European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 17, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              The stars and stripes log 9 that last Rocky poll had its bumps professionals and a lot of other i have been and loudly awaiting hit plys poll of her. It it Erti Ltd ,. Dollop and Worth a few moment ten the idea wat that the polls l Utho w or. Rockefeller Ritang relative Nixon and that that rat. Would it Republican convention to recon or i apparent determination to Nom u Richard Nixon for president he strip called for a very considerable tit mint of Money in newspaper and it Lisments radio and . Spott Calcut id to flush out latently pro Rockefeller Fri men or latently Anh Nixon senti whichever was least constipated i along comes or. Gallup to announce has the Campaign faired. I alas for the producers very poorly very or a indeed. In fact disastrously. Where b two weeks ago a couple of million liars ago or. Rockefeller clocked in 39 per cent of the votes now he Bines in with 36 per cent of the votes f response to Madison Avenue s Blitzkrieg 1,1th is to say the least ungrateful. To i sure or. Nixon also went Down during same period though lest so 37 per Lent to 35 per Cen which suggests the Sivility that or. Rockefeller s Campaign Weh ii aimed at hurting or. Nixon while Lou Schneider helping or. Rockefeller is indeed hurting or. Nixon though hurting or. Rocke Feller even More. Cui Bono one would think that All of this internecine warfare would help or. Humphrey. In fact it did not do so. He lost two Points during the same period. Well if everybody lost Points Rockefeller Nixon Humphrey who gained them George Wal lace that s who. He Rose two Points on a state featuring Nixon As the Republican candidate and four Points with Rockefeller As the Republican candidate. The plot thickens. The poll showed that if the election were held tomorrow or. Humphrey would beat or. Nixon 45-35 but would Only tie or. Rockefeller 36-36. The easy Assumption that Rockefeller is greatly favored among the voters is dashed by the figures since the poll shows that he and Nixon Are separated by a Mere one percentage Point of popularity a statistically negligible margin. What then accounts for the great shift it is the extraordinary Datum that in the event of a Rockefeller nomination Humphrey s vote would go Down and Wallace s would go up. Understanding this takes a Little time or in any Case took me a Little time. Perhaps it Means that among american voters 5 per cent at least be Lieve that Rockefeller i to the left of Humphrey and would therefore slide away from Humphrey to Rockefeller. Meanwhile 5 per cent of the voters normally disposed to vote for the Republican upon finding Rockefeller there As presidential candidate would in turn slide Over towards a protest vote towards George Wallace. In other words the strength of Rocke Feller lies in the conviction of 5 per cent of the voters perhaps More than that after he has spent another court of Mil lion dollars that he is More stoutly Liberal bound than or. Humphrey. How Ever according to the present analysis As Many As he gets from the Humphrey left he apparently loses to the Wallace protest right. Which would suggest that or. Rockefeller and the Republican party Are hard put to establish a claim to absolute popularity for Rockefeller. What he gains from Over there to the left he loses Over there to the right. If you add the argument that at the crunch the third party vote Withers and wanders sheepishly Back Home Are you making an argument for Rockefeller or for Nixon surely the Diaspora caused by the Republican nomination of a candidate widely thought to be on the left of Hubert Humphrey would hearing the bugles of patriotism respond More massively to Nixon than to Rockefeller other Points of interest. College graduates favor Nixon Over Humphrey 46-39, which is the Best thing anybody has recently remarked about the values of a College education. On the other hand alumni of graduate schools favor Humphrey Over Nixon 41-29, which confirms the worst suspicions we Harbor about Over education. On the other hand get this graduate students while favouring Humphrey Over Rockefeller 40 to 26, record a stunning 25 for George Wallace. Put another Way those in America who have received the highest educations apparently split about evenly Between Rockefeller and Wallace. More catholics Are much More heavily anti Nixon than protestants. They go 53-27 for Humphrey Over Nixon 46-36 Humphrey Over Rockefeller. Explain that. Jewish Vot ers Are 79-4 Humphrey Over Nixon 62-29 Humphrey Over Rockefeller. Independent voters Are 31-36 Humphrey is. Nixon 28-35 Humphrey is. Rockefeller which says that Nixon is slightly More popular than Rockefeller among Independent voters which is like saying that the world is Flat and that two plus two make five the Only reasons we have not heard As yet in favor of nominating or. Rocke Feller on the Republican ticket. M below Olympus by Interlandi because of the upcoming political conventions businessmen i Are paying increased attention to the behaviour of the potential i candidates. In a nutshell businessmen i Don t like the meddling methods of sen. Eugene Mccarthy. Though Mccarthy has since retracted he did say he planned Flo go to Paris to talk with the North vietnamese peace negotiators. Thus he meddled in the difficult negotiations and gave the enemy an excellent propaganda Crutch to Hurt washing ton s stance and he openly advised presi Dent Johnson to allow vice presi Dent Hubert Humphrey to set his own course toward the demo to talc presidential nomination. That they say is meddling with another Man s private Way of i life. And Mccarthy hinted he would Aid Republican gov. Nelson Rockefeller to obtain the gop presidential nomination if Rocky would revise his foreign policy to please him. That displays a Rule or ruin attitude and even his aides say he pulled a Boner. Businessmen say it is obvious i if Mccarthy should become president he would meddle in All areas of the notional econ omy on a Rule or ruin basis. Labor leaders agree with the i businessmen. Former vice president Richard m Nixon Republican presidential a Fant made this Clear in peaking of the next adm Elstra on in Washington a � first task of the new a Dent i to halt the inflation. Y trend n our fiscal and Mono policies and re examine hit eign economic policy Nixon said. Bankers and businessmen agree there should be an immediate end to the inflation sweeping the nation. So do the nation s 50 million housewives. Business leaders Are of the opinion that the Senate will approve Johnson s nomination of . Supreme court associate Justice Abe Fortas to replace re tiring chief Justice Earl Warren and . Circuit court of appeals judge Homer Thornberry to fill the Fortas vacancy. Then they add Johnson May still have to name others to the supreme court before he Steps Down next january. There Are three such possibilities. Justice Hugo Black is 82 years old and has spoken frequently in recent Days about retiring. Justice John m. Harlan 69, has a serious Eye ailment. And jus Tice William o. Douglas 70, wears an electronic Pace setter to stimulate his lagging heart action. Business leaders Are informed that if any or All of these men step out after the political conventions Johnson might Confer with both major party presiden tial candidates on choices to fill the vacancies or leave the posts unfilled until the new president assumes his official duties. There was general agreement in the business world that the defense department got an Eye Ful of soviet air Force alertness in the Seaboard world airlines incident. Whether or not the plane did Fly Over soviet territory the fact is that two soviet fighter jets did get up there in Quick time. Said a retired military top level officer who now holds a High spot in corporate activity it shows that the reds Are on the Job and do a darned Good Job. That Means they would not be an easy Mark  can lbs keep lid on Mideast crisis to _   & a i a a of Rul f Henry j. Taylor whole sweep of America s for to opinion the in us column Tsutou government president Johnson attempt ing to show that the administration has achieved better relations with the Kremlin prefers to keep the mounting Middle East crisis largely under wraps. But the question is will the soviets let or. Johnson keep the lid on this until after f h o november elections the joint chiefs of staff know that the soviet Mako its moves like the player in o Chatt game teeing the moves ahead All the while. The Kremlin Tatt one Pivotal Posi Tion to dominate the next Pivotal position. Thl it the Bali for the soviet s Antl Mirael Pivot. It helps to harness the Arab world in an Onti american Tanct. And hit Basic purpose is to overextend the United states into the most Distant far Flung Points of the Compass. Moreover in manipulating the pressures against the free world the Kremlin Rule is never let the steam out of one sequence with out getting another one  Well established in Cuba the soviet Union shifted its aggressions from Cuba to far Distant Vietnam. And now the Kremlin hat gone greatly beyond any thing we Are told in lining up its Chest Board in the Mideast. President Johnson and former defense Secretary Robert s. Mcnamara contrived until late 1966 to keep from general knowledge the fact that the Vietnam War coils had grown to about $20 billion o year. The proclaimed Cost paring was achieved chiefly in two ways 1 by stretching out procurement programs and 2 by stripping equipment and inventories from our combat forces elsewhere to Supply the needs in Vietnam All of which the Kremlin Well knows. The result directly and enor Mously complicates the Mideast crisis. This column reported some unrevealed facts from the . 6th Fleet Headquarters in Naples. That great Fleet has been cannibalized. There Are dangerous shortages throughout the Fleet while the soviet builds up its chess like counterforce. Naples based adm. C. D. Grif Fin hit commander of Allied forces Southern Europe was Al ways convinced that Tho soviet Mediterranean naval buildup that began after the Israel Arab War would expand and expand and be permanent. Except for Turkey Israel Tunisia and Morocco the entire Southern rim of the Mediterranean is hostile to the United states. Egyptian syrian and Al Gerian harbours Are available to the expanding soviet Mediterranean Fleet. To the Southeast if the soviet Union can also attract on an anti Israel basis the regimes in Jordan Yemen and saudi Ara Bia Moscow can acquire air and naval lodgements that have been used by Britain and the United states that dominate the entire Indian Ocean area. This it a tremendous soviet strategic accomplishment. F o r step by step the soviet Union hat overextended american Power around the Globe