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Show V s j Rowland Rock GOP Does Battle In Miami By DAVE ROWLAND i The nation's Republican party elite are in Miami, Florida until inursday to present their platform elcct new Party officials, and choose a presidential nominee. Experts Raise Questions Political experts around the country coun-try have raised several questions as to whether the avowed front runner, former Vice President Richard Rich-ard Nixon really has the nomination nomina-tion sewn up or whether the nod will go to Rockefeller, or Reagan, j or an unknown. iy The speculation against Mr. Nix-ij Nix-ij ' on has been rising in the last few I weeks and particularly within the -g last couple of days. Nixon Planning Acceptance While Nixon Viae hnon nt .- Cronkite said that according to a delegate recount Nixon was at least 80 votes away from a first ballot nomination. Nixon Heavy Favorite Nixon is still the heavy favorite of the state delegates, however. George GaUup states in a recent poll that the electors prefer him to Rockefeller 60 to 23 percent. Rockefeller has been relying on poll strength to boost his late bid for the nomination. A poll released late Sunday placed Rockefeller as the most popular candidate on the scene. The Rev. Ralph Abernathy and about 200 Negroes were planning to place a full page ad in a Miami newspaper Tuesday explaining why Rockefeller is the only Republican AU j. philosophy that will save the party in the years to come. The party, however, puts conservative philosophy philoso-phy above popularity, reasoning that if they are right, maybe it's not so important to win. Rockefeller feels that if Nixon blows his chances, the Republican regulars may conclude that the conservative philosophy indeed is a no-win philosophy, and will turn to a more liberal candidate, namely Rockefeller. Old Values Back There are a few, such as conservative con-servative columnist William Buckley, Buck-ley, who think that the country is now shifting back towards isolationism isola-tionism and other old values. The liberals counter that any such shift is a hopeless search on the part of the voters to recapture the glory that has faded from the American scene, and they compare the movement move-ment with the dangerous mood of the German people just before Hitler Hit-ler came to power in 1933. Question Remains The critical question to the falsely-unified Republican party is whether the Republican philosophy that is traditional, namely the philosophy philo-sophy of conservatism, of forced respect for the U.S. in foreign policy, pol-icy, of individual initiative, and of states rights will abide in 1968, or whether it will be replaced by a more popular political philosophy. By Friday all speculation will be obsolete. ! Newport Beach, California reported- ly writing his acceptance speech, ;: i support spanning the length and breadth of the country has been ' slipping from him. " Ronald Reagan has been making J inroads in the South, and taking " 1 j away several Nixon delegates. Independent candidate George Wallace's stepped-up effort in the southern states, as well as in the ; i rest of the country, only serves to ; weaken conservative-oriented Nix-; Nix-; on strength. ; , The withdrawal of support by ; some states, most notably the 56-' 56-' vote Texas delegation which now ' appears to be going with Reagan, the Rockefeller endorsements made 1 within the past few weeks by sev-: sev-: eral progressive-minded party pub-' pub-' ! lie officials, strong pro-Rockefeller neutrality on the part of two of the - three important favorite son candidates, candi-dates, and the rising popularity of j the New York governor in the Louis ' Harris and George Gallup polls only indicate that Mr. Nixon has a big fight on his hands if he expects to get the nomination on the first or second ballot. , Second Ballot Crucial There is an unwritten agreement among the delegates that if Mr. Nixon can't see victory at least on v-1 the second ballot, he will not see uiey udll suppui I. Must Attract Independents A strong Rockefeller argument, one that has been sending several party regulars back to their reassessment reas-sessment booths, is that to capture the presidency, the Republicans must appeal to dissatisfied Demo crats, and the majority of the Independents. In-dependents. Oddly enough, conservative Roi -aid Reagan and moderate Nelscn Rockefeller have joined forces ;o stop Nixon, despite their opposite political philosophies. The question of who the candidate will be if Nixon has a falling out after the second ballot, remains unanswered. Non-Candidate Candidate Ncn-candidate candidate Reagan (I guess Reagan is a candidate now). He declared Monday afternoon after-noon in a decision that shocked the heads of journalism from Podunk, New Jersey to Peoa, Utah reasons that since Nixon's views are closer to his than to Mr. Rockefeller's, he (Reagan) will be the benefactor. Reagan has been strengthened by the failure of a California interest group to have him recalled from his position as California's chief executive. ex-ecutive. Save The Party Rockefeller reasons he has the philosophy of the future, the only 2 victory at the polls November 5. The Nixon people admit they have lost at least 50 delegates in the past two weeks. Non-professional poll-' poll-' sters say the possibility of a first ballot Nixon victory is very dub-r dub-r ious now. At the first of July, a S first ballot Nixon sweep had been pretty much a certainty. "J Time Won't Talk fe;',J Time Magazine, which indicated '" in it's July 5 issue that Nixon had 688 votes, is now unwilling, after a i: delegate recheck, to speculate as to whether Nixon will get the nomi-nation nomi-nation on the first ballot or whether 1 he will get the nominatoin at all. ij CBS News had placed Richard H Nixon with more than 750 delegate ! votes until recent weeks. In a ' I CBS broadcast Monday, Walter |