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...President's belated blockade has the backing of every patriotic citizen. But where was Mr. Kennedy while the Soviets were setting up dangerous nuclear missile bases in Cuba? He was out campaigning against reckless Republicans like Senator Capehart, who demanded a Cuban blockade...
Those Republicans who had long been demanding tougher action on Cuba and who made it an important theme of their campaign, seemed likely to gain. Prominent among these were Indiana's Senator Homer Capehart and Pennsylvania's Senatorial Candidate James Van Zandt. Such experienced world affairs hands as California's Gubernatorial Candidate Richard Nixon also would benefit...
Politics '62 (ABC, 1:30-2 p.m.). Campaigns in Connecticut, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana and Nebraska. Interviewed are: former HEW Secretary Abraham Ribicoff, candidate for U.S. Senator from Connecticut; Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, up for re-election in Illinois; Senator Homer Capehart, running for re-election in Indiana; Robert A. Taft Jr., candidate for Congressman at large in Ohio; Michael Di Salle, running for re-election as Governor of Ohio; former Interior Secretary Fred Seaton, running for Governor in Nebraska...
...tactic can be dangerous. In Indiana, for example, Republican Senator Homer Capehart advocated a direct U.S. invasion of Cuba, hastily backed away when it seemed to be losing him votes. Yet the Democrats are clearly embarrassed by the foreign policy issue, prefer to discuss domestic matters whenever possible. If Cuba must be talked about, they argue, it should be talked about in the vaguest of terms. Urges the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee in a memo to party candidates: "Be for a course of action on Cuba, but a course of action short of invasion...
Advance, it seems, has become a cheer-leader for the Republican Party rather than a force for enlightened change. Why didn't it, for instance, take out after Sen. Homer Capehart, who is up for re-election in Indiana? Why don't its writers, in short, stop sounding like they inevitably will in 30 years...