Washington Visit Planned By YR's

Because conservative Republicans "fear for their lives" when they come to Harvard, 25 young Republicans will go to Washington next Monday and Tuesday to visit them where they presumably feel safer.

Robert H. Lavietes '71, former president of the Young Republicans, said the group was going to Washington because conservative speakers have been unwilling to come to Harvard. He cited "cost as well as fear for their lives" as the chief stumbling blocks in the way of visitations from the right to Cambridge.

Among those the Young Republicans will meet on Monday are Senators Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.) and Strom Thurmond (R-S-C.), and Attorney General John N. Mitchell. The group will visit with 11 other leading Republican government officials over the two-day period.

The Young Republicans had hoped to meet with their selection for "Republican of the Year 1970,"-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew-but George H.Bredig '72, program director for the YR's, said that such a meeting could not be arranged.

The Young Republicans travel to Washington every year to meet with government officials, John Q. Johnson '73 said yesterday, Johnson, the vice-president of the club, said that the group usually goes with a specific discussion topic in mind. Last year the topic of conversation was the situation in the Middle East.

This year, because the Young Republicans "wanted to learn about the issues, personality, and mechanisms of politics," Lavietses said there would be no definite subject during the free-form question-and-answer meetings.

In addition to Goldwater, Thurmond and Mitchell, the club will visit with such Republican stalwarts as Rep. Geraid R. Ford (R-Mich.), John A. Volpe, Secretary of Transportation, Sen. John Sherman Cooper (R-Ky.), and Supreme Court Justice John M. Harlan on Monday,