acquire
additional state funding.

By JACK WAINWRIGHT
Kernel Reporter

An Appalachian Center to promote
the socioeconomic, political and
educational wellbeing of people in
the Appalachian Mountain regions
is in the planning stage for UK.

Although the University Senate
has already given a strong vote of
support to the project, official word
must come from the Board of
Trustees.

Several grants to finance the
center have already been received.
The Rockefeller Foundation gave
UK $35,000 for planning, and an
additional $125,000 over two years
for development of the center.

An undisclosed amount of money
from the National Endowment for
theHumanities is to be used to start
13 proposed graduate and un-
dergraduate level courses during
the next three years. If the Board of
Trustees approves the program, the

University will provide 43 per cent,
or 3207.790. of the necessary funds.
According to the center’s project
director. Doug Arnett, the program
will be divided into three parts:
instnrctional, research and policy
analysis and technical assistance for

policy-making and action.

While the latter two programs will
be handled by the center’s six-
member stab” and a network of
experts from a multj-state area. the
instructional program will be in-
terdepartmental.

The research program will be the
most important operation of the
center. Issues will include housing,
land reform, economics and taxes.
Researchwillalso involve aspects of
human rights, due process, health
and the mountain youth

Another facet of the center is its
work with the mountain people.
Faculty will travel to eastern
Kentcucky to read about the area

Continued on page 4

Miller said McG0vern was mis-
quoted, and the advertising was
Continued on page 4

 

 

 

Tourist services aid newcomers

By LESLEY CISSELL
Kernel Reporter

Lexington’s newly formed Visitor
Information Center (VIC) and Dial-
A-Ccommodation program at 178 N.
Mill St. is a little known service
which could benefit many students,
according to manager Dan Purcell.

Under the auspices of the Lexing-
ton Tourist and Convention Commis-
sion, the program gathers and
distributes information about the
Lexington area.

Information on such topics as
room accommodations, restaurants
which serve home-cooked meals,
scenic parks, historical sites and

townspeople knowledgeable about
Lexington history is available at the
center.

The VIC and Dial-A-Ccommoda-
tion service, although separate pro-
grams, operate under the same roof.
Whiel it is the job of the VIC to
provide material on tourist attrac-
tions, it is the reservation service‘s
job to make sure the visitors have a
place to stay while they’re here.

Dial-ACcommodations, in its sec-
ond year, has a complete list of
motel and hotel bookings withina
10-mile radius of Lexington.

Because of crowded hotels in
Lexington, Dial-A-Ccommodation

can be especially helpful. according
to Randy Butcher, executive direc-
tor of the Lexington Tourist and
Convention Commission.

One longdistance call to the
reservation line, he said, can save
the expense of several calls around
town. Dial-A-Ccommodation does
not charge for its services, said
Butcher.

Major events like UK football and
basketball weekends, championship
horse shows and Keeneland races,
plus the months of July and August,
are the most crowded times, said
Purcell.

Commission officials urge stu-

dents to save parents and other
guests a hassle with room reserva-
tions by using Dial-A-Ccommoda-
tion, and to learn about Lexington
through the VIC.

The Center and reservation ser-
vice are open from 8 am. to 11pm.
Monday through Saturday and 12 to
5 pm. Sunday. They can also be
reached by phone at 233-7299.

Since its May 16 opening in the
restored law office of Henry Clay,
the program has served about 4,500
people and is equipped for more.
Butcher said he hopes more students
will use the services, and claims it’s
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The largest manhunt ln local history ended in Louisville
yesterday, when lone police officer recaptured Michael B.
Falkner, charged with attempting to murder a state
police trooper.

Off-duty Patrolman Charles Van Pelt, searching on his
own, eventually caught up with Faulkner, an Indianapolis
resident, as he attempted to join a bunch of school
clildren waiting for a bus.

“I ran up, grabbed him by the collar ..nd said we were
lodring for someone of his description." Van Pelt said. Hc
searched the suspect, telephoned for reinforcements then
med his prisoner inside the telephone booth.

The 15-hour search with Sit-mile wide network of
roadilocks, began Tuesday afternoon when Faulkner

canned from Central State Hospital near Anchorage,
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Buses returned to their regular routes yesterday as
drivers and maintenance men ended a fourday wildcat
strike that disrupted service for approximately 60,000
riders.

Transit Authority of River City (TARC) also announced
that I97 employes fired one day earlier for refusing to
work, had been reinstated.

TARC and the Amalgamated Transit Union Local “47
indicated that talks would resume soon on a new contract.
The drivers struck last Friday after rejecting the
company's latest wage proposal of a seven per cent
increase over two years on a base wage of $6. 29 an hour.

Some of the strikers fa(‘( a court appearance Thursday
before Jefferson Circuit Judge Richard Revell, who may
hold them in contempt of court for failing to obey his order
Mallay to return to work.

TARC general manager. Al Meinze, stated previously
that punishment of drivers will be handled on an
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Wldte House Press Secretary Jody Powell apologle
yesterday for spreading rumors about Sen. Charles Percy
(ll-Ill), a leading critic of embattled budget chief Bert
Lance.

After personally telephoning Percy to apologize, Powell
told reporters that his action was "inappropriate,
regrettable and dumb."

Mark Rudd, as silent in custody as he was ('lnsivi'
dillnga seven- year flight from the law ended his input: \0
years yesterday withoutsaying a word in public about the
radical Weather Underground.

Raid, 30, would not say where he has been or what he
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Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan, carrying a draft
peace treaty for the Middle East, sets off today for the
linitcd States for llltlll‘t’t‘l. American mediated talks with
Arab statesmen

Details of the draft treaty have not been made public,
but Dayan and Prime Minister Menahem Begin have
made clear in speeches that it calls for an end to the state
of Mir hctwccn Israel and its Arab neighbors.

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Savagery, torture are the passwords in Idi Amin's Uganda

Following are excerpts taken from
notes offered in Nairobi. Kenya. to
The New York Times by a man who
described himself as a Ugandan who
had managed to escape his country.
Certain identities have been dis-
guised.

By a UGAN DAN
New York Times News Service

NAIROBI, Kenya—On 5th Jan, 76
I was just in the transit lounge at
Entebbe International Airport with
my other two fellow students, AW
and BW, while waiting for the plane
which could have taken us to Canada
where we were going for studies.

At around 11 pm. three State
Research officers (State Research
Bureau, a key agency for liquidating
President Idi Amin’s opponents)
came to us where we were sitting
and asked us where we were going.
and we told them that we were going
to Canada. after that they told us to
produce our passports after looking
at our passports they told us to go
with them in their office.

They started asking us where had
we got the scholarship. we explained
them that we had sponsors abroad.
Again they asked us whether those
sponsors were Europeans, When
told them that they were Europeans,
they started beating us and accused
us of dealing with Europeans with-
out the Govemment's knowledge.

Next day very early we were
taken to their Headquarters in
Kampala with our faces covered.
When we reached the Headquarters,
they took us to the underground cells
which were labeled with these words
“Killing Muchine" and they started
beating us. They applied some
cigars and burning cigarettes to
fingers. We yelled as they did this
but instead they continued beating
us and they started asking us the
names of those people in Canada.

We explained to them that those in
Canada were not people but it was
just an organization which gives
scholarship to foreign students.

When we mentioned the word organ-
ization they continued beating us
and they locked us in a very cold
room for about 10 minutes. As a
result of beating the other two
friends of mine AZ and BW started
bleeding from their noses and ears.

The Detention Camp

At one time when too much blood
was coming from A‘s nose he asked
for water, but the State Research
officer woman who was around gave
him urine. The following morning at
around 10 am. the condition of my
two friends was worse and death
was only a few inches from them. At
around 11 am. of that day the
comanding officer Col. Francis Ita-
buka visited our underground cell on
his routine check, when he saw B in
a pool of blood he told the officers
who were on duty to remove the two
and take them somewhere else, and
that was the end of me to see my two
friends alive.

After taking away my friends he
ordered them to take me to Luzira
Government Detention Camp pend-
ing further investigation. In the
detention Camp 1 found about 800
people in Detention all of them badly
beaten with no cloth on their bodies.

The inmates asked me if I had
been interrogated by the Naguru
police Unit Amin’s killing police,
when I told them that I was brought
in by the State Research, they told
me that I was luck because if I had
gone through Naguru killing police I
could have died like my friends A
and B.

On 2nd April 1976 after spending
three months in the detention Camp,
the State Research officers came to
see me with some planned charges
against me. Instead of taking me to
court, so that I can be able to defend
myself as the law says, they took me
a certain room which is just beside
the office of the officer in charge of
the detention camp,

I was very much surprised when
they produced a signed commitment

warrant in my name sentencing me
to 21 months in prison. I asked one of
the State Research officer, if that
was the new system sending people
to prison. he answered me “You are
lucky the order was to finish you, go
and serve that maybe you may come
back alive." The day they told me
that I have been convicted to 21
months, I was removed from the
detention Camp and taken to Murch-
ison Bay Prison which is just a few
yards from the detention camp.

At Murchison Bay Prison Camp
we passed through four gates and
through those gates I was handed
over to prison officers. Immediately
they started beating me and I was
told to remove everything I had and
remained naked. After making a list
of my belongings and writing down
my names, the prison’s officers
asked me if I could appeal, when I
said that I was ready to make an
appeal, the State Research officers

 

told prison's officers that I wasn‘t
allowed to make any appeal in any
court of law.

Reserved for Burials

The prison's officers asked me
what I was doing before my arrest,
and I told them that I have been a
student at Makerere University.
They told me that during my stay
with them I will be working with the
printing workshop.

After staying at Murchison Bay
Prison for about two months I heard
the inmates talking about the free
space which surrounds the prison's
fence, that it was reserved for burial
of people who have been killed by the
security officers. Not even a month
past since the inmates talked about
that strange place which is reserved
for burial of Amin‘s victims.

A warder who was on duty in
charge of Ward—in which I was

staying came to small hole and told
us there had been some shooting at
Nsambya Police grounds. At around
11 a.m. about four Military Police-
men came with machine guns to the
printing workshop. They came with
the Principal Officer of the prison,
when they reached inside the work-
shop they told the warder in charge
that they wanted about ten prisoners
for an urgent work which is needed
to be done.

I was selected among with other
prisoners. After making the get pass
at the prison‘s get lodge they told us
to board the Military LandRover.

I was very shocked when I saw
about 12 people all of them in dying
condition, badly beaten some their
hands chopped off. They were all in
military uniforms of the Uganda
Airforce.

Skulls and Bones

The driver started the engine and
we drove off with the bodies. Just a
few yards we stopped and we were
told to start digging. Two big graves
for the bodies, more shock came as
the whole area was full of human
head skulls and other human bones
and many still flesh of recent
killings.

After digging two big graves we
were told to start putting the bodies
in the graves. Nine of the people
brought were completely dead but
the three were still alive only that
their bodies had a lot of wounds, one
of the three asked for water and
instead he was given a bayonet in
the chest to finish him off. The other
body was having very expensive
watch on his hand, the warder who
had come as an escort wanted to
remove the watch but the Military
Police Officers refused him.

After covering the bodies with the
soil I ask the Military Officers what
had those done to be killed and the
officers told me that those were
thieves. But for me I wondered how
could an ordinary thief possess such
an expensive watch or could be

putting on Uganda Airforce Senior
Officers Uniforms.

After the burial we were given
each of us and our warder one
packet of cigarettes.

Not even two days passed, again
the Military Police came in this time
with a big lorry almost full of bodies.
This time I was luck I didn't go for
the burial, but the other inmates who
went told me that those whom they
had just buried have been well
dressed people some their faces
were covered with cloths.

One inmate who have been at
Murchison Bay Prison since 1970
serving a sentence of ten years told
me that they have been burying
prominent people there since Amin
came to power in 1971, he told me
that even the body of the late Ben
Kiwanuka the former Chief Justice
was brought there for burial even
the body of these people, Jolly Joe
Kiwanuka former MP and that of
Warrant Officer two A. Aswa and
many others.

In June 1976 during the Israelis

. raid at Entebbe I saw with my eyes

over 200 bodies of Senior Officers in
army and the Government brought
at Murchison Bay for burial.

0n Ist August 76 I was just
working in the printing workshop
when the labor officer came and told
me that I have been selected to go
with my other fellow inmates at
Paradise Beach Island Amin’s hide-
out, that very myself and other
twenty inmates we were transported
in a motor boat to Paradise Beach
Island which is a two hour drive
from Luzira Port by a motor boat.

The island is about nine acres.
When we reached the island they
told us to remove our prison‘s
uniforms and they gave us army
overalls. We were told never to
speak with any visitor who might
come to the island with Amin, and if
we happen to talk to him we should
teel him that we are army people
stationed there for security reason,
not to say that we are prisoners.

Courts ca n’t keep up with the youthful felons

NEW YORK—It is different when
everything becomes real. Yesterday
morning. in a 13th-floor courtroom
at 100 Centre St., Burton Roberts,
the judge, called for George Adorno,
18. to stand up and be sentenced for
murder.

Adorno, a finger hooked into his
mouth. remained seated for a few
moments. Then he stood up, clasped
his hands in front of him and
carefully inspected the ceiling as
Roberts spoke.

“I've been in this business a long
time.“ Roberts said. “Nothing I‘ve
ever had hits me as hard as this.“ In
the second row were Dr. Ruselle
Robinson and his wife, the parents of

 

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Steven Robinson, 26, whom Adorno
killed last Feb. 23. Robinson. driving
a cab to pay for his education, had
two credits left for a college degree
and intentions to study law when he
was killed behind the wheel of his
cab.

Roberts leaned forward and his
voice rose. “This individual before
me can’t pass a first-grade reading
test and the young man he shot and
killed had a book with him in his
taxicab. The book was Wind. Sand
and Stars by Antoine de Saint-
Exupery. I haven‘t heard that
author‘s name since I was in high
school and I was compelled to read
him. But Steven Robinson read that
book because he had the soul of a
poet. He wanted to contribute. He
never will because George Adorno
said, ‘Let’s go get a couple of bucks
from a cabbv.‘ “

Roberts recited Adorno‘s record.
At four, Adorno set fire to his sister.
Before he was 16, he was arrested 16
times. “First thefts, thefts and then
we come to the big ones. Murder.
Arrested four times for murder. He

confessed to one of the murders in
Family Court. He was let go because
his mother, who can‘t speak a word
of English, wasn‘t present. The
psychiatrist states that he's ‘a
monstrous human being.” “
Adorno's head tilted and he smiled.
“Nothing ever happened to him. He
plays the courts like a concert
player plays the piano. Is there ever
a time when a red light goes on and
you say, “We have to control this
person"? So at age 16, he finally gets
a three-year sentence and he is out
in 18 months.

“This record indicates to me that,
rather than people getting together
and saying, ‘Let's restore capital
punishment, let‘s put powder and
rouge on crime, let’s put a Band-Aid
on cancer,‘ rather than all this, the
public has to think about strengthen-
ing a criminal justice system to
prevent somebody like this from
slipping through it for so long. The
ultimate goal of a juvenile court is to
make sure that those in their charge
don’t get the chance to hurt any-
body. The juvenile courts don‘t have
the funds for this. The public should
be told that it has to face this.

“I‘m not running for office. I can
take an unpopular position and say
to the public that if you want to put
an end to this crime, then it is going
to cost you more money, I don‘t have
to call for capital punishment.
That‘s the phoniest of phony solu-
tions. You won't have one execution
in years even if there is a law.

“Society has the right to deter-
mine an extreme penalty. Therefore
the legislature should put in a life
sentence that means life. No parole.
In this case before me now, a plea of
guilty was taken so that there would
be no possibility that he might
escape with a trial. Lnuer the plea,
he is to serve a minimum of 15 years

to life. But at the end of 15 years, the
parole board does not have to
release him. It is not mandated that
he be let out. The court states that
the parole board should seriously
reflect whether he should be allowed
out at the end of 15 years."

Roberts hunched forward and
stared at Adorno. “As I look at you
now. certainly if ever we have had a
fit subject for capital punishment,
it‘s you. But we in our society never
will sink to your level. It is not neces-
sary to sink to the level of the George
Adornos and wring their necks and
soil society‘s hands with their blood.
The public is going to realize the fact
that capital punishment only en-
courages further violence. In the
meantime, you are going to be in
jail. I do hope you spend many
sleepless nights. I hope what you
have done bothers you and causes
you anguish.“

A guard tapped Adorno on the
shoulder. Adorno, wearing a green
T-shirt and red sneakers, shook
hands with his lawyers, looked
around the room with a half smile on
his face, and walked out with his
guards. He grew up in this city
without going to school, and no
truant officers grabbed him. He
robbed and the juvenile courts let
him go. He murdered and they let
him go. So he murdered again. And
now, as he goes to prison, he
suggests the need for an alternative
to capital punishment—life sentence
without parole—that will not reduce
society to the level of a murderer.

Out on the streets, during this
political campaign, the call for
capital punishment has gone
through the streets like a devil‘s
moan. People who live in nights that
drip with fear have listened as
politicians tell them that the death
penalty is a deterrent and, if it is not
a deterrent. then it is a proper

 

instrument of vengeance. And then
the politicians go elsewhere and the
people are left with their anger,
expectations and the untruths told
them by the candidates.

For where justice becomes real,
notaway of pandering for votes, the
idea of capital punishment becomes
empty. George Adorno, a murderer,
walked in and out of juvenile courts
that cannot handle the crush of

cases. The idea should be to catch a

George Adorno at 13, and not to
waste time arguing capital punish-
ment.

When it was over yesterday
morning, Dr. Ruselle Robinson and
liswife walked slowly down the dim
oil'ridor to the elevator banks. They
stood in silence and then rode
doimstairs and walked through the
crowded, shabby lobby.

Outside, Robinson took a deep
heath.

“What did you think?" he was
adted.

“Oh, I guess capital punishment
wwldn‘t do any good," he said.

“He’s gone," his wife said.
“He‘s gone,“ Robinson said.
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By FRED GRAHAM
New York Times
News Service

They are sprinkled freely
across the land —the Govern-
ment’s hidden witnesses,
iron and women who have
testified against the Mafia
and for their protection have
been given new identities by
the Justice Department.

Yet most of the Americans
who encounter them do not
even know that the United
States is the only nation that
his a Government agency to
(mate false identities for
persons who have testified for
the state, and thus they do not
aspect that they have seen
me of the 2,000 hidden wit-
msses who are the products
(1‘ one of the most unusual
Government agencies on
earth.

But the hidden witnesses
are there, hiding in plain
sight.

——Nine-year-old Sandy
(handler journeys to the
White House from Texas and
(bmands to see President
Carter about her imprisoned
rmther. The child is splashed
across the nation's television
screens for her spunk, but
mbody is told that she and
ler mother had earlier been
in hiding for about a year
uider Justice Department
aliases. and that both com-
flain that they had been
mistreated by Government
(tficials.

—Florida police, investi-
gating the disappearance of
three wealthy Miami-area
people. search in vain for
their prime suspect. a man
named Michael Burnett.
They are not told that
“Burnett" is one of the Jus<
lice Department‘s hidden
witnesses.

——People glance without
wriosity at a Greyhound bus
diver. in Arizona; .8 .used:.car

' salesmaninsa Francisco, a

college Student iii'Sd'n Diego;
a prostitute in Los Angeles.
They do not suspect that
these. and many others, are
alumni of the alias program.

—Shareholders in London
are bilked of hundreds of
thousands of dollars by an
American-born securities
dealer. They do not learn
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later that he is a four-
times-imprisoned stock
swindler from Philadel-
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fourti mes-impri soned stock
swindler from Philadelphia
who was given an alias by the
Justice Department.
The reasons so few Ameri-
, cans are aware of the depart-u
ment‘s unique witness-
[rotection program is that it
was slipped past Congress
without explanation and with-
mt debate by former Atty.
Gen. John N. Mitchell, who
concealed it in the largescale
(rganized Crime Control Act
d 1970.
The purpose was to encour-
age frightened witnesses to
testify, and Government offi-

u'als say that many import-
ant convictions have been
made possible because of it.
Most of the witnesses have
iemained anonymous and
safe. poly seven are knowiia'to
um: been murdered? “and 'in’
each case some foolish act by
the witness seems to have
been responsible

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msses are hardened crimi-
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for their freedom and new
identities in exchange for
testimony against their part-

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used their Government a

identities to commit new / \\§
dimes, or to defraud unsus- A“
peeling persons, or to run tip
Inge debts and slip away.

The Justice Department.
stung by a series of cum:
tiaints and lawsuits by vic-
tims of hidden witnesses, has
tbwngraded the quality of its
(heumentation and cover.
This has brought a hail of
complaints and lawsuits by
relocated witnesses. charging
that their promised “new
lives" are. so transparent as
to deny them a fair chance at
jobs. credit and a decent life.

A tangle of unanticipated
treble ms has emerged.

(‘hildren have been swal
lowed up into the alias pro
grams when one of their
(ivorccd parents was swiftly
mlocated~leaving the other
pirent Wllh no way to find the
vanished children Witnesses
hive. been hidden by the
Justice Department. only to
love the Internal Revenue
Service track them down for
taxes owed during their form-
er lives. The relocated wit-
msses have tended to flock to
the sun. so that they are said
to be bumping into each other
in such places as San Fran
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What it all suggests is that
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