Wednesday, March 20, 1968
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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McCarthy, Kennedy favored
By Pat Crawford Kansan Staff Reporter
KU for Alternatives favors Senators Eugene McCarthy, D-Minn, and Robert F. Kennedy, D-N.Y., as the only realistic people to support in the 1968 presidential campaign, said Jack Weeks, Lawrence graduate student and chairman of the organization.
Weeks said Kennedy and McCarthy support all the issues the organization favors.
"We find no ideological differences between Kennedy and McCarthy which would cause us to favor one over the other." Weeks said.
The organization, Weeks said, was very impressed with Kennedy's speech, especially his forthright stand on the basic issues. His entrance into the race, Weeks said, seemed to be justified by the support shown at KU.
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York hasn't come up with any statements acceptable to the organization about the war and other policies, but Weeks said KU for Alternatives would seriously consider supporting him as well if he were to make any acceptable statements.
"The position of the United States," Weeks said, "has deteriorated to the point where the gold crisis is only a symptom of the United States' inability to hold the respect of the allied nations."
The organization supports a halting of the bombing in North Vietnam and negotiations with the N.L.F. It also supports an eventual provision for internationally supervised elections in South Vietnam.
Although Vietnam is the main issue for the organization, it is not the only one. It is concerned with the problems in the cities and feel there is a need for responsible action in other areas of foreign policy. There must be a renewal of spirit for the Alliance for Progress, Weeks said, which is effectively dead.
KU for Alternatives is trying to arrange for other political speakers on campus. Paul Newman, who is campaigning for McCarthy, has been contacted by
the state organization, but has made no commitment. The group wants to get 75 people to go to Nebraska to work for Kennedy and McCarthy in the May Nebraska primary.
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