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HONG KONG, Jan. 10 (Reuters)—The liner Queen Elizabeth—once the world's biggest passenger ship—keeled over outside Hong Kong harbor today after blazing from stem stern for 24 hours,
After 175 years of debate over its role in American education, the Federal Government appears ready to join the states, localities, tuition‐payers and private gift‐givers as a full partner in financing the nation's schools.
Article on new trends in underground radio stations notes progressive rock music is staple of stations
Laotian troops continue to block efforts of N Vietnamese to overrun Ban Nhik, last Govt foothold on the Boloven Plateau; N Vietnamese make some headway in their drive to take Long Tieng; Defense Min Sisouk na Champassak, after visit to Ban Nhik, details mil situation; acknowleges that Laotian troops are tired but says their morale is good; Amer troops continue their bombing attacks against the enemy in the Long Tieng area; Gen Vang Pao reptdly leaves his sickbed to return to his new hq there; map
some of major bills expected to be debated at ‘72 NYS Legis session discussed; bills are concerned with such issues as no‐fault auto ins, prison reform, educ, abortion reform and welfare
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 5, 1972, covering January 10, 1972.
Carole King
Led Zeppelin
Don McLean
Chicago
Grand Funk Railroad
1972Mohammed Benzakour, Moroccan-Dutch journalist, poet, and author[†]
Mohammed Benzakour is a Moroccan-Dutch columnist, essayist, poet, writer and politician. He is the third child in a family of five. At age three, he and mother and siblings settle in Zwijndrecht, Netherlands, where his father worked. He graduated from high school at vwo level and studied sociology at Leiden University and later political science and moved to Rotterdam to finish his master. Meanwhile, he joined the Labour Party. He started his journalism career working for De Volkskrant and also published in NRC Handelsblad, De Groene Amsterdammer and Vrij Nederland. He received the ASN Media Prize in 1999 and the Silver Zebra in 2001 for insights in a 'society in motion'. He later published two books, Abou Jahjah: Nieuwlichter of Oplichter. De demonisering van een politiek rebel in 2004 and Osama's Grot, Allah, Holland en ik, a compilation of his columns, articles and essays from 2001 until 2005, the year of publication. In that same year he also won the Peace Prize for Journalism. In 2008 his 'Stinkende Heelmeesters' was published, a compilation of essays, reviews, columns and reports from 2001 to 2008.
1972Aksel Larsen, Danish lawyer and politician (born 1897)[†]
Aksel Larsen was a Danish politician who was chairman of the Communist Party of Denmark (DKP), and chairman and founder of the Socialist People's Party. He is remembered today for his long service in the Communist Party of Denmark, for his time as a concentration camp inmate at Sachsenhausen, and for being the founder of the Socialist People's Party.
1972Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to the newly independent Bangladesh as president after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan.[†]
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, also known by the honorific Bangabandhu, was a Bangladeshi politician, revolutionary, statesman and activist who was the founding president of Bangladesh. As the leader of Bangladesh, he led the country as its president and prime minister from 1972 until his assassination in a coup d'état in 1975. His nationalist ideology, socio-political theories, and political doctrines are collectively known as Mujibism.
In 1972, the world population was approximately 3,844,917,680 people[†]