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Thursday December 9, 1971
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This Day In 1970's History: Thursday December 9, 1971
  • The House and Senate passed the tax bill which increases personal exemptions, permits business equipment deductions, repeals the 7% auto sales tax, allows deductions for the cost of baby-sitters, and contains the check-off plan for taxpayer financing of campaigns starting in 1976. [CBS]

  • President Nixon vetoed the anti-poverty bill which contains a child-care program for the poor, stating that there is no immediate need for child care centers. Senator James Buckley praised the veto; Rep. John Brademas said that the veto imposes a cruel "freeze" on the lives of American children. The House passed a supplemental bill to keep the Office of Economic Opportunity alive until June, 1972. [CBS]

  • Indian troops have surrounded Dacca, East Pakistan, and a nearby orphanage was bombed. India stated that it will cease bombing Dacca and Karachi, West Pakistan, in order to permit the evacuation of foreign nationals. India captured two more East Pakistan towns on the banks the of Ganges River. In West Pakistan, Indian ships bombed the coast near Karachi where an English ship was damaged. Indians met heavy resistance at Hili, though Pakistanis are cut off from supplies and are outnumbered. Indians are having a harder time in the west, as West Pakistan has air support.

    Pakistan agreed to the United Nations' cease-fire and withdrawal proposal, but India is refusing until the Bangladesh government is recognized. [CBS]

  • India's legislature stripped Maharajahs of their annual pensions. Tax exemptions, duty free imports, free utilities and titles were banned. [CBS]

  • North Vietnam refused a U.S. proposal to allow a neutral agency to handle POWs' mail. [CBS]
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