Word: biafras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Back home in Biafra (now known as the East Central State of Nigeria), Ojukwu still has some admirers among the Ibo tribesmen, who tell each other, "Agaracha-a ga nata [The wanderer will return]." But they know he will not. Ojukwu, a man without a country, is also in danger of becoming an exile without a refuge...
Wilson was interrupted at several points in his address by hecklers questioning his government's activities in Northern Ireland, Biafra and Hong Kong. Before the speech several members of Harvard-Radcliffe and Tufts SDS were ejected from the lobby of Cohen Auditorium by plainclothes police...
...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...
Steiner was kicked out of Biafra in 1968. The next year he entered the rebel territory in the southern Sudan by way of Uganda. Quickly winning the rebels' confidence, Steiner was made commander in chief. Late last year, when he illegally entered Uganda to catch a flight to Europe, he was arrested. Uganda's President Milton Obote -who was overthrown two weeks later -turned him over to the Sudanese government...
Superior Man. "He was really a freak in this profession," reflected one of Steiner's old Biafra mates recently in Nairobi. "As a kind of self-appointed messiah, he thought he had a mission to fight for African underdogs. The runaway scholar of divinity was seeing himself as a kind of armed missionary, the superior man from the superior race playing savior to the persecuted." With a little more juju, Steiner may yet be out in time to fight another...