History of the IPI (1970-1979)
IPI worked to free Chinese born brothers Quintin and Rizal, publisher and editor respectively of the Chinese Commercial News, who were deported to Taipei in 1970.
Rizal’s wife gives their baby girl a second name of Ipi in appreciation of IPI’s efforts on the brothers’ behalf.
As women’s rights issues became a highly debated topic in the 1970s, IPI also had its say on the issue. Take a look at the statistics published in IPI Report in 1972.
IPI was a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976. IPI was proposed “in recognition of this organisation’s work for understanding and peace among nations.”
IPI’s discussion of new technology, specifically electronic media, was at the forefront during the 1970s.
The IPI secretariat moved from Zurich to London in October 1976.
IPI held a seminar in 1979 on New Technology in the Newsroom and produced a publication bearing the same name.
The GAs of this decade were held in:
Hong Kong (1970), Helsinki (1971), Munich (1972), Jerusalem (1973), Kyoto (1974), Zurich (1975), Philadelphia (1976), Oslo (1977), Melbourne/Canberra/Sydney (1978), and Athens (1979).
Sources: IPI Reports and IPI photo archive.
•1950-1959 •1960-1969 •1980-1989 •1990-1999 •2000-2009
The Seventies – historical events:
• Computer floppy disks introduced
• First test-tube baby born
• Kent state shootings
• Munich Olympics massacre
• Tangshan earthquake
• Terracotta army discovered in China
• Beatles break up
• The first face lifts were attempted
• Golden age of video games like Space Invaders, Asteroids, Snake and Pong
Sources: www.history1900s.about.com and Wikipedia.
