Sometimes a head of state assumes office as a state becomes legal and political reality, before a formal title for the highest office is determined ; thus in the since 1 January 1960 independent republic Cameroon ( Cameroun, a former French colony ), the first President, Ahmadou Babatoura Ahidjo, was at first not styled président but ' merely ' known as Chef d ' état ( literal French for ' Head of State ') until 5 May 1960 ; in Uganda, military coup leader since 25 January 1971 Idi Amin was formally styled military head of State till 21 February 1971, only from then on regular ( but unconstitutional, not elected ) President.

In 1971 Parliament reconvened, and a new government coalition, the National Front ( Barisan Nasional ), took office.

This program remained in place until it was revealed to the public in 1971, after the theft of many internal documents stolen from an office in Media, Pennsylvania, and was the cause of some of the harshest criticism of Hoover and the FBI.

The film was the fifth most popular " reserve ticket " movie at the British box office in 1971.

Oval Office tapes reveal that in 1971, Nixon and his chief of staff, Bob Haldeman, discussed their desire to have Agnew resign from office prior to the following year's campaign season.

Voted out of office in the 1971 general elections that swept the progressive labour movement into power, Bird and the ALP returned to office in 1976.

The decline in cinema attendance in this period meant that many of these series were turned into cinema films ; the first film version of On the Buses ( 1969 – 75 ) was the biggest hit at the British box office in 1971.

Out of office in the autumn of 1971, Wilson formulated a 16-point, 15 year programme that was designed to pave the way for the unification of Ireland.

* Article in The Janesville ( Wisconsin ) Gazette, June 4, 2012, on the restoration of a 1971 Nivola mural which graces that newspaper's office building.

After the 1956 elections Beyen left office and Luns stayed as Foreign Minister until 1971 in both center-left and center-right governments.

The success of the film version of Up Pompeii in 1971 saw British exhibitors vote him the ninth most popular star at the British box office that year.

When informed that the Motion Picture Editors Guild required an editor credit, he suggested Donn Cambern who had been editing another film, Drive, He Said ( 1971 ) in the next office and had helped Bogdanovich with some purchasing paperwork concerning the film's opticals.

In 1971, the league changed its name to the Gulf South Conference ; added Southeastern Louisiana ( SELA ) and Nicholls State ( increasing the membership to eight ); opened an office in Hammond, Louisiana ; and began championships in all men ’ s sports.

Hua was called to Beijing to direct Zhou Enlai's State Council staff office in 1971, but only stayed for a few months before returning to his previous post in Hunan.

In 1971, the Pequot Council ( New London ) merged with the Eastern Connecticut Council ( Norwich ) into the Indian Trails Council which had its office in New London.

Raymond Gavin ( 1967 – 1986 ) would serve the longest consecutive time in office as Village Trustee 19 years and Robert Werner ( 1971 – 1987 ) and Matthew M. Murphy ( 1957 – 1973 ) would serve as Village Trustees for 16 years in office, all three longer than any Mayor.

Kinbrae's post office was discontinued in the year 1971, and by the year 2000, the town had a mere 21 residents.

Decca's deals with numerous other record labels began to fall apart: RCA Records, for instance, abandoned Decca to set up its own UK office in 1971.

In 1971, the Toronto Daily Star was renamed The Toronto Star and moved to a modern office tower at One Yonge Street by Queens Quay.

A Pakistan Air Force T-33 trainer was hijacked on August 20, 1971 before Indo-Pakistani war of 1971 in Karachi when a Bengali instructor pilot, Flight Lieutenant Matiur Rahman, knocked out the young Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas with the intention of defecting to India with the plane and national secrets.

* 1971 – My Lai massacre: Lieutenant William Calley is convicted of premeditated murder and sentenced to life in prison.

At the Winter Soldier Investigation in Detroit organized by Vietnam Veterans Against the War January 31-February 2, 1971, veterans including First Lieutenant William Crandell of the 199th Light Infantry Brigade, Americal Division expressed their outrage:

* Donald R. Dwight ( 1931 –), Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts from 1971 to 1975.

* Ernest P. Kline, Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania from 1971 to 1979

Lieutenant General Lewis Burwell " Chesty " Puller ( June 26, 1898 – October 11, 1971 ) was an officer in the United States Marine Corps.

He was Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire and also established Knowsley Safari Park in 1971.

After the expected period, he was promoted to Lieutenant in January 1971.

* Lieutenant General Sir Charles Richardson ( 1966 – 1971 )

He was commissioned a Second Lieutenant of Infantry in 1971 through the ROTC program at the University of Alabama.

He had previously been a member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from 1946 to 1950, the mayor of Arkadelphia, Arkansas, in 1966 and 1967, and the eighth Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas from 1971 to 1975.

He served as Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas from 1971 to 1975.

Joe Edward Purcell ( July 29, 1923 – March 5, 1987 ) was the Acting Governor of Arkansas for six days in 1979 as well as Arkansas Attorney General from 1967 – 1971 and the ninth Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas from 1975 – 1981.

In early 1971, Lieutenant Colonel David Hackworth was promoted to the rank of colonel, and received orders to attend the Army War College.

Group Captain A K Khandker PAF-BAF – Was assigned as the Deputy Chief of Staff at the end of July 1971 under Lieutenant Colonel Abdur Rab who remained in Comilla during the war.

As if determined to replay the January 1971 events, Obote once again left the capital after giving orders for the arrest of a leading Acholi commander, Brigadier ( later Lieutenant General ) Bazilio Olara-Okello, who mobilized troops and entered Kampala on July 27, 1985.

He married, on 11 Sep 1971, Catherine, daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Claude Worrall, MVO, OBE, Coldstream Guards ; they have two sons.

He was confirmed as a Second Lieutenant in 1970, promoted to Lieutenant on 11 February 1971, and promoted to Captain on 11 August 1975, and acting Major on 1 September 1979 ..

* 1970 – 1971, At this point a Lieutenant Colonel, served in Vietnam, being on the Staff of Plans, Policy, and Programs, and working on the Vietnamization phase of the war.

Paul Walker Brown was a member of the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan from 1971 until 1994, and ran unsuccessfully for Lieutenant Governor in 1974.

John Shelton Wilder ( June 3, 1921 – January 1, 2010 ) was an American politician who was a Tennessee state senator from 1959 to 1961 and again from 1967 to 2009 and the 48th Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee from 1971 to 2007, possibly the longest time anyone has served as Lieutenant Governor or a similar position in the history of the United States.

In 1971 the governmental structure of the Islands was again changed with a Governor now running the Cayman Islands.

In 1971, the Senate was abolished, and the following year, Ceylon was renamed Sri Lanka, and became a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, with the last Governor General becoming the first President of Sri Lanka.

From 1969 to 1971, state legislators under Governor Mills Godwin rewrote the constitution, after goals such as the repeal of Jim Crow laws had been achieved.

* Ian Plenderleith, MBA 1971, Former Deputy Governor, South African Reserve Bank

Thomas Edmund Dewey ( March 24, 1902 – March 16, 1971 ) was the 47th Governor of New York ( 1943 – 1954 ).

Robert McNair, Democratic Governor of South Carolina from 1965 to 1971, moved to Allendale County as an adult because his wife was from there.

Airey Neave was a Governor of Imperial College between 1963 and 1971 and was a member of the House of Commons select committee on Science and Technology between 1965 and 1970.

* Cornelia Ellis Wallace ( 1939 – 2009 ), the second wife of Governor George C. Wallace, Jr. and the First Lady of Alabama from 1971 – 1978.

* John Swainson, the 42nd Governor of the State of Michigan ( 1961 – 1963 ) as well as Justice of the Michigan State Supreme Court ( 1971 – 1975 ), resided in Manchester from the mid-1970s until his death in 1994.

Wendell Richard " Wendy " Anderson ( born February 1, 1933 ) is an American politician and was the 33rd Governor of Minnesota from January 4, 1971 to December 29, 1976.

* See 1971 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

An Administrator was appointed to the Islands from 1887, and replaced by a Governor in 1971 when the Islands were created a distinct territory.

Governor Tom McCall was interviewed by Terry Drinkwater and appeared on national television January 12, 1971, for his acclaimed conservation experience.

The popularity of this theory during the Cold War can be seen in that it was openly advocated in 1971 by the then Governor of California, Ronald Reagan.

According to a 1998 interview with Hinderaker, the city of Riverside received negative press coverage for smog after the mayor asked Governor Ronald Reagan to declare the South Coast Air Basin a disaster area in 1971 ; subsequent student enrollment declined by up to 25 % through 1979.

Dōkan's 15th century poetic description of what was once just a fortified hill on the Sumida River near Edo Bay would become the basis for metropolitan Tokyo Governor Ryokichi Minobe's 1971 re-election slogan: " Give Tokyo back its blue sky!

Lester Garfield Maddox, Sr. ( September 30, 1915 – June 25, 2003 ), was an American politician who was the 75th Governor of the U. S. state of Georgia from 1967 to 1971.

Bessette's novel Le cycle ( 1971 ) won the Governor General's Award, and in 1980 he was awarded the Prix Athanase-David, Quebec's highest literary honour.

* Thomas E. Dewey ( 1902 – 1971 ) was the Governor of New York ( 1943 – 1955 ) and the unsuccessful Republican candidate for the U. S. Presidency in 1944 and 1948.

On January 4, 1971, Wallace wed the former Cornelia Ellis Snively ( 1939 – 2009 ), a niece of former Alabama Governor Jim Folsom, known as " Big Jim ".

* Patrick Joseph Lucey ( b. 1918 ), U. S. diplomat ; 38th Governor of Wisconsin ( 1971 – 1977 )

By the mandate of the inhabitants, Governor Quibranza was elected Governor in 1967 and almost unanimously re-elected in 1971 and again in 1980.