In Derry in Northern Ireland, a crowd of almost 300 children threw stones and bottles at six British Army soldiers who had come to a Roman Catholic neighborhood to investigate a complaint. Four soldiers were hurt before the patrol commander fired a rifle shot over the heads of the children.[19]
Australia's new Minister for Immigration, Al Grassby, announced that the nation had officially ended what critics had called the "white Australia policy", eliminating the use of skin color as a factor in determining whether to admit immigrants, and specifically lifting the quota on nonwhites. The phasing out of the policy had started after World War II, when Australia admitted a few nonwhites as immigrants and then permitted them to become citizens after 15 years residence. In 1966, the residence requirement was reduced to five years.[20]
The pilot episode of the longest-running TV comedy series in the world, Last of the Summer Wine, was broadcast in the United Kingdom as an episode of BBC's Comedy Playhouse. Picked up as a series, Last of the Summer Wine would debut on November 12 and would continue to run for 295 episodes over 37 years, until August 29, 2010.
Secretary of Homeland Security Johnson going through a metal detector in 2014
Mandatory screening before boarding of all airline passengers went into effect in the United States[21] under orders of the U.S. Department of Transportation, after notice and comment was announced on December 5.[22]
As its first order of business, the members of the Canada's House of Commons, liberal and conservative, voted unanimously to condemn the American Christmas bombing of North Vietnam that was carried out from December 18 to December 29, 1972. The resolution, introduced by Mitchell Sharp, the MP who was Canada's Secretary of State for External Affairs, began with a statement that the House "deplores the recent large-scale bombing in the Hanoi-Haiphong area", and added that the body "requests the government of the United States to refrain from resumption" of the bombing.[23] The move infuriated U.S. President Richard M. Nixon.[24]
米国のゼネラル・エレクトリック社は、ソビエト連邦の国家科学技術委員会(GKNT、G osudarstvennyi K omitet po N auke i T ekhnike)と、新しい発電技術を開発するための共同研究プロジェクトに関する協定を締結した。GEとソ連の協定は、共産主義国家と大手資本主義企業との間の最初の直接的な協力協定であった。 [ 62 ]
↑ 「Dahir portant loi n° 1-73-8 du 7 hijra 1392 (12 janvier 1973) relatif à la Creation d'une Direction générale des études et de la document」(PDF)。公報(3144): 11.