Word: airings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Little in Lagos mirrors the war be cause Nigeria so far has fought only a limited action. Open-air markets operate as usual, and military-age students hur ry blithely to classes. Foreign vessels crowd the port of Lagos. Palm oil, pea nut and cocoa exports are thriving and the economy is strong. Within earshot of Biafran guns, oil wells are pumping so robustly that Nigerian production this year will reach a record 255 mil lion barrels. Asked why they were pro testing the higher taxes needed for the army, participants in recent tax riots in outlying districts were stunned...
...based, perhaps falsely, on Nigeria's new tactics in the air. Since 1967, landlocked Biafra has received guns, food and medicine by air chiefly through a section of highway at Uli that has been converted into a landing strip. Except for spasmodic harassment, Nigeria did little to stem the nightly flow of planes. As Biafra's General Odumegwu Ojukwu, 35, continued to hold out and at times take the offensive, Gowon and his aides became convinced that the Red Cross and church relief groups were supplying guns to him as well as proteins.* When Sweden's Count...
...from the Soviets Going to the Soviet Union, I assure you, was just a way of dealing with Ojukwu's threat. After all, Ojukwu started the air war. Even Abraham Lincoln went to Russia for help to win his own Civil...
...air-conditioned office of Nigeria's leader, Major General Yakubu Gowon, is on the second floor of a villa in the Obalende quarter of Lagos. A well-thumbed copy of Carl Sandburg's Abraham Lincoln-The War Years lies amid a clutter of radio equipment and six telephones. A devout Methodist in a largely Moslem and animist nation, a member of an insignificant tribe in a federation of tribal giants, Gowon clearly sees himself in the Lincolnesque role of healer of his nation's divisions. TIME Correspondent Charles Eisendrath recently talked with the general. The subjects discussed...
...Mastery of the Skies Honestly, there is no magic about our downing a Red Cross plane. Right from the beginning we told all those who broke into our airspace that they were doing so at their own risk. Unfortunately, because of the limitations of our air force, we were not in a position to seal off the air completely. It was the Joint Church Aid group that once said: "We don't care what you say. We're not going to obey your instructions to respect territorial airspace." They told us that if we dared shoot down...