Elections in 1972 resulted in the formation of a ministry headed by Chief Minister Michael Somare, who pledged to lead the country to self-government and then to independence.

Morecambe headed back to his hotel, and recounted in an interview with Michael Parkinson in November 1972 that, as the pains spread to his chest, he became unable to drive.

In 1972 stun grenades were used to capture the hijacked Sabena Flight 571, allowing the Israeli forces headed by Ehud Barak and including Benjamin Netanyahu to storm the plane and take it over within 10 minutes while capturing two terrorists and killing Ali Taha, the leader of the terrorist group and his aide, while rescuing all passengers ( three were wounded, and one died of her injuries several days later ).

Negotiations lasted from November 17, 1969, until May 1972 in a series of meetings beginning in Helsinki, with the U. S. delegation headed by Gerard C. Smith, director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.

The province of Quirino was formally established on February 10, 1972 upon the assumption to office of the first elected provincial and municipal officials headed by Dionisio A. Sarandi as Provincial Governor.

Boycott headed the national batting averages in 1972 with 72. 35, and was second in 1973 with 63. 62.

* The 1972 President's Commission on Population Growth and the American Future, headed by John D. Rockefeller III.

She also headed the Western Pennsylvania presidential campaigns of John F. Kennedy in 1960 and George McGovern in 1972 ; headed the unsuccessful campaign to get NAACP President Byrd Brown the Democratic nomination to Congress ; and was co-chairman with Mayor Joseph M. Barr of the unsuccessful U. S. Senate campaign of Jeanette Reibman in 1976.

In 1972, the Taft Broadcasting Company, headed by Kelly Robinson, first proposed building a theme park in the then small village of Maple, part of Vaughan, Ontario.

After suffering annual losses of up to $ 3 million it was acquired in 1972 by Jet Capital Corporation, headed by 32-year-old Frank Lorenzo.

He also headed the Nixon reelection committee in South Carolina in 1972.

That same year he married Deborah Murray and served as a Finance / Campaign Expert for what was originally the Citizens Committee to Re-Elect the President, then headed by acting director Jeb Magruder ( who became deputy campaign director when John Mitchell resigned from the Justice Department to take up his political duties full-time in 1972 ).

# Tri-Marine International, Inc., a global trading company formed in Singapore in 1972 dealing in tuna and tuna products headed by Renato Curto, president and majority shareholder.

After abandoning a plan to merge with the Milwaukee Road in 1970, Benjamin W. Heineman, who had headed the CNW and parent Northwest Industries since 1956, arranged the sale of the railroad to its employees in 1972.

The town was established in 1954 as a private township, by the Glen Anil Development Corporation / Investments which was headed up by Dr Edward ( Eddie ) Rubenstein ( 1903 – 1972 ).

In 1972 he headed the first delegation of U. S. computer scientists to the People's Republic of China.

In the summer of 1972, Billings headed a team from Brigham Young University that won first prize for low emissions at the Urban Vehicle Design Competition held at the General Motors Proving Grounds in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

After finishing 4 – 8 – 2 in 1971, Devine headed a brief resurgence that " The Pack is Back ," by dethroning the four-time division champion Minnesota Vikings in 1972 to reach the playoffs, the Packers ' first post-season in five years.

In 1972, a committee headed by Professor Ravi J. Matthai, seeing the rising demand for graduates of the first two IIMs namely IIM Calcutta and IIM Ahmedabad, recommended the need to have two more IIMs.

The company, once a purveyor to the Imperial and Royal court of Austria-Hungary, was headed by the Demels until 1972, when Udo Proksch bought the company.

Zygmunt Muchniewski ( 1896 – 1979 ) was a Polish politician who headed the Christian Democracy party and was the Prime Minister of the Polish Government in Exile from 16 July 1970 – August 1972.

* Australian federal election, 1972: The Australian Labor Party ( ALP ), led by Gough Whitlam, won 67 of the 125 seats in the House of Representatives, to take control of the government from the coalition of the Liberal Party ( headed by Prime Minister William McMahon ) and the Country Party, removing the Liberals from a majority for the first time in 23 years.

The treaty was signed in Moscow on May 26, 1972 by the President of the United States, Richard Nixon and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Leonid Brezhnev ; and ratified by the US Senate on August 3, 1972.

Category: 1972 in the Soviet Union

In 1972, Nixon normalized American relationship with China, thus creating pressure on the Soviet Union.

The Vyborg tramway network ceased operations in 1957, after the city had been ceded to the Soviet Union, while the Turku tramway network shut down in 1972.

* 1972 – The Soviet unmanned spaceship Luna 20 lands on the Moon.

From 1961 to 1972, the Soviet Union caught 138 gray whales ( they originally reported not having taken any ).

The establishment of diplomatic relations between Madagascar and the Soviet Union started on September 29, 1972.

* 1972 – The United States and the Soviet Union sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.

As Third World countries increased their influence in the arena of world politics and Soviet – American détente created opportunities for countries in both blocs, North Korea declared 1972 a year of diplomacy.

* 1972 – The Soviet Union makes its final attempt at successfully launching N-1 Rocket.

* Interim Agreement on Offensive Arms ( SALT I ) 1972: The Soviet Union and the United States agreed to a freeze in the number of intercontinental ballistic missiles ( ICBMs ) and submarine-launched ballistic missiles ( SLBMs ) that they would deploy.

* Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty ( ABM ) 1972: The United States and Soviet Union could deploy ABM interceptors at two sites, each with up to 100 ground-based launchers for ABM interceptor missiles.

A nonfiction essay that is embedded in There Will Be Time and attributed to the book's fictional protagonist, but seems to reflect Anderson's own views, sharply criticizes the American Left of 1972 ( when it was written ) for two instances of a double standard: for neglecting to address human rights violations in the Soviet Union and for failing to notice Israel's treatment of the Palestinians.

In 1972, PepsiCo company struck a barter agreement with the then government of the Soviet Union, in which PepsiCo was granted exportation and Western marketing rights to Stolichnaya vodka in exchange for importation and Soviet marketing of Pepsi-Cola.

* PT-76-3 ordered in 1971 from the Soviet Union and delivered in 1972 ( the vehicles were second hand )

* 1972 – The United States suffers its first loss of an international basketball game in a disputed match against the Soviet Union at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany.

In 1972, Saddam started developing his chemical weapons program and signed a 15-year Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation with the Soviet Union.

Iraq signed an aid pact with the Soviet Union in 1972, and arms were sent along with several thousand advisers.

Gretzky would later remark that the Soviet National Team's practice drills, which impressed Canada in 1972, had nothing to offer him: " I'd been doing these drills since I was three.

* September 28 – The Canadian national men's hockey team defeats the Soviet national ice hockey team in Game 8 of the 1972 Summit Series ( French: La Série du Siècle, Russian: Суперсерия СССР — Канада ), 6 – 5, to win the series 4 – 3 – 1.

Hall effect thrusters had operated on Soviet satellites since 1972.