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...Wendell Willkie only managed to nail down the nomination on the sixth, have Republicans been confronted with so wide open a race. Moreover, when the convention comes to order in Miami Beach on Aug. 5, the field may well remain as crowded as it is right now. The likelihood then is for a "brokered" convention-one in which nobody has enough strength to win until after protracted private horse trading. "Nobody is so far ahead that he can't be beaten," said a Republican state chairman from New England. Nor is anybody so far behind that...
...spot, 1) Nixon and Romney would have to gut one another in the primaries, 2) bandwagons for Reagan and Percy would have to be derailed before they got rolling, 3) the moderate Governors would have to coalesce be hind their colleague from New York, and 4) Rocky, in all likelihood, would have to strike a deal with the conservatives in advance by guaranteeing the second spot to Reagan...
Huntington opposes the idea of immediate negotiations--"there is nothing to negotiate right now"--or of a unilateral bombing pause on the part of the South or the U.S. without "a strong likelihood of a constructive result." An unsuccessful bombing pause, he feels, would only strengthen the hand of the hawks, and "the net result is likely to be a vast escalation spurred by popular impatience...
Cohen reportedly retorted that, far from helping to prevent a third world by stopping the Communists in South Vietnam, the U.S. instead had both greatly increased the likelihood of a third world war and was driving a basically nationalistic Communist state to the international Communist giants in order to obtain arms for defense...
Last Spring when discussing the likelihood of naming such a sub-committee Ford had proposed that "responsible discussion with student groups," such as the Harvard Undergraduate Council, be included in its study...