By JACK BELL
WASHINGTON, Wl— Vice Pre
sident Richard Nixon and Sen.
John Kennedy fought a bristling
television battle Friday night that
left them miles apart on most
campaign issues.
With millions of Americans
looking on and listening in, the
unsmiling presidential nominees
found common ground on only a
few topics.
Neither would go into any sum
mit conference without prior dip
lomatic spadework and some tan
gible assurance that Soviet Pre
mier Khrushchev meant to nego
tiate and not just grind out pro
paganda.
If recession threatened, both
would consider tax cuts to pump
new life into the economy.
Each sees difficult times ahead,
with spending for defense, econ
omic assistance and other pro
grams rising.
But from Cuba to Formosa Ken
nedy and Nixon disagreed on in
ternational affairs. They threw
sharp remarks at each other about
civil rights. They whacked at each
other about the nation’s position
in the cold war. They argued
over the depressed areas problems
and economic conditions general
ly.
Who won? Both sides thought
they had, although the debaters i
themselves said the decision won’t!
be known until next month’s elec- ]
tion.
This second of four scheduled
debates had none of the polite toe
dancing that marked the candi
dates’ first encounter. They never
used the word, but each came
close to calling the other a liar.
More than once the cameras
found Kennedy listening to his
Republican opponent with an air
of disbelief, a “what's this?” ex
pression on his face.
Nixon, on the other hand,
stared grimly straight ahead as
his rival spoke, blinking his eyes
as he stores up ammunition for
an often caustic reply as his rival
spoke.
The Vice President, whose pic
ture left some of his supporters
wincing in the first debate, show
ed up much better in this second
effort. Kennedy appeared a little
more relaxed than his rival.
Nixon fielded the first question
and started off with the “don’t
agree” note that held throughout
most of the crossfire of exchanges.
He didn’t agree, he said, with
Kennedy’s statement as related by
the questioner that the Eisen
hower administration should take
the responsibility for the “loss”
of Cuba.
He said he doesn’t believe Cuba
is lost. He said there isn’t any
question that the people there
who want to be free “are going
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attain their freedom.”
But he wanted to make one
thing clear, Nixon said: ‘‘There
I isn’t any question but that we
! will defend our rights there.”
I Kennedy replied tartly he never
; said Cuba was lost but only that
“today Cuba is lost to freedom.”
The candidates clashed just as
acridly over the defense of For
mosa, held by the Chinese Nation
alists, Kennedy said the islands of
Quemoy and Matsu, off the coast
of China, had been called inde
fensible in 1958 by Christian A.
Herter, then Undersecretary of
State, as well as by military lead
ers.
“I think it is unwise to take
the chance of being dragged into
a war which may lead to a world
war over two islands which are
not stategically defensible, which
are not, according to their testi
mony, essential to the defense of
Formosa,” he said.
Nixon fired back that he com
pletely disagreed with Kennedy.
“Now, I think as far as Quemoy
and Matsu are concerned that the
question is not the two little
pieces of real estate," the Vice
President said. “They are unim
portant. It isn’t the few people
who live on them. They are not
too important. It is the principle
involved.”
He said that if the United States
forced its Nationalist allies off
the islands, a chain reaction
might result.
“In my opinion,” he said, “this
is the same kind of wooly think
ing that led to disaster for Am
erica in Korea. I am against it.
I would never tolerate it as Pres
ident of the United States, and I
will hope that Sen. Kennedy will
change his mind if he should be
elected."
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Queen Elizabeth Sports
Bruises and Cut on Leg
PERTH, Scotland, Wi — Queen
Elizabeth II appeared at a public
| function today with two large
: bruises and an angry-looking cut
on her right leg.
Buckingham Palace could give
no information on the injuries.
“We have absolutely no idea of
the cause nor can we check,” a
palace spokesman said.
There was speculation the queen
might have been bitten by one
of her pet dogs, notable for their
truculence, even toward royalty.
Or perhaps, others said, the queen
might have had difficulty with a
horse. The queen is a great horse
lover and while on vacation at
Balmoral Castle often goes riding.
The queen was here to open a
new bridge over the River Tay.
Prince Phillip, her husband, was
with her.
JUDGE HODGE RETURNS
JUDGMENT IN FAVOR OF
LEE BROS. AND BANK
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costs and in the second and third
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BRYAN, Tex,, UP) — “Why are
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the Kennedy - Johnson campaign
headquarters Friday.
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