Word: biafra
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More than 200 people came through the snow last night to demonstrate their support for Biafran relief efforts at the Unitarian Universalist Service Commit-the (UUSC) rally for Biafra...
...crisis in Biafra has not been publicized," Peter A. McClelland, assistant professor of Economics, said at the rally. "Last spring, when shipments of food were at their highest level, the Biafrans were barely fending off starvation. Those shipments are now at half their spring level...
...speakers stressed that feeding Biafra was not an impossible task. Dr. Michael K. Rees, a physician who served in Biafra, said, "What Biafra needs most now is money for food and medicine. Biafran doctors are very competent but they need supplies...
...Biafra, which had previously rejected both conditions, finally agreed to the daylight flights but remained adamant against landings in Nigeria. "What's to prevent them," asked a Biafran official, "from seizing a Red Cross plane, loading it with fifty commandos and forcing the crew to take them to Uli to destroy it?" The Biafrans also fear that newsmen and other Western observers will be removed from such planes, thereby depriving Biafra of badly needed foreign publicity...
...Ojukwu is relying on a strategy designed to embarrass Gowon. With sizable oilfields in the Port Harcourt area and in the mid-western region, Nigeria ranks as the world's 13th oil nation in terms of annual output (anticipated 1969 production: 255 million barrels). By attacking the oilfields, Biafra hopes to press the companies (Gulf, Phillips, Shell, British Petroleum and Italian Agip Nucleare) to talk Gowon into negotiations. Though Nigerian officials admit that oil production has dropped 60,000 barrels a day because of the war, the oilmen insist that they have no intention of interfering in an attempt...