European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 1, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page b the stars and stripes thursday August 1, questions snid answers stars and stripes Dop Anthi Miami Beach Fla. Apas an Advance guard of Republican National convention Dele Gates starts work on a presiden tial Campaign platform some of the usual questions about such documents pop up. Here s an Effort to list and answer a few of ten asked q. Does a Campaign platform mean anything anyway a. That depends on your Point of View. If you take a party plat form As a blueprint of what the nominee will do if elected the chances Are you la be disappointed. But if you regard it Asa general statement of the party s attitude on major issues and take it As a clue to the direction a new administration i Likely to take it has its uses. A but if a Man accepts his party s nomination does t he Promise to carry out its plat form pledges a. In theory yes. But there Are qualifications. Many plat form planks represent Compro Mises among those who framed them and come out so Genera that they can be interpreted in different ways. Moreover newly elected president can t be sure of the support of co Gresson All his proposals he rarely gets it so he May not be Able to carry out the platform. Finally neither the platform writers no anyone else can foresee the changed circumstances and new problems that will come up in the next four . Who writes the platform a. A committee formally the resolutions committee of the convention. The republicans have a group of 100a Man and a woman from each state. The hold some joint sessions and break up into specialized sub committees on foreign affairs Urban problems education for example and hear people who have ideas to document they produce goes to the convention As whole for adoption. Usually it is. But there have been some hard fights Over convention planks when there Are Strong differences of opinion Between Candi dates or wings of the . Is the whole Job done in a week a. Not really. Before the com Mittee meets Spade work has been going on for months by party groups like the Republican coordinating committee Republican task forces in con Gress the staffs of members and officials. A mass of Preclik tested material is available and usually there is some sort of outline by the time the commit tee starts . Are party platforms going out of style a. The habit of writing them seems to be pretty Well fixed. How they stand Miami Beach up the United press International Tabu lation of Republican National convention Delegate first ballot preferences republicans 667 required to nominate Nixon 684, including 203 committed and 481 290, including 130 committed and 160 165, including 86 committed and 79 1 committed. Uncommitted 37favorite sons 155 columns 7 f comment airborne elephant an elephant balloon representing the Republican party s Symbol is hauled Down for the night after flying Over gop convention Hall in Miami Beach Fla. The elephant will Fly every Day of the convention. A photo police to surround convention Swu Ritu heart for Chicago a fifteen thousand soldiers police and Federal agents will turn the sit of the democratic National convention into an armed Cam this month in a giant Security Security arrangements could turn the convention nor Mally a Horn blowing spectacular into an austere exercise i martial order. Racial tensions in the City an the crowds of demonstrators and hippies who plan to come to Chicago will con Pound the Job of keeping order and protecting president Johnson should he attend and the round the clock at Chicago International amphitheatre and at hotels and motels housing delegates will become 8,000 uniformed and undercover policemen 5,500 riot trained National guardsmen and at least 1,000 Federal agents. More men will be available onshore notice from the Cook county sheriff s office state police the coast guard and the Fri. The remainder of Chica wraps it presumably was the secret service which ordered two air Force reconnaissance jets to make Low passes Over Chicago last week to photograph the amphitheatre and surround ing terrain. Security measures Are being taken on the amphitheatre grounds which sprawl across the Eastern Edge of the Union stockyards on the racially tens South Side. Fences Are going up and heliports being constructed reportedly for air lifting Candi dates to and from the Hall. The amphitheatre with585,000 Square feet of floor space under a single roof willbe sealed off within roughly an eight Square Block Buffer zone. To penetrate the perimeter both pedestrians and vehicles will be required to display democratic National committee credentials. Inside checkpoints will be established where guards reportedly will tear of perforated sections of the passes Good for Only one Day. Traffic court will be closed aug. 17-30, freeing 23 Magis will be allowed to approach the front of the amphitheatre or be kept blocks away. John m. Bailey democratic National chairman said outside performers will be barred fro the Hall and there will be no the number of persons expected to converge on the City for Antiwar and civil right demonstration ranges in the National mobilization committee organizer of a March on the Pentagon by War demonstrations except by Dele protesters has promised the Gates and Black nationalists May demonstrate in the Conven Tion area. Mayor Richard j. Daley s relations with the Blac Community have been Crum bling. Largest demonstrations in Amer ican history at the amphitheatre aug. 27, president Johnson birthday and aug. 28, the Day of the nomination. They also plan a March through the Loop on the 28th.the free City survival com Mittee a hippie group Hopes touring 50,000 youths to the City for a pop music festival they say they the convention will be stage Don the largely negro South Side 1 practical la on the turf of egg Jln a Street gang. Same state candidates it s possible by Carl p. a the United slates has never had president and. Vice president from the same slate but the reason is More political than for both democrats and republicans agree that the constitutional Barrier to having both candidates from the same state is easily overcome. The question is More than usual attention this year because of talk in both parties of nominating presidential and vice presidential candidate from the same states. There have been vice president Hubert h. Humphrey if he wins the demo cratic presidential nomination should pick rival sen. Kii ene , d-miiin., As his run Ning also have been suggestions that former vice president Richard m. Nixon the Republican front runner pick Newyork mayor John v. Lindsay As his running mate. Nixon lives in new Constitution deals with the situation in the 12th Amend ment. It states that when the presidential electors meet .15_well after the election they shall vote by ballot for presi Dent and vice president one of whom at least shall not be a inhabitant of the same state with other words the 10 Minne Sota electors if a Humphrey Mccarthy ticket carried the state could not vote for both Humphrey for president and Mccarthy for vice , the problem could easily be solved by Haim Humphrey switch his official Resi Dence from Waverly Minn to Washington . Win to he has an apartment. Mccarthy being Minnesota senator would pie sum ably stay the republicans problems raised by a 1lindsay ticket would be Rei because now York s 4.1 Elee votes would More Likely be Fiig however both Mccarthy and Lindsay have said they a interested in run Muu for not f i. I a Isi i a 7 i 7 i to go s 12,000-Man police depart trates to process Large numbers � 1 u i can of in Iii Panf of Ament including a Mobile 600 Man task Force will be on standby. 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