Week of February 1, 1972
London -
Bernadette Devlin
scratches
and pounds Home Secretary Reginald
Maudling as he gave the government’s
version of what happened in Londonderry
when British paratroopers and Irish
demonstrators battled last Sunday, leaving
13 civilians dead.
North Vietnam publishes for the first time, a
nine-point peace plan it presented to
President Nixon’s special envoy Henry
Kissinger in secret talks last June in Paris,
but the plan is very different than Nixon’s -
like day and night.
Cigarette makers agree to print prominent
black-bordered health warnings in all their advertisements, climaxing an 8-year
battle with government anti-smoking forces.
In an article in Life Magazine, Henry Kissinger who was President Nixon’s secret
peace negotiator in Paris says that Mr. Nixon wants badly to end the Vietnam
War “but not in a way that breaks the American spirit… in a way that his country
can preserve its confidence in itself,” said Kissinger.
In Washington - Gov. Ronald Reagan of California calls on Congress to require
all employable welfare recipients to work for their communities without additional
compensation.
Eight countries now recognize the new nation of Bangladesh, formerly East
Pakistan.
The national disease center says it had reports from across the country of
outbreaks of staph infection among newborn infants after discontinuance of the
practice of bathing them with products containing hexachlorophene.
In Paris - the Communists reject the Nixon peace plan in the 143
rd
session of the
Vietnam peace talks, but they are ready to negotiate directly with Saigon on the
political future.
