Wednesday, October 30, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three Wednesday, October 30, 1968 THE MiCHIGAN DAILY EVEN SPLIT POSSIBLE Repu WASHINGTON (P) - A publican net gain of anyw, from 2 to 10 Senate s e a l probable this year, deper 0 on whether you talk to ex] at the GOP or the Democ Senate campaign committe Democratic strategists ii that the present heavy maj for their party in the Senate be little disturbed by the N voting. But they concede a 0 loss of two posts is quite pc ble. Republican experts say not inconceivable that could win Senate control agree this is not likely. ' argue that a pickup of 10 is within range, however. 0 It would require a net ga 13 GOP seats for control of Senate to shift. This would prpduce a 5 lineup but presumably Spi: Agnew w o u l d be elected president in the event of st I'. b ucan g big Republican sweep and would be in a position to break the tie to permit his party to organize the Senate. At present Democrats hold 63 seats and Republicans 37. But Democrats h a v e 23 posts at stake in t h i s year's elections against 11 for the Republicans. Officials ofaboth campaign committees have been traveling over the country this fall, seek- ing to bolster prospects for their party's nominees. The panels supply campaign funds, research material, speech suggestions and tips on strategy. Sen. Edmund S. Muskie, D- Maine, is chairman of the Dem- ocratic Committee, but Sen. Jo- seph D. Tydings, D-Md., h a s been acting chairman while Muskie campaigns for the vice presidency. Sen. George Mur- phy, R-Calif., heads the GOP group. Both sides agree there a r e tins probable in Senate races -Next- BARBARELLAC SHOWS AT 7:10 & 9:30 1-3-5 3rd WEEK many close races this fall, some that will be in doubt until all the votes are counted. Democrats assert that there has been a general upswing in fav.or of their candidates in the last couple of weeks. Republicans discount this, and say that a big sweep by their presidential nominee, Richard M. Nixon, will tip many tight Senate races in their favor. Democrats say they fully ex- pect to take two seats now held by Republicans - California, where Democrat Alan Cranston opposes Max Rafferty, who de- feated Sen. Thomas H. Kuchel, R-Calif., in the primary; and Iowa, where Democratic Gov. Harold E. Hughes is battling David M. Stanley. Republican experts r e p o r t their nominees have leads in these four states: Arizopa, where Barry Gold- water is trying f o r a Senate comeback against Democrat Roy Elson, an aide to Sen. Carl Hayden, D-Ariz., who is retir- ing; Florida, where Rep. Edward J. Gurney, R-Fla., opposes for- mer Gov. LeRoy Collins; Maryland, where step. Charles Mathias Jr., R-Md., is trying to unseat Sen. Daniel B. Brewster, D-Md.: Ohio, where state Atty. Gen. William B. Saxbe is running against former Rep. John J. Gil- ligan, D-Ohio, who ousted Sen. Frank J. Lausche, D-Ohio, in the primary. The. Republicans see numer- ous other chances for pickups, including these: Alaska, where a write-in cam- paign for Sen. Ernest Gruening, D-Alaska, may cut into the vote of Mike Gravel, who beat Gruening inthe primary, and aid Republican Elmer Rasmu- son; Connecticut, where Sen. Abra- ham A. Ribicoff, D-Conn., op- poses former Rep. Edwin H. May Jr., R-Conn.; Idaho, where Sen. Frank Church, D-Ida., faces Rep. George V. Hansen, R-Ida.; Indiana, w h e r e Sen. Birch Bayh, D-Ind.; battles William D. Ruchelshaus; Missouri, where Democratic Lt. Gov. Thomas F. Eagleton, who beat Sen. Edward V. Long, D-Mo., in the primary, opposes Rep. Thomas B. Curtis, R-Mo.; Nevada, where Sen. Alan Bi- Duerrenmatt's S"The Visit" presented by THE ANN ARBOR CIVIC THEATRE OCT. 30, 31 NOV. 1,2 8:00 P.M. Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre ble, D-Nev., faces Lt. Gov. Ed- ward Fike; Oklahoma, where Sen. A. S. Mike Monroney, D-Okla., bat- tles former Gov. Henry Bell- mon; Oregon, where Sen. Wayne Morse, D - Ore., is running against Robert W. Packwood; Pennsylvania, where Sen. Jo- seph S. Clark, D-Pa., is chal- lenged by Rep. Richard S. Sch- weiker, R-Pa.;a South Carolina, where S e n. Ernest F. Hollings, D-S.C., faces Marshall Parker; South Dakota, where Sen. George S. McGovern, D-S.D., opposes former Gov. Archie M. Gubbrud; Wisconsin, where Sen. Gay- lord Nelson, D-Wis., faces Jer- ris Leonard. Democrats say their best chances to win Republican seats, aside from California and Iowa, are in Kentucky, where M i s s Katherine Peden faces Repub- lican Marlow W. Cook; N e w Hampshire, where Gov. John W. King challenges Sen. Norris Cot- ton. R-N.H., and Utah, where Milton L. Weilenmann tries to unseat Sen. Wallace F. Bennett, R-Utah. Electoral vote by states Absentee voters to have 'Gie'Lleart is a9Lonel 'Hunte; greater role in "GRACEFUL AND WICKED! QUITE BEAUTIFUL AND ELEGANT... SHARPLY SATIRICAL!" RLfA M TA0 AG X Y TfM( "A DELICATE MASTERPIECE... IT OFFERS BEAUTY. SENSUALITY. AND PERFECT TASTE!" -.er vimf e with CATHERINE DENEUVE that "BELLE DE JOUR" girl By WILLARD H. MOBLEY WASHINGTON (P)--The mo- bile American, moving around at a rate that rises from year to year, is headed for a bigger role in the 1968 election than in any previous one. All indicators, as shown in an Associated Press survey, point to a considerably heavier absen- tee vote than ever before. But even reasonable estimates on the over-all figures are im- possible to assemble. Too many of the states leave the distribu- tion and subsequent handling of such ballots to local election boards. And a considerable num- ber never do get any segregated tally on them. In a good many places they are just dumped in the box and counted like any others. Whatever the count, the pos- sibility that such votes may in- fluence outcomes is perhaps harder to calculate than the way the home voting will go. One factor is the question whether the stay-at-homes will divide evenly enough among candidates for a possible over- turn if the great bulk of the mail ballots go one way. That has been an infrequent thing but it has happened. There have been several re- """" ... fc"+OriT M TUnES .ne*. STARTS TOMORROW MICHELPMcOoU PIERRE CLEMENTI . # jCATHERiNE DENEVE cent instances in which there were hopes among the losers, at least for a time, that the ab- sentees might change things. The standout was in Califor- nia in 1960 when backers of Richard M. Nixon hoped to the last for an overturn. The late President John F. Kennedy led, slightly in -the regular voting but lost ground among the ab- sentees who were not fully counted for several days. The switch was not enough for Nix- on, however, and Kennedy won with a margin of 35,623 votes or 50.1 per cent. In the 'same election it took eight days to get a count on the absentees in Alaska and con- firm Nixon's margin of about 1,000. Connecticut had a bit of a squeaker in 1948 when Thomas E. Dewey won by only 14,457. Hawaii had a tight one in 1960 and it took a recount to give the state to Kennedy, but absen- tees were not considered as di- rectly affecting the outcome. However it comes out this year, the absentee voters are wading through the greatest hodgepodge of rules in the whole U.S. election system. The same regulations apply , throughout any one state with a few exceptions for such situa- tions as heavy-voting areas or differentiation between places where machines are used and those where it is all pencil work. But if a serviceman, for ex- ample, learns how to get his vote cast and counted at home, the information will not serve his buddy from across the state line. If any two sets of laws on the subject are identical, a spot check of about a dozen failed to disclose it. Many of the variations are in details such as mailing dates.. But in other cases they involve eligibility to vote at all by mail, the registration requirements, how to get hold of a ballot and where to send it. Some secreta- ries of state deal with the mat- ter but more commonly it is business for local election boards. ecl 10 s About the only apparent point of full commonality is that serv- icemen and those attached to them can vote by one means or another in every state. But in two states-Alabama and Loui- siana-even a serviceman is out of luck unless he registered in person before he left home. A number of states treat a postcard application for a bal- lot, prepared by the government mainly for service people, as a valid registration form. Other states fall between these two ex- tremes on registration. Mississippi has a tight rule limiting absentee voting to ser- vice people and transportation workers. Most states have a broader base and some extend the ballot to anyone who"knows he will be out of the state on election day. A few states have relaxed the curbs a bit this year. South Car- olina added some transportation workers to a list of eligibles pre- viously limited to service people and students. A new Florida law waives, for those moving in from o t h e r states, a one-year residence re- quirement for presidential vot- ixig. Probably the most complete compendium of the laws is one prepared by the Defense Depart- ment. It is a 53-page booklet in layman language, treating each state separately with no effort at comparison. The boiled-down state-by-state outlines run from about 300 to well over 1,000 words each. The indicators of rising ab- sentee voting were reported from well over a dozen states. In Alaska, for instance, mail- ings of ballots were up by over 1,000. California'srabsentees were estimated to run around 4.5 per cent of the total vote, up from 4.2 per cent. Hawaii'smail- ings. were double the expected number. Indiana figured on 50,- 000 such ballots. New York figured on military absentees showing a rise of around 17,000. North Carolina was dealing with more than ever before. Ohio reported bal- lot requests were heavier. The Oklahoma estimate was for a rise of about 15,000. the news today b)7 The Associated Press and College Press Service YOUNG CZECHOSLOVAKS yesterday defied gov- ernment orders and stagedan anti-Russian demonstra- tion in Bratislava. Roaming the c i t y streets, the Czechoslovaks shouted, "Russians go home!" and "Brezhnev boo boo boo!" Police and militiamen pushed back the young people who had come to the Slovak national theatre to cheer Czechoslovakian leaders President Ludvik Svoboda and party leader Aleander Dub- cek. Svoboda and Dubcek visited the city to help celebrate the second day of Czechoslovakia's 50th anniversary. The demonstration followed a statement made in Prague by Jan Mayer, deputy minister of the interior, that Czecho- slovak police were determined to carry out their "duty of maintaining public order." Mayer had issued his statement after thousands of Czechoslovaks in Prague Monday had call- ed for a Soviet troop withdrawal. Earlier in Bratislava, ten thousand Slovaks had given Svoboda and Dubcek an enthusiastic welcome. When the eight-car train carrying the leaders arrived, the crowd broke police lines, scattered the waiting band and honor guard, and mobbed the railway station. The crowd greeted the leaders, shouting, "Long live Dubcek!" Long live Svoboda!" SEN. EDWARD M. KENNEDY (D-Mass.) yesterday announced the creation of a memorial to his brother, the late Robert F. Kennedy. "The Robert F. Kennedy Memorial' is a $10 million founda.tion designed to concentrate on problems in the areas of. poverty, crime and education both here and abroad. No specific projects have been announced yet. Funds for the memorial will be raised through donations, Kennedy said. Robert S. McNamara, former secretary of de- fense and now president of the World Bank, will act as chair- man of the executive committee of the foundation. Mr. and, Mrs. Joseph P. Kennedy, Kennedy's parents, will serve as honorary co-chairmen. ASIAN-AFRICAN NATIONS yesterday proppsed to the United Nations that further efforts be made to crush' the white minority government in Rhodesia. In a resolution co-sponsored by 40 Asian-African coun- tries and Jugoslavia, the nations asked that economic and diplomatic penalties be applied against South Africa and Portugal, Rhodesia's chief allies. Both South Africa and Portugal have refused to comply with the sanctions imposed by the Security Council after Rhodesia's unilateral declaration of independence, Nov. 11, 1965. The resolution also recommends support for guerrilla forces operating from Zambia against Rhodesia and reiterates demands that Britain use milita'y force to crush Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith's breakaway regime. WEST GERMANY'S SECURITY SYSTEM yesterday was shaken again when government officials disclosed that military equipment stolen last year has been smug- gled to Moscow. Atty. Gen. Ludwig Martin told a news conference that a Sidewinder missile was sent to Moscow by ordinary freight while two secret navigation instruments were packed in suit- cases and flown by commercial airlines to the Russian capital.. The luggage belonged to a .mystery passenger identified only as "Mr. X" - now under arrest. West Germany's security system has come under attack following charges that a series of recent espionage cases and deaths among government officials are linked. Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger announced he will direct a full irvestigation of the security system when he returns to Bonn today from Spain. HEAVY FIGHTING IN VIETNAM yesterday continued. The battleship New Jersey for the second time within a week battered the demilitarized zone'while other warships and planes delivered what the U.S. command called "one of the heaviest blows in a month." While the stepped-up fighting-- persisted, U.S.Vietnam military commander Gen. Creighton Abrams §ecretly met with President Johnson in Washington. A White House spokesman said Abrams was invited to give the President a "general military review of the situation in Vietnam." The spokesman said, however, there was "no breakthrough" or change in the war or in Paris negotiations. THE INCREASE IN THE COST OF LIVING last month tapered off slightly, rising only two-tenths of one per cent. The Labor department reported prices of groceries, used cars, and home mortgage interest rates dropped in September, while clothing, housing and medical costs increased. The September rise of two-tenths is the smallest in a year, compared with the average monthly increase of three- tenths so far in 1968. In a special report the Bureau of Labor Statistics, said medical costs have risen about 50 per cent more than the gen- eral rise in living costs over the past 22 years. Frr u~t1 AI~irUstu THURS. and FRI. 7:00, 9:00 Gt[, AOUV .>* A9E .4Af JACQUES DUFILHO s.. R. ,aP.NE~ o oot 1 t ,o Kxt. .1 MICHIGAN - ILLINOIS Glee Club Joint Concert SATURDAY, NOV. 9-7:00 and 9:30 h!HILL AUDITORIUM L~AIU ~ I V ENDS- TODAY 2:30 4:40 6:50 9:00 COUMBIA PICTURES PRESENTS IN THE TEUIICO tOI ? iY ;1 SEIRION IEFFREW tTn A RO'IA[ IttS. PRODUCION F ERNTPRODUCTION'A BLOCK SALES - Begin Thursday, October 31 Hill Auditorium Box Office MAIL ORDERS - Send Checks and self-addressed envelope to: MICHIGAN MEN'S GLEE CLUB 6044 Administration Bldg., Ann Arbor Please specify 7:00 or 9:30 performance 2.50 $2.00 $1.50 INDIVIDUAL SALES BEGIN NOVEMBER 4 _ ;r U U ND ERG ROU N D at the Vth Forum N D E R G R 0 STA TOD Thurs., Fri., Sat., Sun.-11:00 P.M. -separate admission required 5th Ave. at Liberty, 761-9700 MAD MARVIN PRESENTS IN ANN ARBOR: CORRUPTION OF THE DAMNED-George Kuchar-One of the great film-makers presents a FEATURE LENGTH unforgettable Underground Comedy. "A wild orgy-filled odyssey. Seethes with violence and sex." -Village Voice Plus these great short films: VIVIAN-Bruce Conner-A study of a beautiful woman. SAN FRANCISCO TRIPS FESTIVAL-Ben Van Meter-A psychedelic documentary of the San Francisco Trips Festival and the Opening of the Psychedelic Shop. WORD MOVIE-Paul Sharits-Highly experimental. 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