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heasti, a continuine- and increasingly costly Vietnium war, or other decisivs fectors, Kennedy will be reedy and waiting to make the most: of it. He will unlessh ao whirlzind drive .o overvhelm Vico President ikumphzey and cny other contcstents, and cnatch the grand prize by storia. Concedcdly, thie is a simplificntion of a very couplex and voli tile gitu.tion. It's stutded with ifs and maybes. uch ci huppen iA) in the next 16 months, when the Democratic convention meots, snd acubtlLess wiil. But this is the way Kennedy end his inner group of "whiz-kia" Gévisers and speech writers are thinking and scheming. Ths HOT SHOTS tnis expleins why the power-minded New York Senator has let it be amowl ba will shortly nexe a widely fanfared speech on the Vietnam war. Alroady, ois ever-busy publicity minions have leaked word that he will advocate halting the bombing of North Vietnam and criticize other aspects of the cdwinistration's conduct of the conflict. Cannily, he will carete il¢ will be critical but not stridently so. It will bea a vomoncon policy toward Red China. While not directly assciling it, ha Gad °O round-cbout by advocating a let's-be-friendly-with-Poxing Cource. eucst Rov ha would do that, Kennedy carefully dia not say. Ho is . ekOc iy varko on details in all his declamations and vronouncements. “Gllorly, his cmery hos a curious tige-block. It never goes bac: to MAINTE aye DARE LIN area Arie ARO Sopa ee 90 mig lets srothor's Ac. .,.cvsation, in which ne was a principal mover and shaxer.