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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, March 21, 1968
McCarthy plan: party split?
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"I think if Kennedy had moved earlier there would have been no reason for me to do anything," he said at the conference in Chicago.
Now Kenedy has finally moved, declaring his own candidacy last Saturday. In his announcement Kennedy made a special point that "my candidacy would not be in opposition to his (McCarthy's), but in harmony" with it.
Stating his support of McCarthy, Kennedy called for large majorities for the Minnesota Senator in the next few primaries.
"My desire is not to divide those forces seeking change, but to increase" them, Kennedy said.
McCarthy's program for change includes opposition to the administration's poverty and civil rights programs.
"Every man has the right to be free from public disgrace," he told an audience in Great Neck, New York, last December.
He enumerated four civil rights he thought should be assured Americans: the right to employment or decent income; the right to health; the right to education; and the right to decent housing.
"Housing should be in a community where a citizen can live free from threats on his person, and also free from poisons in the air and in his food and water," he said.
After a slow start, McCarthy's popularity has been growing. In early February he received official support from the Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), a group of liberal intellectuals, Democratic party faithfuls and labor leaders formed in 1947.
Some of the ADA's top members resigned when the decision
to back McCarthy was made but support has been avid among those who stayed.
McCarthy may have some trouble collecting state delegations. He is considered strong in the northwest but will probably be gaining most of his votes from speaking engagements.
He entered the Massachusetts primary just after that state's Democratic leaders had voted overwhelmingly to support Johnson.
With a potential split developing in the Republican party between Rockefeller and Nixon, and Johnson's popularity at an all time low it is possible that McCarthy will be able to poll some votes in primaries that he would otherwise have been unable to get.
His success will nonetheless be a measure of how the American people are thinking on Vietnam.
Next: Ronald Reagan.
IF, WHEN AND WHY TO WAGE WAR
AN OPEN FORUM ON JUST WAR
John P. Dessauer Director of the University Press of Kansas
Don L. Scheid Assistant Dean of Fine Arts
Robert Sterling
Associate Professor of Business
Kansas Union Forum Room Thursday, March 21 7:30 p.m.
Tickets for Bill Cosby going fast
More than $10,000 worth of tickets to the Bill Cosby show were sold Wednesday, the first day of single ticket sales, but there are still plenty of tickets left, said a Student Union Activities (SUA) spokesman.
Cosby and The Pair Extraordinaire will present two performances April 4 in Hoch Auditorium. More tickets have been sold for the 7 p.m. performance, than for the 9:30 p.m. performance, said Randy Corbet, Overland Park junior and SUA board member.
More than 1,000 tickets were sold in block drawings last week, he said.
Corbet urged students to purchase tickets soon, because off-campus publicity, which begins this weekend in Kansas City, will result in large numbers of tickets being sold through the mail to non-students.
Tickets for the SUA-sponsored shows are available at the Kansas Union, the Information booth, Bell Music Co. and The Sound.
Tickets are $4.50, $4, and $3.50.
Students with KU ID's will receive a fifty-cent discount, with a limit of two tickets purchased with each ID card.
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