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Show Poll Reveals War Hawks By David Lloyd Chronicle Staff Writer University students voted Friday and Saturday Sat-urday to increase the draft call and send more men to Viet Nam in an effort to speed up the war and bring it to an end. Figures by the Chronicle staff taken from a random sampling of 200 upperclass men and women showed 71 per cent in favor of escalating escalat-ing the war. 23 per cent believed that it was moving fast enough, 4 per cent had no opinion and 2 per cent demanded an immediate withdrawal. with-drawal. The fear of using tactical weapons with nuclear warheads was so great that 68 per cent favored using up all other resources first. 23 per cent wanted to use nuclear weapons, weap-ons, and 9 per cent were undecided. The majority, ma-jority, however, had no fear of Red China entering the war any more than it is. A strong 52 per cent said Communist China wouldn't get any more involved, 44 per cent felt China would enter the conflict in the very ' near future, with a typical 4 per cent not commenting. com-menting. A large : majority reflected the current national na-tional loss of faith in the Johnson Administration, Adminis-tration, with 62 per cent showing thumbs down on the way Johnson is handling the war. A slight 27 per cent thought he was doing the best that could be expected at the present time, and 11 per cent didn't know. In fact, 54 per cent would prefer Bobby Kennedy Ken-nedy over Lyndon who gained only 26 per cent scupport, with 20 per cent having no opinion, if such a choice would have to be made in '68. With such a division in the Democratic camp, it is easy to see why 60 per cent of those polled would prefer a Moderate Republican in 1968; 34 per cent dissented and 6 per cent couldn't say. On the Congressional scene, 58 per cent were against any new Civil Rights legislation. 26 per cent were for more legislation, 12 per cent wanted most of what has been passed repealed. re-pealed. The usual 4 per cent guessed they didn't know. |