In recognition of this, the local Liberals supported the Country Party candidate for the sole NT seat from 1969 to 1972.

The UCC is by far the most diverse of the Reformed churches in the U. S. In the United Kingdom, the United Reformed Church was formed in 1972 by the merger of the Presbyterian and the Congregational churches, on presbyterian principles of union but within a continuing congregational regard for local diversity.

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.

No. 187 / 1972 – Firearms ( Temporary Custody ) Order, 1972 ) was issued for all privately-held pistols and all rifles over. 22 calibre to be surrendered to local Garda ( police ) stations by 5 August 1972, for a period of one month.

The reforms arising from the Local Government Act of 1972 resulted in the most uniform and simplified system of local government which has been used in England.

From 1972, the three major domestic airlines ( JAL, ANA, and JAS ) were allocated certain routes, with JAL and ANA sharing trunk routes, and ANA and JAS sharing local feeder routes.

In September 1972, Bushnell and Alcorn installed the Pong prototype at a local bar, Andy Capp's Tavern.

In 1972, more than 85, 000 visitors arrived in Samoa, contributing over $ 12 million to the local economy.

* November 4 – Watchman Nee, Chinese preacher, local church planter ( d. 1972 )

After a watershed passage of the U. S. Noise Control Act of 1972, the program was abandoned at the federal level, under President Ronald Reagan, in 1981 and the issue was left to local and state governments.

Anthropologist Eric R. Wolf gave it a second life in 1972 in an article entitled “ Ownership and Political Ecology ,” in which he discusses how local rules of ownership and inheritance “ mediate between the pressures emanating from the larger society and the exigencies of the local ecosystem ” ( Wolf 1972, p. 202 ).

There is no local rail traffic at the moment, as the city's popular tram services were discontinued in 1972, and the various local railway lines to neighbouring towns and municipalities were all abolished during the late 20th century.

Significant windstorms in Clark County include the Columbus Day windstorm of October 12, 1962, and an April 6, 1972 tornado which rated F3 on the Fujita scale, striking a local school.

In 1971, Heath oversaw the decimalisation of British coinage and in 1972, he implemented major reform to the UK's system of local government.

Under the Local Government Act 1972, the Municipal Borough of Bacup was abolished, and since 1 April 1974 Bacup has formed an unparished area of Rossendale, a local government district of the non-metropolitan county of Lancashire.

While the ON had competed in some local elections since 1970, at its second congress in June 1972 it decided to establish a new political party to contest the 1973 legislative elections.

The Local Government Act 1972 abolished all existing local authorities outside London ( other than parish councils ) in England and Wales.

A visit by Queen Elizabeth II to the site in 1972 caused considerable controversy ; student protests against the Queen's visit were vociferous and, in some cases, fuelled by alcohol, and the disturbances were widely condemned in the press and the local community, where students were refused access to buses and other facilities for a time.

Population and housing censuses for Mauritius was collected in 1972, 1983, and 2000 ; although respondents were asked to identify their race / ethnic origin in the 1972 census, this question was dropped from the following censuses because " the government felt that it was a divisive question ".

There were impressive indicators of economic growth between 1972 and 1979: the government budget expanded some 540 percent, whereas exports as well as per capita income increased a full 500 percent.

On April 6, 1972 the Egyptian government severed relations in protest for a Jordanian plan for federation with the West Bank, which didn't take PLO interests unto considerations.

In 1972 Macias took complete control of the government and assumed the title of President for Life.

The second coup took place in 1972, after the reinstated civilian government had cut military privileges and began to start changing the leadership of the army's combat units.

In 1972 Cabral sets up a government in exile in Conakry, the capital of neighbouring Guinea.

These actions spurred the government to institute new agrarian reforms in 1972 and 1975.

* 1972 – Dhofar Rebellion: British SAS units help the Omani government against Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman rebels in the Battle of Mirbat.

Political parties were banned in Libya from 1972 until the collapse of the Gaddafi government, and all elections were nonpartisan under law.

The final sailing of the Rangatira, which was custom built and entered service in 1972, was on 15 September 1976, after two money losing years ( subsidised by the NZ government ).

In 1972, the U. S. government returned the islands to Japanese administration.

In the federal election of 1972, the Trudeau-led Liberal Party won with a minority government, with the New Democratic Party holding the balance of power.

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.

In a sudden gesture, the government proclaimed a joint communiqué for reunification with North Korea on July 4, 1972, and held Red Cross talks in Seoul and Pyongyang.

However, there was no change in government policy regarding reunification, and on October 17, 1972, Park declared martial law, dissolving the National Assembly and suspending the constitution.

In 1972 the Sudanese government became more pro-Western, and made plans to export food and cash crops.

However, public reaction to the Sputnik crisis led to the creation of the Advanced Research Projects Agency ( renamed the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency or DARPA in 1972 ), NASA, and an increase in U. S. government spending on scientific research and education.

* The presence and rise of a significant number of women as heads of state and heads of government in a number of countries across the world, many being the first women to hold such positions, such as Soong Ching-ling continuing as the first Chairwoman of the People's Republic of China until 1972, Isabel Martínez de Perón as the first woman President in Argentina in 1974 until being deposed in 1976, Elisabeth Domitien becomes the first woman Prime Minister of Lesotho, Indira Gandhi continuing as Prime Minister of India until 1977, Lidia Gueiler Tejada becoming the interim President of Bolivia beginning from 1979 to 1980, Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo becoming the first woman Prime Minister of Portugal in 1979, and Margaret Thatcher becoming the first woman Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

In 1972, in between Zabriskie Point and The Passenger, Antonioni was invited by the Mao government of the People's Republic of China to visit the country.

In 1972, Barzel attempted to force a cabinet crisis in the SPD / FDP government, which failed, leading him to step down.

Between 1960 and 1972, a succession of military coups brought about many changes of government.

Yanki ( who had four children with the Druk Gyalpo, including two sons, between 1962 – 1972 ) was the alleged force behind the plot, which was uncovered three months before the coronation ; thirty persons were arrested, including high government and police officials.

although the 1972 Indonesian alphabet reform was largely a concession of Dutch-based Indonesian to the English-based spelling of Malaysian.

In the course of a land reform in Lower Saxony in 1972, 20 localities were suburbanized to the city through the so-called " Wolfsburg-Act ".

The 1972 local government reform also led to a considerable decrease of the number of municipalities.

The district was established in 1972 by merging the former district of Amberg and the district-free city of Sulzbach-Rosenberg ( the latter one lost its status as a district-free city in this administrative reform ).

There were slight changes to the territory in the administrative reform of 1972.

Prior to the reform of local government in 1974, brought about by the Local Government Act 1972, Goole was in the West Riding of Yorkshire.

In 1957, he was among a group of eminent British lawyers who founded JUSTICE, the human rights and law reform organisation and he became its first chairman-a position he held until 1972.

Following the land reform in Sri Lanka from 1972 – 1976, she was additional principal director of the Land Reform Commission.

The town of Reichelsheim was created in 1972 during an extensive land reform.

In the administrative reform of 1972 the district received its present shape.

As part of the Baden-Württemberg territorial reform of 1972, Villingen and Schwenningen were merged with a number of surrounding villages to form the city of Villingen-Schwenningen.

During the territorial reform in Bavaria in 1972 Otterffing was merged into Miesbach too and the district Wolfratshausen as well.

Bommersheim was annexed before the municipal reform of 1972 and therefore is not an independent district.

In 1972, Großauheim included Wolfgang but due to the Hessian regional reform, Großauheim and Wolfgang were incorporated into Hanau in 1974.

1972 was an election year and everyone who was remotely connected to the scandal were defeated by more moderate Democrats, Republicans or other reform candidates.

Altogether Thailand has 878 districts, not including the 50 districts of Bangkok which are called khet ( เขต ) since the Bangkok administration reform in 1972.

The district was formed by the Local Government Act 1972 on 1 April 1974 as part of a reform of local authorities throughout England and Wales.

The district was created on 1 April 1974 as part of a general reform of local government in England and Wales under the Local Government Act 1972.

The education reform of 1972 provided for bilingual education of the indigenous people of the Andes and the Amazon, which consisted nearly half of the population.

Fisheries and agriculture were particularly visible failures ; PescaPeru aggressively overfished the anchoveta, a fish used primarily as material for fishmeal production and a key element in the Peruvian sea ecosystem, which resulted in record production for a couple of years but combined with an El Niño event in 1972 led to an absolute collapse that would take over a decade to partially recover, while the badly mismanaged agrarian reform resulted in the creation of thousands of capital-poor and mostly uneducated small farmers whose production and distribution capacity fell substantially short of the pre-reform production.

In 1968 Tindemans became minister tasked with the relations between the communities ( 1968 – 1972 ) during which he prepared the first constitutional reform which saw Belgium start transforming into a federal state.

A murder that occurred in the vicinity of the bridge on 10 May 1972 resulted in calls to reform South Australia's laws regarding homosexuality.

Besides the main town, Heppenheim has the outlying centres of Unter-Hambach, Ober-Hambach, Kirschhausen ( with Igelsbach ), Erbach, Sonderbach, Wald-Erlenbach, Mittershausen-Scheuerberg, and Ober-Laudenbach, which were in the course of municipal reform in Hesse amalgamated with Heppenheim with effect from 1 January 1972.