Word: biafra
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nigerian soldiers encircled at Owerri but lack strength to wipe out the pocket and push south toward the oil town of Port Harcourt. Last week, in an offensive obviously timed for Wilson's visit, Nigerians launched a general attack in the north that carried them closer to Biafra's lone airstrip at Uli. Unless it is totally successful and quickly ends the war, the humane solution would be a truce...
...brought up a topic that embarrasses Britain and shocks nations who would otherwise be more sympathetic to Nigeria: the indiscriminate Nigerian bombing of Biafran hospitals, schools, markets and missions. Gowon insisted that this is not his policy but that he cannot always control his pilots. Neutral observers in Biafra have tallied 677 civilian dead and 1,313 wounded in 30 civilian strikes this year alone...
...them in closer contact with labor and student groups. Meanwhile, Nigeria's British backers have been acutely embarrassed by Nigerian air attacks on undefended Biafran towns and hospitals. Britons who have protested bombing of civilians in Viet Nam now find their own nation indirectly supporting similar action in Biafra. The uproar has touched off a parliamentary debate, and last week led the Times of London to complain that Britain's Nigerian policy is a failure. Between that and Anguilla, suggested the Times, "there is a serious loss of touch in the conduct of British foreign policy...
...girl applying to a West Coast college claimed a blue belt in Aikido. Equally imaginative bids for seeming extra-curricularly exotic have deluged the colleges with alleged harpsichord builders, guinea-pig breeders, inventors of electronic nutcrackers, boy falconers, girls with pet iguanas, adolescent TV producers and fund-raisers for Biafra. One boy wrote starkly, "I have seared the streets," a sign of the new fad for ghetto toil, which is edging out mental-hospital work as an earnest of social conscience. On the other hand, artistic achievement still earns points. To that end, one Emory applicant used a particularly impressive...
What original sin comes down to, suggests Vanderbilt Theologian Ray Hart, "is that you can count on man to be a bastard." In a century that has so far produced Hiroshima, Buchenwald and Biafra, this is an insight that is hard to ignore. Søren Kierkegaard described original sin as a sense of dread; for most of mankind, it is still an uncomfortably familiar feeling...