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Saturday January 1, 1972
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This Day In 1970's History: Saturday January 1, 1972
  • Mrs. Pat Nixon left for an 8-day, 10,000-mile journey to Africa. President Nixon bade his wife good-by as she boarded the Presidential jet for a flight to Monrovia, Liberia, where Mrs. Nixon will head a delegation that includes the evangelist Billy Graham at the inauguration of President William Tolbert, Jr. on Sunday. Mrs. Nixon will then visit Ghana ad the Ivory Coast. [New York Times]

  • A statistical profile of the new, under-21 voters released by the Census Bureau indicated that the new voters are likely to account for between 5 and 7 percent of the total vote in this year's presidential election. The young voters, the report showed, are very much like the population as a whole in terms of race, residence and family income. Two-thirds are working and about one-third are in college. [New York Times]

  • Mrs. Linda Jenness, the Socialist Workers party candidate for president, said in Houston that the party would have a budget of $500,000 for her campaign. "We're going to make the biggest Socialist campaign since 1920," she said. The 30-year-old Atlanta secretary was not deterred by the fact that the Constitution sets the minimum age for President at 35. [New York Times]

  • Ammunition was flown into the embattled allied garrison at the big Long Tieng base in nothern Laos after enemy forces ended two days of heavy shelling. A military source in Vientiane said that the shelling stopped because American planes had destroyed three or four large cannons and the other cannons were being shifted to new positions. [New York Times]
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