26 Apr 1971
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1971
Page
1
The AP Business Report by Linda Rubey covers daily stock market movements. It notes major indices edging higher with gains in technology and financial shares amid modest trading volume. Analysts cite inflation data and corporate earnings as factors shaping investor sentiment.
Militants and poverty lobbyists shift focus to Congress after a large peaceful Capitol rally described by a police official as the biggest in history. They plan two weeks of nonviolent disruption and 24 hour lobby-style visits to push for expanded welfare aid. Police during a Quaker vigil at the White House moved 124 protesters beyond permit limits. arrests were for defying police lines with fines up to 2.25 dollars.
Secretary of State William Rogers began a two week trip from Andrews Air Force Base aiming to build Middle East peace. He will attend SEATO in London then CENTO talks in Ankara before visits to Saudi Arabia Jordan Lebanon Egypt and Israel.
Life Magazine quotes Mao Tse tung wanting to meet Nixon in Peking and Nixon expressing a desire to visit China. Edgar Snow, quoting Mao, and Life White House columnist Hugh Sidey report Nixon says a stable world order requires China, and he aims to extend friendship to Beijing.
A tour of free universities clinics cooperatives and communes shows an alternative society growing in cities like Berkeley Madison Cambridge Albuquerque Seattle and Atlanta. Doctors and lawyers form communes and free clinics while underground newspapers and radio stations spread a radical fringe culture. Sociologists say the movement attracts a large discontented youth stuck between schools jobs and military service, though critics note the groups rely on the larger economy.
Washington lawmakers clash over an 18 billion school desegregation bill. Senator Tevin of North Carolina seeks to strip language allowing funds for Catholic and other religious schools citing First Amendment concerns. Proposals to aid religious institutions are controversial amid broader aims to reduce minority student isolation.
Saigon AP reports U S troop strength in Vietnam dropped to 281400 men last week, the lowest in nearly five years and 2600 below the May 1 ceiling. Officials expect strength to slip to about 274000 by May 1, about 10000 under the ceiling as Nixon plans further cuts to 184000 by next December.
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