The 1973 Kilbrandon Report stated that " In international law the United Kingdom Government is responsible for the Islands ' international relations " and " also responsible for the defence of the Islands ".

Elquemedo Willett, born 1 May 1953, famous Nevisian cricket player and former Leeward Islands and West Indies left-arm spinner, was the first Leeward Islander to play Test cricket for the West Indies in 1973, when he was 19 years old.

It originated from the Australian Army land forces of the territory of Papua New Guinea before independence, coming into being in January 1973 and having its antecedents in the Pacific Islands Regiment.

The PNGDF originated from the Australian Army land forces of the Territory of Papua New Guinea before independence, coming into being in January 1973 and having its antecedents in the Pacific Islands Regiment.

Even as late as 1970, the British Protectorate did not envisage independence for Solomon Islands in the foreseeable future but shortly thereafter, the financial costs of supporting the Protectorate became more trying, as the world economy was hit by the first oil price shock of 1973.

Palau District Police greet the UN Visiting Mission to the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands ( 1973 )

* Smyly, John, and Carolyn Smyly ( 1973 ) Those Born at Koona: The Totem Poles of the Haida Village Skedans, Queen Charlotte Islands.

Kirkwall Harbour can be seen in The Highlands and Islands-A Royal Tour, a 1973 documentary about Prince Charles ' visit to the Highlands and Islands, directed by Oscar Marzaroli.

" Charles Brasch 1909 – 1973: Tributes and Memories from His Friends " in Islands ( NZ ) 5, Spring 1973

( 1973 ) The Islands of Western Scotland.

On the other hand, Vietnam claims that all the Spratly Islands belong to a district, first in 1973, of the Phuoc Tuy Province, then, of the Khanh Hoa Province.

He would eventually become director of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, from 1958 ( after his return from the successful Antarctic expedition ) until 1973.

The Channel Islands ( since 1969 ) and Isle of Man ( since 1973 ) now issue their own stamps which are not valid anywhere else.

Norway stopped hunting the whale in 1973 but northern bottlenose whales are still hunted in the Faroe Islands, especially in the villages of Hvalba and Sandvík on Suðuroy.

On the Cayman Islands for example, D. p. eoa was found to be " decidedly scarce " on Grand Cayman and apparently absent from Cayman Brac in November 1979, while it had been a " very common " breeder in the group some 10 years before, and not frequently seen in the winters of 1972 / 1973 ; apparently, the birds disperse elsewhere outside the breeding season.

( 1973 ) The Islands of Western Scotland.

Islands council areas had been unitary council areas since implementation of the 1973 Act, and Section 3 of the 1994 Act provided that the existing islands areas were to continue to be local government areas.

* August 1-October 1 – After his 1973 round-the-world attempt was aborted by bad weather between Hokkaidō and the Aleutian Islands, Don Taylor of California successfully circumnavigates the world eastbound in his Thorp T-18, beginning and ending at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, in the United States.

( 1973 ) The Islands of Western Scotland.

The Virgin Islands properties began their timeshare sales in 1973 with owners Hillie Meyers, Don Saunders and Arthur Zimand.

" He retired to the British Virgin Islands, but returned to England where he died in 1973.

On July 14, 1973, the then-Colonel Rodríguez Balinas took command of the 166th Support Group and was given full command and control of all USAR ( United States Army Reserve ) units in Puerto Rico and the U. S. Virgin Islands.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature, introduced the term to the Western world with the 1973 publication of his novel The Gulag Archipelago.

Taito released a four-way joystick as part of their arcade racing video game Astro Race in 1973, while their 1975 run and gun multi-directional shooter game Western Gun introduced dual-stick controls with one eight-way joystick for movement and the other for changing the shooting direction.

* 1973 – Black September storms the Saudi embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, resulting in the assassination of three Western hostages.

More recent uses include: by France during the First Indochina War ( 1946 – 1954 ), the Algerian War ( 1954 – 1962 ), the Portuguese Colonial War ( 1961 – 1974 ) and the Western Sahara War ( 1975 – 1991 ), The Six-Day War by Israel ( 1967 ), in Nigeria ( 1969 ), India and Pakistan ( 1965 and 1971 ), Turkey during the invasion of Cyprus ( 1974 ), by Morocco during the Western Sahara War ( 1975 – 1991 ), Iran ( 1980 – 88 ), Brazil ( 1972 ), Egypt ( 1973 ), Iraq ( 1980 – 88, 1991, 2003 – 2011 ), Angola ( 1993 ), Yugoslavia ( 1991-1996 ), and by Argentina ( 1982 ).

* Peckinpah's penchant for filming action scenes in slow motion was satirized by Benny Hill in a Western skit called " The Deputy " that first aired on his March 29, 1973 special.

* Donald Featherstone Tank Battles in Miniature: Wargamers ' Guide to the Western Desert Campaign, 1940-42, P. Stephens Ltd 1973

In the Western English-speaking countries, multiculturalism as an official national policy started in Canada in 1971, followed by Australia, where it has since been displaced by assimilation, in 1973.

His second term in office began in 1974, when a period of economic crisis was beginning to hit most Western countries ( see 1973 oil crisis, Stagflation, Eurosclerosis ).

* Western Europe ( 1955, 1973, 1998 )

The 1973 oil embargo by OPEC spurred an oil boom in eastern Montana, northern Wyoming and Western North Dakota.

In 1973, as part of the Chessie System, the Western Maryland ownership went to C & O and it was operated by the B & O.

" Notes on Serfdom in Western and Eastern Europe ," Journal of Economic History March 1973 33: 86-99 in JSTOR

In 1973 Western added nine McDonnell Douglas DC-10s, marketing their wide-body cabins as " DC-10 Spaceships ".

The 1973 oil embargo happened in October following the United States ' and Western Europe's support of Israel against Arab nations in the Yom Kippur War of 1973.

The band's next album, Vagabonds of the Western World was released in September 1973 to positive reviews, but again failed to chart.

* Vagabonds of the Western World ( 1973 )

Supply-side economics developed during the 1970s in response to Keynesian economic policy, and in particular the failure of demand management to stabilize Western economies during the stagflation of the 1970s, in the wake of the oil crisis in 1973.

Having completed a University of Western Australia masters degree by thesis in 1970, on the topic of the appropriations power under the Australian Constitution, in 1973 he won a Fulbright scholarship and was appointed as an associate in law at Columbia University, New York, teaching legal research and writing, and international law.

In 1973, the Western Carl Zeiss AG entered into a licensing agreement with the Japanese camera company Yashica to produce a series of high-quality 35 mm film cameras and lenses bearing the Contax and Zeiss brand names.

During the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, launched by Sadat, King Faisal withdrew Saudi oil from world markets, in protest over Western support for Israel during the conflict.

The black swan is the official bird emblem of Western Australia, although only formally adopted in 1973.