Word: biafra
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...lack of food, for instance, that we now permit starvation in Biafra. Nor is it for lack of available technology, in the main, that India fails to curb its birth rate. The problem in each case is that people who could do something don't -and won't-and can't realistically be expected...
Perhaps the most important single reason for battered Biafra's continuing survival against the attacks of the Nigerian Federal Army is a steady infusion of French military aid. Although the French will not acknowledge their role, one of the worst-kept secrets of the war is the fact that armaments are flown into the secessionist state almost nightly from two former French colonies, Gabon and the Ivory Coast. Hard proof of responsibility for the arms lift, however, is hard to come by, as TIME Correspondent James Wilde reported from the Gabonese capital of Libreville...
Snow doubts that mankind will make these efforts. Already, he noted, men recoil in horror from the spectacle of famine in India or Biafra, but do little. "We draw the curtains and take care not to listen to anything which is going on in the streets outside," he said. "We are behaving as though we were in a state of siege." Even if man's quantitative needs can somehow be met, Snow doubts that the quality of civilized life can be maintained if-as demographers widely predict-world population doubles to more than 6 billion...
...BRUTAL civil war in Nigeria is slowly dragging to a close. Little remains of the secessionist Eastern Region--Biafra. In just a few months, probably, all rebel territory will belong to the Federal Republic. Even then, though, some fighting will continue. Guerrilla units are operating behind federal lines, and they have been since August...
...outraged morality for the arsenal of the press and public. The crisis in Nigerian seems a clear-cut case of the good guys versus the bad guys. The massacres in the North justify the Ibo cause and condemn the Lagos government. With self-righteous verbal overkill, defenders of Biafra cry that Lagos is waging a war of genocide...