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Show The Presidential Race , Socialist Halstead Hits Campus' V tfi .- --(, ! If 'sA CwJC' ti (Editor's Note: This is the first cf a series of articles on Presidential possibilities and candidates whose names will be appearing on the Choice '68 ballot. Future articles include interviews with Robert Kennedy, Ken-nedy, Eugene McCarthy and George Wallace. Voting for Choice '68 will take place April 24, with an expected ex-pected turnout of more than five million.) By PHIL SEMAS College Press Service WASHINGTON (CPS) "First we ought to knock off the imperialism" imperial-ism" is the way one Presidential candidate views needed changes in foreign policy. Fred Halstead, the candidate of the Socialist Workers Party, is a . great contrast to the men who are seeking the nominations of the major ma-jor parties, both in the positions' he takes and the way he campaigns. Robert F. Kennedy hired a plane to take the body of Martin Luther King to Atlanta and even less well-heeled well-heeled candidates like Eugene McCarthy Mc-Carthy and Harold Stassen travel by plane. Halstead and his running mate, black power leader Paul Bou telle, travel by bus and often allot whole days of their schedule for travel. Both have campaigned extensively exten-sively on campuses, where antiwar anti-war and pro-black sentiment is heavy. They received a major windfall when Halstead was placed on the ballot of Choice '68, a national na-tional presidential primary being held on 1,400 campuses, along with Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Eugene McCarthy, Robert Kennedy, and eight others. The Socialist Workers campaign has pushed hard to get even more campuses involved invol-ved in the election. There is also a two-part referendum refer-endum on the war, one on level of troops, the other on bombing. Halstead Hal-stead has been urging students to vote for immediate withdrawal of troops and an end to the bombing, no matter who they vote for for president. He and Boutelle are also urging students to write in "black control of the black community" , under the referendum question on the urban crisis, which deals only with alternatives for government spending. All this is being done in a four-month four-month campaign tour that will end in early May. Halstead is somewhat surprised at the wide anti-war sentiment he has found. He says he has had no "bad experiences," such as disruptions dis-ruptions of his speeches, although there were efforts to ban Boutelle in Oklahoma and Louisiana. More people, says Halstead, are speaking out against the war all the time. "I run into many people who say T have a relative who's going and I don't like this war," he says. "I sometimes shock some of my younger radical friends by telling them that this country is freer than it's ever been. But it is, even with all the oppression. People are starting to use their civil liberties, now." Halstead is also urging soldiers to vote and often campaigns in towns close to military bases where a good number of GI's often attend t. tai his speeches. He says he finT3 "bitterly hostile reaction" J0 soldiers, rt I interviewed Halstead on urday morning in the kitchenX Washington campaign small apartment, where hn -t slept on the couch the night be' As for negotiations in Vie which are advocated by botlrr nedy and McCarthy, Halstead? "There's nothing to negotiate d the traffic problems for ourtp, leaving. I'm sure the NLFaijj?! North Vietnamese will be wity to co-operate on that." r Besides advocating immed' withdrawal from Vietnam a$f ' posed to negotiations, Halstead;. -disagrees with most other af' dates on the bases of Amer L foreign policy. "We can't stop tiL revolutions such as is happeL in Vietnam. World peace doejij depend on the internal social L terns of individual countries. t, depends on the big powers not L ting at loggerheads with oneig other. The present foreign polj of the United States means L every time there's one ot ft internal revolutions we're goingf turn it into a threat to world by intervening. We should such interventions." ' |