Cinematographer-turned-director Nicholas Roeg brings James Vance Marshall’s…

Congressman Hale Boggs, a Louisiana Democrat, and Alaska’s Congressmen Nick Begich, are aboard a twin engine Cessna 310 on October 16, 1972, when the plane disappears during a flight from Anchorage to Juneau.

Also on board are Begich's aide, Russell Brown; and the pilot, Don Jonz.

The four were heading to a campaign fundraiser for Begich.

In an enormous search effort, U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Navy, and U.S. Air Force search and rescue planes look for the four men and their airplane.

On November 24, 1972, after proceeding for thirty-nine days, the air search is called off.

Neither the wreckage of the plane nor the pilot's or passengers' remains are ever found.

All are declared dead on December 29, 1972.

The accident prompts Congress to pass a law mandating emergency locator transmitters in all United States civil aircraft.

The events surrounding Boggs's death have been the subject of much speculation, suspicion, and numerous conspiracy theories.

These theories often center on his membership on the Warren Commission.

Boggs dissented from the Warren Commission's majority who supported the single bullet theory.

Regarding the single-bullet theory, Boggs commented, "I had strong doubts about it."

In the 1979 novel The Matarese Circle, author Robert Ludlum will portray Boggs as having been killed to stop his investigation of the Kennedy assassination.

In 1971, finance Minister Muldoon effects changes in the regulations governing bank ownership, thus allowing greater latitude for foreign-owned banks to operate in New Zealand.

Many of the New Zealand banks establish links with foreign banks, all members of the Business Round Table organization: Broadbank with Wells Fargo; General Finance with Chase Manhattan; Fletchers and Renouf with Bank of America and Barclays in New Zealand United Corp.

In late 1971, Brierly’s I. E. L. allegedly begins establishing, with Gulf Oil support, chains of shell companies and dummy corporations as a way of obscuring takeovers of oil, gas and mineral resources and such related big Oil-controlled “car culture” industries as vehicle franchises, spare vehicle parts and finance services.

Brierly’s group also allegedly gains control of I. S. A. S. (New South Wales) and I. S. A. S. (Queensland), sole franchisees for construction and mining equipment preoduced by International Harvester Credit Co, a unit of Chase Manhattan Bank associated with First National Bank of Chicago, Continental Illinois and Amoco (American Oil Comany, the former Rockefeller-owned Standard Oil of Indiana).

I. S. A. S. (Qld) also holds strategic positions in North Flinders Mines, Flinders Petroleum and Apollo International Minerals.

In 1971, finance Minister Muldoon effects changes in the regulations governing bank ownership, thus allowing greater latitude for foreign-owned banks to operate in New Zealand.

Many of the New Zealand banks establish links with foreign banks, all members of the Business Round Table organization: Broadbank with Wells Fargo; General Finance with Chase Manhattan; Fletchers and Renouf with Bank of America and Barclays in New Zealand United Corp.

In late 1971, Brierley’s I. E. L. allegedly begins establishing, with Gulf Oil support, chains of shell companies and dummy corporations as a way of obscuring takeovers of oil, gas and mineral resources and such related big Oil-controlled “car culture” industries as vehicle franchises, spare vehicle parts and finance services.

Brierley’s group also allegedly gains control of I. S. A. S. (New South Wales) and I. S. A. S. (Queensland), sole franchisees for construction and mining equipment produced by International Harvester Credit Co., a unit of Chase Manhattan Bank associated with First National Bank of Chicago, Continental Illinois and Amoco (American Oil Company, the former Rockefeller-owned Standard Oil of Indiana).

I. S. A. S. (Qld) also holds strategic positions in North Flinders Mines, Flinders Petroleum and Apollo International Minerals.

Fraser once again becomes Australia’s minister for education and science in 1971.

Cinematographer-turned-director Nicholas Roeg brings James Vance Marshall’s “Walkabout” to the screen in 1971, unfolding an eerily compelling tale of privileged Australian teenagers helped to survive in the outback by a young Aborigine, and the racial and cultural barriers that separate them.

In late 1971, Brierley’s I. E. L. allegedly begins establishing, with Gulf Oil support, chains of shell companies and dummy corporations as a way of obscuring takeovers of oil, gas and mineral resources and such related big Oil-controlled “car culture” industries as vehicle franchises, spare vehicle parts and finance services.

Brierley’s group also allegedly gains control of I. S. A. S. (New South Wales) and I. S. A. S. (Queensland), sole franchisees for construction and mining equipment produced by International Harvester Credit Co., a unit of Chase Manhattan Bank associated with First National Bank of Chicago, Continental Illinois and Amoco (American Oil Company, the former Rockefeller-owned Standard Oil of Indiana).

I. S. A. S. (Qld) also holds strategic positions in North Flinders Mines, Flinders Petroleum and Apollo International Minerals.

In 1971, finance Minister Muldoon effects changes in the regulations governing bank ownership, thus allowing greater latitude for foreign-owned banks to operate in New Zealand.

Many of the New Zealand banks establish links with foreign banks, all members of the Business Round Table organization: Broadbank with Wells Fargo; General Finance with Chase Manhattan; Fletchers and Renouf with Bank of America and Barclays in New Zealand United Corp.

Fraser again becomes Australia’s minister for education and science in 1971.

By mid 1971, there are more American heroin users in South Vietnam (81,300) than there are in the entire United States (68,000).

(This figure is based on later surveys by the Office for Drug Abuse Prevention, not published until 1974, which show that 34 percent of US troops in Vietnam commonly use heroin.)

Beginning in 1971, the US military directs South Vietnam’s invasion of Laos and will "carpet-bomb" the Laotian countryside over the next two years.

The victims of the Phoenix Program, jointly run by South Vietnam and the US, eventually number between 20,000 (US estimates) and 40,000 (South Vietnamese estimates).

Tension builds up between the two Cypriot communities in the summer of 1971, and incidents become more numerous.

Sometime in the late summer or early fall, Grivas (who had attacked Makarios as a traitor in an Athens newspaper) returns secretly to the island and begins to rebuild his guerrilla organization, which becomes known as the National Organization of Cypriot Fighters (Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston B — EOKA B).

Three new newspapers advocating enosis are also established at the same time.

All of these activities are funded by the military junta that controls Greece.

The junta probably would have agreed to some form of partition similar to the Acheson Plan to settle the Cyprus question, but at this time the overthrow of Makarios is the primary objective, and the junta backs Grivas toward that end.

From hiding, Grivas directs terrorist attacks and propaganda assaults that shake the Makarios government, but the president remains a powerful, popular leader.