Leonard Peltier was arrested in Canada and charged with the murder of two FBI agents on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, the husband of Queen Juliana and the inspector general of the Netherlands Armed Forces, was implicated in a bribery scandal in testimony by an official of the Lockheed Corporation. He confirmed accepting the bribe in a posthumously published memoir, acknowledging it was a mistake, but claiming all the money went to the World Wildlife Fund.
Sort of an example of how monarchy behaved, the prince is pretty far from a universally admirable person in general, although his record is mixed. A German, he worked in Germany in the 1930s for IG Faben where he was a member of the Reiter-SS (SS Cavalry Corps) before it was a full time military establishment, and to the paramilitary National-sozialistisches Kraftfahrerkorps (NSKK) although he never showed any outward Nazi sympathy or political views in general otherwise. He denied these memberships, although its certain that he belonged. He claimed to sever all of this ties after marrying Princess Julian, the future queen, in 1937. During the war, however, he actively supported the Dutch cause and saw military service and was regarded as a war hero by the Dutch, and not without good reason.
He helped found the World Wildlife Fund after the war, and was its first president.
He had four children by his wife, and two more by mistresses, all daughters.
Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith warned of a new large-scale guerilla offensive against hte country and that it would entail significant military expenditure.
The caisson horse Black Jack died at age 19.
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