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...last Friday's deadline drew near, the refugees began to mass at the crossing posts along Nigeria's western border with Benin. Their mattresses, chairs, plastic containers and enamel cooking pots spilled out of trailers, trucks and minibuses. Many of those who made it across the border had first to surrender any supplies of sugar, milk and detergents--officially described as "essential commodities"--to Nigerian immigration and customs officials. No one was permitted to leave with more than $22 worth of naira, Nigeria's currency. The scenes at posts along Nigeria's borders with Niger and Chad were much...
...would be difficult not to be charmed by Bernardin Cardinal Gantin. Trim and tall (6 ft. 2 in.) and a youthful-looking 61, the churchman from the small West African country of Benin has emerged during the past 13 years as one of the most engaging personalities on the often austere Vatican staff. Ever ready to flash an infectious grin or pump a stranger's hand, he has even managed to upstage Pope John Paul: during a papal visit to Benin two years ago, it was Gantin who received the most rousing cheers from one welcoming crowd. John Paul...
...implications of genetic engineering: a visit by Garry Wills as writer-in-residence a student production of "The Trojan Women," by Euripides; a lecture on grass-roots organizing of political action; a celebration of Black History Month including soul-food night and a lecture on the art of the Benin Kingdom; the beginning of a series of exhibits, lectures and films on abstract art, "The Shock of the New"; winter carnival with Mardi Gras as the theme; in addition to a variety of movies, concerts and recreational and varsity sports, including, yes, a women's ice hockey game with Harvard...
...Alhaji Ali Baba announced that the alien workers, most of them illegal entrants to black Africa's most populous state (85 million), had two weeks to leave the country. The suddenness of the decree sparked a panic among the Ghanaians and some 700,000 other foreign workers from Benin, Togo, Niger, Cameroon and Chad...
Most of the expelled workers chose to make the 275-mile trip to Accra overland and their journey was often a nightmare. Separated from Nigeria by the narrow countries of Togo and Benin (see map), Ghana is ruled by Flight Lieut. Jerry Rawlings, who seized power for the second time 13 months ago. Rawlings had ordered all his borders with neighboring countries to be closed last September in an effort to wipe out smuggling and assuage his own fears about an external coup plot said to involve foreign mercenaries...