Word: biafra
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After a recent unsuccessful effort to launch a relief ship to Biafra, "BROTHER"--a Cambridge-based group of students--is now supporting relief flights to the secessionist African nation...
BROTHER is using money primarily to support one of the 56 flights made every week by the Church World Service (CWS) to bring food, medicine, and other relief supplies into Biafra. Each flight costs about $2000, with the money needed in order to secure a charter and to pay the pilot and navigator...
BROTHER sent $100 yesterday to the Biafran Association, an organization which aids in the rehabilitation of Biafrans in refugee camps. Whitten's group also has sent $1600 to Abie Nathan, Israeli peace pilot to help finance his missions to Biafra. BROTHER has channeled about $3000 in personal contributions to CWS and to the Catholic Relief Service (Caritas...
...emphasis in Cleaver's book is on black/white phenomena in the individuals of this country, our society, and the world. He tends to ignore two things. First, he has long passages of bitter criticism of the white race for genocide and brutality. I think the was in Biafra shows that genocide is not an evil committed only by the white race. Secondly, Cleaver has an intricate description of the psychological hangups resulting from our divorce of mind and body. These are crucial to our self-understanding, but I think our psychosexual problems in America are caused by the machine...
Outcasts. The mercenaries' salaries run from $1,700 a month upward. But payday is at best a sporadic affair in besieged Biafra. In any case, money is probably not the major reason for their presence. It is not the land, either, for they seem to have no eyes for the green rolling infinity of the African bush, the visionary sunsets, the humming, warm, smoky nights. They are lobos, outcasts from society who fight every day in order to taste the excitement that comes in living close to violent death. If they survive Biafra, they will doubtless drift...