Youth Vote Likely to Aid Democrats
article on Repub and Dem efforts to recruit new voters who will be between 18 and 21 in '72 and indications that Dems will attract larger share of them
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article on Repub and Dem efforts to recruit new voters who will be between 18 and 21 in '72 and indications that Dems will attract larger share of them
24-hr allied truce ends with S Vietnamese and Amers accusing the enemy of 51 cease-fire violations, including mining of a ferryboat that took lives of 36 civilians; enemy's unilaterally declared 48-hr truce has not ended; ferryboat mined near Dongha; map
Lindsay urges Rockefeller to seek restoration of full state aid for antinarcotics programs in city, cut thus far from $60-million per yr to $20-million
comment on Nixon's strategy for '72 elections notes that he devotes less and less energy to attempts to promote his Vietnam policy or mollify its critics
lack of control and understanding of Eurodollar mkt linked to present monetary crisis; role discussed; flow of Eurodollars from US to Eur reptdly began when Nixon Adm called for easing money supply and lowering US interest rates to stimulate business and employment in US; mkt, which began with $1-billion at end of '50s, now has $50-billion; Bank for Internatl Settlements has com to study methods of control and EEC comm has called for EEC action to keep Eurodollar rate in line with natl levels; US Treas and Export-Import Bank recently offered special Eurodollar securities to mop up some of supply and Brit Treas has forbidden Brit cos to borrow Eurodollars for domestic use for less than 5 yrs; additional moves expected to make mkt more manageable
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 5, 1971, covering May 10, 1971.
Various Artists
Janis Joplin
Crosby| Stills| Nash & Young
The Partridge Family
Three Dog Night
In 1971, the world population was approximately 3,769,847,865 people[†]