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— Griffin Daily News Friday, December 29,1972
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BOBBY FISCHER became first Amer
ican to win world chess title.
BOBBY ORR led Boston Bruins to
Stanley Cup hockey title.
DICK ALLEN won American League
Most Valuable Player award.
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RIVA RIDGE captured Kentucky
Derby, Belmont Stakes.
BILLIE JEAN KING took U.S.,
Wimbledon, French tennis crowns.
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JOHNNY RODGERS won college
football's Heisman Trophy.
JANUARY
3 —Columnist Jack An
derson discloses secret gov
e r n m e n t documents indi
cating “tilt” toward Paki
stan in 1971 conflict with
India.
3—President Nixon ap-
S. roves Space Shuttle as ina
or space project to follow
1973 Skylab.
7—Bombs found in eight
banks across nation after
anonymous letters de
manded release of “politi
cal prisoners.”
9 —Fire destroys old liner
Queen Elizabeth at Hong
Kong.
14 —King Frederik IX of
Denmark dies, succeeded
by daughter Margrethe.
16 —Dallas Cowboys beat
Miami Dolphins, 24-3, in Su
per Bowl VI.
24—President Nixon pro
poses $246.3 billion budget
for fiscal 1973.
30—" Bloody Sunday” in
Belfast, 13 demonstrators
die in clash with British
troops.
FEBRUARY
11 —U.S.-Soviet agree
ment on medical research
cooperation disclosed.
15—A11 o r n e y-General
John Mitchell quits Cabinet
to head President Nixon’s
re-election campaign.
21—West Coast strike of
13,000 longshoremen ends
after 134 days.
22—Arab terrorists sky
jack Lufthansa jetliner,
West Germany pays $5 mil
lion ransom.
21-28 —President and
Mrs. Nixon visit China. Dis
cussions resulted in agree
ments to exchange scien-
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record time, averaging 163.465 miles per hour.
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ready to block during the Dallas Cowboys’ 24-3 victory over the Miami Dolphins in
the sixth Super Botfl.
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GENE TENACE whacks one of the
four home runs he hit in carrying the
Oakland Athletics to a World Series
victory over the Cincinnati Reds in
seven games.
HIGHLIGHTS IN 1972’s PARADE OF NEWS EVENTS
tists, artists, journalists and
sportsmen and to increase
trade.
MARCH
2 —Jupiter probe is
launched, unmanned space
craft to reach largest plan
et in 1974.
7—Presidential primary
season opens with New
Hampshire. Sen. M usk i e
wins Democratic vote with
46.4 per cent and President
Nixon takes 68 per cent of
Republican vote.
10-12—First National
Black Convention at Gary,
Ind., votes permanent body
to direct political and social
action but d i s a g r e e s on
separate black political
party.
13— Writer Clifford Irv
ing admits “biography" of
Howgrd Hughes was hoax.
14— Governor Wallace
wins Florida primary with
42 per cent of vote.
17 —President Nixon asks
Congress for legislation
curtailing busing for pur
poses of school integration.
22 —Congress completes
approval of constitutional
amendment guaranteeing
equal rights to women,
sends to states for ratifica
tion.
22—George Meany, other
labor leaders quit presiden
tial Pay Board, charging
wage-price program fa
vored business over labor.
30—British government
assumes direct rule of war
ring Northern Ireland.
APRIL
4—Senator McGovern
wins Wisconsin primary.
United States recognizes
Bangladesh, breakaway
Pakistan province.
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THE BIG MEN dominated basketball in both the college and professional ranks.
LEFT: Bill Walton (32), who paced UCLA to its sixth straight NCAA championship,
goes up against Florida State’s Lawrence McCray in the playoff finals. CENTER.
Wilt Chamberlain, left, who led the Los Angeles Lakers to their first NBA title,
stuffs one against arch-rival Kareem Abdul-Jabbar of the M ' l * a "^, ee ,P'J c M s ’ £l*
league's most valuable player for the second straight year. RIGHT. Mel Daniels
(34), the mainstay of the ABA champion Indiana Pacers, defends against Wulie
Wise of the Utah Stars.
s—Trial of "Harrisburg
7” ends in mistrial.
7 — Los Angeles Lakers
take NBA title, beating
New York in play-off finals.
8 — Mobster Joey Gallo
killed. New York City gang
war intensifies.
11— Senator Humphrey
wins Pennsylvania primary.
12— Chinese table tennis
team begins U.S. tour, gift
of Chinese giant Pandas
presented to Washington,
D.C., zoo.
13— —President Nixon
visits Canada, agrees with
Prime Minister Trudeau on
pollution control in Great
Lakes, right of each nation
to maintain “very separate
identities.”
16—United States re
sponds to Communist offen
j sive in Vietnam with heavy
’ bombing raids on Hanoi
and Haiphong.
16-27—Apollo 16 mission,
| astronauts on moon three
days.
22 —British adventurer
| John Fairfax and London
secretary Sylvia Cook reach
; Australia after almost a
! year rowing 8,000 miles
I across the Pacific.
25—Senator McGovern
wins Massachusetts pri
mary.
27 —Senator Muskie
drops out of primaries.
MAY
2 —J. Edgar Hoover, di
rector of the FBI for 40
years under eight presi-
I dents, dies at 77.
Senator Humphrey wins
Indiana, Ohio primaries.
Fire in Kellog, Ida.. Sun
shine Silver Mine kills 91.
4—G over no r Wallace
wins Tennessee primary.
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s—Republicans change
convention site from San
Diego to Miami Beach.
8— U.S. planes mine Hai
phong harbor.
9 — Israelis kill Arab sky
jackers of jetliner at Tel
Aviv.
15 —Governor W’ all ac e
shot while campaigning in
Maryland.
Okinawa officially re
turned to Japanese admin
istration.
20—Indiana Pacers take
ABA title, topping New
York in play-off finals.
22- —President Nixon
visits Soviet Union, Krem
lin discussions result in
agreements on trade, scien
tific cooperation and mis-
! sile limitation.
23 — Senator McGovern
; wins Oregon primary.
28 —Duke of Windsor dies
I at 77.
29— Mark Donohue wins
Indianapolis 500 in record
time.
30 — Japanese terrorists
kill 28 at Israel’s Lod air
port.
JUNE
4—Senator McGovern
wins crucial California pri
mary, 271 convention dele
gates.
Angela Davis acquitted.
9 —Flash flood devastates
Rapid City, S.D., more than
200 killed.
17—Five men arrested
i in break-in at Democratic
national headquarters in
! Washington's Watergate
i complex.
19—H u r r i c a n e Agnes
devastates Eastern Sea
board.
29 —President Nixon an
nounces resumption of
i Paris talks on Vietnam.
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20th modern Olympic Games in Munich. But many other American athletes were
less successful. An example was miler Jim Ryun, who fell during a preliminary
heat, below, and was eliminated from the 1000-meter competition.
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JULY
I—John Mitchell quits ,
as head of President Nix- ,
on’s re-election campaign
at his wife’s insistence.
B—United States agrees
to sell grain worth a bil
lion dollars to the Soviet :
Union.
10-14 —Democratic con
vention: George McGovern
wins presidential nomina
tion, selects Sen. Thomas
Eagleton as running mate.
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18 —E g y p t ousts Soviet
military advisers.
28 —Chinese disclose
plane crash death of Lin
Piao, once Mao’s heir.
AUGUST
I—Senator Eagleton with
draws as Democratic vice
presidential candidate after
disclosure of past psychi
atric treatment.
4—Arthur H. Bremer
convicted of shooting Gov
ernor Wallace, sentenced to
63 years.
B—SargentB—Sargent Shriver cho
sen Democratic vice-presi-
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JACK NICKLAUS had only a few wor
ried moments during a spectacular
year on the pro golf tour, winning the
U.S. Open, the Masters and a total of
more than $320,000.
dential candidate.
9 —Uganda government
expels country’s 60,000
Asians.
11—United States ends
ground combat role in Viet
nam.
21-23—Republican con
vention: President Nixon
and Vice President Agnew I
renominated.
25— Communist China '
casts first U.N. veto, to ,
block Bangladesh member- |
ship.
26 — 20th modern Olym- I
pic Games open at Munich, 1
West Germany.
SEPTEMBER
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1— President Nixon, Ja
pan’s Premier Tanaka meet
in Hawaii for Pacific sum
mit.
Bobby Fischer defeats
Russia’s Boris Spassky for
world chess title.
2— Army officially closes
My Lai inquiry.
s—Arab5 —Arab terrorists kill 11
Israeli athletes at Munich
Olympics.
10—United States casts
second U.N. veto in 26
years, blocking resolution
on Israeli retaliation raids
after Munich killings.
15— South Vietnamese re
take Quang Tri. provincial
capital lost in Communist
spring offensive.
17—North Vietnam frees
three U.S. prisoners of war.
24 —Norwegians vote
against Common Market
membership.
29 —Japan’s Premier Ta
naka visits Peking for sum
mit talks.
OCTOBER
16 — House Majority
Leader Hale Boggs missing
in Alaska plane disappear
ance.
22—Oakland Athletics
win World Series by beat
ing Cincinnati in seventh
game, 3-2.
26—Presidential adviser
Henry Kissinger says agree
ment on Vietnam cease-fire
is “at hand.”
29 — Arab terrorists sky
jack West German jetliner,
Bonn government yields to
demand for release of Mu
nich killers.
30 — Collision of Chicago
commuter trains kills 44.
24—J ack i e Robinson,
first black in major league
baseball, dies at 53.
29 — Skyjackers, including
former Commerce Depart
ment official and son al
ready sought for a bank
robbery, kill airline em
ploye at Houston, force
flight to Cuba.
30— P resident Nixon
signs broad Social Security
, increases into law.
Premier Trudeau suffers
setback in Canadian elec
tions, loses parliamentary
majority.
NOVEMBER
7—President Nixon is re
elected with a landslide 60
per cent of the popular
vote, carries 49 states, but
Democrats gain in the Sen
ate and state governor
ships.
9 — East and West Ger
many agree to establish re
lations, opening way to
U.N. membership for both.
10 — Dow Jones averages
on New York Stock Ex
change break 1,000 mark.
18 —One-time strongman
Juan Peron returns to Ar
gentina after 17 years ex
ile in Europe.
Losers
FLOYD PATTERSON was one of six
boxers beaten by Muhammad Ali.
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BORIS SPASSKY, defending cham
pion, lost world chess title.
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baseball managers who lost jobs.
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I team to first loss in Olympic history.
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VIDA BLUE held out well into base
ball season, lost 10 of 16 decisions.
19 — Chan ce 11 o r Willy
Brandt’s coalition govern
ment scores major victory
in West German elections
with 54 per cent of the
vote.
20— Britain’s Queen Eliz
abeth II and Prince Philip
mark their silver wedding
anniversary.
21 — Appeals court over
turns convictions of “Chi
cago 7” on charges grow
ing out of 1968 Democratic
convention riots.
22— Conference of 34 na
tions, including United
States and Canada, on
European security opens in
Helsinki, Finland.
27— United States and
Cuba begin talks on curb-
' ing skyjacking.
28— President announces
’ first cabinet shifts in re
shaping administration for
his second term.
DECEMBER
3 —Spanish jetliner
crashes in Canary Islands,
i killing 155.
6—Heisman trophy won
by Johnny Rodgers, Ne
braska running back.
8 — Unite d Airlines jet
crashes at Chicago, killing
45.
Life magazine announces
it is ceasing publication
! after 36 years.
9 — R obert Strauss of
Texas replaces Jean West
wood of Utah as Demo
cratic national chairman.
10 — Hollywood columnist
Louella Parsons dies at 91.
11— Mistrial declared in
“Pentagon Papers” trial of
Daniel Ellsberg.
3—U nited Nations
agrees to cut U.S. share of
assessment from 31 to 25
per cent of total financing.