The Nightrider's vehicle, another Pursuit Special, was a 1972 Holden HQ LS Monaro coupe.

In February 1972, the facelifted LJ Torana was introduced with the six-cylinder models now visually associated with the larger Holden HQ series.

In late 1972, Holden released a special edition version of the HQ Kingswood sedan and wagon, named Kingswood Vacationer.

The AQ series Constantia was introduced in 1972 and was based on another Australian design, the Statesman HQ.

At home, there were five regional commands: Eastern, Western, Northern, Scottish, and Southern Command, which all eventually merged to became HQ UK Land Forces or UKLF in 1972.

HQ UK Land Forces was formed in 1972, and the previous home commands were effectively downgraded to districts.

1972 – Ummed Singh Mahra – In one of the most difficult counter-insurgency operation in Nagaland, a insurgent revealed the location of self-styled Brigadier Pavizo and his HQ.

Also in 1972 it became the insurgent center of the Black Consciousness Movement ( BCM ) with the Mapetla Mohapi and Mongezi Sefika wa Nkmo starting a workstudy / political circle in Zone 10 area to launch later in January 1973, the Black Peoples Convention ( BPC ), King William's Town, Branch with Zwelitsha as the HQ.

* 1972 – The California Supreme Court in the case of People v. Anderson, 6 Cal. 3d 628 invalidates the state's death penalty and commutes the sentences of all death row inmates to life imprisonment.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1972 ; 3d ed., 1987 ; 4th ed., 1993.

The third period ended when the Ranger companies were inactivated as their parent units were withdrawn from the war between November 1969 ( Company O of 3d Brigade 82d Airborne Division ), and 15 August 1972 ( Company H of 1st Air Cavalry Division ).

* Ralph H. Turner and Lewis M. Killian, Collective Behavior, Englewood Cliffs, N. J., Prentice-Hall, 2d ed., 1972 ; 3d.

From 1969 to 1972 Bell spent his initial assignment in the Army with the 3d Squadron, 14th Armored Cavalry Regiment in Bad Hersfeld, Germany.

During his second tour from August 1971 to June 1972, he served as the assistant operations officer for the 3d Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, and as operations officer for the same division ’ s 1st Battalion, 21st Artillery.

3d 269 ( 1972 )

* 1972 – In an unsuccessful coup d ' état attempt, the Royal Moroccan Air Force fires upon Hassan II of Morocco's plane while he is traveling back to Rabat.

The aircraft carrier USS Ticonderoga delivered the Apollo 16 command module to the North Island Naval Air Station, near San Diego, California on Friday, 5 May 1972.

On Monday, 8 May 1972, ground service equipment being used to empty the residual toxic reaction control system fuel in the command module tanks exploded in a Naval Air Station hangar.

" The other item was a commemorative medal issued by the United States Air Force, which was celebrating its 25th anniversary in 1972.

When Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashed into the Andes on October 13, 1972, the survivors resorted to eating the deceased during their 72 days in the mountains.

* 1972 – Vietnam War: As part of Operation Linebacker II, 120 American B-52 Stratofortress bombers attacked Hanoi, including 78 launched from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam, the largest single combat launch in Strategic Air Command history.

* 1972 – An Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 ( a Lockheed Tristar ) crashes on approach to Miami International Airport, Florida, killing 101.

The National Environmental Policy Act ( 1969 ), the Clean Air Act ( 1970 ), the Clean Water Act ( 1972 ), and the Endangered Species Act ( 1973 ) all were enacted with broad bipartisan support, and ultimately signed into law by Republican President Richard Nixon.

Growing concerns, both environmental and economic, from cites and towns as well as sportsman and other local groups, and senators such as Maine's Edmund S. Muskie, led to passage of extensive legislation, notably the Clean Air Act of 1970 and the Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972.

In December 1972, Air Mauritius landed a Piper-Navajo ( twin-engined plane of 6 places ), rented from Air Madagascar, in Rodrigues.

* 1972 – Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashes in the Andes mountains, near the border between Argentina and Chile.

In the words of USAF General George S. Brown, Commander, Air Force Systems Command in 1972, " The only reason we need ( UAVs ) is that we don't want to needlessly expend the man in the cockpit.

Near the war's end in December 1972, President Richard Nixon ordered Operation Linebacker II, a high-intensity Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps aerial bombing campaign, which included hundreds of B-52 bombers that struck previously untouched North Vietnamese strategic targets, including heavy populated areas in Hanoi and Haiphong.

Following the cancellation of SMiLE, The Beach Boys relocated to a studio situated in the living room of Brian Wilson's new mansion in Bel Air ( once the home of Edgar Rice Burroughs ), where the band would primarily record until 1972.

The writers Peter Stansky and William Abrahams, in their 1972 The Unknown Orwell, noted :" Eric Blair looked back unforgivingly on the world before 1914-it was that world that had sent him to his prep school-while George Orwell could believe it was superior to what came after it, and looked back to it nostalgically in Coming Up for Air.

* Pfau, Richard A., and Greenhalgh Jr., William H., " The Air Force in Southeast Asia: The B-57G Tropic Moon III 1967 – 1972 ", Office of Air Force History, Headquarters USAF, 1978

Air Defense Weapons Center McDonnell F-101F-71-MC Voodoo August 1972.

Three years later, on June 1, 1972, Air Training Command ( ATC ) discontinued the 3650th and activated the 14th Flying Training Wing in its place, assuming its equipment, personnel and mission.

Three years later, the 71st was redesignated as the 319th FIS, which remained on alert until 30 June 1972 when the active duty Air Defense interceptor mission at Malmstrom was phased down and inactivated.

* 4642d Air Defense Squadron ( SAGE ), 1 July 1972

This was a several year conversion process, when in July 1972, the last operational active duty Air Force F-100s were transferred from the 27th TFW to the Air National Guard.

* 1972 – The Troubles: a car bombing outside a crowded pub in Belfast sparks a two-day gun battle involving the Provisional IRA, Ulster Volunteer Force and British Army.

In the Royal Air Force, free married quarters cleaning services were phased out for all officers except Squadron Leaders or above in command appointments as of 1 April 1972.

* The 1972 crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 in the Andes mountains that killed a number of rugby players from Uruguay.

The bombing campaigns of the Air Force were tightly controlled by the White House for political reasons, and until 1972 avoided the main Northern cities of Hanoi and Haiphong and concentrated on bombing jungle supply trails, especially the Ho Chi Minh Trail.

Upon graduation in 1972, he became an Air Force test pilot, logging thousands of hours of flight time in dozens of aircraft, including the Boeing 747, the experimental X-24B lifting body, the F-111 Aardvark, and the gigantic C-5 Galaxy.

It was opened by the Argentine Air Force on 15 November 1972 ( previously, international flights were by seaplane from Comodoro Rivadavia ).

* Bernard C. Nalty, War against Trucks: Aerial Interdiction in Southern Laos, 1968 – 1972, Air Force Museums and History Program, Washington DC 2005.

Wilson was a former chairman of the White House Task Force on Crime ( 1966 ), of the National Advisory Commission on Drug Abuse Prevention ( 1972 – 73 ) and a member of the Attorney General's Task Force on Violent Crime ( 1981 ), the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board ( 1985 – 90 ), and the President's Council on Bioethics.

* Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, a 1974 book by Piers Paul Read which documented the 1972 crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 in the Andes mountains

ACP was known as the U. S. Air Force Aeronautical Chart and Information Center ( ACIC ) from 1952 to 1972 ( See DMAAC below ).

In July 1972 Air National Guard units began supporting Air Force tanker task forces overseas with second-line KC-97 Stratotanker propeller-driven tankers and volunteer crews when needed.

* United States Air Force Security Service, ( July 1972 – October 1978 )

He left NASA and retired from the Air Force with the rank of Colonel in 1972 and founded the High Flight Foundation, spending his last 20 years as a " Goodwill Ambassador for the Prince of Peace ", stating that " Jesus walking on the earth is more important than man walking on the moon ".

She appeared in The Carey Treatment ( 1972 ), Lady Ice ( 1973 ), The Reincarnation of Peter Proud ( 1975 ), Caravans ( 1978 ), A Force of One ( 1979 ), Scanners ( 1981 ), and The Cover Girl Murders ( 1993 made-for-television film ).