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Newspaper
Sandpoint Daily Bee
Location
Sandpoint, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1970
Page
5
UPI reports Prime Minister Ian Smith and the Rhodesian Front celebrate a landslide win as Rhodesia proclaims itself a republic. The new constitution reserves 50 white seats to 16 for blacks, heightening fears of eventual black political power in a system designed to keep whites in control.
United Press International reports thousands of drivers idle in Chicago as Teamsters Local 705 and the independent Chicago union strike after a midnight contract deadline. Picket lines blanket terminals in Chicago and other cities while confrontations flare in Detroit with projectiles and shots fired at a supervisor.
In Cheney Washington UPI reports Eastern Washington State College begins Black Week with appearances by Rev. Jesse Jackson and Spokane attorney Carl Maxey to address civil rights issues. Dick Gregory is set to speak Thursday. Maxey will discuss legal problems faced by blacks as he campaigns against Sen. Henry M. Jackson in the Democratic primary.
Mrs Richard M Nixon opened the centennial Show of 19th Century American art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, touring with Clement Conger White House curator and Edward Wason Jones restoration architect. She admired a New York 1820 dining room and Duncan Phyfe furniture as models for White House redecorating.
The statement asserts Dr Morton will admit to any absences from meetings and denies that he ever deliberately walked out of a board meeting due to disagreement or crowd reaction.
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