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...During the Nazi reign, humanity could pretend to know nothing about the atrocities. During the Nigeria-Biafran conflict everybody knew it was plain genocide -which will probably be the final Biafran solution, now that the conquest of Biafra is accomplished...
...fueled the Nigerian civil war. The major fields were in what was Biafra, and on them rested the region's hopes of sustaining an independent economy. When the oilmen refused to pay revenues to the breakaway state, Biafran planes bombed rigs and installations. Biafran troops sabotaged pipelines and murdered an eleven-man Italian exploration crew. Nonetheless, except for one brief period when all of Nigeria's 263 wells were idle, production never dropped below 300,000 bbl. a day -just over one-half the prewar output. The revenue accrued to the government in Lagos, enabling...
...meaningful concentration program...; refrain[ing] from evicting any tenants for expansion plans until an advisory committee has made full investigation ... of housing difficulties [from the resolutions of the Executive Board, April 16]." This fall, we too supported the Moratoria. Last March, however, when Hillel organized a coalition for Biafran relief work consisting of Afro, the Christian Fellowship, Hillel, PBH, the YD's, and the YPSL, we invited SDS to send a representative, but for all of SDS's concern for human life, the co-chairman could not find one member who was interested enough to show up. (Incidentally, Hillel...
...lead contingent of what will be a 60-doctor party. Remembering Friends. The crisis is likely to last at least two more months. Only then is Nigeria likely to begin enjoying some of the benefits of a restored peace. Economically, the situation is bright. Oilfields and refineries in the Biafran enclave are already being checked for damage and restored to production; once they are, Nigeria expects total revenues to reach $1 billion by 1975. Shortly before the war ended, Gowon said: "Our friends will not be forgotten." As a result, the Soviet Union and Britain, the chief suppliers of arms...
...hell," TIME Correspondent John Blashill cabled last week from Nigeria, "at least it is organized hell. What immediately follows war can be worse. It is not yet peace, and it is certainly not organized." Blashill was one of 80 foreign newsmen who were given government permission to visit the Biafran enclave. Herewith his report...