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Tuesday Afternoon, Dec. 5, 1967

ERNEL

The South’s Outstanding College Daily
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

Vol. LIX, No. 69

 

 

Police watch as two of the students who demon- students who were protesting“segregated"basket-
strated in front of the Coliseum Monday night ball recruiting.

march by.

The two were among some 25 Negro

Kernel Photo by Rick Bell

 

Negro Students
Stage Pre-Game
Protest March

By GREI‘A FIELDS
UK Negro students marched Monday night in front of Memorial
Coliseum before the Kentucky-Florida basketball game to protest

”segregation" in basketball recruiting and the Negro’s

campus."

The students plan to demon-
strate at every home game this
year, Theodore Berry, president
of Orgena, and Bill Turner, presi-
dent of the Campus Committee
on Human Rights, said afier the
rmrch.

About 25 students demonstra-
ted from 6:15 to 8:30 p.m. along
the Avenue of Champions. Sing-
ing and chanting, they marched
back and forth the full length of
the Coliseum. Most of them were
members of Orgena, the all-Negro
campus group which sponsored
the march.

The marchers wanted to pro-
test specifically Coach Adolph
Rupp's failure to sign Negro ath-
letes, and in general the “al-

SCB Rejects Read-In Request

By DARRELL RICE

The Student Center Board
Monday night turned down a
Peace Action Group request to
conduct a read-in directed at mil-
itary recruiters near the groups
table in the Student Center.

The board went further by dis-
cussing the possibility of moving
the peace groups table comple-
tely away from the area of the
recruiting stations. But no action
was taken on this and the group
will be allowed to use the table.

Bill Allison, chairman of the
Peace Action Group, presented
his group's request to the board.

Permission was necessary be-
cause Student Center Board rules
normally prohibit forum discus-

sions in the area of the tables.

The board feels the discussion

would interfere with other acti-
vities there, such as television
viewing, and also with the func-
tions of other tables, board di-
rector Bill Eigel said.

Allison told the board the rea-
son for holding the read-in was
to insure that all points of view
are made available when students
talk to recruiters.

Aimed At Recruiter

The read-in is also designed,
he said, to let the recruiter hear
"our side."

"The war in Vietnam makes
this a special condition," Allison
said.
lives of our friends and classmates
that they realize what they are
doing when they are recruited."

Board members questioned Al-

And 60 Percent Failed To Vote

 

"It is very important in the,

lison about whether the peace
group’s read-in would interfere
with the functions of the recruit-
ers.

“He (a recruiter) would be a
captive audience," said Eigel.
. Allison answered that the
group would not ihterfere with
the recruiters' activities and said
reading would stop when some-
one was talking to the recruit-
ers.

'Can Give Assurance"

“I can give this group assur—
ance not only that there will not
be obstructions . but also
that there will be no large gath—
erings in the corridor,” he said.

After Allison had answered
questions along these lines, he
was asked to leave, and a closed

Students Blast SG In Poll

By DICK KIMMINS

UK lack

students

administration by SC.

On the same query, 37.6 percent responded
positively, but almost 20 percent had no opinion.
Asked if they voted in last spring's Student
Government election, nearly 60 percent said they
Similar apathy was indicated when
respondents were asked if they had ever attended

did not.

an SC meeting.

Most students said they are unaware of any
services performed by Student Government, yet
53.4 percent correctly identified SC as publisher
of the student telephone directory.

The most conclusive response, however, was to
"Do you think Student Government
itself more with national and

the question,
should concern

confidence
Student Government, a Kernel Poll reveals.
Among University students contacted the sec-
ond week in November, 42.6 percent said student
views are not effectively communicated to the

in their own

Government?

issues?

No

international issues?" An overwhelming 79.2 per—

cent answered No.

The questions and percentages:
) Do you feel Student Government is effective as
representing student views to the University

Administration?

Yes ........................................
No ........................................

No opinion ..........................

Yes ............
No ............

Yes ............
No ............

Yes ............

No opinion ..................................

) Did you vote in the Student (rovemment elec-
tions last Spring?

Yes ...........
No ...........
Don't Remember ...................

) Have you ever attended a meeting of Student

................................... 39.7%
................................... 57.7%

2.6%

.................................. 13.3%
.................................. 86.7%

) Are you aware of any student service Student
Government has performed for you?

.................................. 46.4%

.................................. 53. 6%

) Do you think Student Government should con-
cern itself with more national and internaional

.................................. 16.1%

79.2%
4.7%

) Where is the office of Student Govemment?

Correct

Incorrect

................................... 52.4%
................................... 47.6%

) Docs Student Government publish the student

telephone directory?

...... 37.6% Yes 53.4%
...... 42.6% No 11.9%
...... 198% Don't Know 34.7%

discussion among board members
was held.

The discussion mainly cen-
tered around fear the peace group
would "force" its readings on the
recruiters and interfere with their
activities.

A motion was made and
passed that the board ”uphold.

the existing house policiesn
(not to allow forums in the area
of the tables).

Some board members said

Continued on Page 8, Col. 1

 

”role on

ienation" of the Negro student
in all areas of campus life, ac-
cording to statements by various
protestors.

Mr. Rupp has not made a sin-
cere efiort to recruit Negro play-
ers for the basketball team, said
many of the marchers, and a
handout stating the purpose of
the march accused Rupp of ”su-
perficial ‘recruiting.’ "

The handout also stated a
second purpose of protest: ”The
alienation of the black student
is greatest in the area of social
life," it said, and stated as an
example a lack of effort of Greek
organizations to change ”their
tradition of racial segregation."

Turner said after the march
that the students felt the pro-
test would be successful if ”the
effect is nothing more than that
people recognize that segregation
does exists."

He said they wanted to end
the march on a note of "con-
certedness, positiveness."

”We don't want tobeout there
nnrching," he said, but they feel
that nothing is being done, ex—
cept ceremoniously.”

The protests may be ”a way
of pressuring the athletic depart-
ment (Coach Rupp) into getting
some Negroes on the team," he
added.

Although “we’re paying our
tuition, paying our taxes, there
are still no Negroes on theteam,"
Turner said.

The Line

This unwieldy line of students formed at the Coliseum Monday'

night before the start of the UK-Florida basketball game. All

were without tickets (the studmt allotment was exhausted the

first day tickets were available), but everyme was admitted——
on a standing room basis.

 

     
   

2—THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Tuesday, Dec. 5, 1967

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Causes Of Population Explosion
Found To Be Family Preferences

United Press International

BERKELEY, Calif. -Dr. Ju-
dith Blake Davis believes "the
pill" is no answer to the world's
baby boom.

The doctor, Chairman of the
Department of Demography at
the University of California, is
pursuing an analysis of data on
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She wants to know why fam-
ilies of all religious, social and
economic groupings actually pre-
fer an average of three or more
children.

The result of her study, she
believes, will be a scientific es-
timation of the types of road-
blocks which a really eflective
fertility control policy will have
to solve.

"Concentration on birth con-
trol instrumentalities and devices
alone,” she said, “does not seem
to be the answer."

Dr. Davis termed it “a myth"
that rapid population growth is
occasioned primarily by un-
wanted births-births that would
not have occurred if women had
an efiective and “acceptable"
contraceptive.

Her findings, after examina-

 

 

 

 

tion of 13 surveys of national
samples of American population
since 1936, included:

t No major social and econom-
ic grouping in recent years con-
siders a small family, two
children, to be desirable;

t Proportionallylower-income,
bss—educated groups consider
families inexcess of three children
to be more desirable than do
affluent groups.

tAlthough Catholics idealize
larger families, the difference be-
tween religious groups is slight.

D Men'typically want smaller
families than women, a fact
which puts in doubt the belief
that in exceeding a two-child
family, women merely comply
with their husbands' wishes.

The doctor said that advances
in contraceptive technology and
the more widespread the use of
modern birth control knowledge
and materials “clearly offer no
panacea" for the baby boom.

The primary eflect of these
efions," she said, “would be

simply to meet the ever more
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Kilts: Man’s Answer

To Women With Slacks

By GLENNA ADAMS
For the man who scoms women wearing slacks, the British
have come up with an answer. Whether it will catch on. however.

is another matter.

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The company recently rushed
a shipment d tartan kilts to this
country in the hope that the idea
would become popular with
young American males. A far cry
from the type of kilts worn for
many years by brawny Scottish
lads, those distributed by the
British company are more similar
to the variety popular with young
American women.

'Quite Corriortable'

“If men are going to wear
skirts, the most masculine, with-
out a doubt, are kilts," a spokes-
man for the company said. Fur-
thermore, he said, young men
declare that kilts are quite com-
fortable.

Usually worn with knee socks.
loafers and a sport jacket or
sweater, the most popular type of
kilt seems to be the wrap-around
style. _

But the style seems destined
to be a flop. Some American males
are giving kilts a fling. but their

-future as a fashion standard is

quite doubtful.

No American clothing manu-
facturer is ofl’ering kilts for the
men, and not many men seem to
care about paying 840 or more
for one imported from England.

50 it seems the men are agree-
ing with the poet S. E. Riser,
who said, "For of all wise words
of tongue or pen, the wisest of
these: ‘Leave pants to men.'"

 

 

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' JOHN] NILES

Ballad Of John Niles

By DANA EWELL

Two chairs

Six tables

Four microphones

Six dulcimers

But only one John Jacob Niles

Silhouetted in the lavender spotlight.
He came caressing one of his instruments

One of his ”children."

By D. C. MOORE

The Studio Players of Lexing-
ton presented a good performance
of Edward Albee's “A Delicate
Balance" last weekend. The Lex-
ington players handled Albee's
Pulitzer Prize winning play in a
professional manner.

The play, as done by this
group some of whom have had
professional experience, is a fine
interpretation of the material that
Albee deals with in most of his
plays. It runs again this weekend.

The material of the play is
similar to the material in Albee's
“Who's Afraid of Virginia
Woolf?" In this play, George
and Martha are the characters
who use games to rip each other

established as neat and orderly.

Into this setting, the Albee
characters emerge and begin to
create the Albee reality. As the
play broadens, the production
by the players convinces and es-
tablishes the terror, fear and con—
fusion by bringing the true shock
value needed in an Albee produc-
tion.

Those characters that created
the shock value in the play are
Agnes (Grace Lynch), Tobias
(Peter Stoner), Claire (Margaret
Silbar), and Harry (Jack Lynch).

Tobias and Claire provide the
real strength in this production.
Claire is the catalytic agent in the
production who gives the play
that unifying quality needed to

THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Tuesday, Dec. 5. l967—3

‘A Delicate Balance9 Given
Kudos For Professionalism-

The technical side of the pro-
duction made the play more force-
ful. The director Louis Weinstein
rmnaged to work minute techni-
cal aspects in with the acting
to give the play the best possible
advantage.

“A Delicate Balance" showed
that good theatre can be done
by an interested group and can
provide stimulating theatre for
the Lexington public.

The Studio Players by choos-
ing Edward Albee’s ”A Delicate
Balance" proved that the group
can meet the challenge of char-
acters that are dermnding from
the first moment on a stage to
the final curtain. The Studio
Players did this effectively pro-

 

 

White hair apart. swing the Albee force.

White tie and tails In “A Delicate Balance,"

With his instrument made out of half of a cello. there are characters that have
“I never played the cello well.” the Albee touch characterized by

. . , .. _ terror and fear in modem so-
With his instrument that has been from Finland to the ciety. The Characters in this play
Hawaiian Islands

are under pressure from society.

viding an interesting evening.

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PRE-FINAL BLOW-OUT

.:e 3.9““ The setting for the play is a
He 511,155 modern living room in the home Featuring the Soul-Sound of
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A handkerchief to mop the brow

And he invites his audience to
”Sing the first verse with me . . .
”Help me with the refrain . . .
“Let's have a rehearsal . . . "

 

Presents Second

Concert Friday

The second concert of the 1967-
68 Lexington Philharmonic Or-
chestra season will be presented
on the UK campus Friday, De-

And the audience answers
”I said fiddle I fee"
at first softly and then with confidence

{th a ‘nursery rhyme— the most successful kindergarten song cember 8, at 8:15 pm. in Mem-
“1?:an a Cat" orial Hall. Guest artist will be
.. . .. soloist Mary Costa.
Isaid fiddle I fee. The concert will consist of
[glove song‘s . , Bernstein's Overture “Candide";
urseryr ymes Beethoven's "Sym hony No. 6
Carols— ”If it were the Fourth of July I would still sing the in F," and two 505g groups by
four carols." Miss _Costa.
Ballads. Season tickets for the remain-

He sings switching from one dulcimer to the other and then ing concerts can be. PUTCMSPd
to the other by contacting the Lexmgton Phil-

All with red bows at their necks. harmonic Oflice by calling 252'

, _ _ . . 4350. Prices are $15.“) and $12.50.
His ring flashes as he brushes the strings of his instrument UK students (bsiring tickets
He turns I"? face upwards for the concert may obtain them
He closes his eyes

_ . by presenting their ID cards at
He owns hlS mouth Wide Room 18 Of the Fine Arts Build-

And he sings ing, beginning Tuesday, Decem-
As only John Jacob Niles can sing.

ber 5, at 8 p.m.

 

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SOUL, students of the
University, at Hopkinsville

SOUL, brothers and sisters of
Hopkinsville Community College!
You have become University stu—
dents.

Hopkinsville Community Col-
lege Student Council President
Ronnie Mason and his 14 member
student council have resigned citing
that body’s: lack of authority; in-
sufiicient funding; and lack of com-
munication with administration

and student body, as insurmount-
able difiiculties.

“The Council through a lack of
communication with the adminis-
tration is never sure of where it
stands -financially or in any other
way. Many of our projects are
thwarted by lack of financial sup-
port. We have no meaningful re-
rxesentation in budgeting confer-
ences. Nor do we have any con-
trol over the money alloted to us,”
Mason said, reading the Council’s
statement of resignation.

Believing their student govem-
ment has become but another ser—
vice club due to its “lack of au—
thority, insuflicient funding, and
lack of communication with the
administration," their statement of
resignation concludes:

“It seems at every turn doors
are closed in our faces, thus, shut-
ing out all attempts at meaningful
student government by Hopkins-
ville Community College students.
The Student Council has a basic
faith in the community college sys-
tem and in the goals it is trying
to achieve.

“We feel that the three basic
poblems we have pointed out must
be corrected before any progress
can be made. The Council has
made suggestions to remedy these
problems, but our attempts have
been rejected. The present Coun-
cil seems to have reached a point
where it is no longer able to func-
tion as a representative of the
student body. Therefore, the Stu-
dent Council sees no alternative
but to resign.”

Dr. moms-Riley, Director of
the Hopkinsville Community Col-
lege, speaking tothe problems cited
by the outgoing Council, told The
Kernel today:

“As to their lack of authority
I do feel we have given the Coun-
cil more authority than exists in
its own constitution.”

”As to their insufficient fund-
ing, I agree with the students 1(1)
percent. The recent budget cut-
back by the Commonwealth, at
our Community College, means
that we have to stop spending
money. It hurts everyone. ()ur stu-
dent newspaper, “The Chronicle”

had to be printed this month on
mimeograph. We will, however,
be able to hold our annual Christ-

mas dance on Friday, Dec. 10 as
planned.

“As to their lack d comminica-
tion, we have an open door policy
here. One member of the Student
Council sits in on my Monday
administrative staff meetings."

Asked to assess the Student
Council resignation, Dr. Riley said:
”We will hold another election
next semester. I think our kids
are having great fun, and showing
an interest in student policies. The
Student Council resignation cer-
tainly jolted apathy around here."

Naturally when a Student Coun-
cil resigns there are pros and cons
to their decision. Without weigh-
ing problems leading to their resig-
nation, or the counter-assessment
by Dr. Riley, this remains obvious:

Students at a Community Col-
lege have begun to question their
student environment; to question
authority; and to wrestle for a
voice in the decision making
process.

A University fosters and en-
hances such questioning.

Hopkinsville Community Col-
lege students have decided to im-
plement that inquiring syndrome
of University student life which is
traditionally focused on the Ad-
ministration.

Hopkinsville is beginning to
sound more like the University of
Kentucky at Hopkinsvilie than it
does iiofiinsville Community Col-
lege.

To which sound we say, SOUL,
brother.

 

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Leading the Revolution

 

Letters to the Editor:

To The Editor (I The Kernel:

So, Mr. Brouwer and Professor Pran-
ger have decided that ROTC training is
not part of a university education. What,
I wonder, is the proper ”function" of
a university?

I suppose a university is a place
where men like Brouwer can express par-
tisan sentiments at “bitch-ins," while all
other partisan activities are taboo.

But, really, the function of a uni-
versity is not what these men are con-
cerned with.

These little men, these small, small
people, who have been sheltered and nur-
tured, carefully and without pain or ef-
fort, through school from kindergarten
to the college level, and having never
burst the grapes of life against the palate,
but have only, in their middle age, come
to see that they can turn heads their
way by criticizing those men whose point
of view is a condition of the soul and not
a manner of throwing sand against the
wind, are shallow.

What can happen to freedom, if its
definition comes from men without honor?
What can happen to freedom of speech
if it is used to express only those views
that condenm freedom's heavy right arm—
the military?

Whatis tobecorneoftherightto
lawful dissait, if it is defended by those
who do not respect that right in others?
When does rhssent and skepticism become
cowardice and treason?

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that freedom has to offer in the name of
constructive dissent, is those who are
morally and intellectually unfit to express
sentiments that decent men can accept
with dignity.

I suggest that if a cause is so righteous,
its advocates need not so strongly affect
that distinction.

To The Editor Of The Kernel:

The action we engage in here today is
not only a symbol of dissent to the war in
Vietnam but a witness to the fact that we
collectively believe that the people we are
confronting do not truthfully portray the
future for the recruitee, our classmate,
nor do not honestly and openly question
their own current, or our classmte's
future, involvement in Vietnam.

For them to say it is not their task
as individuals to do such would be an act
of endorsing the cliche “our country right
or wrong." For them to say we have
questioned, would indicate that they ei-
ther have accepted complicity or in all
actually recognize their support d the war.

Be it the former, acceptance d com-
flicity, would also endorsetheeliche“ our
countryrflitorwrong" andwermst
state to them as was done fomnlly at
Nuremburg that each man has a higher
duty than simple obedience to the dic-
tates of his oouananding officer.

Such has been summed up in com-
mon words yet quite profound words,
when it was stated that‘ just because
itsyour}ob,dontmakeitright.' .

For the recruiter to openly state that
it is his position to fight, bond), mine,
or carry out any number of military tasks
against the people of Vietnam defines our
task here today as open confrontation and
education of us.

It' is not our desire to suppress freedom
of speech nor interfere with the normal
activities of this university. It is our de-
sire to provide freedom of speech and a
normal activity that encourages academic
participation in possibly the major issue
that confronts us as citizens of this nation
and members of this university commun-
ity.

If our physical presence is interpreted
as blocking or interfering with the re
cruiter s normal activities, may all here
be reminded of the more obvious, greater
issue of dishonest or ”non-questioned
involvement in Vietnam.

We the Peace Action Committee, ask
all participants and in particulardernand
of our members that today the normal
recruitment be allowed to continue but in
our presence and with freedom of thought
and expression. .

Don B. Pratt

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THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Tuesday, Dec. 5, 1967—5

The Honors Colloquiums: A World Apart

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the
first article in a two-part series
on the Honors Program.

By DANA EWELL

How are ideas hatched? What
kind of environment sustains and
stimulates creativity? What kind
of people are creative? What is
man's place and purpose in the
universe?

These are the kinds of ques~
tions being thrown out to Honors
Program students enrolled in one
of the three colloquiums offered
this year.

The Junior-senior colloquium
is exploring "Creativity—The
Discovery Process. "

The freshman and sophomore
colloquiums are studying "The
History of Ideas." These collo-
quiums may be substituted for
freshman composition and the
humanities-literature require-
ment.

Ideas AndProhlenn

”We're facing them with ideas
and problems they might not
meet in regularclasses,"explains
Rollin Lasseter of the English
Department who teaches both the
freshman and sophomore collo-
quiums.

Mr. Lasseter continued. "I
find their enthusiasm refresh-
ing." He feels, however, that
sometimes the Honors student is
"penalized" through a system
of more rigorous grading which
may affect his standing when
applying for graduate school.

Mr. Lasseter hopesthe Honors
Program will evolve into a more
cohesive system rather than one

in which the student merely takes
an Honors course here or there.

. That, Mr. Lasseter explains,
is the reason for teaching the
freshman and sophomore collo-
quiums along the same theme—
to pull both groups (a total of

about 80 students) together by‘

giving them a common topic or
idea to think and talk about
together.

7 Years Old

The Honors Program,founded
in 1959, has a current enrollment
of 156. Mrs. Judy Bush, the pro-
gram's secretary, estirmtes that
one-third are out-of-state stu-
dents.

Incoming freshmen are invited
to Join the program on the basis
of their ACT scores and high
school records. Freshmen and
sophomores not already in the
Honors Program who make a
3.5 or better are also asked to
join.

Mrs. Bush said this year some
prospective members had to be
turned away because of a fac-
ulty shortage.

Dr. William H. Jansen, act-
ing chairrmn of the Honors Pro—
gram in the absenceof Dr. Robert
0. Evans, explained the number
(i Honors courses ofiered each
semester depends on the budget
and faculty size of individual
departments.

Money A Factor

The Honors Program, Dr.Jan-
sen said, pays only the partial
salaries of about six professors
who are taken away from normal

departmentall duties to teach
Honors courses.

The departmental budgets are
a major factor because each de
partment participating in the
Honors Program pays one or more
professors to teach a class of
between seven and 20 students
when that same professor could
be lecturing to a class of 150.

"It is possible," Dr. Jansen
said, "for an Honors student
to take over half of his courses
in Honors sections."

Dr. Jansen, in explaining
Honors Progam requirements,
said Honors students are err-
pected to take 12 hours of col-
loquium, to enroll in those
Honors sections available which
fit their programs, and to do
from 3 to 15 hours of inde-
pendent work. They also are ex-
pected to take the Graduate
Record Exam as well as a com-
prehensive essay exam tailored
to the Honors Program.

Dr. Jansen talked of two other
aspects of the Honors Program—
the Student Advisory Comrra'ttee
and the monthly Honors meet-

rngs.
Ombudsman Role

The Student Advisory Com
rm'ttee is made up of eight mem-
bers, two from each class. Dr.
Jansen sees the committee as
an ombudsman and a forum for
discussing such problems as
grades in Honors vs. regular sec-
tions and the feasibility of a pass-
fail system.

The monthly meetings, usual-
ly followed by acoffee-discussion

National Guard Must Stop
Accepting Draft Dodgers

WASHINGTON (UPD— Na-
tional Guard units have been or-
dered to stop accepting recruits
seeking to avoid the Vietnam
draft, it was disclosed Thursday.

Until further notice, the Na-
tional Guard Bureau announced,
no recruits will beaccepted with-
out prior military experience. A
spokesman said the order went
out this week and is effective
immediately.

The bureau said so many men
have enlisted that National Guard
strength was 17,!!!) more than
authorized by Congress. It said
drastic action was needed totrirn
taotal strength to “All by June
Another reason for the action

was believed to be the need to
make room in guard units for
waves of returning Vietnam com—
bat veterans who were drafted
during the 1%6 U.S. buildup in
Southeast Asia. Draft quotas are
expected to be substantially
higher next year to replace these
returning veterans, whose two-
year hitches will be up.

The bureau said one exception
would be made to its order. New
Jersey will be permitted to con
tinue a special program to re-
cnrit 865 Negroes into the guard.

National Guard recruits nor-
mally are required to serve six
months active duty at U.S. bases
and then return hornefor weekend
drills with their units hr the

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ligation. They cannot be sent to
war without an act of Congress.

The guard recently was au-
thorized to increase its strength
by 12,(X)0 men picked to serve
in 125 riot control units being
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