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Vol. LXV No. 33

an independent student newspaper

University of Kentucky‘
Lexington, KY. 40506

Monday, September 24, I973

criticism
for Pettit

By RON MITCHELL
Kernel Staff Writer

Lexington Mayor Foster Pettit has been
both criticized and praised since Friday
when he announced his opposition to the
$30 million Red River dam project.

The major part of the criticism has come
from State Senator Mike Moloney who
contends the statement ”came extremely
late in the ballgame."

IN A MID-AFTERNOON statement
released at city hall, Pettit said the “Red
River Gorge is truly unique and we are
very foolish if we do not preserve it for the
many generations of Kentuckians who will
follow us."

He went on to outline two alternative
proposals which he said would be more
feasible and beneficial to Lexington than
the dam project: either to pipe water from
the Cave Run reservoir at Morehead to a
nearby Kentucky River artery or to
construct the Booneville Dam on the South
Fork of the Kentucky River.

Moloney, who together with UK biology
professor Robert Kuehne formed the
alternative plans, said Pettit had
knowledge of them for some time before
taking his position and the statement will
have virtually no impact since the
deadline to go on “record” with a position
was Aug. 20.

Red River Gorge. a strikingly-beautiful area in Eastern
Kentucky may. according to environmentalists, be destroyed
if plans to dam the river are carried out. (Kernel Staff Photo
by John Metcalfe).

”THERE WAS N0 statement from the
City of Lexington before the record closed
in mid-August. But the position of the
Kentucky-American Water Co. was
known." Moloney said.

‘ We are very
foolish if we do not
preserve (Red River
Gorge) for the many

generations that will
follow us.’

Pettit.‘

Moloney: ‘ (Pettit’s
statement) came ex-
tremely late in the ball
game.’
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Kentucky-American Water Co., a
private corporation which has control of
the Lexington water supply was a strong
advocate of the dam project because it
supposedly will provide Lexington and
Central Kentucky with a better water
supply. The project has also been endorsed
by the Lexington Chamber of Commerce,
whose president. Gerald Smith, is also
president of the water company.
Moloney said the state Water Resources
Commission kept Pettit informed of the

issue regularly and the mayor knew of the
two proposals as early as July 14 when
they were made known at a public hearing
in Stanton.

HE ALSO CITED a two-hour meeting on
Aug. 15 in which he and Kuehne outlined
their plan and said he requested the mayor
to take a position on the issue before the
record closed.

The dam has been proposed by the US.
Army Corps of Engineers for the purpose
of providing the Lexington area with an
adequate water supply in the event of a
severe drought, increased recreation
facilities and a new flood control plan. But
the project has been attacked by en-
vironmentalists who contend the dam will
destroy the beauty of the Red River Gorge.
a haven for wildlife and plant growth.

The Corps of Engineers has the final say
over whether the dam is built, but en-
vironmental impact statements must be
sent to federal agencies for approval and
suggestions.

.\II.\‘l'TES OI" TIIE July 14 open hearing
in Stanton will be sent along with the
impact statement to the Interior Depart-
ment and the Environmental Protection
Agency.

Continued on Page 8

News In Brlet

from The Associated Press

0 Agnew plans defense
0 Plranha's fatal?

a Couple recalls deaths
0 Money talks halt

0 Kissinger to help

0 Today's weather...

0 WASHINGTON — Vice President
Spiro Agnew was reported to be
proceeding yesterday with plans to
“defend his constitutional office.”

Two developments over the weekend
indicated the vice president intends to try
and retain his office and fight charges of
political corruption.

Agnew will move in court next week to
block a grand jury investigation, sources
close to the vice president revealed
Saturday.

Further evidence of Agnew‘s fighting
mood was the disclosure Saturday by an
aide that ”an Agnew defense fund" is
being organized.

O (ICEDAS. [)0 l(il’AZl'. Brazil —
Ofﬁcials fear that many of the persons who
died when a riverboat sank Thursday may
have been eaten by piranha. the voracious
fresh water fish.

0 MIAMI — An American couple held
prisoner for a week in Chile said yesterday
they had witnessed the execution of 400-500
persons since the military took control of
Chile.

Patricia and Adam Garrett Schesch,
who returned to this country yesterday,
also accused Chile’s new military leaders
of "conducting a pogrom against
foreigners."

The Scheschs. graduate students at the
University of Wisconsin. were released
Friday and expelled from Chile. They
arrived in Miami aboard one of the first
flights permitted to leave Santiago. the
Chilean capital.

0 NAIROBI. Kenya —— Deadlocked on
key issues. the world's top finance
ministers decided yesterday to give
themselves another to months to design a
new international monetary system.

I l'NlTl-II) NATIONS. NY. — UN.
Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim said
yesterday his impression from talks with
Henry Kissinger “is that the new
secretary of state is quite ready to
cooperate with the United Nations and to
use this machinery for peace.“

Diplomats from around the world were
looking to Kissinger to bring something
new and exciting to the UN. General
Assembly's general debate, too often'
dulled by dreary recitals of familiar
positions. The debate begins today. and
Kissinger will be on hand.

...Ta be continued

The rain. cloudiness and warm
temperatures continue with highs for
today and tomorrow in the ﬁts. Rain
chances are to per cent today and 50 per
cent tonight. The low tonight will be
somewhere in the 60s.

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Pettit's action helps

Lexington Mayor Foster Pettit‘s announced opposition to
the Red River Dam project Friday propelled a small sigh of
relief through Kentucky environmentalists. However the
ecological fight is long from over.

Pettit‘s action, while admirable in that it could force Gov.
Ford to finally take a stand on the issue he has cautiously
avoided. came too late to be included in the Corps of
Engineers records opposing the project. According to State
Sen. Mike Moloney, Pettit had the material but opted to
hold it for a time.

The only official word from Lexington in the Corps’
records is a statement by the local water company, backed
by the Lexington Chamber of Commerce, declaring a need
for the dam. Interestingly enough, Gerald Smith is the
president of both groups.

Two views

of the gorge

As mayor of Lexington, election year or not, Pettit’s
action holds a certain amount of influence and he should not
be chided for using the issue as campaign material if his
statement is sincere.

The statement, with the material being supplied to Pettit
by Moloney and UK professor Robert Kuehne, suggested
two other sites available as alternative water suppliers for
Central Kentucky—constructing a 10-mile pipeline from
Cane Run Reservoir to the East Fork of Indian Creek (a
part of the Kentucky River Basin) thus sending water
downstream to Lexington; —construction of the Booneville
Dam on the South Fork of the Kentucky River, scheduled to
begin in the late 1970’s. Either of these sites would save the
aesthetically-pleasing gorge from irreparable ecological
damage.

Proponents of the Red River project have argued time
and again the dam is needed to stop flooding of the lower
gorge valley, including Clay City and Stanton, and would
make a fine recreational area for the eastern part of the
state.

On both points though, sensible alternatives have been
suggested by environmentalists and finally by Pettit in his
statement. ' '

The Corps has already made it know it would have to
relocate approximately 55 families in the upper regions of
the gorge if the dam were built and the area ﬂooded by the
lake. Pettit suggested the Corps build a level to protect the
Clay City and Stanton areas from flooding and buy land

(Kernel staff photos by John Met-
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‘Every American family has a right to a house like this,
and I'm going to see that they get it!"

from people in this sector. The cost of this action would be
many times less than the $30 million dam project.

Knowing Central Kentuckians and what they have done to
Herrington Lake, we quiver when imagining the Red River
area as a recreation area. The thought of oil and gas
dripping into a lake, destroying nature, is a nightmare. As
Pettit pointed out in his statement the area is a recreational
area, a unique one in that it gives thousands of Kentuckians
an opportunity to leave crowded urban regions.

The influence of Pettit’s statement won’t be realized until
Gov. Ford takes a stand. Coupled with a unanimous vote by
the state Environmental Quality Commission, which asked
Ford Thursday to fight the dam project, the Pettit an-
nouncement should put enough pressure on Ford to act
soon.

Environmentalists and many Kentuckians await an
announcement by Ford. To date, Moloney is the most in-
fluential public servant opposing the project while Rep.
Carl Perkins (the proposed dam lies in his district) is the
most influential supporter of the project.

The issue has reached the point where positions would be
taken by Ford and both US. senators, Marlowe Cook and
Dee Huddleston. Opposition from Ford would influence the
decision of the final statement by the Corps and could
possibly force them to drop the plans. Opposition from
Huddleston and Cook could influence the US Senate vote
on Federal appropriations for the dam.

Letters

‘Belittling review'

I was astonished to see in the Kernel a
thoughtless and belittling review of one of
the finest recent movies, “The Garden of
the Finzi-Continis,” directed by Vittorio
De Sica; I’m dismayed that it may
discourage people here from seeing a film
far superior to most of those ever shown in
Lexington. Carol Cropper is correct in her
perception of certain flaws, but she is also
irrelevant in dwelling on them.

Dominique Sanda is demonic, and
Helmut Berger is angelic; they are supra-
historic figures. The contrast between
them and the historic reality of their world
is frightening and mind-expanding, for it
tells us something about ourselves. What’s
going on? Why tell this story now? Only
beauty can redeem the dismal

inevitability of the story; the movie, itself,
is beautiful; time slows in the theatre.
there is a great deal of time. Horror and
beauty, and wonder at life. See it.

One more note: language is no problem
here; the Italian is beautiful, and the
English is easily read.

Thomas Walker
Bus. Ad.-freshman

Supports Miller

Regarding your editorial of September
19 concerning Pam Miller, I find little need
to add to your list of her merits. Indeed,
she is the candidate with the best interests
of the University Community in mind. It
(will be my pleasure to vote for her on Nov.

Byron L. Barksdale
College of Medicine-senior

a page of opinion from inside and outside the University community

Pageﬂ

Vietnamian immense dragon torn by war

By M.E. BRANAMAN

Vietnam stretches like an immense
dragon along the rim of the Pacific.
Geographically, there are three regions.
Bac Bo, the Red River Delta; Nam Bo, the
huge fertile plain of the Mekong River;
and Trung Bo, the long, slender neck
connecting the head and tail of this
mysterious entity.

According to the Geneva Agreements of
1954, Vietnam exists as a demarcated
land—Bac Bo, becoming the Democratic
Republic of Vietnam, the North. The land
below the 17th parallel has been riveted
into the American consciousness as South
Vietnam.

THE FUTURE OF South Vietnam
remains perilous and obscure, but the
impact of American involvement in this
land is clearly visible to anyone who visits
the country's cities and travels about its
countryside. Now that the ceasefire has
become a reality, the American decade, its
social, political, and economic legacy, can
be evaluated through historical fact.

_, .->'v.,.,._‘. - 42..., ,_ .

Editor’s note: This is a first in

a series of articles dealing

with various facets of life in

Vietnam.
at; W

The United States Government dropped
3,100,000 tons of bombs on the South,
almost four times the amount dropped on
the North, according to ULSL Department
of Defense statistics. The result of the
devastation was different, for there was
little large-scale urban destruction. The
acres that suffered defoliation and ruin
were rural areas, mountainous land or
fertile plateaus, the food sources of the
Vietnamese people. Despite the harsh
brown rips in the green, the land appears
lush and able to be reclaimed for use
again.

Like most Southeast Asian countries,
farmers account for 80 per cent of the
population of Vietnam. Ninety per cent of
South Vietnam’s declining exports is farm
produce. The yearly agricultural income is
less than 40 per cent of product of the
nation. For only 3 million of 17 million
hectares of land once cultiva table can now
be used. (data obtained from the Ministry
of Finance in Saigon). The industrial
sector is similarly weak, its product ac~
counting for 12 per cent of the national
product.

FROM ONE POINT of view, during the
American years, South Vietnam was
“saved” by US. foreign aid, creating an
artificial prosperity in the cities. A
sociological indicator of this false progress
is the glittering, but empty, world of
Saigon night life with its unemployed,
family-supporting bar girls and
prostitutes. The modern parks and
fountains, given to the pe0ple, remain
inaccessible due to barbed wire barriers.
Likewise, true development was thwarted
as the government of South Vietnam
became increasingly dependent on foreign
power, economically and politically. In
1961, the national expenses of the unknow
country of South Vietnam totalled $17.2
billion. Ten years later, after US. money
was being pumped in at a steady rate, the
figure soared to $190.9 billion.

How will the reconstruction of this land
begin? The Saigon regime of Nguyen van
Thieu gives the people of South Vietnam
“national education” in the form of
displays of military power, its own vast
supply of American equipment and the
visiting forces of its neighbors, Thailand
and Taiwan.

The Vietnamese people are constantly
aware of the economic might of the US.
The direct aid grants spent in the country
now come in the form of development
loans, aimed at expanding the country’s
economic base (International Herald
Tribue, August 2, 1973). The Americans
have left behind about 7,000 civilians; men
readily visible in the public eye in the
streets of Saigon. This is no secret, and
Article 5, Chapter II, of the Paris
Agreement allows such non-military
personnel. The Saigon regime’s professed
policy is to allow open exploitation of the
resources of the economy, then restrict the
foreign investor; this is the premise of new
investment laws with lavish increases of
privileges for the investor. The US.
controls 42.9 per cent of the investment
power in South Vietnam, with Japan’s new
interest reaching the 20 per cent level.

THE CONFIRMATION of rich oil
deposits off the country's coast and the
awarding of four exploration rights con-
tracts after vigorous bidding by North
American companies revives the
argument that underlying economic in-
terests promoted the American military

A monument erected by the government of South Vietnam In tribute to the
United States Marine Corps dominates a plaza on Saigon‘s Le Loi Boulevard.
(Photo by ME. Branaman)

involvement in the Vietnamese struggle.

There are many indications the US. will
retain the dominant role in the recon-
struction effort in the South, although
other countries will be represented. This is
like the situation from 1965 on when the
war was given an international sheen.
American and Japanese capital is being
poured into heavy industry, metallurgical
and chemical, where resources and a
cheap labor pool are readily available for
exploitation.

The rice-rich Mekong Delta has 10
provinces, only two of which are not under
control of the merchant class. The war
reduced South Vietnam from the second-
largest rice exporting country in the world
to one dependent on imports. Yet the
Saigon government and . the Chinese
middlemen control the amount of
production, limiting the peasant farmer to
one crop a year, when the land, those
hectares left untouched by the bombing
devastation, could produce three.

The South China Sea is another im-

Fisbing boats and waterfront shanties characterize a Vietnamese

harbor. (Photo by ME. Branaman)

Only five per cent of the money is being
placed in the agrarian base of the country.
The Saigon regime's Ministry of Planning
pumps indigenous capital into intensive
development, 95 per cent into unproved
industry and a paltry five per cent to rural
credit. This approach ignores the in-
flationary economy which no longer has
American G.I expenditures, and a social
structure so precarious that a depression
threatens with the remobilization of the
Army, one million unskilled men, culled
largely from the rural areas. This
technocratic outlook, a feudal approach in
an underdeveloped war-devastated
country, could spell the downfall of the

portant resource in the reconstruction of
the exploited land, and it serves as further
demonstration of the government's failure
to serve the needs of the people. The
Oceanographic Institute in Nha Trang has
discovered the existence of over 1,000
differing species of fish in accessible off-
shore areas. Historically, a strict concept
of non-exploitation existed for many
centuries, the six family sampan which
served the village needs. This industry
flourished during the war years, feeding,
both sides of the Vietnam. The Saigon
regime is now allowing 100 fishery
firms to manipulate the coastal waters
with heavy equipment that willdeplete the

“The war reduced South Vietnam from the second largest rice exporting
country in the world to one dependent on imports. "

Saigon regime, even if the fighting does

not resume.
TIIIC \'lETN.-\E\IESE concept of village

life is one of cooperation and community
effort. The national program of the Saigon
government ignores this human dimen-
sion, even while suffering the effects of
determined warfare based on human
spirit. not massive military resources,
that is being waged by the Provisional
Revolutionary Government forces in the
south. Materially, Vietnamese tradition
dictated that two‘thirds of all effort was
for the community. education and basic
human needs. The family utilized one third
of the resources as a unit. The system
survived the 1,000 years of Chinese oc-
cupation, but 100 years of French
domination dissolved the unity. Though
the colonial plantation system did not
spring up until 1925, the village economy
was eroded earlier by the introduction of
the middleman. usually Chinese mer-
chants. The French settlers were not in-
terested in crops, but in cash. Now the
villagers remain under constant debt to
the merchant class.

waters permanently. according to the
biologist director of the Institute. No effort
has been made to organize the half-million
Vietnamese who people this work
traditionally. However. the Socio-
Economic Development Organization. a
private group of Vietnamese working to
establish rural cooperatives. estimates a
modern economic function could be based
on the village structure.

'l‘III‘I ASIAN \'ll.I..\(il‘2 model must be
the source of the new social paradigms
that will aid in the rebuilding of the
Vietnamese countryside. for the agrarian
peasant considers his village to be the
center of activity and change. From this
perspective the National Liberation Front
wages its struggle.

M.E. Branaman is a UK law
student who traveled through Asia in
1972 and spent time with people in all
areas of war torn Vietnam. She
gathered material and wrote several
articles for the Pacific News Service
before returning home.

t—TIIE KENTUCKY KERNEL. Monday. September 24. I973

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.Quarterly

By JOSEPH (‘ONN
Kernel Staff Writer
The first issue of a quarterly

- called Appalachian Notes has

been released.

lts porpose is ”to provide an
organ for short scholarly articles
on the culture, sociology,
economy and folklore of Ap-
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Lawrence S. Thompson, who is
publishing the journal under the
name Erasmus Press.

“ALTHOUGH THERE are a
good many popular journals, we
will be the only one dedicated to
scholarly works." he said.

“Though the Appalachians
actually extend from Maine to
Alabama, we plan to concentrate
mainly on Southern Appalachia,”
said Thompson. “As a rule of
thumb, we will use the ZOO-county
area which Berea College defines
as its area of service. But we will
also have some articles on out-
side areas."

An upcoming issue has a
review of a book on the Catskill
Mountains. The coal mining area
.of western Pennsylavania is also
very pertinent and relevant to
many studies of Appalachia.

“What we want to get away
from,“ he said, “is the roman-

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dear little cabin in the mountains
somewhere with smoke curling
from the chimney and simple folk
sitting on the front porch.”

“WHAT WE WANT to do is
identify the nature of the area’s
problems and then get the history
of what caused them and how
they can be corrected.”

He expects 600 to 700 sub-
scribers for the publication which
is printed in Spain. “The Nixon
dollar has sent me to Spain," said
Thompson. “Printing costs there
are only about 60 per cent of what
they are here.”

The first issue contains an
article on the strategy for
regional studies, two reviews of

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the most m DRY CLEANING

presents

I" Appalachian culture

the Foxfire phenomenon, a page
of short book summaries, and a
news and notes column which is
to run every issue.

The Foxfire phenomenon
refers to a project by a Georgia
English teacher in which his
students collected bits of Georgia
folklore and folklife and
published it in magazine form.
Several of the magazine articles
were in a collection called “The
Foxfire Book“ which made the
best seller lists. The magazine
itself now has over 6,000 sub-
scribers.

“APPALACHIAN NOTES“
will contain no advocacy articles
or fiction. “The only thing we will

advocate is the facts," said
Thompson.
Thompson, who is in the

Department of Classics, is also
serving as editor for literature.
folklore and book reviews.
Another UK faculty member, Dr.
Thomas R. Ford, Department of
Sociology, is editor for behavioral
sciences. Dr. Richard Drake of
the Berea College history
department is editor-in-chief.

(‘OPIES OF THE journal may
be obtained at the Erasmus
Press, 225 Culpepper or from
Thompson.

Angel Flight

begins rush

Angel Flight is a campus
organization affiliated with the
Air Force ROTC program.
However it is not a military
organization.

ANGELS SERVE AS the 0f-
ficial campus hostesses and
attend the Kentucky Derby as
escorts to the governor, in ad
dition to working on community
projects. To qualify one must be
an undergraduate women with a
2.2 grade point average.

Interviews will be held for
women interested in Angel Flight
Sept. 25-27 at 6 pm. in Buell
Armory.

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