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Show oss discusses issues in upcoming campaign "In these times of tremendous change and upheavel some of it bad, but most of it good we must meet problems head on in working to find their solution." With these words, Senator Frank E. Moss opened a question and answer session to University students Thursday night to reveal his stands on vital issues facing him in the campaign for re-election. Supporting a policy of "get out with safety, but get out with speed," Sen. Moss stated, "We must cease offensive combat action ac-tion in Vietnam and withdraw as quickly as we can for the safety of our men and those involved with us." Convinced that the United States cannot settle the Vietnam war, he assured, "the South Vietnamese Viet-namese in any event will suffer less than if we stay there unable to end the conflict militarily." "If we do not at once declare a halt to offensive action," the Senator continued, "the war will overshadow all other issues in our country." Regarding student deferments from the draft, Sen. Moss called it "a grave mistake" not to let students complete at least their undergraduate work before being compelled to military service. "I look forward to the day when the draft is completely eliminated," he said, and explained ex-plained that this would be possible pos-sible with the withdrawal of troops from Southeast Asia and Europe by the encouraging of NATO countries to share the burden of military protection. "With this readjustment of the armed forces," he said, we could attract enough volunteers to form an army we could depend on. Sen. Moss attacked the present dispersement of government funds for pollution control declaring that financial priority is 70 times greater great-er for the military than for pollution. pol-lution. "We possess the technical know-how know-how to clean our air and water," he said, "we could virtually solve the problems if we would apply enough money and effort to them, but so far we haven't been willing to do so." He advocated a five to ten billion bil-lion dollar cut in the military budget bud-get to contribute to pollution control con-trol costs. The Senator does not foresee the present debts of the Democratic Party as "an influence that will tip the balance against the Democrats." Dem-ocrats." More concerned with the surplus funds possessed by the Republicans, Re-publicans, he cited the need to increase Democratic stimulus of large scale contributors to revamp re-vamp party funds. Expecting his "toughest political politi-cal battle" to ensue in the coming com-ing months, Senator Moss declares he will rely on his congressional record as compared with that of his opponent Representative Laurence Laur-ence Burton. He feels that a state which can vote overwhelmingly for both Richard Nixon and Calvin Cal-vin Rampton on the same ballot will easily recognize that Sen. Moss' record is superior. |