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February 22, 1972

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Senate's Leaders Design Compromise Busing Plan

By John W. Finney; Special to The New York Times

Sen leaders Mansfield and Scott have drafted bipartisan legis amendment designed to offset growing pressure for Const amendment to prohibit racial balance busing; amendment would permit busing as 1 way to overcome de jure segregation but would at same time seek to place policy constraints on cts and Fed agencies in using busing; amendment is expected to be offered when Sen takes up educ aid bill this wk; bill includes $1.5‐billion emergency aid measure to help school dists in process of desegregation; Scott‐Mansfield amendment to bill would offer compromise broad majority in Sen can support and in process offset pressures for legis or Const restriction on school busing; adoption of amendment is regarded as likely since proposal carries joint endorsement of leaders of both pol parties; amendment reverses provision in HR‐passed bill that would prohibit use of Fed funds for busing

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Joseph Kennedy 3d On Plane Hijacked From Delhi to Aden

By Unknown Author

3 Arab guerrillas, espousing cause of ‘victorious Jidda,’ port of entry for Mecca in Saudi Arabia, hijack Lufthansa Boeing 747 on New Delhi‐Athens flight and force craft to land in Aden, Southern Yemen; J P Kennedy 3d is passenger aboard craft; illus; map of craft's route

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All‐Volunteer Army Unit Training at Dix

By Fred Ferretti; Special to The New York Times

Article on training of Co B, 1st Bn, 2nd Brigade at Ft Dix Training Center, only basic‐training group in Army consisting entirely of Regular Army volunteers, which Army is using to study possibility of all‐volunteer Army; pors

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 16, 1972, covering February 22, 1972.

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    Album cover for American Pie by Don McLean

    American Pie

    Don McLean

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    Album cover for The Concert For Bangla Desh by George Harrison

    The Concert For Bangla Desh

    George Harrison

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    7
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    Album cover for Music by Carole King

    Music

    Carole King

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    Album cover for Hot Rocks 1964-1971 by The Rolling Stones

    Hot Rocks 1964-1971

    The Rolling Stones

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    Album cover for Led Zeppelin IV by Led Zeppelin

    Led Zeppelin IV

    Led Zeppelin

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Notable Births

Michael Chang

1972Michael Chang, American tennis player and coach[†]

Michael Te-pei Chang is an American former professional tennis player and coach. He was ranked world No. 2 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) in 1996. Chang is the youngest man in history to win a singles major, winning the 1989 French Open at 17 years and 109 days old. He won a total of 34 ATP Tour-level singles titles, including seven Masters titles, and was a three-time major runner-up.

Claudia Pechstein

1972Claudia Pechstein, German speed skater[†]

Claudia Pechstein is a retired German speed skater. She has won five Olympic gold medals. With a total of nine Olympic medals, five gold, two silver, and two bronze, she was previously the most successful Olympic speed skater, male or female, of all time,. Pechstein is the most successful German Winter Olympian of all time. After the World Championships in Norway in February 2009, Pechstein was accused of blood doping and banned from all competitions for two years.

Haim Revivo

1972Haim Revivo, Israeli footballer[†]

Haim Michael Revivo is an Israeli former professional footballer, who played as an attacking midfielder or winger, and a businessman.

Ben Sasse

1972Ben Sasse, American politician and college administrator[†]

Benjamin Eric Sasse is an American politician and higher education administrator. He represented Nebraska in the United States Senate from 2015 to 2023, resigning to become the 13th president of the University of Florida from February 2023 to July 2024. He is a member of the Republican Party.

Historical Events

Official Irish Republican Army

1972The Official Irish Republican Army detonates a car bomb at Aldershot barracks, killing seven and injuring nineteen others.[†]

The Official Irish Republican Army or Official IRA was an Irish republican paramilitary group whose goal was to remove Northern Ireland from the United Kingdom and create a "workers' republic" encompassing all of Ireland. It emerged in December 1969, shortly after the beginning of the Troubles, when the Irish Republican Army (IRA) split into two factions. The other was the Provisional IRA. Each continued to call itself simply "the IRA" and rejected the other's legitimacy.

Historical Context for February 22, 1972

In 1972, the world population was approximately 3,844,917,680 people[†]