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ON THE INTERNATIONAL SCENE, it was China’s year. Dramatic changes
which began with Ping-Pong climaxed with Peking’s admission to the United
Nations amid jubilation that angered Washington. But American initiatives con
tributed to Peking’s new acceptability. With the surprise mission of adviser Henry
Kissinger, below with Premier Choii En-lai, to arrange President Nixon’s visit
to Peking, world diplomacy took a new course.
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SOUTH VIETNAM’S PRESIDENT THIEU strengthened his grip as American
withdrawal progressed, staging a one-man re-election despite efforts of U.S.
Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker, above, and Washington to make it a contest with
other candidates. At home, the Vietnam controversy focused on the Pentagon
Papers, secret study critical of U.S. involvement leaked to the press by Daniel
Ellsberg, right. The fight to publish documents was carried to Supreme Court.
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IRELAND RELIVED ITS TROUBLES of a half-century ago as smoldering reli
gious hatreds flamed into open warfare in the North between militant Catholics
and British troops, in action above in Londonderry.
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ATTICA PRISON UPRISING shook the nation for a week in October. Thirty-seven
guards and prisoners died >n quelling of rebellion. Nature shook Southern Cali
fornia Feb. !l with the San Fernando earthquake, below, which took 67 lives,
caused an estimated $1 billion damage and raised fears of possibly worse to come,
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DRAWN-OUT CRISIS which began with West Pakistan's suppression of the east
ern province’s autonomy erupted in December in full-scale war with India, sup
porting the struggle of East Pakistani guerrillas, above, for Bangla Desh, an
independent nation.
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ON THE HOME FRONT, President Nixon surprised the nation and the world with a wage-price freeze and import
curbs designed to check inflation and stabilize the shaky dollar. There was opposition, publicly demonstrated by
AFL-CIO President George Meany at the union's convention, but the President pressed ahead with his new eco
nomic program. In another confrontation, conflict with the Senate over Supreme Court appointments resumed
with the President’s choices for vacancies of Lewis F. Powell Jr., below left, respected Virginia conservative,
and Arizonan William Rehnquist, right, tough thinker and talker on rights issues.
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FIRST IN LINE to register in Chicago, Sally Comer
ford was one of more than 11 million Americans eligi
ble to vote for the first time with ratification of the
26th Amendment, lowering the minimum age to 18 in
federal elections.
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A BANNER YEAR IN SPACE began with the Febru
ary moon landing of Apollo 14 followed by Apollo 15 in
July. Astronaut David Scott salutes the flag at Hadley
base. At year’s end, unmanned Mariner 9 reached
Mars and became the first manmade craft to orbit
another planet.