Week of November 22, 1971

Pakistani reports indicated that India has launched a massive attack on East

Pakistan.

The feud between China and Russia gets obvious at the U.N., after the Chinese

attack Soviet disarmament proposals as a ruse to perpetuate he nuclear

monopoly of Moscow and Washington.

Prime Minister Wasfi Tell, prime minister of Jordan and a foe of the Palestinian

guerrillas, is assassinated in Cairo.

A chunk of swinging London, about half

$8.5 million. The successful bidder was

Peachey Property Corp and what was

bought was 54 properties on one side of

Carnaby Street and two adjacent blocks.

In Phoenix - An 18-year-old girl with four

younger sisters to raise, says she is

willing to marry “any man over 21, no age

limit, to keep her family together. “The chances are no one would take in five of

us,” she said, “and I don’t want to part with my sisters.” The girl, who won’t give

her name, is acting on advice from an attorney.

Radio Pakistan claims the Pakistani army has turned back an Indian offensive in

East Pakistan, killing more than 800 invaders. India denies its troops are fighting

there.

The price commission gives Ford Motor Co. authority to charge an average of

2.9% more in 1972 model trucks, cars and optional equipment.

A man apparently armed with a bomb, hijacks a Northwest airlines jetliner,

demands and received $200,000 form the airline and may have jumped from the

plane after receiving four parachutes at Seattle Airport. The hijacker had ordered

the plane to fly with its rear stairwell open. The hijacker took over the plane

shortly before it was to land in Seattle on a flight from Washington DC. On the

ground in Seattle, he allowed all 36 passengers and two stewardesses to leave.

FBI agents search rugged wilderness in three states to track down a swarthy

master criminal who parachuted from a hijacked jetliner with $200,000 in ransom.

It was the first time a hijacker has parachuted from a plane, and the ransom was

Week of November 22, 1971

the biggest ever paid in a U.S hijacking. The FBI began its search for the hijacker

around the Lake Merwin Reservoir on the Lewis River in southern Washington.

(This is the saga of someone who signed his or her name D.B. Cooper). More

later.

The U.S. trade deficit with other nations rises to $821 million, the largest single

imbalance ever recorded, so says the Commerce Department.

Life magazine says it will reduce its circulation from 7 million to 5.5 million with

the Jan. 14 1972 issue and would seek approval to raise some advertising rates

and its price to the reader.

Crazy in Louisiana politics - Louisiana Atty. Gen. Jack

coward” after he challenged the governor to bring a gun

to the state Capitol. Gremillion’s challenge was issued

in response to a remark McKeithen made in a speech

recently. “I’m awfully embarrassed by our attorney

general,” McKeithen said then. “ I don’t know oaf

anything else to do but shoot him.”

Robert Welch, founder and president of the John Birch

Society says that one of his major goals of the group in

1972 would be to get the United States out of the United Nations. He told a news

conference The United Nations “is a vehicle for Communist global conquest.”

Winter Fashion for men - flight jacket is emerging as a slick new style - one of

the biggest looks for winter with shirt and tie for business or with old faded blue

jeans. Many of the snug-fitting fight jackets are fur trimmed or lined in natural

lamb. Also for men - sweaters are big.

Exiled in Italy, Joe Adonis - a major figure in organized crime passes. He was

69.

named National League Rookie of the Year.

Music news -

Bob Dylan has a new single out - a social comment built

around the death of George Jackson last August at San

Quentin called “George Jackson.”

Week of November 22, 1971

Television news -

President Nixon’s working day of December 6 will be filmed by NBC and shown

on Tuesday, December 21. The film, titled, “December 6, 1971: A day in the

Presidency,” will portray President Nixon as “tougher and less wordy” than he

appears in formal appearances.

Nice movie promotion - The Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade will feature 25 girls

dressed as Twiggy, who appears in the new movie, “The Boy Friend.”

Merv Griffin confirms his first show back in syndication will be March 13 - the day

he replaces David Frost. The show will be produced in Hollywood.

Thursday night television -

Reports, Merv Griffin

NBC - Flip Wilson, Ironside, Dean Martin

Show, Tonight

ABC - College Football, Dick Cavett

PBS - Washington Week in Review, This

Week, Free Time

Bearcats stars Dennis Cole and Rod

Taylor

At the movies -

Johnny Got His Gun - Timothy Bottoms

Kath Fields

Going Home - Robert Mitchum, Brenda Voccaro

The Go-between - Julie Christie/Alan Bates

Happy Birthday Wanda June - Rod Steiger, Susannah York