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DAILY, NEWS, APRIL 1970i fl 7i77 mw wnllll msQ Ms mmimnm tmiid mm By RICHARD MATHIEU Staff Correspondent of THE NEWS Rochester, N.Y., April 5 The curtain goes up tomorrow on the 1970 production of the Republican State Convention starring Gov. Rockefeller and his campaign for a fourth term in the Executive the nomination of Sen. Charles Goodell figures to stir the delegates. U.S. Sen.

Jacob Javits will give the nominating speech for the Among the Republicans under consideration are Fioravante G. Perrotta, former New York City finance director who ran for city controller last fall; Erie County Judga Joseph S. Mattina; Edward Regan, a former Buffalo council-man-at-large; and State Sena. Ronald B. Staffowl of Peru and John R.

Dunne of Garden City, L. I. The 360-member state committee meets Tuesday at 1 p.m. designate its choices. Tomorrow the executive committee meets to formally approve the platform and join in a reception tossed by Rockefeller for the delegates.

Rockefeller's acceptance speech is scheduled for 8 p.m. Tuesday. On Wednesday morning there will be a campaign kickoff breakfast for the candidates. governor. Javits has also accepted the post of chairman of Rockefellers reelection bid.

The cloud on an otherwise clear horizon for Rockefeller and his colleagues seeking another Lt. Gov. Malcolm Wilson, Attorney General Louis Lefko-witz and Goodell is the delegates' bitterness toward Gocdell. Reason for Criticism But the governor's program to pacify the county chairmen in behalf of the dovish senator has apparently succeeded. GoodeU's liberalism and criticism' of President Nixon's Vietnam policies have brought widespread criticism from party regu lars.

Republicans in at least seven counties have indicated their intentions of either walking out of the convention or abstaining from the vote on Goodell. The counties are 'Nassau, Suffolk, Rockland, Queens, Schoharie, Delaware and Ulster. Rockefeller, who arrives here tomorrow afternoon in his private jet, has backed Goodell 100. Rockefeller put the designation of his handpicked candidal on a take-him or forget-me basis. It is anticipated that the delegates want Rockefeller's charisma and unlimited financial backing-more than they dislike GoodeU's philosophy.

The only other unanswered NEWS photo br Paul DeMana via NEAS-AP Poriaoio wirepnoto Audrey Hoffman of Rego Park, Queens; Ellen Schlafly of New York City, and Valerie Lanigan (I. to daughter of GOP state chairman, get ready for state convention. IPlan Right Up 'Gov's Alley Rochester, N.Y., April 5 Gov. Rockefeller's domination of the Republican Party was evident today as the platform committee disclosed its recommendations before the Republican State Convention opens here tomorrow. They turned out to be duplicates of Rockefeller's State of the State message to the 1970 Legislature.

The Conservative Party also will name its statewide slate to-1 morrow at a convention here. Paul Adams, a Rochester collego professor and the party's candidate for governor in 1966, is expected to repeat his run. Party Vice Chairman Kieran O'Doherty hinted that the ticket also might include William F. Buckley, who ran for mayor in 19f5, or his brother, James Buckley, the party's U.S. Senate nominee in 1968.

James A. Fitzpatrick, commit- te chairman, aaid: "The plat- To improve the free enter-form pledges the Republican piise system. Party to the pursuit of five fun- assure that government damental, interrelated goals for remains responsible to the people's the decade of th 197ft whir-h needs. The Socialist Labor Party last night named Stephen Emery, G2, a subwav disDatcher. as its p-nh- question is who will oppose Demo- ernatorial candidate and picked cratic State Controller Arthur John Emanual, 62, a fur worker, Levitt.

for senator. Gov. Rockefeller has set forth ritzpatnck called his committee's work "a new kind of "Now we go to the people united, prepared, proven and confident to seek again the privilege of leading New York State in what we believe can be, with God's help, its highest period of fulfillment." The nine-page document, which will be submitted to the state committee tomorrow for approval, contained eight additional pages listing the Rockefeller administration's achievements. The convention will be held in the Flagship-Rochester Hotel. List the Goals Fitzpatrick listed these goals: To eliminate poverty and injustice and to make the opportunity for good education and good health a universal right.

To make all communities "Go to the People-He added: "Unlike traditional platforms that merely point with pride and view with alarm, it does not simply list a long series of pledges designed to appeal to safe to live in. I To restore and protect the quality of the environment. I The report ended with this call I to the delegates: rime IPmheirs Edl Espmito By SAM ROBERTS Powerful Brooklyn Democratic leader Meade Esposito has been subpenaed to appear tomorrow beofre the Joint Legislative Committee on Crime to answer charges linking him to a "crime-dominated union," The NEWS learned last night. Committee sources confirmed that Esposito will be grilled about Portable Wirephoto bandy Jones of New ork City has eyes only for Gov. Rockefeller at gathering for GOP state convention in Rochester.

charges made last week by former U.S. Attorney Robert Morgenthau that as a bank vice president, Esposito handled accounts "from two of the most organized crime-dominated locals in the northeast" and helped International Longshoremen's Association Vice President Anthony Scotto obtain a $250,000 loan to buy a country club in Engle-wood, N. J. Morgenthau May Testify Gary Axenf eld, counsel to State Sen. John Hughes (R-Syracuse); who heads the committee, said he "would imagine 'at some point in the investigation, Morgenthau will be asked to make statements." On leave as deputy mayor to seek the Democratic gubernatorial nod, Morgenthau unleashed his attack last week and urged candidate Arthur Goldberg to repu Goldberg Asks Mario: Enter the Gov Contest Challenging critics who charge he is "boss-controlled," Arthur Goldberg invited Mario Procaccino yesterday to enter the race for the gubernatorial nomination because "we ought to have an open primary and let the people decide." illy evidence and sworn personal testimony." Esposito also called upon the former prosecutor to apologize to New Yorkers "whom he has attempted to dupe for his own political gain." Challenge Declined Morgenthau refused Esposito's challenge, explaining that "the public has a right to know information about its party leaders.

The statement on Esposito was public information readily available and at no time did I say Esposito committed a crime." But, he added: "We are entitled to standards from party leaders higher than whefcher or not they have committed a crime." Goldberg's Critifcism Before news of the Republican-dominated committee's interest in the charges leaked out, Morgenthau wa3 criticized by Goldberg, who observed: "If I were a prosecutor, I would indict a man if he's committed a violation of law. If he did not commit a violation of law, then I would keep quiet about it." Axenfeld said he expects tomorrow's hearing to be open. He added that the crime committee's probe won't be limited to Esposito because Morgenthau indicated "that ha has other revelations to snake." nut Goldbergs remarks failed to cool what is shaping up as a week to assura a primary race for lieutenant governor by giving; Huntington, L.I., Town Supervisor Jerome Ambro enough votes to guarantee him a ballot berth. Appearing on WOR-TV's Nevr York Report, Nickerson warned, though, that 'if we simply ses Goldberg-Paterson posters go up Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant and not in Scarsdala and in Nassau County and elsewhere, the we'll know the fix was in." Tho remark was interpreted as a raft rence to reports! that part leaders were seeking to drop Pa arson. --Sim Btttftt heated primary contest.

His waiving of the Democratic Party designation was labeled "utterly meaningless" by Robert Morgenthau, and Eugene Nickerson accused Goldberg backers of "trying to dump Basil Paterson because they don't want a black on the ticket." Through a spokesman, however, Goldberg stressed the "symbolic" nature of his decision to waive the party's designation and take the petition route to the primary. Goldberg maintained that it was Paterson himself who appealed to state committeemen last Mead Esposito Subpenaed by committee comment last night. But earlier in the day, without mentioning the subpena, he challenged Morgenthau to appear with him "side by side under oath" before the committee "to publicly air his baseless smear against me." Ripping into charges of "guilt by innuendo," he said he is "prepared to refute in detail" all the allegations with "documentary diate the support of "disreputable, discredited oldline Tammany bosses" like Esposito. He Raps "Smear" Tn a telephone interview, Axen-feld said that although the sub-pena may have been served on Esposito at the Democratic State Committee meeting at Grossin-ger's last week, "there was no intention on our part to interfere with the processes of that convention." Esposito was not available for,.

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