Word: biafra
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...World War II Nazi "Wolf Cubs," a branch of the Hitler Youth. Two years after the war ended he ran away from a Catholic seminary and joined the French Foreign Legion. He saw action in Korea, Indochina, the Middle East and Algeria. Steiner next went to Biafra. "They wanted to play a little bit of war," he recalled recently, "so I went there to play...
...left to itself, it can become an undiscriminating rant, equalizing the serious and the trivial, the horrors of Biafra and the poor quality of frozen dinners...
What do four years mean? At least, for the graduating class, what memories do they contain? Is it so easy to forget Biafra. the distended bellies of dying children and the desperate mothers who had no milk to give? I am still trying to understand what happened Thursday night at the Dinner of the Class...
Until recently, the southerners were also aided by one of Africa's more notorious soldiers of fortune, German-born Mercenary Rolf Steiner. A veteran of losing battles in Indochina, Algeria and Biafra, Steiner spent some 13 months trying to train the rebels to fight the ruling Arabs. "They fight very well against each other," he once said. "But against the Arabs they feel inferior...
Remembering his trips to Biafra in 1968, Dr. Mayer says, "There is invariably utter chaos in relief operations. Although a disaster strikes at least once every year, the relief organization in each case is dealing with tragedy for the first time. Political complications hamper American Red Cross operations, and the International Red Cross, which is a Swiss organization, is not equipped to provide massive aid. The Pakistani government," he says, "is the greatest ob-stacle to the East Pakistan relief operations. The United States, even if it wants to, can not send massive relief for political reasons. Reading between...