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...shot to death on the spot when he was found raping an Ibo girl near the Owerri radio station. He was not even arrested and tried. "There was no need," an officer said, matter-of-factly. "He was caught in the act." Stampede for Food. In the marketplace at Aba, where perhaps 200,000 refugees gathered, a stick-limbed girl in her teens was carrying home a few scraps of food in an old metal bowl perched on her head. A passing bicyclist jolted her, the bowl fell off, the food was spilled. The girl said nothing. She simply squatted...
...shot better we could have beaten them," said coach Harrison. "They had a hot night, and were taking [25-foot] shots that would have been three-pointers if we had been playing by ABA rules...
Their coach. Lou Carnesecca, is a legend himself. In four years at St. John's his ball clubs have compiled an 83-27 record. Next year he'll be the head coach of New York's new entry to the ABA, the New York Nets...
...ABA championship...
...spent 22 of his 54 years in Africa, is the unit's master mechanic. Just before Port Harcourt fell to the federals early last summer, he scrounged up a convoy of trucks and liberated-under fire -the entire workshop of the Shell-B.P. refinery there. When Aba had to be evacuated last month for lack of ammo, Paddy was one of the last men out, a machine gun in one hand, a demijohn of wine in the other. Captain Armand, a former French paratrooper and veteran of Algeria, sports a Yul Brynner pate and fights on despite bazooka...