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...moderate to very liberal: California's Ronald Reagan, Alabama's George Wallace, Georgia's Jimmy Carter, Arizona's Morris Udall, Oklahoma's Fred Harris and, until they dropped out, Texas' Lloyd Bentsen and North Carolina's Terry Sanford. After the 1980 census, if the current population shifts continue, the states of the South and West will increase their total congressional representation from 210 to 225 seats. The states of the Northeast and Midwest will lose 15 of their seats, declining to 210. Yet the old Southern conservatism is losing some of its force...
...time, as the effects of the American occupation in the south are not likely to be easily eradicated, but already their governments work closely together in preparation for unification. The Vietnamese people will elect representatives to a National Assembly this spring, as soon as the PRG finishes conducting a census of the south, and the two Vietnams will merge...
...education," as he concedes, without coming across too abashedly. He speaks four languages, including Mandarin Chinese, and his work for the U.S. Army in the early '50s as a machine technician and then for its Criminal Investigation Division, led to his interrogation and imprisonment for Lao Gai during the Census of Foreigners in 1954. At the time of his arrest he was working as a cultural attache for a Western embassy (unnamed), reporting on rationing measures, worker's gossip, and so on. In this last position his prying, even if routine, rankled the new government and, while his function...
...sustained recovery. The Commerce Department reported last week that its index of twelve leading indicators rose .4% in December-with no help from the stock market, which had a flat month at the end of last year. U.S. exports during 1975 ran $11 billion ahead of imports, according to Census Bureau figures, eclipsing the previous record trade surplus of $8.6 billion in 1947. Businessmen and investors are also encouraged by the Federal Reserve Board's willingness to exert pressure to push down interest rates; last week First National City Bank of New York cut its prime rate on loans...
Morrison's findings were strongly supported by a report issued last week by the U.S. Census Bureau showing that 85% of the nation's population growth in the past five years had occurred in 29 Southern and Western states. While Arizona was expanding by 25.3%, for example, New York State was actually losing .7% of its residents...