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UK's counter-insurgency work in Indonesia and Thailand: an expose, page 5 Darrell Rice
Memoirs of a Daniel Boone Fried Chicken PR Man, page 8 Jim Stacey
Etchings by Jack Stone, pages 10-11
Gene Mason's story, page 12 Bucky Young
Photographs from Ralph Eugene Meatyard's new book, page 15 J. Edgar's Catechism class, with quiz, page 16
music: Neil Young's "After the Gold Rush, " page 19 Irving Washington
cover:  etching by Jack Stone (from the collection of Harold Gage)
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Rock Bottom
Lexington gynecologist Dr. Phillip Crossen was the recent recipient of various attentions from Fayette County authorities for allowing his farm to be used for a miniature rock festival. Crossen, who was arrested at his home about 6 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 20, was charged with three counts each of contributing to the delinquency of minors, allowing the drinking of distilled spirits without a license, and operating entertainment without a license.
The charges are clearly without substance, since the same conditions which brought about Crossen's arrest existed in larger scale at the UK-Kansas State football game the same weekend. Since no one tried to arrest Gov. Louie Nunn or any other members of the UK Board of Trustees, it can be assumed that the action is aimed squarely at Lexington's counter-culture.
The festival, which attracted about 2,000 people, was severely maligned by both of Lexington's daily newspapers, the Herald and the Leader, The Herald sent a reporter out to the farm with orders to "take pictures of all the garbage." Undaunted by the fact that no garbage was in evidence, the Herald published an article on Monday which contained numerous inaccuracies about both the festival and Crossen, including a wild tale about an unmarked cop car with a machine gun mounted on the hood being used to disperse the festival.
Doug Stewart, a resident at the Grosvenor Street Zoological Gardens and a planner of the Rock Bottom Music Fair, paid a call on Herald-Leader publisher Fred Wachs the following Monday morning to protest the blatant inaccuracy of the story. Accompanied by two other festival staff members, Stewart announced their presence to Wachs' secretary ~ "We're from the Zoo. Spelled Zee-Double-Q -- and were shown in. Wachs, who admitted that there may have been inaccuracies in the story, defended it on the grounds that something
needed to be done about all these long-hairs running around.
Among Wachs' more lucid complaints were that he couldn't hire anybody under 25 because they "throw food on my walls, break out my windows and break my shades." He also complained that he was worried about his grandchildren, having just -returned from a trip to the orient "where we'er getting the pants beat off us." When Wachs started in for the fourth time about people under 25 throwing food on his walls, the Zoo people left and wandered across the street to the courthouse to talk to Fayette County Judge Bob Stevens.
Stevens was about as helpful as Wachs, saying that he was going to stay neutral in the matter, along with some assorted assertions on the need to main* tain order and avoid chaos. He did generally blame the whole mess on County Attorney E. Lawson King, whom he termed a "redneck."
From there the group proceeded to city police headquarters, where Public Relations Director Jan Fisher assured them that city cops had nothing to do with the bust. According to Fisher and Mod squad mainstay Drew Thornton, the the city oinkers had made recommendations to the county police which were not followed, and that city officers were therefore not responsible for the action. This assertion seems fanciful at best, as Fisher and head nark Frank Fryman were both sworn in as witnesses for the prosecution at Crossen's initial hearing.
Crossen's trial was set for Sept. 30 at the Fayette County courthouse on the six charges of license violation.
Meanwhile, Zoo members and other festival sponsors remain undaunted by the whole thing. According to Stewart, they are now planning a 7-day marathon "Woodstock South Music Fair and Love Fest" for early spring. The promoters, who are now negotiating an option for half of Calumet Farm for the event, have plans for many groups to play, including the Rolling Stones, the Jefferson Airplane, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
and the Ovations. Proceeds from the festival will be used to bring Chairman Mao Tse Tung to UK for a talk in room 245 of the Student Center. Zoo members refuse to comment on the rumor that either Jimi Hendrix or the Big Bop-per will be resurrected for the event.
After this story was set Dr. Crossen was found guilty by Fayette Quarterly Court and fined $800 for allowing "lewdness, assignation, or prostitution" and for not having a license for entertainment.
Fayette County Atty. E Lawson King presented the court with a chart totalling "27 acts of lewdness as it pertains to total nudity, four acts of sexual intercourse and one act of sodomy" at the festival.
Judge Cecil Dunn said Crossen had "reasonable cause to know" about the lewdness, assignation, or prostitution. Judge Dunn also ruled that since Crossen's farm had been used for rock festivals on six days out of the year, it couldn't be exempted from licensing on the grounds that it was "temporary."
Crossen indicated he would pay the fine and not appeal the verdict.
Organizers from the Zoo are planning a rally Thursday, Oct. 8 (the same day Crossen is adjudicated in Juvenile Court) to discuss the Crossen case and possibly take action.
Pot pesticide may be dangerous
By Floyd Norris
WASHINGTON (CPS) - The next load of marijuana from the Midwest may contain a pesticide which a government commission recommended "should be immediately restricted to prevent risk of human exposure" because it is possible the pesticide causes birth defects.
Under a joint effort of the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs and and Extension Service of the Agricultural Service, fanners throughout the Midwest are being urged by County Agents to spray the pesticide 2,4-D on wild marijuana crops. A major effort is underway in 20 counties in 10 mid western states (including Kentucky), but the program is nationwide
There has been no research on the effects of 2,4-D when smoked, as might be done by a person using marijuana which had previously been sprayed with the pesticide. But there has been research on the effect of 2,4-D when ingested, and that research caused the Commission on Pesticides and their Relationship to Environmental Health (commonly known as the Mrak Commission), which reported to HEW Secretary Robert Finch last December, to recommend that "the use of currently registered pesticides to which humans are exposed and which are found to be teratogenic (cause birth defects) by suitable test procedures in one or more mammalian species should be immediately restricted to prevent risk of human exposure. Such pesticides in current use include. . .the butyll propul, and isooctyl esters of 2,4-D . .."
That recommendation sprang from a study by the Biogenetics Research Lab which found significant relationships between birth defects and ingestion of 3 of 6 esters of 2,4-D by female mice, hamsters, and chicks. The Commission recommended further research on the
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other three esters of the pesticide.
The ester of 2,4-D depends on the substance it is immersed in for spraying. The test results indicate that which ester is used may make a difference in possible dangers from the pesticide, but the campaign being run by the federal government does not mention the possible hazards of various esters.
It is possible that 2,4-D may be even more dangerous when smoked, according to Dr. Joseph McLaughlin, Jr., a researcher for the Food and Drug Administration and co-chairman of the Mrak Commission's Advisory Panel on Teratogenicity of Pesticides. "If 2,4-D didn't break down from the heat, and I don't think it would," he says, "it would go directly to your bloodstream from the lungs." Since the stomach's defenses are bypassed, McLaughlin thinks more 2,4-D will probably get into the bloodstream, thus increasing the danger of birth defects.
Unlike DDT, 2,4-D does not build up in the body, and leaves within a few weeks. Therefore, only pregnant women or women who will become pregnant within a couple of weeks need worry about the possibilities of consuming 2,4-D.
The U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Energy, Natural Resources, and the Environment, chaired by Sen. Philip Hart (D-Mich) recently held hearings on 2,4-D. Len Bickwit, the Chief Counsel for the Subcommittee, says that testimony developed at the hearings convinces him that "it seems unreasonable to sanction the use of 2,4-D for any purpose."
When sprayed on Marijuana, the 2,4-D will cause the dope to turn brown and shrivel, probably within four days to a week. This means it would be entirely possible that the marijuana could be picked and smoked after spraying but before the effects showed.
Once sprayed, the pesticide will stay in the plant for a matter of weeks and in the ground around the plant for up to a year. It will take several years of spraying to totally destroy an area, since some plants will be missed and some seeds stay in the ground for several years before germinating.
Dr. Fred Shirley of the Department of Agriculture stated that the doses used in the animals were "ridiculously high" and that humans therefore have nothing to fear from the relatively small amounts that might be contained in a marijuana plant.
This theory was dismissed by Bickwit, who noted that the dosages have to be large because of the relatively small number of animals tested. "If it caused
birth defects in one of 500,000 humans, that would be a great tragedy which should more than justify the banning of it But such a thing would never show up in tests on 20 rats, unless the dosage were increased."
He also notes that while almost everything is toxic (deadly) in large e-nough quantities, only 10 percent of the pesticides tested by the Mrak Commision caused birth defects no matter how large the dosage. "Why," he asks, "should we take a chance?"
Environmentalists have long been concerned with the effects of 2,4-D, and have recommended that it be banned. Testifying before the Hart Subcommittee, Harrison Wellford, of Ralph Nader's Center for the Study of Responsive Law, advocated a suspension in use because of the possibility of birth defects.
Jan Schaeffer, editor of Environmental Action, an ecology newsletter which first printed the fact 2,4-D was being used on marijuana, says the use is "grossly irresponsible. They should ban 2,4-D, not extend its use to marijuana."
The program to control Midwest marijuana also involves asking local people to join together to either pull it up
or burn it while still planted. According to Gaffney, this will involve groups such as the Boy Scouts, Rotary, Kiwanis, 4-H clubs, and Sports Car Clubs.
The counties with the intensified program are: Henderson and Cook (Illinois); Kosciusko and Jasper (Indiana); Mitchell and Adams (Iowa); Jessamine and Fayette (Kentucky); Berrien and Cass (Michigan); Meeker and Blue Earth (Minnesota); Ray and Andrew (Missouri); Warren and Licking (Ohio); Walworth and Columbia (Wisconsin); and Marchall
and Riley (Kansas).
(Apparently this year's crop of Kentucky dope is safe; according to UK's Dr. Jim Herron, an ag extension specialist in weed control and the man heading the local eradication program, the program has just gotten underway and hasn't been very active as of yet.
("The only thing recommended for control at this stage is mowing," Herron told the fly. "Early in the season it can be controlled by 2,4-D; we might recommend it next year." Herron said he hasn't seen the report linking 2,4-D to birth defects. He also said 2,4-D has been recommended in Kentucky for years "for lawn use, for pastures, for roadsides" as a weed control agent.
(As for the local program, several farmers have called in and several others have sent specimens to Herron - "but they were other weeds," he said.)
Marijuana was widely, and legally, cultivated during World War II because a source of rope was needed to replace Manila hemp during the Japanese occupation of the Phillipines. After the war, it continued growing wild.
One .reason it has never been eradicated is that Quail, a popular game bird in the Midwest, like to feed on the wild marijuana. They are particularly challenging, hunters report, because of the erratic way they fly, constantly changing course.
Maybe they saw'Chisum'
Jim Bell, a UK student who had been fined $1 and court costs by Fayette Quarterly Court on a disorderly conduct charge arising from last spring's uprising, was just trying to set the record straight when he appealed his conviction to Fayette Circuit Court.
However, on September 23, the circuit jury not only rejected his appeal, but also changed his sentence to a $500 fine and five months and 28 days in the county jail. (The maximum penalty is six months and the fine.) This incredible act is even more incredible in light of the fact that Bell was not even a participant in the demonstration. He was merely trying to get to the library when he was arrested May 7 during a. confusingly declared campus curfew. Seeing a break in a state trooper cordon, he had assumed he could just go through.
Bell has moderately long hair, though, and the Agnewized jury apparently was determined to make an example out of any student they could get
their hands on. Bell had appealed his quarterly court conviction partially because the judge thought some of the students in his court should make an appeal at a higher level as test cases.
Bell and his attorney, Bill Allison, had sought to convince Circuit Judge Mitchell Meade, a conservative Republican, to hear the appeal himself, but Meade insisted they would have to go before a jury. Bell is appealing once again and is free on a $1,000 bond. The implications of Bell's case for radicals and just plain students seeking fair jury trials are indeed ominous.
Other students convicted of disorderly conduct last spring, including UK student body president Steve Bright, also have appeals coming up soon.
On debating Spiro Agnew
By STEVE BRIGHT
Vice President Spiro Agnew came away "unscratched" from a confronta-
tion with four students on the David Frost television show September 21, according to New York newspapers.
That's probably true.
Indeed, the Vice President exhibited considerable showmanship in responding to student questions and remarks during the 90-minute program. He made his points well, drawing applause from time to time from the audience, most of which was friendly to the VP.
But unfortunately for Agnew, men are occasionally measured almost as much by the points they make as by their ability to draw applause at strategic moments.
The Vice President went to much trouble to give "some sense of perspective" to the Kent State killings and the beating of students by New York construction workers. In each instance he made it clear that he did not condone the actions, but he understood completely why national guardmen fired on students at Kent State University and why construction workers in New York beat the hell out of student demonstrators.   And he made some good points.
Equally clear was the complete inability of the man to understand the student response to Cambodia, the student response to Vietnam, the student response to Agnew, the student response to ... .
But that probably doesn't matter to that part of middle America which
feels threatened by student unrest or the possibility of change. Agnew managed to hit hard at the things they hated and feared most without going as low and without being quite as repulsive as George Wallace would be in the same situation.
The Vice President was much more careful in the television appearance than in many of his speeches. He was careful not to call United States senators who oppose the war various phrases he has used in the past which imply that they are traitors.
He did not make the sweeping generalizations which characterize his speeches and which lump everyone from the middle to the extreme left into criminal status.
He did not refer to Canada and Sweden as "deserters dens" as he did in a speech last February, nor did he call all those who oppose U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia "effete snobs."
The students failed to bring out the worst in the Vice President. I failed because I said very little. As a group we failed because we did not move the conversation to areas which were new to Agnew. The Vice President spent most of the evening responding to old arguments and old issues. And he had well-developed answers for most of the questions. It is therefore not surprising that he came off looking good.
But for those with enough depth to look at the Frost show without reducing it to the simplistic issue of who "won" and who "lost," there was perhaps a little more insight into the real Spiro Agnew.
And the real Spiro Agnew is an unpleasant and unfortunate personification which some of man's most cherished ideals must contend with in the 70's.
Dope Hazard number 421
From a South African textbook on criminology: "In extreme cases marijuana can so destroy a man's character that he mixes freely with persons of another race."
PG&E at the
¢ Lexington Hotel'
(From Rolling Stone)
LEXINGTON, Kentucky - Having been there before - at least spiritually -Pacific Gas & Electric went back to the Federal Rehabilitation Center for drug addicts earlier this month to play a couple of free concerts, to jam with some of the musicians there, and, mainly, to expose the wretched joint.
"Being in Lexington narcotics hospital is like being in a leukemia ward," said Frank Cook, former PG&E drummer now working as the band's personal manager. "Life expectancy there may be two or three years."
Lexington, the oldest drug rehabilitation center in the country, houses a-bout 460 patients, 85 of them women.
"The percentage of cures," said Cook, who was in Lexington himself ten years ago, "is like 98 percent failures ~ which means death. The hard-core there hope to die." Persons committed to the center can serve anywhere up to four years.   The minimum is seven months.
"We wanted to expose where the taxpayers' money is going," said Cook. "Lexington is just an intermission in these people's existence. There's no reason to live there."
A film crew shot PG&E's two-day stay there, covering the two concerts, the jams, and rap sessions between band members and patients, some of them taking place overnight.
"I know some people down there." said lead vocalist Charlie Allen. "I've shot a bunch of dope myself - I used to be a junkie -- and I wanted to make things clear on drugs."
"We were telling people we stopped heavy doping because of music," said Cook. "We wanted to say 'stop fixing: this is where life is.' We wanted to do a solid."
The band apparently connected --"We jammed and played some jazz." said Allen. "They've got plenty of East Coast musicians there, all supersensitive
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cats, all creative, but in a street sort of thing" - but the film ain't going to show no Disneyland."
"There were people there just loaded up on drugs," said Cook, "and people were drinking shaving tonic and aftershave lotions. Drugs are used overtly at Lexington."
But the worse thing, said Cook, is that "they give them no program at all. And the lawmakers, the officials all know it, but no one does anything. Even a probation officer there said that Lexington has been a failure for 30 years, since when Alexander King was there."
The film is being produced by Larry Schiller for Corda Productions for either network or syndication distribution on television. The concerts were also taped and may show up as PG&E's next album.
And Charlie Allen will try and keep the influx of musicians into the Kentucky institution. "I'm going to speak to other cats to go down there," he said. "This was our first real statement. And it was good, 'cause you've gotta make a statement or get passed on by."
The second convention
By Kitty Caparella and Floyd Norris
PHILADELPHIA (CPS) -- The Revolutionary People's Constitutional Convention, called by the Black Panther Party, has recessed until November 4, when it will meet in Washington to reach final agreement on what is intended to be a new constitution for the United States.
At the first round, held here over Labor Day weekend, over 10,000 delegates, more than half of them black, agreed on general principles for a socialistic America, but disagreed on some particular points. The convention avoided the drastic open splits which characterized last summer's United Front Against Fascism (UFAF) conference in Oakland, the last attempt by the Panthers to unify the radical left.
Proposals were made in the form of reports by discussion groups to a plenary session of all attending the convention. No votes were taken, although the favorable reaction to some proposals clearly indicated their popularity with the crowd.
Attending the conference were members of groups covering the entire radical spectrum, including Student Mobe, Youth Against War and Fascism, the Progressive Labor Party, the SDS, Gay Liberation Front, and Women's Liberation Front. The Panthers were the only Black group represented, as many Black groups were in Atlanta for the Congress of African People, where 2,500 delegates including Black Muslims, Whitney Young, Julian Bond, Jesse Jackson, and Imamu Baraka (Leroi Jones) discussed the creation of a world African party.
By concentrating on the kind of society radicals want after a revolution, the Panthers hoped to avoid the friction over means of bringing about a revolution,, which has characterized previous meetings of different radical groups. In
large measure, the tactic succeeded, although Michael Tabor, one of the New York Panther 21, issued a broadside calling the Progressive Labor Party "enemies of the people" for attempting to organize a march on City Hall which the Panthers feared would bring the Philadelphia police down on the Black community.
By tying in the new constitution with the old, and by emphasizing the Declaration of Independence's guarantee of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," the Panthers attempted to make the basically socialist program seem more in keeping with American traditions.
The proposals presented to the plenary session by the discussion groups included:
'"Plans to end American imperialism.   Discussion groups called for the
immediate withdrawal of all U.S. forces from around the world and for the abolishment of the standing army, to be replaced by a system of people's militias, with all people in the militia holding other jobs and working only part-time in the militia.
'"The United States, with 6 percent of the world's people, currently consumes somewhere near 50 percent of the resources, and the delegates recognized the ending of imperialism would nesessi-tate a somewhat lower standard of living.
'"Community control of police. The police would be under the supervision of community-elected boards, which would be able to fire policemen. Non-uniformed police would be prohibited, and the combined budget for the police and the militia would be less than 10 percent of the national budget.
*Land reform. Control of land will be vested in the communities, with the entire nation determining a general policy for land use, and the communities handling local problems.
'"Basic rights for all people. The right to food, shelter, employment, medical care, education, birth control, and abortion, would be guaranteed.
*An end to oppression of women. Discussion groups called for free child care centers, free child delivery, free abortion, and for 50 percent of all leadership positions to be held by women.
'"The end of the nuclear family. This proposal provoked considerable disagreement, with one discussion group saying the nuclear family might work out under socialism and the groups on women's and gay liberation opposing it.
The proposals were worked out in discussion groups Sunday afternoon after Huey Newton, the Black Panther Party founder who was recently freed from a California jail, set the tone of the convention with a rousing call for a socialist America. The proposals were presented to a mass meeting Sunday night. Delegates met Monday in regional groups to select a continuing committee to work on possible drafts of the new constitution.
The general meetings were held in the new multi-million dollar Temple University gym, which sits arrogantly in the middle of the North Philadelphia ghetto. Security was tight, especially for the Newton speech, and commercial press reporters who identified themselves were barred.
Attendance at the convention was apparently swelled by the tactics of Philadelphia Police Commissioner Frank Rizzo - called "Bozo" by the Panthers -who raided the three Panther headquarters in Philadelphia less than a week before the convention.
The police ripped the headquarters apart in their dawn raids, and then ordered fifteen Panthers to strip outside while police held guns pointed at the heads of the Panthers. The pictures of the stripped Panthers brought more support from the Philadelphia Black community than anything the Panthers have done so far.
Bail was first set at $500 for the fifteen "Panthers, but Rizzo stepped in and got Judge Weinrott, who has criticized the Panthers many times, to hear the case. He decided to raise bail to $100,000 each. Appeals finally got the bail down to $5,000.
The raids followed the Sunday killing of a policeman in a Philadelphia park. Although there was no visible connection between the Panthers and the shooting, Rizzo used it as his excuse for the raids.
Rizzo, who was now calling the Panthers "yellow dogs, psychopaths, and cowards," and saying it was time for a "shootout," was blasted by numerous community groups, who were outraged by his treatment of the Panthers.
Community residents flocked to the Panther headquarters to help clean up the destruction caused by the police. During the cleaning, one youth threw a pocketbook out the window. The police immediately evacuated the area and brought in the bomb squad, which carefully opened the purse. Out crawled two roaches. "Wow," said one spectator, "We've got a new weapon against the police - roach bombs. We oughta manufacture them. Roaches don't cost anything, they're one thing we've got plenty of."
Rizzo's men stayed away from the convention, and there were no incidents.
As the convention moves to Washington, at a specific place still to be determined, the major questions are whether the Panther's leadership can continue to keep various other radical groups from attacking each other, and whether the constitution, once adopted, will prove to be the rallying point the Panthers want it to be.
A 'bomb'
for your thoughts
By HAROLD SHERMAN
"On July 14, 1970, I sent the cast aluminum casing of an anti-personnel bomb known as a Guava Bomb, to my Selective Service Board, number 127, in Lexington. This casing had been rejected from the production line of Honeywell Corporation plant in Toledo, Ohio, and was purchased from a scrap metal dealer in that city." This statement comes from a position paper by Jay Westbrook, a UK graduate now working for the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) in Dayton, Ohio. The bomb casing was received by the board on Wednesday,
July 15, at 10 a.m. Although County Detective Beall was called (and in turn - called the FBI, postal authorities and Fort Knox) and a general scare prevailed, it apparently was not enough of a scare to induce one of the members of the staff at the board to even leave the building.
Detective Beall, who said he "used to make bombs," (according the The Lexington Herald) was assisted by a three-man explosive-disposal unit. They took the "bomb" to a pistol range and dismantled it by pulling a string on each side of the baseball-sized casing. There was no explosion.
Jay appeared on WLAP "Soundoff" to explain his action. In the meantime, federal authorities had decided not to prosecute him. However, E. Lawson King, Fayette County Attorney, thought differently. He is prosecuting. Judge Cecil Dunn decided that there was "probable cause" to hold the case to the Grand Jury, which handed down an indictment Sept. 22.
The charge is an obscure one -"common law assault." Robert Sedler, Jay's attorney, contends that the ability to do harm had to be present. The prosecution maintains that fear of injury is enough to warrant a conviction.
The "bomb" was, as Jay stated, an empty casing -- a factory reject. Enclosed with the casing were pictures depicting injuries caused by real anti-personnel bombs, a magazine article about such weapons and a letter of explanation. (The Guava Bomb is designed for a 20-foot "kill-radius" in a 360 degree area.)
In 1967. Jay applied for Conscientious Objector status at the board. He was eventually granted this status. However, he chose to work with the AFSC instead of doing "acceptable" alternative service as suggested by the board. The board told him that working for a pacifist organization was "not in the national interest." In November of last year, he tore up his draft card in a "ceremony" at the board. No action has been taken yet by federal authorities.
A letter from the board dated July 7,1970, informed Jay of three types of work deemed "appropriate" for alternative service. July 17 was the deadline he was given for choosing one or refusing to do any of them. Jay's reply to this was in the letter which he sent with the bomb casing. As far as alternative service goes, Jay is still working with the AFSC.
Local coverage of the whole affair was bad as usual. A Lexington Leader headline of July 15 read: "Bomb Mailed to Fayette Draft Board." The local papers repeatedly referred to the casing as a "bomb" after it was established that it was not. The most glaring contradiction was between the papers' citing of a statement by unnamed "authorities" who claimed that there were "hundreds of ball bearings and some plastic explosives," in the casing and Jay's statement that it was "completely empty."
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How UK trained Indonesian students who went on to help massacre500,000 people and onst Sukarno and who are now raking in money from American oil companies... and how UK is helping make Northeast Thailand safe for the Chase Manhattan Bank
(all without really trying)
By DARRELL RICE
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American corporations have made a killing in Indonesia.   And that's a horrible, sick pun.
¢ The corporations made a financial killing following the downfall of Sukarno in Indonesia and the rise of General Suharto, who has proved to be much more friendly toward them than his predecessor.   Suharto rose to power over the dead bodies of from 200, 000 to 500, 000 Indonesians (allegedly Communist party members) massacred in 1965.
All this came about with the help of U.S. government agencies, private foundations and universities.   The University of Kentucky, although mostly unwittingly, had a part in it.   In addition, UK currently is playing a role in counter-insurgency efforts in Thailand, again, apparently unknowingly.
In recent years governmental agencies and private foundations have increasingly involved personnel and resources of universities in their overseas machinations. Sometimes the universities have been prostituted willingly into doing defense research and related tasks.   This has been especially true of the country's "leading" schools.
But often, individual academicians have been deceived by agencies and foundations posing as froces of benevolent humanitarianism into carrying out projects which actually have equally reprehensible pur