Week of March 8-12, 1971

New Hampshire primary - President Nixon and Sen. Edmund Muskie are the

winners.

52 persons, most of them

women, are injured by a

bomb that exploded behind

a big movie theater in

Belfast.

The National Population

Commission says that a two-

child family would ease the

ills of society and believes

the government should

adopt policies that would

give Americans a real choice

in bringing to a halt - the

growth rate of the U.S.

The last battalion of Indian

soldiers leaves Bangladesh

- and at last, it’s on its own.

This comes some 87 days

after the surrender of the

Pakistan Army.

President Nixon, leaving

behind his family and key

aides, flew to his Camp David retreat for a weekend of solitary study on school

busing policy.

An extortionist’s bomb blows out the front section of an empty TWA jetliner in Las

Vegas. Earlier, a time bomb was removed from another TWA 707 after the

aircraft, which had taken off for LA was called back to Kennedy Airport. The

bomb was disarmed 12 minutes before it was set to explode. 45 passengers

were on board.

President Nixon, denouncing extortion plots against the nation’s airliners, orders

the immediate implementation of new orders requiring the carriers to impose

stricter security regulations.

Week of March 8-12, 1971

President Nixon, decrying “vicious extortion plots’ against the nation’s airliners,

pledges that the federal government would mobilize all resources “until the

current threat is crushed.’

The Federal Aviation Administration says that the sky marshal program as such,

will end April 1. On that date, all but 220 of the 1,300 customs security officers

who have been serving as sky guards will be taken off flight status and placed on

ground duty. Flights thereafter will be monitored by armed guards only on a

selective basis. Officers will be used in the screening of passengers for would-be

hijackers.

In New York - Federal and county indictments are filed against Clifford Irving, his

wife Edith and his researcher - Richard Suskind - in connection with one of

history’s great literary hoaxes - the now discredited autobiography of Howard

Hughes. Among the allegations - that Irving was the forger who sent letters to

McGraw-Hill Inc. purporting to be from Howard Hughs. Also - Irving and Suskind,

after conducting major research on Hughs but making no contact - conducted

numerous tape-recorded interviews - with each other - each alternately playing

the role of Howard Hughs.

Another book dispute that involves McGraw Hill…

Chief Red Fox - a Sioux Indian whose autobiography

is the subject of a dispute over its authenticity, said at

his Texas home that he had done nothing wrong, but

conceded he had paid $100 for some material he

used in the book. The New York Times reported that

leading American Indian experts and persons familiar

with the places and events mentioned in “The

Memoirs of Chief Red Fox” have questioned its

authenticity. Fox claims to be 101 years old. Chief

Red Fox said he paid $100 in the later 1950’s or early

1960 for eight or nine handwritten pages of notes

about the classic Indian fight at Wounded Knee Creek

in South Dakota. His book’s description of the battle is

subject of the lawsuit.

President Nixon’s approval rating is at 56% - the highest point in 14 months.

In France - Protests mounted over the short-lived sale by a supermarket of

grotesquely fashioned dolls labeled “Jew.” The German-made dolls, displayed

along with others marked “Devil,” “Witch” and “Monkey,” were withdrawn from

sale in Dijon and in several other supermarkets in the French provinces.

Week of March 8-12, 1971

A total of 15,000 men will be drafted during April, May and June and total draft

calls for the year are now predicted to be 50,000. Those with lottery numbers

above 60 are not expected to be called this year. A call-up of 50,000 men in 1972

would be about half the number drafted last year -when 98,000 were called.

Vietnam - U.S. Navy F-4 Phantom fighters shot down a Soviet-built North

Vietnamese MIG-17 over North Vietnam in the biggest dogfight in nearly four

years.

In a California census - 1 out of 6 - or about 3.1 million people are of Mexican or

other Spanish heritage.

a photographer accused of harassing

her because “I know he wants to

catch me when I’m not smiling.” The

smiling photos taken by free-lance

photographer Ron Galella have been

introduced as evidence in counter

suits by Mrs. Onassis and Galella.

Mrs. Onassis is seeking an injunction

against Galella which would keep

apartment and 100 yards from her

when she is outside the apartment.

Sports -

the season in the opening minutes of play to help set a NHL record, but it took a

third period goal by Brad park to lift the New York Rangers to a 3-3 tie against

the Black Hawks.

Music news -

Ringo Starr will make his directorial debut. It’ll be shot in England and will star

Marc Bojan, lead singer with T-Rex.

Tiny Tim has filed for a legal separation from Ms. Vicki, but says she is “still my

sweet angel.”

Week of March 8-12, 1971