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Egypt breaks diplomatic relations with Jordan on Apr 6, charging King Hussein's proposal for semiâautonomous Palestinian fed on west bank of Jordan River would open gate for Israel into Arab world, s, meeting, of Palestinian Natl Council; Sadat says Egypt was consulting with other Arab capitals to seek common stand against Hussein's plan
Nixon strengthens his commitment to extending Fed aid to Cath parochial schools but warns exectuting aid will take time, s, Apr 6, to Natl Cath Educ Assn annual conv; address is well recd by audience of 12,000 educators
USAF's costly Câ5A cargo plane comes under renewed criticism, Apr 6, after rept by Gen Acctg Office details craft's continued tech failures and its spiraling costs; study finds 15 typical Câ5A craft showed an avg of 251 major and minor deficiencies, against 257 deficiencies stated in similar rept issued in '71; repts USAF continued to accept aircraft with major deficiencies despite contract change that was supposed to give it greater control over plane's development; details failures in such key components as wing and landing gear which will cost approximately $164âmillion to repair, and which have greatly curtailed operations of Câ5A squadrons; charges: craft's landing gear system lasts only 4 hrs (as opposed to required 6.19) before undergoing a malfunction, wings have repeatedly failed fatigue tests, major deficiencies in wing pylons have forced USAF to rebuild its connections, multimode radar remains incapable of meeting contract specifications; says in 9âmo period ended Sept '71', the avg 'operational readiness' of 12 Câ5As was 47%, instead of required 75%, adding that craft's tech difficulties have resulted in an inability to perform 'its full mission'; notes craft is yet to demonstrate successfully that it can land on an unpaved, unprepared runway although this was 1 of its missions envisioned by the Defense Dept; notes craft's increase in cost from $3.4âbillion for 120 airplanes in '64 to $4.9âbillion for 81 as of June '71; Sen Proxmire, commenting on findings of rept, says it demonstrates that the USAF 'is the biggest satisfied consumer of lemons in the history of mil procurement'; Repr Long maintains rept indicates USAF has bought a $60âmillion plane 'that is coming apart'; USAF refuses immediate comment; illus of Câ5A labeled according to its major deficiencies
WASHINGTON, April 6—Le Duc Tho, a member of the North Vietnamese Politburo, has sent word to President Nixon through a delegation of American labor leaders that he would like to resume his secret peace negotiations with Henry A. Kissinger, Congressional sources said today.
WASHINGTON, April 6‐Adm. Thomas H. Moorer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said today that air strikes in North Vietnam would reach farther north than 40 to 50 miles from the border, the area in which the first strikes took place today.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 5, 1972, covering April 7, 1972.
America
Neil Young
Nilsson
Paul Simon
Bread
1972Tim Peake, British astronaut[â ]
Major Timothy Nigel Peake is a retired British European Space Agency astronaut, Army Air Corps officer and author.
1972Joe Gallo, American gangster (born 1929)[â ]
Joseph Gallo, also known as "Crazy Joe", was an Italian-American mobster and a captain in the Colombo crime family of New York City.
1972Abeid Karume, Tanzanian politician, 1st President of Zanzibar (born 1905)[â ]
Abeid Amani Karume was a Tanzanian politician and statesman who served as the first President of Zanzibar and the first Vice President of Tanzania from 1964 to 1972.
1972Vietnam War: Communist forces overrun the South Vietnamese town of Loc Ninh.[â ]
The Viet Cong (VC) was an epithet and umbrella term to refer to the communist-driven armed movement and united front organization in South Vietnam. It was formally organized as and led by the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam, and conducted military operations under the name of the Liberation Army of South Vietnam (LASV). The movement fought under the direction of North Vietnam against the South Vietnamese and United States governments during the Vietnam War. The organization had both guerrilla and regular army units, as well as a network of cadres who organized and mobilized peasants in the territory the VC controlled. During the war, communist fighters and some anti-war activists claimed that the VC was an insurgency indigenous to the South that represented the legitimate rights of people in South Vietnam, while the U.S. and South Vietnamese governments portrayed the group as a tool of North Vietnam. It was later conceded by the modern Vietnamese communist leadership that the movement was actually under the North Vietnamese political and military leadership, aiming to unify Vietnam under a single banner.
In 1972, the world population was approximately 3,844,917,680 people[â ]