On April 1970, US President Nixon announced to the American public that US and South Vietnamese ground forces had entered Cambodia in a campaign aimed at destroying NVA base areas in Cambodia ( see Cambodian Incursion ).

The " Gonzo fist ," characterized by two thumbs and four fingers holding a peyote button, was originally used in Hunter S. Thompson's 1970 campaign for sheriff of Aspen, Colorado.

During the 1970 campaign, Clemente compiled an average of. 352 ; the Pirates won the National League East but were subsequently eliminated by the Cincinnati Reds.

The graphic was popularized in the early 1970s by Philadelphia brothers Bernard and Murray Spain, who seized upon it in September 1970 in a campaign to sell novelty items.

When that season ended, Short dealt his best starting pitcher and the left side of his infield to the Detroit Tigers for erstwhile 30-game-winner Denny McLain, who had spent most of the 1970 campaign suspended because of gambling allegations.

The campaign started in August 1970 and was sustained for a year until arrests were made the following summer.

Another film, Patton ( 1970 ), showed the actions of real life General George S. Patton, but intermixed action with commentary about how he waged war, in North Africa and the Sicilian campaign, showing good and bad sides to a command.

In 1970, radical Quebec nationalist and Marxist militants of the Front de libération du Québec ( FLQ ) kidnap the Quebec labour minister Pierre Laporte and British Trade Commissioner James Cross during the October Crisis, resulting in Laporte being killed, and the enactment of martial law in Canada under the War Measures Act, resulting in a campaign by the Canadian government which arrests suspected FLQ supporters.

The IWW founded the Anti-Conscription League ( ACL ) in which IWW members worked with the broader labour and peace movement, and also carried on an aggressive propaganda campaign in its own name ; leading to the imprisonment of Tom Barker ( 1887 – 1970 ) the editor of the IWW paper Direct Action, sentenced to twelve months in March 1916.

Keeshan and Bunny Rabbit promote an auto seat belt campaign, 1970.

The Chicago Boys ' ideas remaining on the fringes of Chilean economic and political thought, even after a 500-page plan based on the Chicago School's ideas called the El ladrillo was presented as part of Jorge Alessandri's call for alternative economic platforms for his 1970 presidential campaign.

The Unidad Popular government had enormous support among Nueva canción musicians who composed the campaign song Poder Popular for the presidential election of 1970 and recorded El pueblo unido jamás será vencido in June 1973.

The U. S. incursion into Cambodia in May 1970 to eliminate North Vietnamese sanctuaries, the renewed bombing of North Vietnam and the mining of its harbors in the spring of 1972 in response to a North Vietnamese offensive, and another bombing campaign against the North in December 1972 brought widespread protest.

Davis volunteered for the campaign of John V. Tunney for the United States Senate in 1970.

* Steve Schmidt ( born 1970 ), senior campaign strategist to the 2008 presidential campaign of Senator John McCain.

In 1970, Knight launched an intensive advertising campaign to promote the album Closer To Home.

The company's association with television advertising began in 1970 with the Yorkshiremen love it campaign.

L. C. F Turner in 1970 described von Moltke's changes as " a substantial modification in the Schlieffen Plan and one which probably doomed the German campaign in the west before it was ever launched.

The 1970 campaign was his finest year, statistically: in addition to his 129 RBIs, Pérez hit. 317, slugged 40 home runs and scored 107 runs.

Agitation for more Australian-made programming gained impetus from the " TV: Make it Australian " campaign in 1970.

Quoting figures available at the time, a Rolling Stone feature claimed that up to half a million Bengalis had been killed by the cyclone in November 1970 − " a figure impossible to understand " − and the Pakistani army's subsequent brutal campaign of slaughter under Operation Searchlight accounted for at least 250, 000 civilians “ by the most conservative estimates ”.

In 1970 he was the campaign manager for Phyllis Schlafly's run for congress in a southern Illinois district.

Hain became chairman of the Stop The Tour campaign which disrupted tours by the South African rugby union and cricket teams in 1969 and 1970.

" When Vancouver Yippie Betty " Zaria " Andrew ran as the Youth International Party's candidate for mayor in 1970, one of her campaign promises was to repeal every law, including the law of gravity so everyone can get high.

* Odell Pollard, state chairman of the Arkansas Republican Party from 1966 – 1970 ; and an ally of the late Governor Winthrop Rockefeller, practiced law in Searcy from 1950-2005.

In 1970, he was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University together with Renato Dulbecco co-winner of 1974 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine " for discoveries concerning the functional organization of the cell that were seminal events in the development of modern cell biology ", related to his previous research carried out at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.

In 1970, it was disclosed that Rockefeller had maintained a list of militants for use by law enforcement to prevent potential disorders on Arkansas college and university campuses.

In 1970, the Arkansas GOP under Rockefeller hired its first paid executive director, Neal Sox Johnson of Nashville in Howard County.

In 1970, as the running mate of Dale Leon Bumpers, Riley defeated Republican candidate, Sterling R. Cockrill of Little Rock, the ticket-mate of Governor Winthrop Rockefeller, whom Bumpers crushed in the general election.

Gass has received many awards and honors, including grants from the Rockefeller Foundation in 1965, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in 1970.

D ' Angelo who served from 1970 to 1974 while he also served as a speech writer and adviser to then Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller.

Initially considering a challenge to Charles Goodell's reelection to the United States Senate, he decided to run against New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller in 1970.

" The College was officially established on July 30, 1970 when Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller signed the legislation approving the " establishment of an experimental four-year college of professional studies offering both career and transfer associate degrees and the baccalaureate degree ..." Finally, on September 28, 1970 the Board of Higher Education approved the recommendation from the College ’ s Community Council that the name of the college be Medgar Evers College, in honor of the martyred civil rights leader, Medgar Wiley Evers ( 1925 – 1963 ).

Neal Sox Johnson, the first paid executive director of the Arkansas GOP, said that he believed Rockefeller should have stepped down in 1970, and Britt should have been the gubernatorial nominee.

She was appointed by then-Governor of New York Nelson Rockefeller in August 1970 to serve as the first chairman and executive director of the New York State Consumer Protection Board, and served in the position until July 1971 before returning to television.

In 1970, the Rockefeller Foundation proposed a worldwide network of agricultural research centers under a permanent secretariat.

In 1970, the New York Republican Party was split deeply over the issue of the conservatism of much of the grassroots support for the party versus the perceived liberalism of the party organization, leadership, and Governor Rockefeller himself.

Except for one year ( 1966-1967 ) at Rockefeller University, he spent his entire academic career at Columbia, becoming a University Professor in 1967 until his retirement in 1970, after which he continued to teach.

Max Theiler was a contributor to three books, Viral and Rickettsial Infections of Man ( 1948 ), Yellow Fever ( 1951 ), and The Arthropod-Borne Viruses of Vertebrates: An Account of The Rockefeller Foundation Virus Program, 1951 – 1970, Max Theiler and W. G. Downs.

In 1970, Waters was the recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation grant to support research in Mexico and Central America.

Signed at The Hague on 16 December 1970, the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft contains 14 articles relating to what constitutes hijacking as well as guidelines for what is expected of governments when dealing with hijackings.

In 1970, the Astros were expected to be a serious threat in the National League West.

The male-to-female ratio would be expected to rise to a normal level with the passage of years, as happened between 1953 and 1970, when the figure was 95. 1 males per 100 females.

Filmed with a budget that will not be reached by a Romanian movie until 1970 ( Michael the Brave, supported by the Romanian communist regime also for propagandistic purposes ), the movie was meant to shift the perception of the Romanian public towards an acceptance of Romanian involvement into an expected Balkan conflict ( the First Balkan War ).

One of its first roles was to alleviate an expected shortfall of US dollars c. 1970.

In February 1970, two months after Upon This Rock was released, Capitol dropped Norman from their label, as the album was deemed a " commercial flop " as it had failed to reach the sales target Capitol expected, telling Norman that " there is no market for your music.

As early as December 1969, the Phillies expected that they would play the first month of the 1970 season at Connie Mack Stadium before moving to the new venue.

Berl Kutchinsky's Studies on Pornography and sex crimes in Denmark ( 1970 ), a scientific report ordered by the Presidential Commission on Obscenity and Pornography, found that the legalizing of pornography in Denmark had not ( as had been expected ) resulted in an increase of sex crimes.

In 1970, South Texan businessman and former Congressman Lloyd Bentsen, won a 54 to 46 percent upset victory against Yarborough in the Democratic primary, when Yarborough was focusing on the expected second general election again against Bush.

He was expected to take up the leadership of the Liberal group in the House of Lords, but a much more serious stroke in 1959 left him largely bedridden and in a state of precarious health until his death in 1970.

Chehab was widely expected to contest the presidential election of 1970, but in a historical declaration he declared that his experience in office had convinced him that the people of his country were not ready to put aside traditional, feudal politics nor support him in building a modern state.

As expected, the verdict was handed down on February 18, 1970 ( all the defendants were found not guilty of conspiracy but five were found guilty of incitement to riot ).

Between 1956 and 1970, Rockland ’ s population was one of the fastest growing in the state, expected to double from 107, 000 to 215, 000 and the number of high school graduates was projected to rise from 700 to 2, 463.

In 1970, the unit cost was expected to be only $ 2. 9m.

Following the expected loss to the Dunstan-led ALP in the 2 June 1970 election, Hall remained Leader of the Opposition for two years before resigning from the LCL, claiming that the party had ' lost its idealism forgotten ... its purpose for existence '.

This was expected to be the workhorse of both Apollo Applications Extended Lunar Surface Missions beginning in 1970 and to larger Lunar Exploration System for Apollo in the mid-to-late 1970s.

By 1970 the colliery was considered the " Jewel in the Crown " and expected to have a life of 30 years.

The bridge was expected to be completed by March 1971, however on 2 June 1970 a cantilever being used to put one of the 150-ton sections into position collapsed on the Pembroke Dock-side of the estuary.

Sarkis contested the presidential election of 1970 as Chehab's protégé and was expected to win, but he was defeated by Suleiman Frangieh by a single vote.

After the Awami League had won a decisive majority ( capturing 167 out of 300 seats ) in the 1970 Pakistan parliamentary elections, the Bengali population expected a swift transfer of power to the Awami League based on the Six Point Programme.

The first guided launch of a Roland prototype took place in June 1968, destroying a CT-20 target drone and fielding of production systems was expected from January 1970.

On September 16, 1970, Stroud came closer to realism than he expected.

Cramer and Gurney had been prospective primary opponents in 1968, until Cramer yieled to Gurney, with the understanding that Gurney would back Cramer for the other Senate seat, which Holland was expected to vacate in 1970.

The percentage of the Japanese labor force employed in heavy industry was 33. 7 in 1970 ; it dropped to 33. 1 in 1987 and was expected to be 27. 7 in 2000.