TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26,1967 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1967 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PA(F TW1tF'P! ~Wm a r ,%Aa'r A &AAWa u w, Parti By GAYLORD SHAW Associated Press Staff Writer WASHINGTON - Like players in a colossal coast-to-coast chess game, Republican presidential hopefuls are maneuvering for a strategic position from which to strike against their opponent's king next year. President Johnson is the sym- bolic chess king the Republicans seek to checkmate. Jockeying for the right to oppose Johnson's ex- pected Ke-election bid will intensi- fy as the Aug. 5 GOP nominating convention in Miami Beach, Fla., draws nearer. An Associated Press sampling of the shifting political sands shows most party professionals think Richard M. Nixon now is leading the race for the nomina- tion. But many of these pros are hedging their personal bets, wait- Pros ing for a trend to develop. Two factors-the rise in Gov. Ronald Reagan's political stock and the dip in Gov. George Rom- ney's standing in the polls-have caused Nixon, generally consider- ed a conservatve to search for allies among party moderates. Romney's supporters, while try- ing to regain ground the Michi- gan moderate lost in the recent flap over his Vietnam stance, are keeping a wary eye on the every move of Sen. Charles H. Percy of Illinois, a relative liberal. At the same time, they are thanking their lucky stars that Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York is a friend instead of a foe. Rockefeller, who insists he is not and will not become a candi- date, promotes Romney's cause daily. But in a recent Louis Har- GiveJ ris poll, Rockefeller himself emer- ged as the strongest potential Republican candidate, displacing Romney who tumbled from first to fourth. , Such uncertainty is providing a fertile breeding ground for favorite son candidates. To il- lustrate his contention that the race still is wide open, one cam- paign planner ticked off 15 states where he has detected favorite son talk. "It's because of what happened in '64," said another strategist, referring to the ease with which Barry Goldwater sewed up the nomination three years ago. "A lot of people got committed too early last time. They're going the favorite son route this time to stay loose." The former vice president is starting to draw on the cache of Nxon lx0R political IOU's he stashed away during his many years as a Re- publican workhorse-especially in, 1964, when he plugged faithfully for Goldwater, and in 1966, when he crisscrossed the country cam- paigning for GOP congressional candidates of every ideological stripe. "At this point Nixon would have the best chance for the nomination," said one Midwest- ern party functionary. But in words that seem to haunt the par- ty's 1960 presidential candidate at every turn, this official added: "I'm not sure he has the best chance to win.' It's this "loser" tag-he hasn't won an election on his own since 1950-that Nixon agrees he must overcome. He lost the Presidential+ race in 1960 and then the gov- ernor's race in California. Early Nixon organizations already are operating in four key primary states-New Hampshire, Wiscon- sin, .Nebraska and Oregon. And a national Nixon for President Committee has set up shop on Pennsylvania Avenue a block from the White House. Nixon won't make a formal an- nouncement until December or January. In the meantime, he is chiseling out positions on the major issues. He already is iden- tified as a hawk on the Vietnam war. The California governer, dar- ling of many Republican con- servatives, plans trips during the next six weeks to Illinois, South Carolina, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Kansas and Texas-the heartland of Nixon's midwestern and south- ern base of support. "He could be trouble," one Nixon supporter said of the for- but quickly mer actor, "particularly if we lose No. 1 h the primaries." Everything Reagan said he will not allow examinedc his name to be entered in the the pollst New Hampshire primary but ,his evidence th supporters plan a write-in cam- paign there. Romney' Those who want Reagan to run polls was for president advocate a simple chre ta strategy: Let Romney and Nixon charge th punish each other in the prima- off by dil ries and wait for a deadlock. officials w In the interim, the strategy in 1H65. goes, Reagan can use his autumn In an at speaking tour to tell his views ney hast on Vietnam and domestic issues, coast-to-cc all the while building up an areas. Son image as a "do-it" governor who urging him can solve the problems of a com- his candid plex big stage. fore his u The square-jawed Michigan belief this governor began the year as the a neededx front-runner for the nomination, Like Nix ign Lead y discovered that being much on the outcome of early as its disadvantages. primaries. "We're going in with a front-runner says is the idea of winning--we've got critically. Any drop in to," said one Romney strategist. is seized upon as sure "I have no ambition-no inner '.o ha is cini.c at ne is saipping. 's recent skid in the attributed to the con- hat sprang from his at he was "brainwash- plomatic and military hen he toured Vietnam ttempt to recoup, Rom- undertaken a 20-day oast tour of urban me of his advisers are n to formally announce lacy soon, perhaps be- rban tour ends, in the will give his campaign boost. on, Romney is banking drive-to get in this thing again," Rockefeller recently told AP spe- cial correspondent Relman Mor- in. But despite his firmest pro- testations, the New York gover- nor remains on everyone's list of presidential possibilities. Some influential eatern Re- publicans are keeping lines open so they could transfer their alle- giance speedily to Rockefeller or Percy should the Romney cam- paign crumble. Rockefeller has said he would carry New York's 92 votes to the 1968 convention as a favorite son only "as a last resort" necessary to hold the delegation together. Chrysler Lowers Price Increases Rusk Learns UN SPEECHES: Of U.S.S.R. Israel Cites Need Talk Refusal For Mid East Talks DETROT (IP)-Chrysler Corp. rolled back yesterday previously announced price increases Icr 1968 models, and American Motors Corp. became the fourth U.S, automaker to announce an increase for 1968. Chrysler said its new average increase was $101, or 3.5 per cent, over comparable 1967 models. Originally Chrysler figured its average at $133, or 4.6 per cent. After Chrysler announced its 1968 prices first, General Motors came up with suggested retail delivery priee increases averag- ing $110, or 3.6 per cent, and Panel Urges New U.S. China Policy WASHINGTON P') - A panel of 26 U.S. business leaders and scholars urged yesterday that the United States drop active oppo- sition to Communist China mem- bership in the United Nations and support efforts for a two-China representation. If the Communists accept this arrangment, the panel said, they should be permitted to replace Nationalist China on the UN Sec- urity Council. The group headed by former Undersecretary of the Treasury Robert V. Roosa and Frederick S. Beebe, chairman of Newsweek, Inc., and The Washington Post, made similar recommendations last year. It said the call is being pushed again especially-in light of three developments in the past year-- Communist China's H-bomb ex- plosion, the intensified internal struggle in mainland China and shifting of positions on China by other delegates to the UN Gen- eral Assembly. The panel expressed concern over the implications of a state- ment by Secretary of State Dean Rusk at a news conference on Sept. 8 that he does not expect anything much will change on the China representation issue at the United Nations this year. Roosa said this was taken to mean there would be no change in the U.S. position. Ford announced an average boostj of $114, or 3.9 per cent.I Chrysler's new prices are effec- tive today. American Motors announced earlier yesterday that its Rambler American and Rebel models will" carry suggested retail prices up $89, or 3.8 per cent, from 1967. Price increases in AMC's top- of-the-line Ambassador series from $147 to $230, but air-con- ditioning, a $350 optional item on 1967 models, is made standard, equipment in 1968. As Chrysler, General Motors and Ford had ahead of it, Amer- ican Motors left the way open for additional price boosts if labor costs rise. UAW Demands New contracts yet are to be reached with the United Auto Workers union to replace three- year pacts which expired Sept. 7, when the UAW struck Ford in an attempt to gain what the union says is its "longest and most am- bitious list" of demands. The union hopes to make its eventual Ford package at pattern for settlements with Chrysler and: General Motors. UAW President1 Walter P. Reuther, however, has promised to take into considera- tion "the economic facts of life" when he gets around to AMC, a money loser the last two years. While announcing a downward' revision in its 1968 prices, Chrysler+ also said that it was revising its five-year or 50,000-mile warranty to apply only to the first registered owner. O; One Owner Origially the guarantee applied, regardless of the number of own-; ers, but Chrysler first made it ap-; plicable on 1968 models to the first two owners only. Yesterday this was put back to one owner.- Both GM and Ford made their. five-year or 50,000-mile warranty applicable to first and second+ owners, but the latter would be required to pay a $25 transfer fee. The long warranties cover onlyl power trains. Reuther announced yesterday he will return to the bargaining table at Ford today and again Thursday could end a nationwide strike in search for an agreement that which has idled 160,000 Ford work- ers and which enters its 20th day today. UNITED NATIONS (IP)-Secre- tary of State Dean Rusk got a UNITED NATIONS (A)-Israel nouncement of plans to establish first hand fill-in yesterday on stood firm yesterday on its de- Israeli settlements in captured the latest fruitless attempt by mand for direct negotiations with Arab territory showed "utter dis- Britain to persuade the Soviet Arab nations as the only course regard for principles of law and Union to agree to reconvene the to peace in the Middle East and order." Geneva conference to seek peace indicated no weakening of its In his speech, Eban renewed Is- in Vietnam. strong grip on Jerusalem. rael's pledge to respect the pres- British Foreign Secretary George Foreign Minister Abba Eban, ent cease-fire arrangements and Brown briefed Rusk at the secre- in a major address to the UN said that his government stood tary of state's Waldorf Astoria General Assembly, declared that "ready to negotiate their replace- Hotel suite on his talk Saturday "a call to Middle Eastern states ment by treaties of peace which with Soviet Foreign Minister An- to negotiate the conditions of will ensure the security of all drei A. Gromyko. their future coexistence is the Middle Eastern states and estab- As co-chairmen of the Geneva most constructive course whicn hlish conditions of stable ccex- Conference on Indochina, Brown this assembly can take." istence." and Gromyko have the authority1 to bring Vietnam before that body, but informants said both sides stood by their well-known posi- tions, and the Soviet diplomat showed,-"no give." Prbposals Refused Gromyko has repeatedly turned down proposals by Brown and his predecessors in the British Foreign Office to set up a new parley such as those held in Geneva in 1954 on independence for the two Viet- nams, Cambodia and Laos, and in 1962 on neutrality for Laos. Brown and all Prime Minister Harold Wilson's government have been under strong attack from their own Labor Party's left wing for supporting President Johnson's policy in Vietnam. Amercan sources said Brown was-in effect-asking Rusk for "something I can tell the voters" about the war. Secret Information Just what Rusk told Brown was a secret, but an informed source said "it was nothing you could write a communique about." Diplomatic sources said the new Soviet turndown could have been no surprise to the United States. Gromyko, in his policy speech in the assembly last Friday, ignored a suggestion by U.S. Ambassador Arthur J. Goldberg that the Soviet Union and Britain convene a Geneva conference on Vietnam. Brown's meeting with Rusk was part of a continuing round of high-level talks on the fringes of the assembly. Earlier yesterday the U.S. secretary conferred at his suite with Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban on the Middle East di- lemma. Rather surprisingly, they spent more time discussing Vietnam than they did the problems of the Middle East. "The issue is one of principle and substance," Eban said. "Aj refusal to negotiate is inherently identical with a refusal to Uive in peace. Jordanian Claims Eban's address was preceded by a Jordanian denunciation of Is- rael's pursuit of a policy of "per- secution and terrorism" in the While the UN was in session Egyptian and Israeli gunners battled across the Suez Canal cease-fire line again in a three- hour clash which ended with a UN-arranged cease-fire as eve- ning fell, an Israeli army spokes- man said. It . was the eighth clash this month. --Associated Press TEXAS CITY FLOODED Homes in the fashionable Parkwood addition of Harlingen, Texas were flooded in some places ten feet deep as the Arroyo Colorado overflowed yesterday. The record rise in water came from Hurricane's Beulah's massive rains. r - -- - - I., Arab territories it seized during End Belligerency the Arab-Israeli war in June. But he said that any settlement Jordan's foreign minister, Mu- must include an end to the Arab hammad Adeez el-Aamiry, speak- belligerency against Israel. ing briefly on a point of order, Earlier, UN delegates heard said Israel's weekend deportation sharply contrasting views on the of Jerusalem Arab leader Sheik. racial situation in s o u t h e r n Abdul Hlamin Sa'eh and its an- Africa. i dimf di'6v' Ci#oic World News Roundup TA eatpe By The Associated Press SAIGON - U.S. Navy attack planes joined B52 bombers yester- day in intensified attempts to break the three-week-old Com- munist artillery siege of U.S. Mar- ines guarding invasion routes to South Vietnam. The beleaguered Leatherneck base at Con Then, 2% miles south of the demilitarized zone, took an- other 300 or more rounds of enemy fire. The U.S. Command summoned Navy jets from the carrier In- trepid to help B52 bombers and Air Force tactical jets in strikes at the North Vietnamese troops and gun .positions. WASHINGTON - The Federal Communications C o m m i s s i o n made public yesterday the details of a $100 million reduction in long-distance telephone charges- but at the same time it included a $15 million hike in some tele- phone charges. The new rates, which will be- come effective Nov. 1, will reduce charges for most station-to-station and person-to-person calls beyond 468 miles. But the commission noted that interstate telephone calls up to 24 miles distant will be increased by $15 million with the hikes to amount to five cents for the first three minutes. 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