The May 11, 1971 was a Tuesday under the star sign of ♉. It was the 130 day of the year. President of the United States was Richard M. Nixon.
If you were born on this day, you are 55 years old. Your last birthday was on the Monday, May 11, 2026, 20 days ago. Your next birthday is on Tuesday, May 11, 2027, in 344 days. You have lived for 20,109 days, or about 482,630 hours, or about 28,957,821 minutes, or about 1,737,469,260 seconds.
11th of May 1971 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on May 11, 1971
PRESIDENT VOWS TO LEAD A DRIVE AGAINST CANCER; Proposes Agency Directly Responsible to Him and Pledges Needed Funds Nixon Vows to Lead Drive on Cancer
Date: 12 May 1971
By HAROLD M. SCHMECK Jr.Special to The New York Times
Pres Nixon pledges to personally lead independently budgeted natl program to conquer cancer, news conf; expresses hope that Pres interest and guidance will hasten discovery of cure and pledges that necessary funds will be provided; Adm proposal, introduced by Sen Dominick, calls for establishment of expanded cancer research program within Natl Health Insts, tantamount to establishment of virtually ind cancer agency; cancer inst dir will become deputy dir of new program and cancer cure advisory com will be established absorbing Natl Cancer Advisory Council; com will consist of other appointees including Pres chief science adviser; similar bill was introduced earlier in yr by Sen Kennedy; Nixon says he cannot give timetable for conquest of cancer but cites breakthroughs in recent yrs; Natl Health Insts dir Dr Marston cites efforts in genetics and virus research linked to cancer; HEW Dept Sec Richardson says Adm's plan will absorb Natl Cancer Inst into cancer cure program within Natl Health Insts; urges close cooperation between cancer program and Natl Health Insts as 'collaborators'; some scientists have expressed concern over establishment of natl cancer authority because it would lead to dismemberment of Natl Health Insts; Nixon has already asked Cons to appropriate additional $100-million in addition to Natl Cancer Insts $232-million budget; HR, scheduled to vote on $100-million appropriation, fails to complete action on bill; leadership of anticancer effort now seen passing from Adm to Cong; several other proposals in addition to Kennedy's have been introduced in Cong and Sen (Kennedy) subcom will refrain from acting on Kennedy's bill to give Adm chance to testify on behalf of its own bill
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Elizabeth Journal Resumes Publication as Strike Ends
Date: 12 May 1971
Elizabeth Journal resumes as strike ends with tentative pact
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SINGAPORE LEADER DUELS WITH PRESS; Lee Says Paper Got Funds From Chinese Agents
Date: 12 May 1971
Special to The New York Times
Prime Min Lee Kuan Yew charges Communist Chinese agents in Hong Kong gave unidentified Singapore newspaper owner almost $1.35-million to influence that newspaper, s made pub by Culture Min; says paper continues anti-Communist ed policy so far; also scores Eng-language press; charges Singapore Herald is anti-Govt; queries sources of its financing, much of which comes from Hong Kong publisher S As Wian, who is Internatl Press Inst exec; Herald, in planned rebuttal, denies anti-Govt stand, says Lee knows financing, cites pressure brought on Herald by Govt; arrest last wk of 4 execs of Chinese-language paper Nanyang Sing Pao on charges they incite Chinese nationalism and are pro-Communist noted
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Text of Nixon Statement on Plan to Defeat Cancer
Date: 12 May 1971
Special to The New York Times
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Scholar Warns Media to Resist Attack
Date: 11 May 1971
By WILL LISSNER
Will LISSNER
Prof M Forkosch, who has just completed study on freedom of information in US, holds Nixon must take full responsibility for Agnew's actions, including his attacks on news media, since he made clear at recent press conf that once Adm decides on policy, Agnew must and does support it, int
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East Pakistan's Deep-Water Port Is Still All but Paralyzed
Date: 11 May 1971
By MALCOLM W. BROWNESpecial to The New York Times
Malcolm BROWNESpecial
E Pakistan port of Chittagong reptd paralyzed by upheaval; map; no sign of continued fighting seen; indus officials, including some Europeans, rept massacre of Biharis (Indian migrant workers) by hostile Bengalis before W Pakistan forces arrived, but other Europeans and Americans rept they were more threatened by mil forces; entire city neighborhoods found demolished, including Hindu shrines
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LINDSAY SAYS U.S. STILL FAILS CITIES; Supports Gateway Plan but Holds Government Hasn't 'Got Message' on Needs Lindsay Scores Lack of U.S. Aid While Supporting Gateway Plan
Date: 12 May 1971
By MARTIN TOLCHIN
Martin TOLCHIN
Lindsay says he does not believe Nixon's proposed Gateway Natl Recreation Area at mouth of NY Harbor signifies new Fed commitment to cities, press conf; says no level of govt has sufficient understanding of 'Brownsvilles of this country'
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AGNEW DEPLORES 'SCRUFFY' YOUTHS; Calls Protesters in Capital 'Spoiled' and Hails Police
Date: 12 May 1971
Agnew scores Mayday protesters as 'same scruffy individuals that caused the disruptions in Chicago in '68', s, Illinois Gen Assembly; lauds police for 'deftly' using crowd control measures similar to those used by Chicago police, for which they were criticized by the news media; says media should apologize to Chicago police and that both police forces deserve commendation
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NIXON INQUIRY URGED IN ALLEGED KILLINGS
Date: 11 May 1971
Notley's atty, T Ensign, says Notley will give full details of alleged killings to a specially apptd Pres comm, news conf; says he has no hope Army will probe incident; says Army, in news release, charged that Notley and the Citizens Comm of Inquiry on US War Crimes in Vietnam impede probe
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A Week-Long Memorial Begins at Jackson State
Date: 11 May 1971
Special to The New York Times
student leaders begin wk-long memorial program for students slain by police last May; say news media will be barred from wk's events
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