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These courageous doctors were all volunteers and members of an extraordinary Paris-based medical organization called Médecins Sans Frontières-literally, doctors without borders. Created in 1971 by a handful of idealistic young French physicians who had served as volunteers in Biafra during the Nigerian civil war, M.S.F. membership has since grown to nearly 750 physicians and paramedics of more than a dozen nationalities, including Americans. Their basic credo: to offer medicine's healing hand to any part of the world where it may suddenly be needed...
White Angolans. "But Red Cross officers fear that so massive a retreat to the bush could lead to a new Biafra, with thousands of deaths by starvation. That could be avoided by a political settlement, for which Savimbi is eager. He admitted that he would even accept Agostinho Neto as President of a coalition government, although only if the M.P.L.A. leader gave UNITA an important role. Neto, said Savimbi, is not a true African: if he were, he would understand that the leadership of an African nation requires compromise. 'You never have everybody with you,' he added...
...another of its many manifestations. If you read the papers, your life--or the way you perceive it--can't help but be influenced by war. Take yesterday's New York Times, for example. One article said that a veteran of Vietnam, Rhodesia, Iraq and Biafra is recruiting 1,000 mercenaries in Britain to fight for the National Front for the Liberation of Angola. In a special dispatch, the "battle lines between Christians and Moslems" in Beirut were described as "quiescent." There was also a report that evidence exists for Nixon's pledge of $3.25 billion in post-war reparations...
Lumen himself is an old-school radical and internationalist. He muckraked like Lincoln Steffens. During World War I he went to prison as a pacifist like Bertrand Russell, and later founded a progressive school for children. Even in his creaky 80s he flew to Biafra to organize relief for the starving...
...giving someone a few reading skills, hopefully some confidence and security, but that you're trying to heal the scars of decades and that as you prepare to return to Harvard you've ignored a thousand other prisoners. To me it always feels like sending someone in Biafra a care package...