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Tuesday January 13, 1970
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This Day In 1970's History: Tuesday January 13, 1970
  • Nigeria is still refusing to permit relief flights to Biafra. President Nixon has received no answer from the Nigerian government as to when or if the U.S. can bring in food and medicine to the Biafrans. The Soviet Union charged that Western oil companies are behind Biafra's secession and they called the collapse of the rebellion a fiasco for Western powers. [CBS]

  • A budget squeeze has hit the space program, which faces a 25% cutback in employment. NASA's hope for the future includes a reusable "space shuttle" and a space station. There is the possibility of a lengthy interruption in manned space flight after 1974. [CBS]

  • A three-judge federal court in Washington dealt a financial setback to private schools which are being hastily created in Mississippi as alternatives to desegregation. The judges issued a temporary injunction forbidding federal tax-exempt status for those schools and denying tax deductions to persons contributing to them. Mississippi Governor John Bell Williams is appealing to the state legislature to give tax relief to private schools and their supporters. [CBS]

  • In Chicago, Georgia state legislator Julian Bond testified that two defendants in the 1968 Democratic convention conspiracy trial told him months beforehand that they feared violence would occur at the convention. [CBS]

  • Martin Luther King's body was reburied near the church where he preached. The new burial site will become a permanent memorial to the civil rights leader who was assassinated almost two years ago. [CBS]
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