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$un March 17 1968 Fort Collins Coloradoan 13 lobby losses Hat' ion Umq Arnod Boos Cheers WASHINGTON (AP) Sen Robert Kennedy D-NY soared into Democratic presidential contention Saturday with New Yorkers primary Kennedy said he would be glad to campaign there for McCarthy McCarthy said be think it would make a deal of if Kennedy did speak for him in Wisconsin where the Minnesota senator now is campaigning expect I can win in Wisconsin alone as I won in New Hampshire without any outside he said in a broadcast from Green Bay three-way race of delegate slates in that state Kennedy said he and McCarthy there In San Francisco State Atty Gen Thomas Lynch who' heads Johnson's forces said1 Kennedy had dealt a major blow to presidential aspirations i entry into the president tial race and into the California-primary virtually insures the nomination of President John- Lynch said Boo Cheer and difficulties of challenging an incumbent But he added: ordinary times and this is not an ordinary election At stake is not simply the leadership of our party or even our it is our right to moral leadership on this The New York senator said he would enter the California primary and permit his name to remain on the ballot in Nebraska and Oregon He will directly oppose McCarthy and Johnson in these three contests Kennedy said he will decide later whether to get into other primaries Because it is too late for him to enter the April 2 Wisconsin a call to Sen Eugene McCarthy D-Minn to join in a tandem attack on President renomination Coolly confident after the strong race be ran against Johnson in New Hampshire primary McCarthy replied that the best potential president in the Outwardly undisturbed by charges that the country is on a because of the divisive" policies Johnson flew off for a week-end at his Texas ranch after bantering about the New York plunge into the contest Kennedy told a supporter-packed televised and broadcast news conference in the Senate Caucus room where John Kennedy officially began his quest for the presidency eight years ago that he was not running merely to oppose Johnson the man his assassinated brother had picked for his vice president His wife Ethel and nine of their 10 children were seated behind the senator as be read a statement and then answered questions In the statement he said: run because I am convinced that this country is on a perilous course and because I have such strong feeling about what must be done that I am obliged to do all I can run to seek new policies to close the gaps between black and white rich and poor young and old in this country and around the world I run for the presidency because I want the Democratic party to stand fins hope instead of despair for the reconciliation of men instead of the growing risk of world Sounding his principal campaign theme he said that reality of recent events in Vietnam has been glossed over with Both he and McCarthy have proposed gradual de-escalation of the war effort leading toward negotiations which might result in a coalition government in Saigon Before leaving Washington Johnson told a gathering of businessmen that are going to in Vietnam at the negotiating table but on the battlefield if we In obvious reference to action Johnson said that are days we have to take chances Some speculate in gold primary metal and some people just speculate in the Kennedy said he did not dismiss the dangers Forty percent of the conti Official figures showed that when write-ins on the Republican ballot were included McCarthy polled a total of 28791 votes to 29021 in New Hampshire McCarthy said he would like to have had some nental United States is drained by the Mississippi River POUDRE VALLEY McCarthy Responds With Some Sharp Jabs NEW YORK (AP) Sen Robert Kennedy met the people-thousands of for the first time as a presidential candidate Saturday and a noisy but decidedly mixed reception Raucous booing blended with wild cheers as the 42-year-old New York Democrat strode 38 blocks up Fifth Avenue under leaden skies in the annual St Day parade Squealing schoolgirls raced past policemen to embrace him and touch his coat or his shaggy hair And booing men urged him to back to a out of the The prevalent anti-Kennedy gesture along the parade route was a violent thumbs-down signal accompanied by hissing and booing At the comer of 80th Street and Fifth Avenue Kennedy looked up and saluted three persons waving to him from a fifth-floor Mrs John Kennedy John Jr and an unidentified woman help from Kennedy there but it was not forthcoming Kennedy said that where he and McCarthy both are running against Johnson the base of opposition to the President will be broader than if only one were entered McCarthy said he saw no reason why people against the President Kennedy said going in to in California McCarthy said think I can in a MOTORS CAMPER SHOW March 25-30 Be Here! senator was better qualified for the presidency McCarthy said he was as well qualified as the late Kennedy was in 1960 McCarthy said there was room for both Kennedy and himself in the list challenging Johnson but may clutter up the track a run as hard as he could Then he said if he saw that he could not win in the Democratic convention in Chicago in August he would release his candidates He said he think it would be possible for him to turn any delegates that he had over to some one else see coming up really been moved to There seemed to be an edge of bitterness in some of comments about Kennedy but he said pass any judgment on his And as for what he said was an implication in announcement that the New York between us as a kind of football the Minnesota senator said But he added that he was glad to test his record and qualifications against Kennedy McCarthy said he saw no reason he couldn't go on to win the other primaries that announcement had made change in my and that INDIANAPOLIS Ind (AP) -Sen Eugene McCarthy jabbed at Sen Robert Kennedy Saturday for the playing after the New Hampshire primary had been fought and told several hundred cheering supporters that he would make no compromise and no concessions The Minnesota Democrat be Sooperb Meats Guaranteed -r Health and Beauty Specials! 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