In 1971, he initiated a political power struggle that led, with Soviet support, to his replacing Ulbricht as First Secretary of the SED Central Committee and as chairman of the National Defense Council.

The head of the government since 1971 is Prime Minister Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa and the Crown Prince is Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, who serves as Commander of the Bahrain Defense Forces.

* " United States-Vietnam Relations 1945 – 67, Department of Defense Study ", 12 vols., Government Printing Office, Washington, 1971.

Chambers and his founding partners, James E. Ferguson, II and Adam Stein, working with lawyers of the Legal Defense Fund, successfully litigated civil rights cases and helped shape the contours of civil rights law by winning landmark United States Supreme Court rulings in such cases as Swann v. Charlotte Mecklenburg Board of Education, 402 U. S. 1 ( 1971 ), the famous school busing decision, and Griggs v. Duke Power Co. 401 U. S. 424, 91 S. Ct.

* April 15, 1971 Air Defense Command inactivated 18 FIS.

* July 30, 1971 Air Defense Command stationed the 460th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, with F-106 Delta Darts, at Grand Forks AFB.

* Les Aspin-U. S. House of Representatives ( 1971 – 1993 ), U. S. Secretary of Defense ( 1993 – 1994 )

Juan Ponce Enrile, Acting Secretary of Finance ( 1966 – 1968 ), Secretary of Justice ( 1968 – 1970 ), Secretary of National Defense ( 1970 – 1971 ; 1972 – 1978 ) and Minister of National Defense ( 1978 – 1986 )

In 1971 he became the chief of the Bureau of Engineering and Fortifications of the Ministry of Defense ( under Enver Hoxha when thousands of concrete casements were built as defense against states held to be hostile ).

Redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 60th Air Defense Artillery.

Colonel Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán (; 14 September 1913 – 27 January 1971 ) was a Guatemalan military officer and politician who served as Defense Minister of Guatemala from 1944 to 1951, and as President of Guatemala from 1951 to 1954.

In 1971, volunteer lawyers who had worked with the Sierra Club established the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund.

She volunteered as national national legal defense secretary of the Angela Davis Defense Fund in 1971.

The organization was founded in 1971 as the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, though it was fully independent from the Sierra Club.

He was awarded the National Defense Service Medal ; Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal ; Marine Corps Expeditionary Medal, and a Letter of Commendation from the Commander of Carrier Division Two ; received the NASA Group Achievement Award, 1971 ; NASA Distinguished Service Medal, 1974 ; Navy Distinguished Service Medal and the Navy Astronaut Wings ; 1974 ; City of Chicago Gold Medal, 1974 ; University of Southern California Alumni Merit Award, 1974 ; Boy Scouts of America Distinguished Eagle Scout Award, 1974 ; Robert J. Collier Trophy for 1973, in 1974 ; City of New York Gold Medal, 1974 ; Marine Corps Aviation Association's Exceptional Achievement Award, 1974 ; Dr. Robert H. Goddard Memorial Trophy, 1975 ; also recipient of the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale's Gold Space Medal ; De la Vaulx Medal, and V. M.

In September 1971 the 173rd Airborne Brigade returned to Fort Campbell and conducted its official homecoming ceremonies, which were presided over by Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird.

In the Pentagon Papers case ( New York Times Co. v. United States, ), the Nixon administration sought to enjoin The New York Times and The Washington Post newspapers from publishing excerpts from a top-secret United States Department of Defense history of the United States involvement in the Vietnam War from 1945 to 1971.

Sandia Base was, from 1946 to 1971, the principal nuclear weapons installation of the United States Department of Defense.

He served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Administration from January 1969 to June 1971, and as United States Secretary of the Army from July 1971 until May 1973.

United States Department of Defense analyst Daniel Ellsberg in September 1971, prior to Watergate.

From 1962 until 1971 he was a Deputy Director General at Israel Aircraft Industries, and won the Israel Defense Prize in 1971.

* 1971 – Pakistan President Yahya Khan announces the formation of a Coalition Government at Centre with Nurul Amin as Prime Minister and Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto as Vice-Prime Minister.

Some groups allege that Diego Garcia and its territorial waters out to have been restricted from public access without permission of the BIOT Government since 1971.

Drowning in debt, in 1971 Lockheed ( then the largest US defense contractor ) asked the US Government for a loan guarantee, to avoid insolvency.

The Central Policy Review Staff was established by Heath in February 1971, while the 1972 Local Government Act changed the boundaries of Britain's counties and created " Metropolitan Counties " around the major cities ( e. g. Merseyside around Liverpool ): this caused significant public anger.

On 25 October 1971, Resolution 2758 was passed by the UN General Assembly, which " decides to restore all its rights to the People's Republic of China and to recognize the representatives of its Government as the only legitimate representatives of China to the United Nations, and to expel forthwith the representatives of Chiang Kai-shek from the place which they unlawfully occupy at the United Nations and in all the organizations related to it.

John Gorton, Prime Minister of Australia from 1968 – 1971, initiated several forms of Government support for Australian film and the arts, establishing the Australian Council for the Arts, the Australian Film Development Corporation and the National Film and Television Training School.

The UK Government investigation into Scientology ( the Foster Report of 1971 ) reproduced a number of internal " Ethics Orders ".

British Government papers released in 2002, show that in 1971 Paisley attempted to reach a compromise with the nationalist Social Democratic and Labour Party ( SDLP ).

Category: Government agencies established in 1971

Nordli became a cabinet member in 1971, serving as Minister of Local Government in the first cabinet Bratteli.

Soon after his 1971 return to Harvard, having served two years in the Nixon White House as Counselor to the President, Moynihan became a professor in the Department of Government.

In 1971, the Museum received funds from the Government of Canada and UBC to begin construction of a new building.

* The council of a local government district created by the Local Government ( Boundaries ) Act ( Northern Ireland ) 1971 that either adopted the charter of an existing city corporation in 1973, or that has since been granted city status.

In 1971, the Government selected a 17 hectare site on the eastern side of the proposed National Place, between King Edward Terrace and for the Gallery.

In May 1971, following Gorton's fall from power, the Government endorsed Madigan's sketches for the building.

The town council was abolished when local government was reformed in Northern Ireland in 1973 under the Local Government ( Boundaries ) Act ( Northern Ireland ) 1971 and the Local Government Act ( Northern Ireland ) 1972.

This was abolished with the Local Government ( Boundaries ) Act ( Northern Ireland ) 1971 and the Local Government Act ( Northern Ireland ) 1972.

Under the Local Government Bill as introduced into Parliament in November 1971, it was named Malvernshire, after the Malvern Hills, which were roughly in the geographical centre of the new county and formed the former border.

The bank was founded in 1943 and since 1 January 1972 has been the banker of the Government of Ireland in accordance with the Central Bank Act 1971, which can be seen in legislative terms as completing the long transition from a currency board to a fully functional central bank.

Its official date of formation has been established as September 28, 1971 and it was launched formally by the Government on 8 October 1971.