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Volume LX 1X Number 21
Friday,September16.1977

An expert

   
   

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Caudill—author, lawyer, social critic—
now Appalachian history teacher

By NELL FIELDS
Kernel Reporter

“l’osterity. The word was written
in the preamble to the Consititution.
Our founding fathers believed in that
word. One day. a person just like
yourself will inhabit this world, but
that person is you. Try to com-
prehend, if you can. the duty that
you owe him: to make sure he has a
pleasant world where he can live.
The first generation has to protect
the next."

These are the words of Harry
Monroe Caudill, author, lawyer,
social critic and now professor of
history at UK.

Currently, Caudill is teaching
Appalachian History 356 and 5%.
People usually think that just
because the majority of the people
who live in those parts are illiterate,
that there isn’t much history, he
said. “it isn’t so.”

Born near the eastern Kentucky
mountain town of Whitesburg,
Caudill has spent most of his life in
Appalachia. His ancestors have
been there as long as anyone can
remember and that is where his
wife, daughter. and two sons were
born.

Caudill is best known for his book,

Night Comes to the Cumberlands,
and for his concern for the en-
vironment, especially in eastern
Kentucky. in 1954, 1935 and 1960 he
was a member of the state
legislature, where he helped pass
laws dealing with strip mining.

But it is not just his home state
that worries him. “1 am concerned
abort all tireland. Strip mining is a
natiaiwide problem," he said.

He first discovered his love for the
land when he was a boy. His father
would drive through the Blue Grass
Regionand Caudill would take in the
scenery. “I remember,“ he said,
“the Blue Grass Region looked
desolate. The land was washed out
by the rain and ruined from over-
production.

“We didn't leave it that way,
though. During the '305 we rebuilt it.
We have to realize what is hap-
pening; that we can’t get out. We
don’t have to let our land
deteriorate."

To illustrate how quickly land
deteriorates, he told a story about
his war days “When i was in Africa
in the ‘403, i came across four huge,
marble slabs sticking up turn the
sand. I tried to think what they were
and as I looked around, I saw a hill.

“All the dirt had bear washed

away. i then realized what i was
sitting on. They were columns from
a building. There beneath the sand
was probably an entire city. You
know, it took the earth thousands of
years to build the soil and men can
destroy it in generations."

As he reminisced, Caudill com
pared the deserts of Africa to
America. He said that it is a terribly
depresing thing to realize that we
do those things to the land. “We are
creating a great American desert.
Cities cannot be made from
deserts," he said.

According to Caudill, the solution
iscalled hope. He said, “Take hope;
have hope. Too many young people
are hopeless.

“We have the knowledge. The
thing that we have to do first is to
protect the earth." Caudill did say
that it is easier to point to the
problems than to solutions. He said
that problems such as strip mining
are not only environmental, but also
social and economic. “It is easy to
blame the coal industry for tearing
up the land," he said.

For example, in 1950, coal
production in the Tennessee Valley
went down and the only way the
miners could make money was to
use strip mining.

KENTUCKY

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an independent student newspaper

     

University ofKentucky
Lexington. Kentucky

Noted author. historian and environmentalist Harry Caudill is teaching two courses on Appalachian history at l 'K
this year. (‘audiil wrote the book, Night Comes To The Cumberlands.

“The Dutch create,” he said.
“Americans conarme." The Ger-
mans are currently thing the best
job in reclaiming the land, he said.
“If the United States adopts good
land policies. then the lesser
countries can follow."

Before Caudill came to UK he had
been a lawyer for 28 years. He was
about to retire when he. was offered a
teching job from the University. He
came here because of the challenge
and to help young people think of
Appalchia in constructive terms, he
said.

Caudill is by no means a stranger

Familiar percentage chart says
UK losing funds to other schools

BV STEV‘ E BALLlNGER
Editor-in-Chief
and
GIL LAWSON
Kemel Reporter

A familiar sight in administration
offices and meeting rouns time
days is a chart that indcates the
percentage of state funds received
by Kentucky universities.

At the bottom, the chart shows a
nearly level line, denoting a small
collective increase for most regional
schools, like Morehead State
University and Eastern Kentucky
University.

At the top, another line tracks the
increase of state funds during the
last dozen years for the University of
Louisville and Northern Kentucky
University.

That line shows a rise. from 1.8 per
cent to 21.7 per curt. it is the line
that concerns UK officials, for the
space it dips into represents UK’s
declining percentage of state sup
port.

“The basic problem is that the
state brought in two new institutions
and there was no increase in state
funding," said Don Clapp, ad-
ministration vice presidert, in an
interview this week

Accordirg to figures prepared by
the state Council on Higher
Education, UK is the only state
school whose appropriation declined
in constant dollars (cwrected for
inflation) during the last 10 years.

That decline occurred titling a
period when UK enrolled more full-
time students on the laexirgtorr
campus alone, without similar
cunmunity growth, than any other
state scinol.

The carnal will cornider at its
Oct. 3 meeting the barker requests
from the state universities for the
1117840 biennium. it will give
recommendations to the state
finance department, which Gov.
Julian Carroll wil tee in preparir;
be state buttet that pee to the
legislature next year

1.8%'

62.1%

36.1%

1965 - 66

 

UK’s budget request asks $121.8
million in 19111-79 and $140.5 million
in raw, an incl-ease of $16.7
million over the iastbiennium.

State support accurnts for slightly
mire than half of UK’s operating
budget, a figiu'e similar to those at
mat Keilucky universities The
remainder comes from tuition and
fees, gifts and grants. fethral funds
and income from auxiliary services
and the University hospital.

Because of the decline in state
arpptrt dieing a period of ai-
pansbn. UK is confronted by urgent
firiarieiai problems, according to
Presiders Otis Simietsry.

l‘aciilty Ilaries at UK have
steadily taleniurther behind during

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State appropriation
to public institutions - 100%

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21.7%

41.6%

the hst decide and are new $1,114
behind the average salary at ben-
chmark institutions chosen by the
council Kerlucky State University's
faculty salaries are the only others
that are further behind.

Another critical area is that of
salaries paid to agricultural ex-
tereion agents, who are UK em-
ployes. in 1969, the agerss were $449
behind the national average.
Currently, they are 81,94 behind the
average and rank behind every state
and Puerto Rico.

'1th is also a 13 per cart salary
gap between clasified employee
(maintenance workers, secretaries,
etc.) at UK and the Lexington labor
market. says Singletary.

Besides salaries the number of
faculty positions is another
deteriorating condition at UK. in
196869, there were 115 more teachers
needed to fulfill a Council on Higher
Education formula that determines
adequate faculty sire.

As student enrollment grew,
faculty numbers continued to fall
behind. An additional 382 positions
are now needed for an adequate
ratio, according to the formula, say
UK officials. The budget request
proposes hiring 169 new teachers to
return to the position of several
years ago.

The bulk of UK‘s budget request
(about 80 per cent) is for additional
funds designed to cover inflation
expenses and to close the gaps with
benchmark institutions, says
Singletary. Only about 1 per cent
would fund new programs, with the
remainder going for program ex-
pansion.

UK officials areconvinced that the
University faces dire consequences
unless it can begin to solve its
financial problems.

lfsalaries cmtinue to decline and
the student-faculty disparity in-
creases, Singletary said at a recent
cmference, UK will lose its com-
petitive position.

Unless more funds are allocated,
the University is in danger of losing
superior faculty members. Some
colleges, perhaps Business 8:
Economics. Law and Medicine, may
have accreditation problems, of-
ficials say.

"in sane areas, like the technical
vocations, it‘s hard to hire a teacher
when he makes les than the student
will when he graduates," said

Maurice Wail, community colqe .

vice presilcnt
Deliberations on the budget
recommendations are always
“times when the adrenalin begins to
flow," according to Harry Snyder,
executive director of the Council for
Higher l“tlll(‘ii'l(ill
Continued on page .‘i

agraswmméb .‘s a; w? r " A ~t- 9 r r. -' 1 a‘

to UK. Hccame here in 1941, left for
the war and returned to graduate
from law school in 1948. It was here
that hemet his wife. Anna.

The campus has changed
drastically since then. There were
1,400 students cm‘olied in 1941 and
out ofthein. 200 were men. “Forty
one was an important year for UK,“
Caudill said. “That was the year the
budget reached a million dollars."

Caudill said he hopes to continue
as a writer, although he said,
probably have written enough."
Caudill said he expects to submit

some ideas to publishers. lie is in-
terested in the direction of the Ap
palachia ('ommission.

Most of ('Iiudill‘s books and ar-
ticles concern Appalachia. Night
(‘omcs to the ('umbcrlands. which is
ued widely as a college text. deals
with the land and the people of
Appalachia. A book that followed,
.V‘iy Land is flying, is about strip
mining.

In his own words. Harry Caudill is
a iriountaincer, plU'C and srmple. “I
have a deeper attaciuncnt to the
land than most.“

 

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shipments.

Ethiopian capital.

tax increases

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D-Danviile, said yesterday.

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world

Riot police with dogs arrested 1,200 students at the black Ul‘il\'f‘lSll_\,' of
Fort Hare outside Johannesburg yesterday to block a memorial service
for Steve Biko. the black leader who died after a hunger strike in a prison

Tire servrcc was the first of several planned by white students.
nationalists and churchmen 'dl. ross South Arica in a wave of anger at the
death of the 30-year~old activist, described by one newspaper as “perhaps
the most important black leader in South Africa."

The protests were fueled by questions as to whether the Prisons
Department had made any effort to save Biko's life

US. officials were reported yesterday to be holding high-level talks
with Ethiopia's Marxist regime in Addis
speculation they were discussing a resumption of {truer-icon military aid

“Top-level contacts are continuing bctuccn thr-
Ethiopia’s governiricnt,” said a spokesman for the l‘ S l‘ltiibdssy in the

nafion

Congress completed action yesterday on a
contemplates a deficit of $61.3 billion. The budget was :ipproied in the
House. 215 to 187, over Republican objections that ii Iurt-shndom intim-

Tho-budget calls l'orspcndiiig $458.21 billion iir tin: )Htl‘ hugiiriznu: < lt' 1
President Carter had recommended a $4628 trillion budget

An Air Force jet crashed late Wednesday night at the Army '5 Montana
Base and killed the 20 persons abour d when it exploded on (i mtilllili’llllSltit'
near high security nuclear storage facilities, authorities Silltl yostcrdn}

An air traffic controller said he had tried to warn the pilot that the plane-
was going to hit a ridge, but moments later the plane slammed into the
mountain without any acknowledgement that the pilot had received the

state

(‘harles (folson. the one-time. self-described hatchet man of the Nixon
administration, says his message to federal prisoners Sunday here will be
"whatever the spirit of God leads me to talk about.“

“1‘" be talking about prisons. about some of the work of our ministry
and about what i believe is the great challenge today."
interview with the Lexington Leader.

Thestate cannot realistically raise teacher salaries in the next two fiscal
years to the levels paid in neighboring states, Rep. JOSeph Clarke,

‘~‘it would require from $400 million to $500 million in new dollars to do
that," said Clarke. who has headed the Interim Joint (‘ommittec on
Appropiations and Revenue for the past six years.

Gov. Julian Carroll has pledged to try to achieve the salary goal by the

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There is a 60 per rent chance of showers and thunder showers today
with the high in the mid this. The showers should end tonight, the low in
the upper ties. Tomorrow will be ciody and humid. The high tomorrow iwll

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UK needs more money BAMNA

from state legislature
to avoid being 'sorry'

Decisions will soon be made that could
determine whether the University begins to slide
into mediocrity from not having enough money
to provide quality education. research and
service.

The state Council on Public Higher Education
is in the process of reviewing the budget requests
of Kentucky universities for the 1978-80 bien.
nium The council's decisions will affect the jobs.
education and lives of everyone associated with
public universities in Kentucky.

The decisions will also determine the state‘s
future commitment of high quality education in
Kentucky.

By law, UK is the state’s principal institution
of higher education. Because it‘s the.only
university that offers certain degrees and
programs, money can be concentrated into
L ‘veloping particular services in one location.

L'K‘s special roles has not helped in acquiring
state fundings. though. In the past 10 years. the
University's share of state funding has declined
from 62.1 per cent to 41.6 per cent. In terms of
constant inoninflatedi dollars, UK was the only
school in Kentucky that has lost money during
that period.

During this period, UK‘s enrollment, even
without the growth of the community colleges,
exceeded that of any other state institution.
Though the University has expanded. conditions
have deteriorated in several areas.

Salaries are the clearest example. The gap
between UK and benchmark institutions is
steadily widening. It‘s $1.164 now. Only Ken<

tucky State University shows a larger disparity.

UK staff paychecks are also inadequate,
trailing the Lexington labor market by 13 per
cent.

The faculty-student ratio has deteriorated to a
point where a Council on Public Higher
Education formula shows UK must hire 382
teachers to adequately staff its classrooms.

Agriculture extension agents employed by UK
receive the lowest salaries in the nation.

Kentucky now gives about $200 less for the
education of college students than nearby states,
according to council figures.

Until the state legislature agrees to allocate
more funds for higher education, the biennial
budget request. the allocation of state funds, will
continue to be an excruciating process, where
futures of universities are in imminent peril
because of tight funds.

But UK should stop sharing most of the
burden. The large amount of new funding
requested for the biennium ($46.7 million) is
really an expression of how far the University
has dropped behind other benchmark institu—
tions.

It's doubtful that the state will foot the bill for a
complete catch-up, but it‘s time for a start to be
made. The University needs increased state
funding. or its position as a top state university
will be in jeopardy.

“The easiest thing in the world is to have a
sorry university,“ said a top UK official during a
recent conference. Unless the University’s
portion of state funds increases, then UK could
become “sorry.”

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Hey Ron, Strom: This is 1977

There is nothing sadder than watching a group
d tired old men living in a world long passed,
willing to cling so desperately to the old order.

So willing, that the lives of young men could
conceivably be sacrificed to preserve dead and
useless tradition.

Such is the feeling stirred by the actions of
such notables as Ronald Reagan, and Sens. Jesse
Helms R-N.C., and Strom Thurmond R-S.C.,
among others.

Their world, their reality, is one in which the
United States is the preeminent global force for
righteousness, protector and arbiter for the
tbwntrodden and backward.

In that world, it was all right for Theodore
Roosevelt to commit troops and colonize the
Philippines or Cuba or Panama, because “it was

There are new realities of global politics and
the United States is no longer, merely by virtue
of strength, the dominating power it once was.
Underdeveloped countries wish to run their own
internal affairs, without intrusion and domina-
tion from the United States.

In endorsing the announced treaty with
Panama, former President Gerald Ford and
former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger have
accepted these new realities.

By attempting to defeat the treaty and hold on
to our archaic colonial control of the canal,
Reagan, Helms, Thurmond and others have
shown themselves to be dinosaurs, unable to
adapt to change.

We hope their efforts fail and that the old order
fades away.

 

 

 

Elvis was

There I was. lying on my base-
ment floor. shivering «it's a cold
floort watching “The Beverly Hill»
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surgeon again). Suddenly a TV
newsman with a craggly face and a
in g nose appeared on the screen.
Must be important, I thought. If it
was an unimportant interruption.
they would've cut in with the slick.
young reporter who looks like he was

 

 

 

 

cut from a plastic mold, and talks
the same way.
“We interrupt this program.
Somebody shot Carter, I thought.
But wait. He's in Washington today.
“ ..for a news report from {\lem«
phis.“
.Another jail break in Tennessee?
”Elvis Presley has died..."

The rest is still a blur but it doesn‘t
matter. A heart attack had inter-
cepted Presley on his crash course
with flab. graying temples and a
receding hairline. And the incredible
media hype that surrounded his
wake and funeral made me stop and
reflect:

I don‘t like Elvis Presley. Never
did.

His acting made him appear to be
a dropout from the Moms Mabley
Institute for the Performing Arts
and Criminally Insane.

And I realize many women con—
sidered him attractive, but I never

really came to appreciate his ski-
jump lip. chronic sneer and shoe-
polished hair.

But he had a strong voice and
charisma to match. and I respect his
ability to pack a coliseum and
reduce 42—year-old housewives into
quivering masses of emotional jelly.

So. in deference to you, Elvis, I
offer this piece of banal trivia: Elvis
was named after the father of a
former UK law school dean, Elvis
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for their own good."

An explanation:

Presley’s mother, Gladys, was
born and raised near Hickman, a
town on the Mississippi River. While
she was growing up, Elvis Starr, Sr.,
was making a name for himself as a
lawyer, circuit judge and state
senator.

Gladys eventually married Tom
Presley and moved to Tupelo, Miss.
She gave birth to twins in 1935. One
was born dead.

The other, she decided, needed an
unusual name. She remembered the
name of a man who was prominent
in her hometown, Judge Elvis Starr.

The story comes from Elvis Starr,
Jr., former dean of the UK law
school and current president of the
National Audubon Society. “As far
as I know, she never met my
father," Starr said by phone from
his New York office. The elder Starr
died Christmas Day, 1963.

The younger Starr was Secretary
of the Army during the Kennedy
administration. Presley had just left
the service when Starr took office.
“I wrote him a letter, telling him he
had done a fine job,” Starr said. “I
told him ‘there has always been a
story in my family that you were

named for my dad.’ He wrote back
and said ‘That‘s right. I was.‘

“He never raised any fuss," Starr
said. “He went in, they cut his hair
and he did his time. He was a good
soldier. I think he made sergeant."

The younger Starr‘s record makes
him a leading candidate for All—time
Wonderful Person: at UK he was a
straight-A student. named Phi Beta
Kappa. co-captain of the tennis
team, ROTC cadet colonel, senior
class president, Sigma Chi fratern-
ity president and debate team
captain.

He was named a Rhodes Scholar
and studied law in Oxford, England
for three years.

Starr was UK law school dean
from 1948 to 1956. He served as
president of West Virginia Univer-
sity from 1958 until 1961 until he went
to Washington with the Kennedy
administration.

After his brief stint as Secretary of
the Army, Starr was named pre-
sident of Indiana University, where
he served from 1962 to 1968.

Now he chases birds for a living.

And with all those glowing cred-
entials, the man has forgotten what
he did with the personal letter he

named for ex-UK law clean

received from young Elvis Presley.

“I think I have it around some-
where,“ he said.

Starr said that even though he
shared his namesake with a show-
business superstar, he was never
really much of a fan.

“He kind of fell between two
generations," Starr said. “He was a
little after mine and ahead of my
kids. They grew up with the Beatles.

“But he was the King, until he
died. At that age (42), it’s kind of
tragic."

From now until the sun burns out,
no mother anywhere will be able to
name her newborn child "Elvis,"
just because she likes the name.
Everyone will assume the kid was
named after Swivel Hips. ‘

And all because Gladys Presley
remembered Judge Elvis Starr's
first name.

Think what might have happened
to Presley’s career if, on the day he
was born, his mother had said to his
father, “You know...‘Hollingsworth
Presley‘ sounds kinda catchy..."

 

Dick Gabriel is the Kernel Managing
Editor.

————Letter to the editor——

Almost all written material con-
cerning graduation seems to come
from one point of view. For exa-
mple, “Is there life after gradua-
tion?“ by Harry B. Miller Ill.

The general attitude is that
college is a playground where adults
hide out as children until their 120
hours are up and they must move on.

I haven’t found this to be the case.
College has never been a playground
for me. The past three years have
been full of worries. Unlike the
seemingly average student, I
thought of UK as the “real world." i
won‘t have to become a “real
person“ when I graduate; I already
am.

a...- ..,-......,.

I admit I‘ve had my share of
shattered dreams. But I have re-
placed these old dreams with new
ones. My thoughts have not been so
much on parties as they have been
on making contacts for jobs.

I will graduate in December also
and face “a new life, a new identity
and new people.“ But I hardly
characterize these qualities as nega-
tive.

Miller comments that “bad jobs,
alcohol, drugs and lonliness ’ await
graduation.

But aren‘t these the things college
is filled with? Why should the reality
after college be worse than the

reality of college if they are the
same.

Many of my friends have grad-
uated and not been able to find what
they‘ve wanted. But looking closely
at these people again I find they are
the people who never knew what
they wanted.

It‘s true “Bright spots today may
never come,“ but they may.

I have three questions for up
coming graduates in doubt of their
future. Do you believe? Do you
really care? Do you still dream?

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One story doesn't cover madness
that exists in Amin country

Following are excerpts
taken from notes offered in
Nairobi, Kenya to the New
York Times by a man who
described himself as a Ugan-
dan and managed to escape
his country. Certain identities
have. been changed.

By a UGANDAN

The Israel Woman

On the 20th of August 1976
two bodies one of an old
European lady and that of a
police man were brought at
the island for burial by three
military Officers from the
Marine Corps.

It is believed that was the
body of the Israel woman who
was left at Mulago Hospital.
And that of a police man, we
were told by one of the
warder that, when the Mili-
tary Officers went to remove
the woman at Mulago Hospi-
tal the policeman exchanged
fire with the officers because
the Military officers were in
plain clothes.

After the death of the
Archbishop of Uganda and
the other two Cabinet Minis-
ters officers of the State
Research started an opera—
tion in both Government and
armed forces to clear out the
Acholi and Langi officers in
those dept.

ist March 1977 was the day
when they came to Murchison
Bay and the nearby prison‘s
Dept. First very early prison-
ers and the staff at Murchison
Bay were told that they will
be working half a day be-
cause all the staff were
wanted by a big man from the
Government at Luzira pris-
sons grounds at 4 pm. of that
day. At 3 pm. on that day all
Prison’s Staff started arriv-
ing at the grounds by 4 pm.
all were ready there.

Guns and a List

Instead of big man to

address them State Research
men arrived with heavy
machine guns and a list of
those they wanted. They or-
dered everybody to sit down,
and they told that anybody
trying to run away will be
shot on sight. The first man
on the list was Mr. V.L.
Okulut SSP from Prisons
Headquarters, Principal
Odongo of Prison's Training
School. Sgt. Olanya was shot
dead when he tried to run
away. Olanya a warder at
Murchison Bay and Chief
warder Ocheng never appear-
ed at the grounds.

On that day of lst March 77
they took 50 people from three
stations, after three days
about 20 people of those taken
their bodies were brought at
Paradise Island.

We were told to make fire
and we started putting the
bodies on fire one by one. but

of those brought at Paradise
it was impossible to tell their
identity because some of their
bodies had no heads. Later
Principal Officer Odongo was
released because he was mis-
taken by the name, instead of
Odwongo.

On the 17th March 77 we
were told to start cleaning the
island as that evening there
were going to be a big man
who will be meeting all Senior
Army officers and Police and
Prison officers at the beach.

At around 10 am. motor-
boats started arriving with
drinks and some meat. at 2
pm. the Prison's Jazz Band
arrived later officers started
arriving all of them in Mili~
tary Uniforms, and they-
started drinking and eating at
4pm,

Col. Maliyamungu and Ma—
jor Farik arrived followed
four motorboats full plain-
clothes officers of the State
Research.

When Col. Maliyamungu
arrived he went to the VIP
stand and he started addres-
sing the Senior Officers that
they were among them some
bad elements. again he told
them that these bad elements
are known to the Government
and it‘s a pity that those
elements are not going to
leave the beach alive.

After that Major Farik
stood up and produced a list
of names. After reading the
names of about two hundred
officers from the Army Police
and Prison, the State Re-
search Officers started hand-
cuffing the victims. and put-
ting them into the boats. later
they left the beach with the
victims. The next day half of
the people taken were
brought for burial.

 

 

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.\min‘s Visit

On 3rd of April 77 Amin and
his wife Sarah and one Euro-
pean by the name of Bob
Asties came to the beach. for
swimming after swimming
Amin asked us whether we
had done his. work nicely and
then he visited where we had
buried his \ ictims after certi-
fying he ordered us to start
planting grass on those
graves and he promised to
visit us after one week‘s time.

After one week Amin came
back this time was with Col.
Maliyamangu, he started
asking us what we were doing
before our arrest. when he
reached my self I told him
that I was a student at
Makerere University and I
explained him that i was
going to (‘anada when the
State Research officers ar-
rested me with my friends at
lintebbe Airport, he asked me
where my friends were and I
told him that they were killed.

After that he asked who had

sent us the air tickets from
Canada and I told him the
name of a certain person, in
fact the name was a false one.

After that he told me he will
order to release me, and he
told me never to tell people
that the other two friends of
mine were killed, again he
told me to keep quiet of
anything I had seen both at
Murchison Bay and Paradise
Beach.

On the 15th June 77 very
early in the morning Bob
Astles came to the island with
the release officer of Murchi-
son Bay he told me that Amin
had pardoned me and I am
going to be released today
with one man by the name
Kapisi. Later we were taken
to Murchison Bay where l
was given my property and
(money) and a prisoners
Road Pass.

After my release I went
back to the University. I was
very much shocked when the
University authority told me
that there was an order not to
readmit me in the University
again.

(letting Out

i had nothing to do only to
try and leave the country,
leaving the country these
days it is not an easy task.
what I did was to go to the
police where reported to have
lost my identities and I told
the police that l was a
Kenyan. I gave the police
fake names. At the police
station I was given a note.
some kind of a document
which I used to cross the
Ugandan border to Kenya.

When I remember the sight
of those killings I came
across at Murchison Bay
Prison I get nightmares. and
something comes in my mind
that people in Uganda wish
they could be animals, be-
cause animals do have socie-
ties which fight for them like
the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals. but in Uganda today
man is killed by his fellow
man.

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