February 1973

: Resumption of the relations between the Egyptian and the Soviet . A Russian military mission visits in Cairo of it. Visit Edward Heath, British Prime Minister with the the United States.

February 2nd: Control measures of the exchanges in Germany to counter the surge of dollars.

February 3rd: The Mauritania declares null and void its agreements with the France.

February 4th: the Arab socialist Union (sole party) carries out a purification in Egypt. Protest of the Corsican against the discharge of the red Muds , chemical residues, by the company Montedison with broad of the Corsica course.

February 5th: proclamation of 331 doctors affirming that they practiced or supported Avortement S. Pétition of 206 personalities asking the reform of the legislation in force. The ministry for justice and the Ordre of the Doctors did not engage any continuation. Dissolution of the Parliament in Northern Ireland. Meeting with Paris of delegated Saigon and GRP.

February 6th: set fire to THESE Edouard-Pailleron in Paris. 22 dead. Blamed of construction.

February 7th: discussions in the Middle East (Jordan, Egypt, Soviet Union, the United States); Disorders in Ulster.

February 8th: disorders with Santo Domingo: the former president Juan Bosch, chief of the revolutionary party, takes the maquis; Cyprus: election of monseigneur Makarios with the presidency. Disputed declarations of the president Pompidou about the possible victory of the left to the legislative ones.

February 9th: 70 States recognize the German Democratic republic (GDR). Uruguay: the army imposes reforms.

February 11th: meeting of the Ministers for the saving and finances in France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom about the monetary crisis (falls of the dollar). Closing of the foreign exchange markets.

February 12th: Devaluation of the dollar of 10%. Release of the American prisoners to the Vietnam. The supersonic ones are shown to destroy the layer of ozone. February 14th: reopening of the foreign exchange markets. Movement of Strike in Great Britain launched by the 47 000 gasmen.

February 15th: Showdown to the Pakistan between the president Ali Bhutto and the Awani party which supports the separatists of the Baloutchistan. New agreements between the France and the Mauritania.

February 17th: the Spanish clergy criticizes the government for its authoritarianism.

February 19th: plan anti Inflation in the Federal Republic of Germany. Round of Henry Kissinger in Asia (Beijing, Hanoï, Tokyo). Discussions with Mr. Tanaka. Canada: Pierre Elliott Trudeau proposes a budget ensuring the support of the small parts to him.

February 20th: hardening of the position of the the United States as regards international business.

February 21st: The drives out Israeli cuts down a Libyan airliner which flew over by error the occupied territories: a hundred deaths are to be regretted. Adhesion of the Soviet Union with the universal Convention on the royalty signed to Geneva in 1952.

February 22nd: peace with the Laos between the government of Vientiane, supported by the the United States, and the Pathet Lao, movement procommunist. Conversations between the the United States and the Egypt on the reopening of the Suez Canal. Vertiginous fall of the dollar. Attacks and disorders in Argentinian. The elections are maintained with the March 11th.

February 24th: visit Léonid Brejnev in Czechoslovakia for the birthday of the Coup of Prague.

February 25th: the president Omar Bongo gains the election with the Gabon with 99,6% of the voices.

February 26th: The International Conference on the Vietnam meets in Paris.

February 27th: revolt Indians who invest the village of Wounded Knee in the South Dakota and take hostages.

Vagueness of Strike S with the the United Kingdom; resumption of negotiations between the the Vatican and the Czechoslovakia; tensions between the the United States and Hanoï.

February 28th: victory of the opposition to the general elections anticipated in republic of Ireland.

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