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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1976
Page
8
Betty Hinshaw presents a dress reportedly 120 years old, styled like Quaker women’s attire from more than a century ago, part of an American Heritage shift apothecary shop and religious exhibits photographed by Sonny Hege.
May Day featured massive parades in Communist states with East Germany staging a military display while Western nations faced police actions. In Moscow Brezhnev led a 10,000 strong rally as Raul Castro joined in, and China reported a million celebrating with fireworks in Peking. Italy, Portugal and Spain saw clashes, bombings, and arrests amid ongoing political tensions.
Secretary of State Kissinger urged a World drought rescue to roll back the desert in West Africa’s Sahel. He proposed a $75 billion International Program to expand water resources, cropland, storage, and reforestation, appealing industrial nations to join. He spoke in Dakar after Liberia and heads to Nairobi for UN trade talks.
Rhodesia says it will call up thousands of territorial forces to meet renewed Soviet armed guerrilla offensives along the 800 mile border with Mozambique. A security comm unique confirms immediate active duty for reserves and a draft extension to 18 months is under study. The balance of military forces includes 4,500 regulars and 10,000 reservists in the army, plus air force and police strength, with Walls signaling a go ahead for a Rhodesian offensive.
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