On this day in conspiracies

The Sunday Times publishes Anthony Mascarenhas's exposé, headlined “Genocide.” A Pakistani journalist who had witnessed the army's campaign and fled to London, Mascarenhas describes organized mass killing; the report helps turn world opinion against Pakistan.

The New York Times publishes the first of nine planned excerpts. The Nixon administration obtains a rare prior-restraint injunction days later, the first successful one against a major US newspaper.

Rodney is killed in Georgetown when a device concealed inside a walkie-talkie detonates as he sits in a car with his brother Donald. He had reportedly been told the device would let him communicate securely. He is 38.

Over his stay he is filmed leaving the hotel repeatedly carrying a full purple plastic bag and returning without it, a pattern Gardai come to read as the systematic disposal of anything that could identify him. He also visits a post office and buys stamps and airmail stickers; who, if anyone, received the letters was never established.