In October 1972 he resigned his seat to force a by-election in which he fought as a Democratic Labour candidate against the official party candidate.

Eric Gairy served as Premier from August 1967 until February 1974, as the Grenada United Labour Party party won majorities in both the 1967 and 1972 general elections.

Maududi founded the Jamaat-e-Islami party in 1941 and remained its leader until 1972.

* 1972 – Watergate scandal: five White House operatives are arrested for burgling the offices of the Democratic National Committee, in an attempt by some members of the Republican party to illegally wiretap the opposition.

However, in early 1972 he faced a new threat in the form of Simon Kapwepwe's decision to leave UNIP and found a rival party, the United Progressive Party, which Kaunda immediately attempted to suppress.

In April 1972, he stood for the Deputy Leadership of the party, along with Edward Short and Anthony Crosland.

He also worked as a Democratic party committeeman on Long Island in the mid-1960s, and voted for George McGovern for president in 1972.

On 8 July 1970, he was elected Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, but resigned in 1972 because he supported entry to the Common Market, while the party opposed it.

Gay activist Richard Sincere has pointed to the longstanding support of gay issues by the party, which has supported marriage equality since its first platform was drafted in 1972.

From early 1971, he opposed, with increasing vehemence, Heath's approach to Northern Ireland, the greatest breach with his party coming over the imposition of direct rule in 1972.

The first green party in Europe was the Popular Movement for the Environment, founded in 1972 in the Swiss canton of Neuchâtel.

Already a prominent leader in the party, Berlinguer was elected to the position of national secretary in 1972 when Luigi Longo resigned on grounds of ill health.

Hans Wiegel, party leader from 1972 until 1982

Brandt's Ostpolitik as well as his reformist domestic policies were popular with parts of the young generation and led his SPD party to its best-ever federal election result in late 1972.

In 1972, Le Pen founded the Front National ( FN ) party, along with former OAS member Jacques Bompard, former Collaborationist Roland Gaucher and others nostalgics of Vichy France, neo-Nazi pagans, Traditionalist Catholics, and others.

The party was founded in 1972, seeking to unify a variety of French patriotism currents of the time.

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 party was formally launched on 5 October 1972 under the name National Front for French Unity ( Front national pour l ' unité française ), or National Front.

This was enabled by the 1972 Common Program between the PS, the PRG and the PCF — which had remained, just as in Italy, a strong party throughout the Cold War.

The Green Party of England and Wales has its roots in the PEOPLE party started in 1972 / 3 by a group of four professional friends in Coventry ( Michael Benfield, Freda Sanders, Tony & Lesley Whittaker ).

Loving County has voted for the Republican candidate in every presidential election since 1972, except in 1992 when the county backed third party candidate Ross Perot.

* In Marie Buchanan's 1972 novel " Anima ", Young Livia whiles her time away at Halma before she joins the rest of the party for a seance.

Labour was defeated again in the next two elections, but in the 1972 election, the party gained a significant victory.

The assumption being that Iraq used both smallpox and anthrax during this war All of this occurring while Iraq was a party to the Geneva Protocol on September 8, 1931, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty on October 29, 1969, signed the Biological Weapons Convention in 1972, but did not ratify until June 11, 1991.

In his leadership address to the 1972 Fine Gael ard fheis in Cork, Cosgrave referred to the ' mongrel foxes ' who should be rooted out of the party, a reference seen by many as an attack on FitzGerald's efforts to unseat him as leader.

He followed this with leading roles in the disaster film The Poseidon Adventure ( 1972 ) and Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation ( 1974 ), which was nominated for several Oscars.

In 1972 Torrence won the Grammy Award for Best Album Cover for the psychedelic rock band Pollution's first eponymous 1971 album, and was nominated three other times in the same category for albums of The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.

At the tumultuous 1972 Democratic convention, presidential nominee George McGovern selected Senator Thomas Eagleton as his running mate, but numerous other candidates were either nominated from the floor or received votes during the balloting.

Heckart won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her work in the 1972 movie adaptation of Butterflies Are Free and was nominated in 1956 for her performance as the bereaved, besotted Mrs. Daigle in The Bad Seed.

Other movies of this decade were Academy award nominee Sunflower ( 1970 ) which was a critical success and Arthur Hiller's Man of La Mancha ( 1972 ) which was a critical and commercial failure despite being nominated for several awards including two Golden Globes awards.

O ' Toole and James Coco were nominated for two NBR awards, in addition the NBR listed Man of La Mancha in its best 10 pictures of 1972 list.

Bridges is one of the youngest actors ever to be nominated for an Academy Award ( 1972, age 22, Best Supporting Actor, The Last Picture Show ), and one of the oldest ever to win ( 2010, age 60, Best Actor, Crazy Heart ).

Because he had stated repeatedly that he would serve only four years ( only Charles E. Wilson and Robert McNamara among his predecessors served longer ), it came as no surprise when President Nixon on 28 November 1972 nominated Elliot L. Richardson to succeed him.

Pleasence was nominated four times for the Tony Award for best performance by a leading actor in a Broadway play: in 1962 for Harold Pinter's The Caretaker, in 1965 for Jean Anouilh's Poor Bitos, in 1969 for Robert Shaw's The Man in the Glass Booth, and in 1972 for Simon Gray's Wise Child.

It was nominated for a 1972 Hugo Award and finished # 4 in the 1972 Locus Poll for Best Novel.

As Douglas grew older, he took on the older-man and father roles, in such movies as Hud ( 1963 ), for which he won his first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, The Americanization of Emily ( 1964 ), an episode of The Fugitive ( 1966 ), I Never Sang for My Father ( 1970 ), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor, and The Candidate ( 1972 ).

In 1973, Winfield was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for the 1972 film Sounder, and his co-star in that film, Cicely Tyson, was nominated for Best Actress.

It is only the third film to have its entire credited cast ( Whitmore ) nominated for an Academy Award, the first two being Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf in 1966 and Sleuth in 1972.

In 1972, a recording of " Turn Your Radio On " by the Lewis Family was nominated for " Gospel Song of the Year " in the Gospel Music Association's Dove Awards.

He was nominated for a Tony Award for Jesus Christ Superstar in 1972 and won a Tony for his appearance in Pippin in 1973.

He was nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for The Heartbreak Kid in 1972.

For his work as Archie Bunker, he was nominated for eight Emmy Awards as Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series ; he won the award four times ( 1972, 1977, 1978, and 1979 ).

In 1972, the People's Party nominated the democratic socialist and anti-war activist Benjamin Spock for President, and in 1976 it nominated Margaret Wright, of the Watts section of Los Angeles, for President.

* The Beauty of the Weapons: Selected Poems 1972 – 82 – 1982 ( nominated for a Governor General's Award ), 1985 ( Copper Canyon Press )

In 1972, Gordy attended FIDM in Los Angeles, where he produced the commercially successful Billie Holiday biography Lady Sings the Blues, starring Diana Ross ( who was nominated for an Academy Award ) and Richard Pryor, and introducing Billy Dee Williams ( cast in a role originally for Levi Stubbs of the Four Tops ).

It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1972 and the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1973.