Colorful covers of today’s Saturday magazines:

The city of Des Moines, Iowa introduces a new flag after a four-month contest.

Ivor Bell, leader of the Provisional IRA terrorist group in Northern Ireland, walks out of Maze Prison in Belfast only seven weeks after capture.

Bell stole a release form, posed as another prisoner, and simply walked away.

A coup led by Lieutenant Colonel Seyni Kountché overthrows the government of the West African nation of Niger and its first President, Hamani Diori.

Kountché declares himself President, imprisons Diori, and shoots and kills his wife, Aissa Diori.

Soviet WWII partisan leader Alexander Saburov, who led forces in Ukraine, dies in Moscow. He was 65.

Actor Henry Fonda collapses from a cardiac event while performing the play Clarence Darrow on Broadway. He is rushed to the hospital.

Chinese Foreign Minister Chiao Kuan-Hua, U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, and Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping during a dinner at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York City.

South African golfer Gary Player wins the 1974 Masters Tournament in Augusta, Georgia.

An R.A.F. Blackburn Buccaneer is deliberately dropped off the back of the HMS Ark Royal into the English Channel during the filming of a safety film.

Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie announces that his 20-year-old grandson, Zera Yacob Amha Selassie, will be the heir to his throne.

French journalist Marc Filloux is murdered by the Khmer Rouge while on assignment in Cambodia. His girlfriend (and translator) is also killed. Filloux was 29.

NASA and Western Union launch Westar 1, the first commercial geostationary satellite, from Cape Canaveral.

Georgi Popov, famed Soviet weightlifter with a 33-year career and a vocal opponent of doping in sports, dies in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR. He was 61.

Yukie Ozeki and Sachiko Yokota of Japan compete in the Women’s Doubles final during the 2nd Asian Table Tennis Championships at Yokohama Cultural Gymnasium.