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Wednesday January 26, 1972
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This Day In 1970's History: Wednesday January 26, 1972
  • Communists dismissed President Nixon's Vietnam peace plan as "propaganda" and chided the President for revealing secret talks, but they did not actually reject the proposal. Presidential aide Henry Kissinger described 12 secret meetings with the Communists on the outskirts of Paris over a period of 30 months. [CBS]

  • William Porter, the U.S. ambassador to the Paris Peace Talks, left Washington for Paris to make a formal proposal of the Nixon peace plan. President Thieu of South Vietnam endorsed the plan, which includes an internationally-supervised election in South Vietnam with Thieu stepping down from the presidency one month prior to the election. Questions about why Thieu would agree to a new election were answered in part by the fact that he must cooperate with the U.S. in order to get economic aid. [CBS]

  • The South Vietnamese Air Force destroyed four North Vietnamese tanks in the Central Highlands, and two more North Vietnamese anti-aircraft missile sites were destroyed by U.S. jets. An American helicopter was downed in the Mekong Delta, killing one soldier. [CBS]

  • The offices of two organizations sponsoring Soviet entertainers in America were firebombed. A receptionist at the office of Sol Hurok was killed; five people were injured. An anonymous caller said that the bombs were a protest of the treatment of Soviet Jews. The Jewish Defense League denied responsibility. [CBS]

  • A nursing home in Cincinnati was destroyed by fire. Nine elderly women were killed, four escaped. [CBS]
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