Nixon Attacks U.S. Position In World

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31805, 9 October 1968, Page 18

Nixon Attacks U.S. Position In World

• ■ J 4 •■> ' (N.X.PJL.«ReuteT—Copyright) BUFFALO (New York), October 8. Mr Richard Nixon said last night that the United States had spent nearly $490,000m on defence but “we have seen our military power dissipated.” Mr Nixoii, with Governor Nelson Rockefeller, of New York, at his side, brought his campaign for the Presidency to this industrial city to the cheers of about 25,000 people jammed into the War Memorial Auditorium.

The two New York Senators, Messrs Jacob Javits and Charles Goodell, also were with Mr Nixon.

Mr Nixon said that in addition to the defence drain “we’ve spent $35,000m in the race for space but we have fallen behind.” “We have seen our long lead in science cut away to the point where there is real danger of a crucial research gap," he said. “We have lost nearly half of our gold. We have seen confidence in our dollar serfouslv shaken. “Only new leadership can make America what she should be: number one among the nations of the world in progress, leadership and excellence.”

Earlier in Washington Mr Nixon hinted that he would offer senior Cabinet posts to Democrats as well as Republicans if he becomes President

“I think we will have a bipartisan Cabinet,” he told a Washington conference of editors and publishers. There has been no serious hint so far of the availability of a leading Democrat for inclusion in a Nixon Cabinet. United Press International reported in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, that Mr Hubert Humphrey called Mr Nixon a liar and warned the nation it could trust neither the G.O.P. candidate nor Mr George Wallace.

In stops in Erie, WilkesBarre and Scranton, Mr Humphrey flayed Nixon and Wallace—attacking his opponents with equal enthusiasm and vigour—and drew repeated ovations from large and generally friendly crowds. Mr Humphrey, who again repeated his challenge to Mr Nixon that they debate on national television, adopted a new tactic, speaking as if the G.O.P. candidate were present

Standing on an open truck and looking down at the crowd which filled a large area in front of him in Wilkes-Barre, Mr Humphrey said, addressing Mr Nixon, “Come clean like a man. You’re afraid to do it I

challenge you, Mr Nixon, to debate and I will do it across the land.” The Associated Press reported that the Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate. Senator Edmund Muskie, ran into the roughest heckling of his campaign as demonstrators disrupted his speech at Syracuse University. A woman with an electronic loud-hailer and others drowned out Senator Muskie until a group of students, identified by a school spokes-

man as members of the Syracuse football team, moved in among the hecklers. The Republican Vice-Presi-dential candidate, Governor Spiro Agnew, campaigning in North Carolina, hammered at Federal spending and fired several barbs at Mr Wallace. Mr Agnew said: “The Federal deficit is an economic hang-over that can’t be cured in the Humphrey family pharmacy,” a reference to the Vice-President's one-time business in Minnesota.