- Greeks voted 61% to 38% to reject demands from creditors for more austerity measures in exchange for bailout loans. This rejects the proposals of European and IMF creditors. - Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras had called the referendum to strengthen his hand in renegotiating a better bailout deal. He says the vote gives him a mandate to seek an alternative solution. - European leaders say they will respect the vote but that difficult reforms are still needed for Greece's economy. Emergency talks between Greece and its creditors are scheduled for Tuesday to discuss the result and way forward.

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A woman who allegedly
sent police on a wild 40-mile
chase last week that ended
near downtown Lexington
has now been charged with
murder.
Lexington police charged
Vanessa A. Napier in the
death of a man whose body
was found about 4:35 p.m.
Friday, after officers were
called to 5993 Athens Wal-
nut Hill Pike to conduct a
welfare check.
The name of the man
will be released by the Fay-
ette County coroner’s office,
pending notification of the
victim’s family.
Napier, 32, also is charged
with tampering with physical
evidence in connection with
the man’s death.
On Friday, police chased a
stolen bucket truck — with
Napier at the wheel, they
said — through Fayette and
Madison counties. Several
law enforcement agencies
joined in the pursuit.
Police said it began when
Napier assaulted the owner
of the truck about 10 a.m.,
hopped in and drove away,
dragging the man about 50
feet down the road.
The truck was driven
south on Interstate 75 into
Madison County, where Rich-
mond police found it and
began pursuing. The driver
turned around and returned
to Fayette County, where
Lexington police joined in
the action.
Police tried several spike
strips, but they were unsuc-
cessful in stopping the truck.
After exiting I-75 at the
Newtown Pike exit, the truck
hit a few corners in Lexing-
ton on four flat rear tires,
By Justin Madden
jmadden@herald-leader.com
Woman in bucket-truck case also faces murder charge
POLICE FIND MAN’S BODY
DURING WELFARE CHECK Vanessa Napier
allegedly led
police on a
slow chase in
a stolen bucket
truck on Friday.
A woman waved a Greek flag over the crowd in front of Parliament
in Athens on Sunday after Greeks overwhelmingly rejected
creditors’ demands for more austerity in return for rescue loans.
EMILIO MORENATTI | ASSOCIATED PRESS
GREECE’S FINANCIAL CRISIS
ATHENS, Greece —
Greece lurched into unchart-
ed territory and an uncertain
future in Europe’s common
currency Sunday after voters
overwhelmingly rejected de-
mands by international credi-
tors for more austerity mea-
sures in exchange for a bailout
of its bankrupt economy.
Results showed 61 percent
voted “no,” compared with
38 percent for “yes,” with 97
percent of the vote counted.
The referendum — Greece’s
first in more than four de-
cades — came amid severe
restrictions on financial
transactions in the country,
imposed last week to stem a
bank run that accelerated af-
ter the vote was called.
Thousands of jubilant
government supporters cel-
ebrated in Syntagma Square
in front of Parliament, wav-
ing Greek flags and chanting
“No, no, no!”
It was a decisive victory
for Prime Minister Alexis
Tsipras, who had gambled
the future of his 5-month-old
coalition government — and
his country — in an all-or-
nothing game of brinkman-
ship with Greece’s creditors
from other European coun-
tries that use the euro cur-
rency, the International Mon-
etary Fund and the European
Central Bank.
By Elena Becatoros
and Demetris Nellas
Associated Press
CITIZENRY BACKS LEADER WHO THINKS HE
CAN GET A BETTER DEAL FROM CREDITORS
Voters
reject more
austerity
“We proved even
in the most difficult
circumstances that
democracy won’t be
blackmailed.”
Alexis Tsipras,
prime minister of Greece
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On a small shed at the
side of a winding Eastern
Kentucky road, Veronica
Collins proudly has tacked
up the Confederate battle
flag. For her, she says, the
flag has nothing to do with
skin color and everything to
do with heritage.
Collins and her husband,
Jerry, bought the flag in
October at the nearby Civil
War re-enactment of the
Battle of Leatherwood. Now
it’s displayed right below an
American flag and above an
old-fashioned wagon at their
home in Letcher County.
Collins gets questions about
why she displays the flag,
but she said she doesn’t get
any complaints about it.
Across the United States,
many people are calling for
the removal of Confederate
symbols after nine people
By Hannah Scheller
hscheller@herald-leader.com
See FLAG, A2
Jack Gibson of Letcher County said he has flown a
Confederate flag for 25 years because it represents history to
him. This one was purchased at a flea market for $35, he said.
CONFEDERATE FLAG CONTROVERSY
DEFENDERS: TAKING DOWN BANNER DOES DISSERVICE TO HISTORY
FLYING IN FACE
OF CRITICISM
A shed on a hillside at the Letcher County home of Jerry and Veronica Collins displays a
Confederate battle flag and the American flag. Veronica Collins said she’s gotten no complaints.
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were shot and killed June
17 during a Bible study at
Emanuel African Methodist
Episcopal Church in Charles-
ton, S.C. The alleged shooter,
Dylann Roof, had several pic-
tures of himself with Confed-
erate flags.
In Eastern Kentucky, Col-
lins and other residents who
fly the Confederate flag say
they see the flags as part of
their heritage. They have no
plans to take them down.
In a small Letcher County
cemetery just off Ky. 7 in
Jeremiah, a Confederate flag
flies high above the tomb-
stones. Many of the markers
stand in memory of Ken-
tucky Confederate soldiers,
including Pvt. David Back,
who died in the Civil War
and is buried in Camp Doug-
las, Ill.
To Homer Smith, who
maintains the cemetery, the
Confederate soldiers are vet-
erans, too, and the flag hon-
ors them.
“As far as I’m concerned, I
don’t see it hurting anybody,”
Smith said.
Taking down the Con-
federate flag isn’t going to
change what is in people’s
hearts, said Phillip Newsome
of Perry County.
“Our nation needs to grow
up a little. We need to quit
worrying about the past and
focus on the future,” New-
some said. “We need to start
accepting people for who
they are.”
Newsome doesn’t fly a
Confederate flag, but he
views it as a part of history.
There is discrimination in
America, but the Confeder-
ate flag is not part of it, he
said.
After the Civil War, the
Confederate flag symbolized
a “lost cause” for many Ken-
tuckians, said James Klot-
ter, a state historian who
teaches at Georgetown Col-
lege. “It was kind of roman-
tic,” he said. “A vision of the
South.”
History is never a static
thing, though, and the flag
is beginning to symbolize
something else, Klotter said.
In the 1950s and ’60s, the
meaning of the Confederate
flag started to change from
its more historical “South-
ern” context to become a
symbol of the resistance to
civil rights, Klotter said.
This issue had been build-
ing for a while, but it has
burst into the public’s eye
pretty suddenly, Klotter said.
Jerry Collins said he does
not mean to hurt anyone’s
feelings by displaying the
flag. He said he hates what
happened in South Carolina,
but “that flag didn’t kill no
people.”
He also noted the ongo-
ing debate in Kentucky about
whether a statue of Jefferson
Davis should be removed
from the Capitol Rotunda.
“What’s going to be next
after Confederate flags, and
they move Davis?” he said.
Collins asked: George
Washington owned slaves;
is he going to get carved off
Mount Rushmore?
“I like history, and I don’t
think they should do away
with it,” Collins said.
Jack Gibson of Letcher
County has flown his Con-
federate flag for more than
25 years. When asked to
summarize in one word what
the Confederate flag meant,
Gibson said “history.”
“When you were 17 or
18, you felt like you were a
rebel”; that was the principle
idea of flying the flag, Gib-
son said.
People tend to use the
Confederate flag when they
want to invoke a sense of re-
belliousness, said Anne Mar-
shall, author of Creating a
Confederate Kentucky.
The flag was never of-
ficially a representation of
Kentucky. While at first Ken-
tucky was neutral, the state
began favoring the Union
pretty early into the war,
Marshall said. There was a
Confederate breakaway in
Kentucky, and a star was
added to the Confederate
flag for Kentucky. However,
the government was unorga-
nized, and there never really
was a functioning Confeder-
ate Kentucky, Marshall said.
Nevertheless, the Confeder-
ate flag was pretty easy to
find after the Civil War, Mar-
shall said.
Last week, a CNN poll
showed similar sentiments
nationally as those expressed
by Eastern Kentuckians who
fly the flag — 57 percent of
Americans see the Confeder-
ate flag as more of a “South-
ern pride” symbol than as a
racist one, the poll found.
Yet, for others, the flag
is a reminder of slavery and
discrimination. In the CNN
poll, 72 percent of blacks saw
the flag as racist.
“People try to argue it
doesn’t have anything to do
with race,” Marshall said.
“Most historians will tell you
that’s not true.”
Jarvis Williams, a Knott
County native who is black,
said he didn’t immediately
think of the heritage aspect
of the Confederate flag when
he was growing up. Rather,
he thought of the flag as a
symbol of black suppression.
“I saw the Confederate
flag, and my initial reaction
was one of trepidation,” said
Williams, who is now a pro-
fessor at Southern Baptist
Theological Seminary in
Louisville.
“While we should not try
to erase our history,” Wil-
liams said, “this particular
flag represents a movement
to stamp out blackness.” It
should not be celebrated as
if it is any other American
symbol, he said.
Both sides of the flag de-
bate have arguments that
should be heard, but people
interpret the world through
a particular ethnic lens, Wil-
liams said. For many blacks,
the Confederate flag invokes
fear.
Pulling down the Confed-
erate flag doesn’t end racial
bias, Williams said. “But it
sends a message that this
is a country that celebrates
freedom and liberty for all
races.”
Hannah Scheller: (859) 231-
1330. Twitter: @HannahScheller.
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Where: Carnegie Center for
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Call: (859) 254-4175
A Confederate flag caught the breeze last month in the cemetery next to Dixon Memorial Church off Ky. 7 in Jeremiah, in Letcher
County. There are several markers in the cemetery that stand as memorials to Confederate soldiers.
CHARLES BERTRAM | cbertram@herald-leader.com
“Our nation needs to grow up a little. We need to quit worrying about the past and focus on the future.
We need to start accepting people for who they are.”
Phillip Newsome of Perry County, who doesn’t fly a Confederate battle flag but recognizes its place in history.
“Today we celebrate the
victory of democracy,” Tsip-
ras said in a televised ad-
dress to the nation, describ-
ing Sunday as “a bright day
in the history of Europe.”
“We proved even in the
most difficult circumstances
that democracy won’t be
blackmailed,” he said.
Tsipras called the referen-
dum last weekend, saying a
“no” vote would strengthen
his hand to negotiate a better
deal for his country. His gov-
ernment has said it thinks
it would be possible to con-
clude a deal with creditors
within 48 hours.
But European officials
and most of Greece’s opposi-
tion parties painted the ref-
erendum as one of whether
the country would continue
using the euro currency —
even though that was not the
convoluted question asked on
the ballot. Opinion polls Fri-
day showed that 74 percent
or more want their country
to remain in the eurozone.
“Given the unfavorable
conditions last week, you have
made a very brave choice,”
Tsipras said. “But I am aware
that the mandate you gave me
is not a mandate for rupture.”
He said he would seek to ne-
gotiate a viable solution with
the country’s creditors.
How European officials re-
act to the referendum result
will be critical for Greece,
and a eurozone summit was
called for Tuesday evening to
discuss the situation.
German Chancellor An-
gela Merkel and French
President Francois Hollande
spoke to each other Sunday
night and agreed “that the
vote of the Greek people
must be respected,” Merkel’s
office said.
The referendum result
was “very regrettable for
the future of Greece,” said
Jeroen Dijsselbloem, head of
the eurozone finance minis-
ters’ meeting known as the
Eurogroup, which also will
meet Tuesday.
Dijsselbloem, who is fi-
nance minister for the Neth-
erlands, had been a stead-
fast opponent of Greece as
it sought better conditions
during five months of bailout
talks.
“For recovery of the Greek
economy, difficult measures
and reforms are inevitable,”
he said. “We will now wait
for the initiatives of the
Greek authorities.”
Sigmar Gabriel, Ger-
many’s vice chancellor and
economic minister, told a
German newspaper that the
Greek government was lead-
ing its people “onto a path of
bitter austerity and hopeless-
ness.”
Tsipras has “torn down
the last bridges, across which
Europe and Greece could
move toward a compromise,”
Gabriel told the daily Tages-
spiegel. “By saying ‘no’ to
the eurozone’s rules, as is
reflected in the majority ‘no’
vote, it’s difficult to imag-
ine negotiations over an aid
package for billions.”
Belgian Finance Minister
Johan Van Overtveldt was
somewhat softer in his reac-
tion, saying that a “no” result
“complicates matters,” but
that the door was open to re-
sume talks immediately.
“What we certainly don’t
want to do is to take deci-
sions that will threaten the
monetary union,” he told
Belgium’s VRT. “Within that
framework we can start talks
again with the Greek govern-
ment, literally, within hours.”
Time has run out for
Greece, which is dealing with
an economy in a protracted
recession, with high unem-
ployment and banks danger-
ously low on capital.
The international bailout
— under which it received
nearly 240 billion euros
in rescue loans — expired
last week, on the same day
Greece defaulted on an IMF
repayment, becoming the
first developed nation to do
so.
Of critical importance
will be whether the Euro-
pean Central Bank decides to
maintain its current lifeline to
Greece in the form of emer-
gency liquidity assistance.
The assistance, currently at
about 90 billion euros, has
been maintained but not in-
creased in past days, leaving
the country’s financial system
in a stranglehold.
Sunday’s vote was held
after a week of capital con-
trols imposed to halt a bank
run, with Greeks restricted
to a daily cash withdraw-
al maximum of 60 euros
(about $67). Long lines have
formed at ATMs, while pen-
sioners without bank cards
have thronged the few bank
branches that were opened to
allow them access to a maxi-
mum 120 euros for the week.
Lines at ATMs swelled again
as the initial results of the
referendum came in.
The margin of victory was
far wider than expected and
is likely to strengthen the
young prime minister’s defi-
ance toward Europe. Tsipras
was voted into office in Janu-
ary on a promise to repeal
bailout austerity.
“This victory for the ‘no’
camp will unfortunately em-
bolden the government but is
likely to do little to convince
the creditors that Tsipras is a
trustworthy negotiating part-
ner who has any ability to
implement a deal,” said Me-
gan Greene, chief economist
of Manulife Asset Manage-
ment.
“Any deal for Greece will
involve a much larger fiscal
adjustment than the one on
which Greeks voted today,”
Greene said. “I don’t think
that Germany in particular
will be willing to make any
concessions for Tsipras.”
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GREECE
Supporters of the successful “no” vote gathered Sunday night in Syntagma Square in Athens. Greek’s prime minister thinks he can negotiate a better deal for the country.
PETROS KARADJIAS | ASSOCIATED PRESS