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SAN FERNANDO, Chile, Dec. 22—Two survivors from a plane that crashed more than two months ago in the Andes climbed down from the moun tains today and led rescuers to the site of the wreckage.
Natl Housing Conf says Dec 22 that it has learned Nixon Adm is delet 18-mo 'moratorium' on all new construction under public housing and interest-subsidy programs administered by HUD; White House source says Pres has not made decision on this matter; conf also says that Govt Natl Mortgage Assn will stop purchases of new mortgages and will dispose of $1-billion worth of those it now holds by next June 30 regardless of price; HUD Sec Romney says at news conf Dec 22 that Fed Govt should get out of public housing altogether and that housing subsidies should be state matter; all Fed housing programs were to have expired Oct 1, 1972, but Cong voted extension until June 30, 1973, pending new proposals by Adm; if GNMA suspends operations, construction indus will be forced to absorb loss, which will result in higher housing prices
41 religious leaders in the US, Dec 22, issue a pastoral lr scoring US bombing of N Vietnam; among signers are Rabbi M Eisendrath, United Ch of Christ pres R V Moss, United Presb Ch official W Thompson and Unitarian Universalist Assn pres R N West; in addition, 14 RC, Episc, United Methodist and Mennonite bishops sign the lr; group charges Nixon Adm with 'aborting the possibility and betraying the duty of peace' and calls for a natl 'religious convocation for peace in Washington on Jan 3 and 4; urges immediate end to bombing; signing of Oct cease-fire draft accord; release of both US POWs and pol prisoners held by S Vietnam; cutting off of all funds by Cong for mil operations in Vietnam if a peace treaty is not signed by Jan 20; in separate action, Cardinal J Krol, Dec 22, deplores resumption of bombing and calls for both sides to resume negotiations; in Chicago, leaders of 10 religious orgns, Dec 22, urges Rev B Graham 'to implore Pres Nixon to stop the bombing of N Vietnam in the name of the Christmas Christ'; wire to Graham signed by Dr H W Andersen; in another action, Massachusetts Council of Chs and 14 Bishops of RC Boston Prov issue separate statements attacking the bombing
NYC City Council votes, 28-7, on Dec 22 to create 6 new councilmanic dists in move to increase representation of blacks and Puerto Ricans on Council; Mayor Lindsay issues statement holding he favors increasing representation but must study redistricting pattern; Councilman Merola concedes plan is not perfect, but holds it unavoidable that 1 dist include parts of Queens, E Harlem and S Bronx; Councilman Postel calls plan 'backroom deal worked out by pol bosses'; Councilman Troy, who helped draw dists, notes independents and reformers in Queens helped devise plan; Repr Badillo opposes plan, holding it will cut up large concentrations of Spanish-speaking people in S Bronx; Queens residents who attack plan score Troy, Dem who apparently used opportunity to put solid Repub areas into new Triborough Dist; Lindsay aide M Schick opposes fact that Borough Park sec of Bklyn, with heavy population of 'religious Jews,' is being 'dismembered' into 3 secs; Councilmen Smith, Manton and Curry illus examining redistricting maps
Dec 23: Hanoi's largest hosp, 1,000-bed Bach Mai Hosp, hit by US planes, according to Swedish Foreign Min, who got rept from Sweden's charge d'affaires in Hanoi, E Lundberg; Lundberg did not see hosp himself but was called to Foreign Min in Hanoi and told the hosp was hit and that some people had been killed; repts press party was taken to scene; Hanoi press agency says in broadcast that main hosp bldg and some other secs were demolished and that many person were killed or wounded; Swedish Amb to Hanoi J C Oeberg, now in Stockholm, says Lundberg reptd to him that since US raids began on Dec 18, a third of Hanoi's hosp facilities had been destroyed; also reptd that US bombs fell in densely populated areas, heavily damaging parts of central Hanoi not hit before; Oeberg says Swedish med aid team visited Bach Mai Hosp 2 wks ago to determine what equipment Sweden could supply and that hosp was damaged in US air raid last June, when one bldg was destroyed; map of Hanoi area
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 20, 1972, covering December 23, 1972.
The Moody Blues
Carole King
Jethro Tull
Cat Stevens
The Temptations
1972Morgan, Italian singer-songwriter and composer[†]
Marco Castoldi, better known by his stage name Morgan, is an Italian singer, songwriter and musician. His musical genres are mainly alternative rock and electronic rock, sometimes experimental rock and synth-pop. He has also been a judge for eight seasons in the Italian version of The X Factor, winning five of them through acts he mentored: Aram Quartet, Matteo Becucci, Marco Mengoni, Chiara Galiazzo and Michele Bravi. He was also a coach on The Voice Of Italy 2019.
1972Christian Potenza, Canadian actor, voice actor and singer[†]
Anthony Christian Potenza is a Canadian actor and comedian. He has voiced Jude Lizowski on 6teen as well as Brando Beaver and both of the Bison Brothers in Pikwik Pack. From 2007 to 2014, Potenza was also the original voice actor for Chris McLean in Total Drama.
1972Andrei Tupolev, Russian engineer, designed the Tupolev Tu-95 and Tupolev Tu-104 (born 1888)[†]
Andrei Nikolayevich Tupolev was a Russian and later Soviet aeronautical engineer known for his pioneering aircraft designs as the director of the Tupolev Design Bureau.
1972The Immaculate Reception is caught by Franco Harris to win the Pittsburgh Steelers their first ever playoff victory, after defeating the Oakland Raiders.[†]
The Immaculate Reception is one of the most famous plays in the history of American football. It was a touchdown which occurred in the AFC divisional playoff game of the National Football League (NFL), between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Oakland Raiders at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on December 23, 1972.
1972A 6.5 magnitude earthquake strikes the Nicaraguan capital of Managua killing more than 10,000.[†]
The 1972 Nicaragua earthquake occurred at 12:29:44 a.m. local time on 23 December near Managua, the capital of Nicaragua. It had a moment magnitude of 6.3 and a maximum MSK intensity of IX (Destructive). The epicenter was 28 km (17 mi) northeast of the city centre with a depth of about 10 km (6.2 mi). The earthquake caused widespread casualties among Managua's residents: 4,000–11,000 were killed, 20,000 were injured and over 300,000 were left homeless.
1972The 16 survivors of the Andes flight disaster are rescued after 73 days, surviving by cannibalism.[†]
Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 was the chartered flight of a Fairchild FH-227D from Montevideo, Uruguay, to Santiago, Chile, that crashed in the Andes mountains in Argentina on 13 October 1972. The accident and subsequent survival became known as both the Andes flight disaster and the Miracle of the Andes.
In 1972, the world population was approximately 3,844,917,680 people[†]