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Farmers
decreasing for the past 50 years. Aycock said there were 100,000 fewer farms in the United States now than there were in 1979.
According to Wiley, many of the farmers in the class action suit have vowed to stay on their land by fighting to the death if necessary.
"The land is the only thing left that bankers can't control," he said. "And they're trying to buy it."
McKinsey agreed that the farmers would defend their homes with guns if they had to. But he denied that the farmers in the suit were associated with any organized Pose.
"When I first heard about it last year, I thought, 'What the hell is this Possse Comitatus?' he said "We're all just poor, dumb farmers trying to save the land."
'Power of the county'
Wiley, however, believes strongly in the Posse. He talked about the group last week, explaining the term "power of the county" and its intent by referring to a handbook called "Anderson on Sheriffs."
As he sat at his kitchen table, cluttered with pamphlets and papers supporting his cause. Wiley thumbed through the volume. He ran a finger down its pages to find relevant passages explaining the group's belief in the right of all men to bear arms.
"If I and my sons want to go out and participate in guerrilla tactics, survival tactics — and I have done that — there's nothing wrong with that," he said.
Kuhman said that some of the farmers named as plaintiffs in the suit had “upgraded” weapons supplies in anticipation of any aggression from authorities.
"If there's any violence, it's going to come from others first, not us," Kuhman said. "These farmers are only militant in the sense of wanting to protect their farms."
"What we really want is to avoid any bloodshed."
Many of the farmers in the suit said that the Posee was a harmless term for a group that included every American male over the age of 15 years.
But the groups have caused some nervousness among state and local authorities, who said last week that some of them posed a potential threat, although they were conducting no current investigations into the Posse Comitatus.
Tom Kelly, director of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation in Topeka, said that he could not speak about whether the bureau was connected to the individuals who might be connected to the Poss.
Neil Woerman, special assistant to the attorney general, said last week that there was no current investigation into the Posse Comitatus.
Attorney general speaks out
In late 1982, Attorney General Robert T. Stephan began speaking against those associated with the Posse Comitatus as dangerous people who believed violence against government authorities was often justified.
The group received national attention last year, when a self-proclaimed member of the Posse, Gordon Kahl, was killed in a shoot-out with federal marshals in Arkansas. Kahl had fled from authorities in February, after killing two U.S. marshals in North Dakota.
Kuhman's link to the farmers' efforts stretches back to Arizona, where the Department of Public Safety has been watching the Patriots, some of whose members made death threats against various public officials last summer.
Gary Goldsmith, an investigator with the DPS, said, however, that members of the group had done nothing illegal other than commit minor traffic violations.
Goldsmith described some of the Patriots' activities, which included mock wars in the mountains outside Prescott, Ariz., and
contingency plans drawn up in case of a nuclear attack on Phoenix.
The actions of some law-enforcement authorities in Kansas show that they have not dismissed the groups. Earlier this year, additional highway patrol troopers were sent to Hill City, where Bernard Bates, a Nicodemus farmer and one of the plaintiffs in the class-action suit, was forced to sell farm equipment at an auction.
Capt. Melvin Wedermeyer, division commander for the highway patrol in Hays, said that he had sent the patrolmen to the auction in response to rumors about angry farmers who weren't going to allow the auction to proceed.
"There were talk and rumors about the Pai Kwan arms," he said. "But 'pui-happened' what?"
Farmers' struggle continues
Fred Kilian, another plaintiff in the suit,
runs a 320-acre farm about 60 miles west of
Lawrence. He and Foster said they weren't
connected with the violence or weapons
stockpiling associated with some Posse
members.
However, they said that their struggle against authority could end some day in armed confrontation.
"Some day, there'll be a hell of an
uprising." Foster said. "But God, I hope we can prevent it."
James Thompson, president of the Farmers State Bank in Bologne, which was one of the lending institutions involved with the foreseeing Bates farm, said he pitched the farmers.
"I can't blame a man for wanting to hold onto his farm, but I don't think they know what they're doing," he said of the class-action suit. "It's frustrating for the banker when you have no money and you was a classmate of mine. I'm just the little guy on the small end of this credit thing."
The judicial struggle has sent Kuhman and others to Nebraska in the past several weeks, as they help troubled farmers begin court action there.
"It comes to pass," he said of a victory in court. "Bit by bit, God if he was, who can breathe?"
Kilian said he knew of about five other groups of farmers in Kansas who were now interested in filing class-action suits of their own. "This thing is like a prairie fire the way it is spreading."
Kilian ackowed the enormity of attempting to change the entire country's monetary system. Sometimes, the farmer admitted, the size of the battle saddened him.
"It's an upside down world," he said. "I'll just have to do a lot of praying."
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neutralize the gas with caustic soda had failed to operate properly because of the huge pressure buildup.
A STATEMENT RELEASED by Union Carbide in Danbury called the accident "unprecedented," pointing out the firm has manufactured the same gas at a plant in Institute, W.Va., for more than 25 years without mishap.
The statement said the Indian subsidiary
was working with the government to aid victims, including flying in medical specialists and senior executives from Bombay. The plant dispensary was opened to treat victims.
pesticides widely employed in India to kill insects, said Dr. S. K. Mukherjee of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute in New Delhi.
The company said it did not know of any arrests of its employees. Four company officers were asked to remain on the site to assist in a government investigation.
*methyl isocyanate* is a raw material used for making carbaryl and temik, agricultural
The gas leak was the world's second industrial disaster to kill a large number of people in less than a month. It came 14 days after a series of explosions at a liquid gas distribution center in Mexico City killed at least 452 people and injured more than 4,000.
ON CAMPUS
TODAY
Reardon
CAMPUS OF CHRISTIANS will have a Bible and fellowship at 7:30 p.m. in 365 of the University.
THE STRATEGY Games Club will meet from 7 to 11 p.m. in the Trail Room of the Kansas Union
THE SWORD AND Shield Club will meet at 7 p.m. in the Walnut Room of the Union.
THE UNITED JEWISH Student Association and Hillel are sponsoring a speech by Gerda Klein, a survivor of the Holocaust. Her speech is at 1 p.m. in the IAH跳水团 of the Union.
**SNMIL WORLD** will meet from 9:15 to 11 am, at the First Presbyterian Church, 2415 South 3rd Avenue.
the Walnut Room of the Union.
TOMORROW
THE GUN CLUB will meet at 7:30 p.m. in 217 B Snow Hall.
The six character drama, which takes place in modern times, centers on the murder of an 11-year-old boy in a fictitious Kansas town. The three main characters are a visionary old derelict who lives in a church steepe, a nomadic illiterate bus boy and an anorexic teen-age girl.
THE DUNGEONS AND Dragons Club will meet from 7 to 11 p.m. in the Trail Room of the Union.
LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES will sponsor a brown bag lunch. It will begin at noon in 109 Lippincott Hall.
The teen-age girl's mother has been killed in a car crash, which apparently was a suicide. After her mother's death, the teen-age girl is born in her bedroom and spies on the community.
THE SACRED ORDER OF Universal Love will meet at 7:30 a.m. on the hill below the Campanile and south of Memorial Stadium. 7 p.m. in the International Room of the SOUL also will meet from 5:30 to 6:45 p.m. in Kansas Union.
When the murder occurs in a neighboring county, law officials set a dragnet for the killer. The transient derelict and the murderer were wrapped up in the search for the murderer.
BY HAPPENSTANCE. THE two stumble upon the girl and attend her 15th birthday party The derelict and the bus boy provide her a reason to continue living and allow her to escape from her father
It is basically about the need for love in the face of grief and death. Reardon said this when he met Marion in 2013.
"Steeple Jack" begins on a depressing note
"It's a good play, a good piece. I'm fairly proud of it."
and ends on a happy note, he said. It departs from his other works, which start out sad and become even more so.
"It's kind of a special piece," he said. "It's not a feel good, kind of play."
Reardon was the 1965 and 1966 winner of the Hopkins Award at the University of Kansas and received a Subert Fellowship in 1970. He is a Dramatist's Guild/CBS Award finalist this year.
HIS FATHER, WILLIAM R. Reardon, was a theatre professor at KU from 1961 to 1965. The elder Reardon also was a playwright and educator of the University of Southern California-Santa Barbara
Following in his father's footsteps, the younger Reardon sold his first play while stationed in the Army on the Japanese island of Okinawa. Ten days after his stint in the Army ended, his first play, "The Happiness Cage," was produced in New York, which led him to the notion that he might make playwrighting a full-time occupation.
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