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...Cover: Photographic design by Fred Burrell, who utilized a dramatically lit wood-and-polychrome Ibo mask. The figures in the foreground symbolize Biafran refugees...
...Wilde, 1,000 miles away in Kinshasa, the Congo. He could just as well have been on the moon. Defeated by bureaucracy and the vagaries of travel in Africa, Wilde was forced to assess the situation on the basis of long experience in the war and previous interviews with Biafran Leader Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu...
...thrusting Nigerian advance created havoc. Biafran civilians piled pots, pans, clothing, radios and washtubs atop their heads and fled before the federal troops. One priest who flew out shortly afterward saw evacuees from a Biafran hospital hobbling down a road with intravenous needles still stuck in their arms and glucose bottles held aloft so the fluid could drip down. "The roads were choked with people," another priest recalled. "I could see terror in their faces." The exodus reminded him of an Ibo proverb: "A man who is running for his life never gets tired." But some did; they sat down...
Nwafor, a Biafran, said he was afraid that the Nigerian government, which has refused outside food from several international agencies, intended to permit a massacre of the defeated Biafrans. "Two million people have already died in this genocidal war. We must exhaust all available resources so that these millions of innocent people can be kept alive," Nwafor said...
...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...