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By GREGG FIELDS
Copy Editor

James Arnato found out quickly
that being mayor of Lexington
means responding to the unex-
pected.

Arnato centered his election
campaign pledges around several
issues, including his opposition to
Sunday liquor sales, his plan to end
traffic snarls, and his promise to
lobby for UK funding in Frankfort.

But despite what Arnato might

' have had in mind for carrying out

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. . . Arnato finds campaign plans take backseat to weather woes.

Volume LXIX, Number 99
Wednesday. February 15. I978

those'pledges, the weather has in-
tervened as the highest-priority
issue facing Arnato since he took
office in January.

Winter street maintenance is the
concern of a new Snow Emergency
Task Force formed by the mayor

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OMB denies pleas
for tobacco funds

By JIM MCN AIR
Copy Editor

A request seeking the restoration
of $726,000 for a UK tobacco
production research program has
been denied by the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB),
according to information released
from the Washington office of Sen.
Walter “Dee“ Huddleston.

The ill-fated program’s funding
represents part of a $3.1 million cut
in Department of Agriculture
tobacco production research funds.
UK‘s portion of the cut has been used
for tobacco production research
conducted jointly by the
Agricultural Research Service
(ABS) and the UK College of
Agriculture. .

Current funds for the program are
expected to run out by Sept. 30.

Huddleston and Kentucky's other
Democratic senator, Wendell Ford,
are directing sharp criticism at the
OMB denial and have written Sen.
Tom Eagleton, chairman of the
Senate Agricultural Appropriations
Committee, asking that funds be
restored.

“This whole exercise represents a
colossal blunder by the Department
of Agriculture and we do not intend
to let it stand," the Senators said in a
joint statement.

The pr0posed funding cut will
encounter a Senate vote as part of
the Agriculture Department's
budget proposal. Huddleston, Ford
and senators from several other
tobaccoproducing states are ex-
pected to Oppose the measure from
the floor at that time.

The original request to restore the
program‘s funds came when the
Agriculture Department announced
that it was trimming its overall
research budget by 59 percent. Upon
hearing the announcement, Hud-

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state

the Panama Canal treaties.
my mind."

vote. he said.

that he opposed ratification

considered before a vote is taken.

—-———today

“(‘5 inneretty night classes will not be meeting this
semester because of poor enrollment. but organizers
say the classes will be back. For details. see Steve

KENTl‘t‘Ki SEN. WENDELL FORD indicated
yesterday he may drop his opposition to ratification of

Ford told at Lexington Kiwanis Club luncheon he will
not "make the mistake of voting my heart instead of

t‘ongressronal debates on thetreaties could continue
anther srx weeks. and possibly will influence l-‘ord‘s

Ford previously said. following a trip to Panama.

Ford said national security and the treaties'
financial impact on ths country should be carefully

dleston, Ford and Sens. Jesse
Helms, R-N.C., and Dick Stone, D-
Fla., persuaded Assistant Secretary
of Agriculture M. Rupa‘t Cutler to
review the research fund rescission.

The program was reviewed, but
OMB officials denied the request
after examining Cutler’s report.

While arguing for the review, the
senators learned that department
officials were unaware of the
research program’s efforts to devise
a safer cigarette through production
techniques. Taking advantage of the
oversight, Huddleston and Ford
stressed the point in the recent letter
to Eagleton.

An inside source revealed that
Department of Agriculture officials
believe tobacco research should
assume a low priority in view of
research fund shortages, and that
they feel money could be better
spent on food and crop production
efforts.

T.W. Edminster, outgoing director
of the ABS, which has been absorbed
by the new Science and Education
Administration (SEA), said there is
a “series of backgrounds" to the
planned removal of the research
program.

First, he said, the president wants
to balance the budget and, second,
“the thinking is that, if the industry
could pick it up (the cost of
research). a safer cigarette would
be to the advantage of the company
which could guarantee it.“

Dr. Charles Barnhart, dean of the
UK College of Agriculture, believes
that continuing tobacco production
research is vital and that the
program should only be deescalated
if any measures are taken at all.

“From my standpoint," he began.
“it seems—whether you believe in
smoking or not—that what we and
the ARS are doing is very important
because it‘s directed at producing

safer tobacco. You can’t argue
against that position.”

Barnhart added that (HEW
Secretary) Joseph Califano can’t
expect everyone to stop smoking.

The money provided by the
federal government to keep the ARS
unit at UK in operation is the source
of roughly half of the total research
funding made available to the
College of Agriculture.

If the program is discontinued,
about 25 ARS employees attached to
UK will find themselves without

salaries when the funds are ,
exhausted on Sept. 30, the end of the .
federal fiscal year. However, as the ~

ARS is an arm of the Department of
Agriculture, they may be relocated
within that branch of government.

“If they do cut us off,” Barnhart
projected, “we’d have to seek state
funds to accelerate the programs.
Economically, tobacco is so im-
portant to the state that we have to
maintain a research program.”
Burley tobacco is the state’s chief
export. Kentucky leads the nation is
its production."

According to Barnhart, the
Tobacco and Health Research In-
stitute and the combined ARS-UK
research unit are both investigating
the chemical composition of tobacco
plants. The Tobacco and Health
scientists, he said, are looking for
any cancer-caning agents in plants
while the latter group is diversifying
the plant genetically to produce a
wide range of strains.

The c00peration between the two
parties is inherent; should the
Tobacco and Health Research In-
stitite discover an element in
tobacco that gives life to cancer, the
ARS-UK staff would focus its efforts
on reducing the amount of that
element in the tobacco plant.

Continued on page 6

last week. The task force is com-
prised of representatives from
several large Fayette County em-
ployers, including UK, and, ac-
cording to Arnato, is concerned with
formulating “a snow plan."

Such a plan, says Arnato, would
include provisions for utilizing
private contractors‘ equipment to
clear city streets and the
desgination of snwv emergency
routes where parking would not be
allowed should the mayor declare a
snow emergency.

“We got some good ideas in our
first meeting (held last Friday),"
said Amato. “For instance, we
discussed renting equipment from
farmers that could remove snow.
This is a good idea that could really
help us out in the rural areas."

In addition, Arnato said the

possibility of calling in school and
business closings on the “city wire"
was discussed. The city wire is a
local news service which is cabled
from city hall to Lexington news
media.

Presently, cancellations must be
phoned into each newspaper and
radio and television station in-
dividually.

Amato said his plan for a solution
to Lexington‘s traffic congestion—
especially on Nicholasville Road—-is
also underway.

“The plan for revasible lanes on
Nicholasvile Road is in the design
stage in Frankfort," said Amato.

Under the plan, Nicholasville
Road would have three lanes of
traffic going into downtown in the
morning with two lanes going out. In
the evming, three lanes would leave

All in a daze work

Legislators stay occupied in different ways during
daily sessions in Frankfort. Rep. Elmer Dietz. D-
Kenton County. mulls over the days business, while

principal sponsor

poned until today.

Claudia Riner, I)-Louisville, takes a note. Riner is a

the central city. Lane changes are to
be designated by electronic markers
suspended above the road.

The tentative timetable calls for
removal of medians beginning April
1. “We’ll begin looking for funds
around March 1," said Amato,
adding that he expects money for the
project to come from a combination
of state and federal funds.

Another position Amato made
public during the campaign was his
opposition to Sunday liquor sales in
Lexington. Proponents of Sunday
liquor sales say that selling liquor on
Sunday's could boost Lexington's
convention bisiness and Arnato
admits there is growing opposition
to his position.

Continued on page 6

University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky

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of a resolution to urge a national

anti-abortion amendment. The measure was post-

Wine license bill passes house

By STEVE BALLINGER
Editor in (‘hief

I-‘RANKI-‘ORT ._ A bill that would
allow restaurants to buy special
liquor licenses for wine only was
approved yesterday by the Ken-
tucky House of Representatives.

The measure, Senate Bill 76. was
recalled to the house floor yesterday
after failing to win appoval Friday.
The House split 42-42 on that vote,
but passed the bill 47-32 yesterday.
The bill now goes to Gov. Julian
Carroll for his signature.

Rep. Jim Lemaster, I)-Lexington,
said better organization by the bill's

supporters brought about passage
on the second vote. ”We had the
votes Friday, but some peOple didn‘t
do what we thought they‘d do," he
said.

Opposition to the bill came from
representatives of districts in dry
counties, said Lemaster. Though the
bill does not affect dry counties,
these representatives still oppose
easing the liquor restrictions, he
said.

Sponsored by Sen. Michael

Moloney, D—Lexington, the bill
permits restaurants that seat at

least 50 persons to pay $300 for a
wine license.

Because liquor licenses are more
expensive and their numbers limited
in each county, supporters see the
wine licenses as a benefit to many
small or ethnic restaurants that
have been unable to obtain a liquor
license.

Final legislative approval was
also given to House Bill 145, which
permits legislators to serve on the
faculty of a state university or
community colege without resigning
from the legislature.

Continued on page it

GOV. .Il'I.l.»\N CARROLL ASKED YESTERDAY
that all Kentuckians begin using 25 percent less
electricity. to try to delay electrical curtailments for

industry

“A strong effort by Kentuckians at voluntary cur-
tailment can savethousandsof our fellow citizens from
layoffs." the governor said in a prepared release.

Mandatory curlailments will be imposed on state
government offices. Carroll said.

The governor also said he has asked the federal
Environmental Protection Agencyto allow the burning
of high sulfur coal on a temporary basis. before stock-

where

piles dwindle to crisis levels.

However. when coal stockpiles diminish to the point
mandatory
required, it would force most indmtrial plants to close
down. (‘arroll said.

50 percent curtailments are

A litil SI-I I’ \NI-II. YESTERDAY APPROVED a bill
aimed at encouraging construction of more multi-

hedronm apartment buildings, despite objections from

architects

The House Business Organizations and Professions

(‘ommittee voted It to l with three abstentions to
favorably report House Bill 250. sponsored by Rep

\‘irgil Pearman tD-Radcliffi. to the full House

Under the measure. an architect's seal would not be
required on cnstruction plans for buildings with t2 or

leSs living units

The law now requires an architect's seal, which
makes the architect responsible for the soundness of
the plans. on blueprints for buildings containing more

than l2 bedrooms.
I
nation

PRESIDENT VAR TIER.

an munced yesterday

IV \ MAJOR POLICY
SHIFT. has decrded to allow the sale of warplanes to
Egypt for the first tune. while supplying Israel with
more adianced jet fighters the State Department

THE RATE OF THE
GROWTH has unexpectedly peaked and rs now ac-
tually declining. according to reports from population
experts yesterday.

The decline was

generally unexpected decline in fertility in the poor
countries of the world," according to Nick Eberstadt.
an associate at the Harvard (‘enter for Population

Studies

An arms pat kage headed for t‘apitol Hill also tickets
some five dozen of the L‘ 5 Air Force's prime fighter.
the F-13. for rili rich Saudi Arabia Congress. which has
so days to win any of the items. is certain to question

both the Eﬂ)pildn and Saudi shipments
Wolff viiM'i. immediately an-
nounced he will introduce a resolution to veto the sale

Rep Lester I.

of F 15s to the Saudis

with highs in the

ln announcmg the planned sate. Secretary of State

Cyrus R Vante said they
military balance in the region "

will not alter the basic
(‘om piled from Associated Press dispatches.

"This fertility decline is good news for the world—
cspecially the poor world." Eberstadt told the annual
meeting of the American Assocration for the Ad-
ianccment of Scrence

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Fire victims need help
from fellow students

The 35 students who lost their homes and
possessions in the Ivanhhoe Apartments fire last
week are in urgent need of assistance. We urge
individuals and organizations to contribute
housing, clothes. books and other items so that
the victims can resettle as fast as possible.

Sometimes it‘s hard to arouse the Good
Samaritan instinct in people, especially when
those suffering are strangers in distant coun-

tries.

But the problems of the students who lived at
Ivanhoe are much closer to us. They suddenly
have to find a place to live in “No Vacancy”
Lexington, have to stay alive academically after
losing all their books, and have to replace
clothes, appliances and many other valuable

items.

Student Government is to be congratulated for
responding to the crisis. The emergency project
set up by volunteers has already brought results
by coordinating aid and shleter to the victims.
It’s an excellent example of how student
associations can use their contacts and influence
to help others in times of urgent need.

That kind of involv emem is commendable, and
more of it might be beginning. The Dean of
Students and housing offices are working to find

new residences for the displaced students, and

SG workers are discussing plans with Kennedy’s
Bookstore to get books for the fire’s victims.
It’s all being done in the spirit of pulling
together to help fellow students who’ve had
about the toughest break there is. That feeling
shouldn’t end until all the victims have been

completely resettled.

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’That’s the way it goes; let’s get stoned ’

Skids graduated from high school
a year early; he was no special
student really, he just didn't like it
and wanted out: his grades were
decent: some C‘s and B’s.

Skids really didn't know what he
wanted to do after high school. He

didn't like people or work very
much. and the thoughtof spending a
lot of time with either made him
vaguely naseous. He wasn't hurting
for money. thanks to a generous
graduation gift from his parents,

and so he decided just to “let it all
ride" for awhile.

In his whole life, Skids had only
really liked two things: reading and
getting stoned. He spent as much
time as possible doing one or the
other—or both, though he had dif-

l'icultty mixing them sometimes—
and couldn‘t imagine any sort of
lifestyle that didn‘t include them.

So. in the first eight months after
he finished high school, Skids did
just those two things: he finished

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everything he could find by William
Burroughs, James Joyce, Tom
Wolfe, Hunter Thompson, Leon Uris
and J.R.R. Tolkein, he bragged, and
smoked nearly six pounds of dopt.L
“finestkind,” he would say, “prime
Columbian."

it was early in December that
Skids decided something wasn’t
right. He felt he was missing
something.

Get a job, his dad told him. All you
do is sit around in your room and
down at the pool and read those
books. Some constructive labor is
just what you need.

Relax, his mom said later in
hushed tones. Your father is just a
bit old—fashioned. You take your
time and decide what you wantto do,

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and when you feel motivated, you do
something. We‘ll not hurry you.

Skids didn't know quite what he
wanted to do. He thought about
trying to meet girls, but decided—as
usual-“against it. The
girlfriend he had ever had in school
had split up with him to run off to
LA. with a guitar player from a
local band. He didn‘t feel com-
fortable around them. anyway.

He thought really hard about
getting a job, and finally did——he
went to work in a local bookstore for
a time. but got fired after ten days
for “spending too much time
reading rather than helping the
customers.“

His confidence shot, his
motivation buried somewhere under
the hruniliation. Skids decided to

only’

give up. College was out of the
question— he'd spent all his time in
high school, he was fond of saying,
“getting high and getting by."
(‘ollcge was just more school and it
didn't interest him a bit.

Sometime in the middle of
January—two Faulkners and an
Updike after Christmas—he pulled
his last $450 out of the bank and
bought 400 qua aludes.

Lots of his friends at school had
been into sopars and downs, but he
had never gotten into them. he was
bored. though, and needed
something to do, so he bought them.
The price was good, too. better than
he had ever heard about.

Skids drank a six-pack the next
night ’and ate three of the ‘ludes.
When he woke up the next afternoon,
he decided not to do that many the
next time. They must be really
fresh, he thought.

Aftera shower and some lunch, he
smoked two joints and called his
best friend They split an eight-pack
before sundown and then washed
down two of the 'ludes each with
dinner and went to the drivein.

Two bottles of wine and several
joints later. after “Deep Throat II"
and “The Swinging Coeds.“ Skids
and his pal tried to drive home.
Somehow— neither of them could
remember—they ended up in Ellis
Porter‘s front yard at around 2 am,
their axle broken on his front steps.

Skids‘ father was not happy over
that—Skids decided to lay off the
‘ludes for a while and read “The
grapes of Wrath" and “Harvest
Home.“ His friend bought 50 of the
quaaludes. and he gave a few to the
neighbors‘ dog one night just to see
what would happen. Two weeks
after the accident, he was bored
again.

He went back to the bookstore and

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pleaded with Mr. Harrison for a
second chance. I'll do better, he
promised. and Mr. Harrison con-
sented.

“One more slipup, though, son,
and you‘ll not work here again." Mr.
Harrison scolded. “Understood?“

Skids said yes, he understood.

The job went fine for several
weeks. Skids managed to stay
straight and make it to work on
time. He worked hard, was attentive
and courteous to the customers, and
made some friends. He even
developed a few regular customers,
customers who would ask his advice
on this or that book.

Late in March. Skids received an
invitation to the 20th birthday party
of an old friend from high school.
The party was to 'be on a Sunday.
from 10 am. ‘til midnight. Skids
decided at first not to go. he had to
be at work at ll am on Monday, and
he knew better than to try and party
hard the night before.

As the date for the event drew
closer. thoigh, and Skids thought
more about it. he thmght that
maybe he would go after all. Heck,
he still had more than 300 quaaludes
left and the party would be a good
Oppurtunity for him to throw a few
around and make a big impression.
Better still. he might even get laid.
lt‘d been a long time since Skids had
gotten laid. and he was hungry. The
quaaludes. he thought. just might do
the trick.

On Saturday afternoon, skids
called his friend Arnold and
arranged a ride to the party. We‘ll
do some 'ludes. he said, get buttered
and show up in high style.

Arnold said shit, yeah!

Skids went out to a local gift shop
and bought a real fancy box of
candy. The box was heart-shaped.
and made of balsa wood. He dumped

the chocolates out and dumped the
quaaludes in. saving four for himself
and Arnold.

When his friend came to pick him
up on Sunday morning, he tucked his
box under his arm, dumped the
extras in his pocket, and ran to the
car. His heart was pounding. and he
could feel the excitement in his
stomach.

He was looking forward to this
party as he had looked forward to
nothing else in months. He gulped
down his 'ludes. and watched as
Arnold did the same. The party was
to be at the friend’s vacation cabin
at a nearby lake—about twenty
miles away, For a drive that long,
they decided they‘d need some
beer.

By the time they got to the party—
twclve Buds and half-anhour later—
they were juiced. They arrived at
the party in high style.

No one likes to hear bawdy stories,
so. to make a long story short: the
party went well for both Arnold and
Skids. They passed out ‘ludes to as
many of the partiers as they saw.
They danced. they smoked, they
drank. They got laid. They did not
make it back to town the next day.

When Skids called Mr. Harrison on
Tuesday, his reply was simple.

“We made an agreement son: I‘m
sorry."

Skids was crushed.

He walked home the long way,
stopping by Arnold's on the way.
Arnold was sorry about Skids‘ job.
but could offer little solace.

“Well," Skids decided, “that‘s the
way it goes. Let‘s get stoned.“

“Agreed," Arnold said. “That‘s
the way it goes.“

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A Socialist alternative . . .

By Bronson Rozier

Most columns that people
get a chance to read in the
daily media have a very
narrow focus in dealing with
social problems. That is,
problems like unemployment
and inﬂation, sexism, racism
and war. Newspaper
columnists tend to take two
basic views in relation to
problems pe0ple face in
society: conservative defense
of capitalism or liberal
defense of capitalism as a
social system.

The first is that all people
can make it in this society if
they work hard and save.
Everyone can someday own
General Motors or at least be
its president. Any problem in
“making it” that a particular
group of people have is their
own fault: blacks are lazy
and no good, Mexicanos and
Chicanos should go back to
where they came from, a
woman’s place is in the home
anyway, and workers are
more interested in a decent
life than in making profits for
their bosses. The con-
servative answer is to help
business, blst unions and call
on blacks, women and other
oprressed to pull themselves
up by the bootstraps rather
than unite to fight social
oppression.

The liberal wing of
capitalism and the colum-
nists that support it have a
more complex response to
social inequality. They
realize that there are social
problems but see the remedy
through trying to patch up the
system that causes the
problems. Their solution is
the welfare state where upper
working class and middle
class people are taxed
(leaving aside the profits of
the large corporations) to
provide social programs and
try to smooth over the
problems the system itself
causes. For what ever
reason - general concern or
a cynical knowledge that
concessions are necessary to
maintain the profit system —
the liberals bring forward
scheme after scheme. We‘ve
had the New Deal, Fair Deal,
Square Meal, Great Society
and now the Jimmy Carter
Smile. The main message is
to rely on the liberal
Democrats, labor
bureaucrats and reformist

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leaders who tie the social
movements to electing
“friends" into office and not
rely on our own organized
strength in the unions and
movements to change
society.

What this column would
like to do is to provide a real
alternative to the columns of
the press that defend this
social system of exploitation,
racism, sexism and wars. In
this monthly column we
would like to present the
positive alternative of people
trying to gain control over
their own lives through
building movements powerful
enough to change society in
their intterests. We wish to
present the Socialist Alter~
native to this system of op-
pression and al alternative to
relying on the enlightened
good will of the liberal
Democratic party politicians
to solve the problems facing
us.

In doing this, the column
will reflect the views of the
Young Socialist Alliance, a
youth group based on the
campuses across the country
taht projects the socialist
position of a break from the
reliance of the consevative
and liberal wings of cpaitalist
parties and their class
worldwide. We see social
progress in builidng in-
dependence through a labor
party in this country or
maintaining the in
dependence of social
movements rather than
advocating joining the
Democratic Party or forming
a political block with
“progressive“ Democrats.

The media would have it
that the movements we speak
of — student movements and
the movements of labor,
women and blacks — are
dead. Though small com-
pared to the civil rights, anti-
war, and early women‘s
movement of the sixties, the
movements for social justice
are continuing. In this first
column I would like to start
with just one example of the
viability of social
movements.

One of the most demon-
strative examples that the
movements for a decent
living and basic rights are not
dead is the United
Mineworkers of America
(UMWA) strike. The media
predicted that the UMWA

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would fold, a victim of its
disorganization. That‘s what
the media calls union
democracy: disorganization.
The union hasn‘t folded
although it has had to fight
against state troopers
escorting nonunion miners
across the picket line,
newspapers raising the
spectre of shortages and
blaming theminers for it. and
not the companies for not
bargaining, and the courts
restricting the number of
UMWA pickets.

The UMWA has remained
solid in support of the strike
and has gotten non-union
miners to come out in support
of the strike when the mine
owners didn't bring in state
troopers to keep their mines
open. Non-union miners
realize that the benefits the
UMWA get will in part be
given to them to keep the
union out and so many are
sympathetic. Non-union
miners and all people who are
wageearners gain from the
UMWA remaining strong and
winning their demands for
safety, health benefits and
the right to strike when local
companies don't live up to the
contract. Other unions have
seen this, including the AFL-
CIO conference, and voted
support. Students on several
campmes have shown sup-
port.

Students have came to
support the mineworkers—
evai though few will be
miners, most of us will be
wage-earners and have
reason to support better
working conditions and
wages for eve-yone. Needless
to say, those working now.
especially those on work-
study, need pay increases.

The UMWA for its part has
supported social causes other
than its own. Recently, the
mineworkers actively par-
ticipated in a labor union
march for the Equal Rights
Amendment in Virginia. The
union also supports af-
firmative action and has filed
a friend of the court brief
along with other unions, civil
rights. and wonem's groups
against the Bakke case now
being decided in the US.
Supreme Court. This case will
have a great impact on the
rights of women and minority
students to have an equal
educational opportunity and
is an attack on the right to an

education for us all.

The fighting spirit of the
United Mineworkers is an
cxample for the women‘s.
civil rights and the rest of the
labor movement on how to
fight the atacks on our
standard of living and rights.
Locally, UK students and
employees have an op-
portunity to show support for
the Stearns Mineworkers
strike for union recognition
and also for the UMWA strike
through working with the
Stearns Strike Defense
Committee formed last
semester. The committee is a
coalition of several groups
and is open to anyone who
supports the Stearns Miners.
It has had the support of the
state American Federation of
State. County and Municipal
Employees organizer, the
chingotn Central Labor
Council, and the National
Organization of Women.

There are many op-
portunities to fight for social
change in Lexington. In
future columns, I will write
about some of these such as a
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dcportations. including the
request of a member of YSA,
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In the last year inflationn
has gone up. unemployment
remained high. abortion
rights. the ERA and Gay and
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an administration of "the
party of the working person
and oppressed." the
“friends" of labor. blacks and
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