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Sunday January 16, 1972
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News stories from Sunday January 16, 1972


Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:

  • First results of two key legislative by-elections in Chile showed that the united anti-Marxist opposition decisively defeated the left-wing coalition of President Salvador Allende. The elections were presented by the opposition as a referendum on the government's plans to "construct Socialism" in Chile. [New York Times]
  • The Nixon administration, in a major policy reversal, decided not to put into effect cuts in food stamp benefits that would have affected 2.1 million people in New York and other Eastern states beginning Feb. 1. The reversal came after extensive pressure from Senators and Governors. [New York Times]
  • Although former Senator Eugene McCarthy said his failure to win the support of the Massachusetts Citizens Caucus was not "a very serious problem," he added that it is now "very questionable" whether he would run a slate of delegates in the Massachusetts presidential primary. And the McCarthy headquarters in Boston was reported to be preparing to close. [New York Times]
  • A television interview with Clifford Irving, the author of a purported autobiography of Howard Hughes, brought the name of Clark Clifford, the former Secretary of Defense, into the controversy surrounding the reclusive billionaire. According to Mr. Irving, Mr. Clifford asked Mr. Hughes to lend $205,000 to a brother of Richard Nixon, who was then Vice President, in 1956. [New York Times]
  • A task force of the Sierra Club, the environmental organization, recommended the creation of a national energy planning agency to regulate energy policy and to give the public participation in choosing sites and designs of new power plants and transmission facilities. [New York Times]
  • In a first step in his campaign to mobilize the Egyptian people for "total confrontation" with Israel, President Anwar Sadat named Dr. Aziz Sidky as Premier to succeed the 71-year-old Dr. Mahmoud Fawzi. Dr. Sidky, who is 51 years old and was First Deputy Premier and Minister of Industry and Petroleum, is to announce a new cabinet this week. [New York Times]
  • A lone North Vietnamese MiG-21 jet plane met American jet fighters over northern Laos but fled when the American planes fired missiles at it, the United States command in Saigon reported today. Other MiG's were seen on the North Vietnamese side of the border, apparently trying to lure the American planes into a trap as they did once last month. [New York Times]


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