Word: counts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...questionnaire were not really overlooked by the census. They were scheduled to receive personal visits by one of 172,000 special enumerators. These counters also were to visit flophouses, transient hotels, isolated rural areas and other nooks where people could conceivably be missed. Thus, the Census Bureau expected to count all U.S. residents accurately...
...apportion thousands of election districts, ranging from the Congress to city council seats. With the new judicial toughness on the one-man, one-vote principle of representation, an accurate count can have a profound effect upon political patterns...
...flared, the U.S. was completing its third-and largest-troop reduction since President Nixon took office 15 months ago. By next week some 115,500 fewer U.S. soldiers will be serving in Viet Nam than during the high point of the American commitment in early 1969, when the troop count reached 543,400. Like so much else about the Viet Nam War, the U.S. withdrawal is complex and at times confusing. On Pentagon recommendations, the military is cutting back on replacements rather than literally "bringing the boys home." Thus, to the Americans most interested in withdrawal-G.I.s already serving...
During the last few weeks, Division Commander Major General Albert E. Milloy, determined to carry out his primary mission of fighting until the last possible moment, ordered banners flown at every base urging his men to "Make Every Day Count." The troops had their own slogan: "Count Every...
...State Department reported last week that, as of February, there were no fewer than 404 Americans being held in foreign jails on various drug charges, compared with only 142 a year ago. And the count is rising. Paris-based John T. Cusack, the chief U.S. narcotics agent for Europe and the Middle East, estimates that foreign police and customs agents are booking young American smugglers at the rate of 40 per month. In Morocco, five Americans have been arrested on drug charges in the past five weeks. Last week in Lebanon, Morocco's main rival as a Mecca...