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...They sing the national anthem at football games-and mean it." Your wisecrack is contemptible...
...Region, defied Gowon. On May 30, 1967, at a champagne party in the Eastern capital of Enugu, he announced the creation of the state of Biafra, which drew its name from the bay off the Atlantic Ocean that cuts into the Nigerian coast. The proud Ibos composed a national anthem-"Land of the rising sun we love and cherish, beloved home, land of brave heroes"-and dug in to defend their homeland...
...Brazzaville, the regime remains closely connected with France, its former colonial overlord and currently its chief source of foreign aid. Other uncertainties have arisen. At the new government's first public rally, the Internationale was played. Later, officials explained that it was not the new national anthem. A completely new anthem is being adopted. It simply had not been finished in time for the ceremony...
...Hoffman in Midnight Cowboy, Middle America's teen-agers have been taking in John Wayne for the second or third time in The Green Berets. Middle Americans have been largely responsible for more than 10,000 Christmas cards sent to General Creighton Abrams in Saigon. They sing the national anthem at football games?and mean...
...mistaken. Last week, while quietly minding my own business during the opening night performance of Adaptation-Next at the Theatre Company of Boston, that pseudo-anthem-like tune and the slushy lyrics that go with it once again reached my ears. But the circumstances were quite different this time around-and since they were, "Born Free" no longer seemed annoying but terribly crazy and wonderful and pathetic and funny instead...