page_title: December 1970
section_title: December 1, 1970 (Tuesday)
hierarchical_section_title: December 1970 / December 1, 1970 (Tuesday)
caption_attribution_description: English: Luis Echeverria, President of Mexico Español: Luis Echeverria, Presidente de Mexico
context_page_description: The following events occurred in December 1970:
context_section_description: Italy's Chamber of Deputies voted, 319 to 286, to join the Italian Senate in approving a bill to legalize divorce   President Giovanni Leone signed the bill and the law went into effect on December 18.
  Yousuf Khan Sher Bano, directed by Aziz Tabassum and produced by Nazir Hussain, was released in Pakistan, as the first Pashto-language film in the nation.  Although thousands of Urdu language films had been produced since 1930, Pashto cinema (sometimes called Pollywood) had not been financed.
  The Basque ETA kidnapped West Germany diplomat Eugen Beihl in San Sebastián.  The ETA released Beihl on Christmas Eve.
  Luis Echeverría was inaugurated the 50th President of Mexico for a six-year term.  He used his inaugural address to criticize "Mexican empresarios who sell thriving businesses" to foreign investors as people who "pawn the inheritance of their children", and pledged that his administration would give preference "to foreign investors who establish new industries, run by Mexicans, which contribute to the technological revolution.
  The People's Republic of Southern Yemen was renamed the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen by the National Liberation Front, led by President Salim Rubai Ali, with a new constitution for the former Aden Protectorate.
  Sweden repatriated two American soldiers, who had deserted the United States Army to avoid service in the Vietnam War, on a flight from Stockholm to New York.  The two men had been granted safe haven until they broke Sweden's narcotics laws, and deported after completing sentences of nine months in prison.
  What Color is Your Parachute?, a bestselling self-help book by Richard Nelson Bolles intended for job-seekers, was first published by the author, who later found a publisher in 1972.  In 1991, the Library of Congress would name Bolles' book as one of "25 books that have shaped readers' lives" 
  Born: Sarah Silverman, American comedian, screenwriter and TV actress, winner of two Emmy Awards
  Died: 
  William "Rip" Robertson, 50, American CIA officer; from malaria
  Ruth Law Oliver, 83, early American aviatrix
caption: President Echeverria
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