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UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

Vol. LXII, No. 52

End of a Losing Streak
Marshall's

Hard-Luc- k

By CRAIC AMMERMAN

Dead are head Coach Rick
Associated Press Writer
Tolley, five of his assistants, AthHUNTINGTON, W. Va. (AP) letic Director Charles Kautz and
An end of a hard-luc- k
era bom Sports Information Di rector Gene
out of scandal, losing streaks, Morehouse.
probations, coach dismissals and
Dead, too, are 38 football playconference rejection had ap- ers who had suffered through
peared on the horizon this year some of the chapters of adverfor Marshall University's football sity.
team.
Last fall, any hopes for footWith help from concerned cit- ball future at Marshall looked
bleak. The school had not won
izens, the West Virginia Legislature and a "gritty bunch of boys," in 21 straight contests.
Marshall's beleaguered football
An investigation had docuprogram showed signs of coming mented charges of a recruiting
alive.
scandal and the head basketball
There was hope that a team and football coaches were reaswhich had suffered a near all-tisigned in the wake. An assistant
losing streak the past two football coach was fired. The
athletic director resigned.
years could bounce back and become a winner.
Marshall Suspended
That hope crashed here SaturConferThe
day night with the chartered airence suspended Marshall for the
liner that carried to their deaths
recruiting irregularities and for
most of the school's football what
it termed, "woefully inadsquad and coaching staff.
equate facilities." The National
Nightmarish Era
Collegiate Athletic Association
When the DC9 Jet smashed
(NCAA) placed the school's footinto a hillside and burned, killball program on one year's probation.
ing all 75 persons aboard, the final chapter was written to
Tolley had a limited staff, and
fewer than 40 players reported
a nightmarish era of football comwhen drills opened. Less than 10
petition at Marshall.

Two Football Crashes
Not Alike, Officials Say

Football Team Gels a Final Blow

freshmen had been signed to

sophomore, established a handful of School records and ignited
Marshall's winl ess string soon' boosters' hopes for better days.
extended to 27 games, and the
Saturday's loss to East CaroThundering Herd meekly edged
within one game of setting a lina left Marshall 6 in the year,
but the record was not entirely
natonal standard for major colIndicative of the team's performleges.
Then a Renaissance began to ance.
take hold.
Tolley held to his commitWon Three Of Four
ment to rebuild Marshall's footBehind scrambling quarter- ball program. The
perback Ted Shoebridge, Marshall sonable coach beefed up his staff
rallied to win three of its four and launched an even more inremaining games. Shoebridge, a tense recruiting program this fall.
grants-in-ai-

He received help from concerned citizens who, through private fund drives, raised $150,000
for scholarships. The West Virginia Legislature gave him $1
million for an artificial playing
surface, 7,000 additional seats
and new dressing rooms.

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All signs pointed to brighter
days.
"We've begun to turn our
program around," Tolley said
two weeks ago. "We're heading
in the right direction."
Now all must be begun anew.

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HUNTINGTON, VV. Va (AP) lower than it should have been,
The circumstances of the plane but we don't know why," one
KlaLc !n ka T r . vrl
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official said. "Our job is to find Dr. Harold RnP ofrrnrhir at tli ITriiuorcitu
crashes of the Marshall Univerof Wisconsin, told a crowd at UK Friday that
was sponsored by the UK geography department
football team and an earlier the reason."
sity
towns may be needed
and the Black Student Union.
crash of a plane chartered by
FAA officials confirmed the Federal aid to
to increase social and economic opportunities for
Kernel Photo By ikt Brewer
the Wichita State football team Huntington airport has no landwere different.
ing assistance radar and had no
The Wichita State crash inred warning lights at the top of
volved an aging propeller plane, the elevated ridge.
The weather report for the
owned by one company with a
crew provided by another comnight of the crash listed, along
with the rain and fog, smoke that
pany.
The FAA has accused the may have come from an industrial
could be termed 'rural slums,"
general practices of the populaBy CAIL GREEN
company which provided the plant immediately in line with
Rose said of the
tion," Rose said.
Kernel Staff Writer
crew of operating an aircraft the ridge.
Rose has conducted extensive
"In terms of physical manifestaA University of Wisconsin geoAn official discarded any sugweighing more than the 12,500
tions, they were in a sad condipopulation studies of'all-black- "
gestion of similarity between the grapher told a group of UK stupounds of its certificate, but comtion.
towns in the United States. Usofficials claimed they were latest disaster and the Wichita dents Friday that "if a desegrepany
"These rural slums had very
gated atmosphere makes social ing the 1960 census as a source,
not operating the plane, simply State crash.
limited economic opportunities,
he found only 12 communities in
"We see none," he said. "In and economic opportunities posthe crew. The FAA
providing
"
and what they hud did nut atcategory, which
has revoked the certification of this instance, you had a modern sible, it should be put into ef- the
tract business The blacks in
consists of towns of more than
fect" with federal funds, if necthe company that provided the aircraft under a charter operathese communities, had little ac1,000 persons with at least 95
crew and fined the owner of the tion by an established airline." essary.
cess to employment. They were
of the population
Dr. Harold Rose, who addressHe pointed out the Wichita
plane.
physically isolated, even-- though
ed the students as a guest of the
All in East, Midwest
Hie NTSB said there was no State chartered plane was a
were ftv the- - shadows of
All of the
mechanical failure involved in
propellor craft being geography department and th
towns were many urban
large
systems, because of
the Wichita State crash and has flown by pilots from a firm not Black Student Union, said that in the eastern or midwest em sectheir lack of transportation,"
said a further report will be filed licensed to operate a plane of its racial integration in today's sothe U.S.
tions of
Rose said.
size.
later.
In las experiments, Rose rated
ciety was "a possibility. . . but
Some Were Suburban
The tape indicated the jet- we are not going to have brotherthe towns on a continuum with
Southern Airways, a regional
However, he claimed, a few
liner nosed into the hillside only ly love overnight by simply wishschwhat he termed "rural slums"
carrier which has regularly
three seconds after skimming the ing for it.
eduled flights in 13 states in adand "suburban prototypes" at of the larger alt black towns bore
"suburban" characteristics.
"To talk about racial integradition to charters, provided both trees, he said. A clock in the
opposite ends.
"They had attractive individual
"Most of these communities
the plane and the crew for the cockpit was stopped at 7:37 p.m. tion is just talk, because of the
houses, and the same kind of
Marshall flight.
'commuter' image as white subThe DC9 carrying the Marurbs," he said "Depending on
shall football team was making a
local conditions, it seems quite
routine approach when
normally
possible for several of the rural
it hit a hillside and crashed.
Lawson King, county prosecutor.
ment released through the Lex
slums to develop into black subBy NANCY WEBB
The jetliner clipped the first
Kernel Staff Writer
The bomb casing was only urbs."
ington Peace Council.
tree 66 feet above the ground on
UK graduate Jay Westbrook,
Westbrook. said his trial is one phase of Westbrook's draft
Rose said some people seem
a ridge.
who was arrested this August
scheduled tentatively for Feb. 1. resistance. "I've been doing to feel that a "reorientation" of
the aircraft was for "common
"Obviously
law assault"
towns would
things with my draft board for blacks to
Two Definitions
against his draft board, issued
UK law professor Robert Sed-le- r, about 3 years," he said. "My
strengthen black political power.
a statement this week concerning
who is West book's attorney draft file in the office is full of Others, he claimed, feel a "dishis arrest and forthcoming trial.
in the case, said that there are letters, newspaper clippings,
persion" of blacks would Increase
This July, Westbrook sent a two definitions of common law magazine articles even a large economic opportunities and minimize the chances of violence.
poster."
Forecast: Partly cloudy and guava bomb casing to Selective assault.
"Another way I could make
"But to find the answers to
"One," he said, "is intentand Service Board No. 127 in Lexcool this afternoon, clear
these speculations, and to inionally doing an act that puts it clear to them was to send
cold with a hard freeze tonight ington "as part of my own conanother person in fear of harm," them a visual object and explain crease the black man's economic
Sunny and warmer Tuesday. tinuing process of communication
and social opportunities, great
with members and personnel of and the second is "intentionally how and why that object is used."
High today in the low 40' s, low
Westbrook said the bomb
amounts of experimentation must
in the low 20's, high that board regarding the nature putting someone in fear of his
tonight
take place to develop
life and having the ability to casing was empty, bound tochance of rain of the draft and of the Indochina
Tuesday 52. No
communities, with the aid of
gether with scotch tape and found
War and my opposition to both carry it out."
tonight or tomorrow.
today,
cf these," he said in the state
The charges were made by
Continued on Pace 8, CoL 1 federal funds," Rose said.
"all-blac-

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Wisconsin Geograplier Speaks

Aid Asked for 'Black Towns'
"all-black-

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TIIE

1970

INTERNATIONALLY:
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Soviet
MOSCOW (AP)
sources reported Sunday that
three Jading physicists have
formed a committee to make
"constructive criticisms" of the
status of freedom in contemporary Soviet society.
A typewritten announcement
made available to some foreign
correspondents listed the organizers as Dr. Andrei Sakharov,
the developer of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, and his colleagues
ValeryChalidze and Andrei

The United Nations Universal
Declaration on Human Rights
will serve as its guiding force,
the announcement said, and all
operations will be carried out
within the guarantees of the Soviet constitution.
The physicists could not be

Although tU unofficial organizations in the Soviet Union are
considered automatically illegal,
the physicists appeared to be
taking great pains to work within
the letter of Soviet law.
Examines Freedoms
The announcement emphasized that the committee would
concentrate its efforts on examining the current state of "legal
guarantees and individual freedoms in Soviet law."

Associated Press Writer
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) -The government of President Salvador Allende is looking into the
possibility of legalizing divorce
and abortion in Chile, which is
about 90 percent Roman Catho-

Soviet Physicists to Analyze

Z of Freedom in Kussian Society

reached for direct comment but
the sources who distributed the
document have proved reliable
in the past.
Will Consult
The announcement said the
committee would attempt to
maintain "consultative collabo- -

sumably including Communists.
The group said it is ready to
make contact with intematonal
nongovernmental organizations
so long as they do not seek to
harm the Soviet Union and providing they base their activities
on United Nations principles.

ration with the organs of state
power. This appeared to bean
effort to avoid being branded
an underground organization.
All Soviet citizens are invited
to join, the announcement said,
except members of organizations
that seek to rule the state, pre- -

Catholic Chile Eyes Legalized Abortions

v.

By WILLIAM F. NICHOLSON

lic.

This was reported Sunday in
an interview published in a Santiago newspaper with Lisandro
Cruz, minister of justice.
"Chile cannot remain behind

in these matters of great human
and social content," Cruz said.
To get around the lack of a
divorce law, Chileans now have
marriages annulled.
Cruz called the present system "a farce" in which there is
no guarantee of alimony for the
divorced spouse.
He said he and his advisers
are studying the divorce law n6w
before the Italian Senate to get
some ideas.
Cruz gave no details of plans

for legalizing abortion in Chile.

Dec. 1, it will begin free distribution of a half a quart of milk
a day to every child in Chile.
The pledge of milk for every
child up to age 15 was a major
campaign promise of Allende' s
"Basic
coalition in its
Program" for Chile.
Still another announcement
Sunday said a new Ministry of
the Ocean will be created.
Jacques Chonchol, minister of
agriculture, said it's primary purpose will be to "defend the riches
of the ocean."

Although a divorce law was promised in the Popular Unity campaign platform, legalized abortion was not.
The minister of justice, appointed by Allende a Marxist,
from one of the four
parties in his Popular Unity
coalition, also said his ministry
is studying penal reform.
He said he wants to build a
modern penitentiary in Santiago
to replace the present institution.
In another development, the
government announced that on
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A House

1970- -3

Committee claims
not be led around by the nose,"
hul a reporter finds it different when he gels ...
it-"wil-

A Lesson in Congressional
By THOMAS R.IIARK IN

Dispatch Newt Service
"The members of this commit
tee will be better prepared than
anyone who has gone over to
g
Vietnam on a
trip. ..
we will not be led around by the
nose . . . this will be a 'no briefings' trip."
This statement was made by
fact-findin-

Rep. G. V.

"Sonny"

Montgom-

ery, Mississippi Democrat and
chairman of the House Select
Committee on U.S. Involvement
in Southeast Asia, set up by the
House June 8. A month after
the Cambodian invasion, I joined
the Committee as a staff aid.
By the time I returned I had
learned some of the rawest realities of Vietnam, but, even more
important, I had also learned
some shattering truths about one
of the major committees of the
House.
The Committee consisted of
six Republicans: Ross Adair of
Indiana, Donald Clancy ofOhio,
Hastings Kieth of Massachusetts,
Howard Robinson, of New York,
Orval Hansen of Idaho, and Albert Watson of South Carolina;

Luce, during those days when
he was showing Lester and me
around Saigon, showed us a report he was then translating into
English. Five students had been
released from Con Son just a
month before, and had written a
report, accompanied by drawings, about the conditions of the
prison, full of details about their
confinement and torture in the
tiger cages. I asked Luce if one
of the students would meet with
us.
At that time, a visit to the
prison island of Phu Quoc had
already been scheduled for three
Committee members. I felt that
if this student could tell these
Congressmen about the tiger
cages the trip could be changed
from Phu Quoc to Con Son.
That Monday night, Nguyen
Loi, 26, met with a group of
Congressmen and Ken Lester,
Don Luce (acting as interpreter)
and me.
The Congressmen originally
scheduled to visit the prison at
Phu Quoc were Clancy, Mollo-haand Watson. Clancy and
Mollohan were present, but Wat- son had called to say that he was
'too tired" and that he felt the
other men could cover it well
enough. Also present were Hawkins and Smith.
'I Don't Know Anything'
After Loi had spoken for about
ten minutes about his imprisonment and torture at Con Son,
Rep. Clancy left, saying as he
walked out, "This is in a field
I don't know anything about."
About 15 minutes later, while Loi
was talking, Rep. Smith got up
and began to read a newspaper.
He then left the room.
n,

Commentary
and six Democrats: Montgomery,
Neal Smith of Iowa, Augustus
Hawkins of California, W. R.
Anderson ofTennessee, Lee Hamilton of Indiana, and Robert
West Virginia. As a number of newspapers pointed out,
this was a "hawkish group." Of
the twelve, only three has opposed the war with reasonable
consistency: Hawkins, Hamilton,
andRobison.
The Committee, as I was told,
was going over to Vietnam with
an open mind, and would really
dig in to find out some facts
instead of getting the usual realm
and briefof military hand-out- s
ings. At this time I was still
naive enough to believe it.
Spent With Military
The first three days in Vietnam, with the exception of Monday morning, June 22, were spent
with the military. Total number
of briefings from the first three
days: 19. On Thursday morning,
June 25, nine members of the
Committee flew to Bangkok,
Thailand; one to Kjakarta, Indonesia, and two to Vientiane,
Laos, to discuss the widening
war in Southeast Asia with American and foreign officials. During
absence, I and
their three-da- y
another 'staff aid, Ken Lester,
met with Don Luce, an American
who has been in Vietnam, off and
of
on, since 1958.
Unheard Voices, Luce
has many Vietnamese friends and
a comprehensive command of the
language. For those three days
Luce, Lester and I talked with
many Vietnamese, some influential, some not.
One June 27, after the Congressmen returned to Saigon,
I told the Chairman, Montgomery, what I had been doing and
asked if he could schedule the
committee, or members of it, to
talk to some of the Vietnamese
people.
"Well. I don't know if it is
really necessary," Montgomery
replied. "1 think we've talked to
enough people. 1 believe we
should get busy writing the
Mol-lohan-

t."

Conv-mitte-

two-wee-

the tiger cages, which were later
published in Life Magazine.
Afraid Of Attempt
I was afraid that an attempt
might be made to get the film
before we left Saigon, and gave
it to Rep. Smith for whom I had
worked in the past. Smith put
the film and tape in his suitcase.
I did not realize until after
we were airborne and headed
back to the United States just
what a mistake I had made.
It became apparent after a one-niglayover we had in Japan
just how important the pictures
were.
The committee met in a room
in the visiting officers' quarters
at Tachikawa Air Base. Chairman Montgomery brought up the
subject of the pictures and the
trip to Con Son.
"I can't help but feel that if
this gets out it will be highly
embarrassing," Watson said.

'The part of the report dealing with Con
Son . . . had been edited drastically. In fact,
it ivas reduced to one small paragraph,9
Neither one had expressed any
thanks or encouragement to the
young man who had probably
risked his life, or at least a return to prison, by meeting with
them. In fact, Smith tried to
poke holes in Loi's story.
Yet after the story of the tiger

cages

had

made headlines

throughout the world, Smith told

the press that he had believed

film, and I was warned that if I
made anything public, I would
be blamed for harm that would
come to our prisoners held in
North Vietnam.
The Committee did not know
that the film was still in the
custody of Smith, who had said
nothing up until then. I was
afraid he might turn it over.
We had a talk on the phone.
He asked what I wanted to do
with the pictures. I toldhimthat

Thomas R. Hark in accompanied the House Select Committee on
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U.S. Involvement in Southeast Asia on its
trip to South-ca- st
Asia as a member of the staff. He served five years as a jet
pilot in the Navy. This article was originally written for the Progressive Magazine.

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every word about the conditions
that this young man had related.
The next morning at breakfast, Clancy, Mollohan, andWat-so- n
told me they would not be
going to see the prison, although
Hawkins was planning to go. I
was afraid that the trip there
might be cancelled, so I hurriedly told the half dozen Committee members at my breakfast
table what we had found so far
about the tiger cages. Only one
man agreed to go: Rep'. William
Anderson, a highly decorated submarine officer of World War II,
and former commander of the
nuclear submarine Nautilus.
Trip Changed
We changed to trip from Phu
Quoc to Con Son and Loi drew
us a map of the tiger cages
location. As is well known, with
the aid of the map, and luck,
we were able to find the tiger
cages.
We talked with many of the
prisoners, and learned that none
was there for criminal offenses
but for protest actions such as
Now I understood. The
would not break away from failure to salute the flag. After
became
the guided tours and military the story of our findings
had five more public, many people, Congressbriefings. They
turned men included, claimed Luce was
days in Vietnam.and, as it
were spent mainly with not interpreting1 correctly.
out, they
had a tape reHowever,
the spokesmen for the U.S. Milicorder hidden In a briefcase dur- tary and State Department.
Viet-nam-T-

ing our visit to Con Son, and
taped all the conversations. I
subsequently gave a copy of the
tape to Rep. John Moss, chairman of the House Foreign Government Operations Subcommittee. This group had the tape
transcribed by two interpreters
in Washington, one from the
USIA and the other from the
Library of Congress.
Luce had interpreted correct- ly. I also took some pictures of

Fact-Findin- g

The press will pick this up
and it will overshadow everything else we accomplished over
there," replied Clancy. "If these
pictures get blown up all over,
I know my constituents will wonder why I wasn't there."
"What business did we have
going over there in the first
place:" asked Keith. "It was a
mistake to do that."
"It was a mistake to take that
Luce along," said Smith. "Who
asked him to go?"
And so it went. Chairman
Montgomery finally said that he
felt that it was the consensus
of the group that Tom Harkin
would turn over the pictures to
the Committee so it could take
whatever action it felt necessary.
First Attempt Made
I refused. That was the first
attempt to get my pictures. There
were three more attempts made
'
on the aircraft while flying home
from Japan. The last attempt was
simply a flatout demand for the

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thought about getting them
before the public, so pressure
might be brought to bear on the
government to change the conditions at Con Son.
"Oh no. That's all wrong.
Public pressure never solved anything. Publicity never does any
good," replied Smith.
Smith went on: "I think I
have the solution. I'll take the
film and the tape and lock them
up in my office safe. We'll keep
them locked up for six months
or so, or until this thing blows
over."
What could I say? I didn't
want to alarm him, so I nodded
approval. I was planning to take
the pictures if at all possible
after he locked them up. That
is exactly what happened.
Con Son Edited
During the early part of our
flight back, I had been asked to
come in Sunday and work on the
report. Later, I was told to come'
instead early Monday. I went to
office Monday
Montgomery's
morning and found that the report
had already been sent to the
printers.
I went down to the print
shop in the House Office Building. Sure enough, the part of
the report dealing with Con Son,
as put together by Anderson and
Hawkins in Japan, had been
edited drastically. In fact, it was
reduced to one small paragraph
with no mention of the tiger
cages.
There was really no question about what I had to do.
I called the press, disclosed the
existence of the tiger cages, and
released my pictures. In Saigon,
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the government first refused to
comment, then announced an investigation, and finally directed
that the tiger cages be both
repaired and closed a contradiction that has not been publicly resolved.
This, then, was my short but
intensive course in practical politics. I learned how Congressional
can become an
exercise in blind acceptance of
official handouts. I learned how
men supposedly dedicated to the
public interest can ignore
or even conspire to conceal
the most blatant injustice. I
learned how easily moral courage
and even common decency can
be subverted by political expediency. And I learned that you
don't have to go along. One man
can stand up and make a dif"fact-findin-

ference.
I cannot imagine two more
dissimilar Congressmen in their
backgrounds: Hawkins, a black
from the Watts area of Los An"dove"; Angeles, a long-tim- e
derson, a career military officer,
a "hawk" on the war (although
he has stated publicly since his

trip to Vietnam that he has "been
turned around" in his thinking).
Yet they have two things in
common: sensitivity and moral
courage. This makes them
unique at least in the House of
Representatives.

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Halfhearted Commendation
For President's FBI Decision
President Singletary should be
commended for his
decision limiting the release of information to the FBI. The new policy says information will only be
released with the approval of the
Office of the President. However,
there are still no guidelines as to
when the information will be released, nor any assurance that the
President won't be as loose with
student information as his subordinates have been.
half-hearted-

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Student Affairs Office is unfounded,

but possible.

An interesting sideline to the
matter is Singletary' s statement
that the new procedure "should
in no way be construed as a criticism of the actions of the Student Affairs staff in the (Mason)
case." In the traditional administrative policy of neither accepting
nor assigning blame for tragic mistakes, President Singletary is ducking responsiblity.
Nevertheless, we appreciate
announcement as all good
students should: with a naive expectation that mistakes won't be
repeated, that justice has been done
for past mistakes, that our administrators will act in the best interests of students at all times and
that things will gradually get
Sin-gletar-

The most encouraging aspect
of Singletary' s statement is that he
recognizes the danger of full and
unrestricted cooperation with the
FBI. We must read into the guarded
policy any additional encouragements. The expectation that Sin 's
office will be any more protective of student rights than the
gle-tary-

"Thank You, Mr. President?''

John Junot

Kernel Forum:
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UK's First Political Drug Bust

EDITOR'S NOTE: The opinions expressed in this column are those of the
author, not necessarily the editors.
I am UK's first political bust, student
or otherwise, using a dope cover. There
have been other political busts, and many
other dope busts. The previous political
busts Mason's and Crossen's were for
infrequently used charges and took a hell
of a lot of framing and bending the truth.
Most people aren't susceptible to them.
The dope busts so far, most agree, hit
people wIjo were really involved and
should have been paranoid enough to
expect it anyway.
Well,, I wasn't into dope. I haven't
been into it for months, and I was never
into it heavy. But I was busted for sale
and two counts of possession, and the
charges have absolutely no basis in fact.
So why was I busted? Well, first I wan