Word: biafras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...none of the major crises of the 1960s-notably Viet Nam, the Middle East, Biafra and the arms race-has the U.N. been able or willing to take a positive role. One of its problems is paltry resources, a handicap that can be partially cured if it acts soon on proposals to increase the U.N.'s on-call peace-keeping force from 11,000 to 25,000 men. But the organization's relative impotence in the major East-West confrontations is all but certain to continue, if only because the U.N. was never designed to be a world...
...Yoruba spoke with mingled admiration and apprehension. Three years ago the Ibos established the breakaway nation of Biafra and precipitated Black Africa's worst civil war. When the war ended last January, close to 2,000,000 of them were dead or missing, Biafran Leader Odumegwu Ojukwu was headed for exile in the Ivory Coast, and the Ibo homeland was a shambles. But with the armistice six months old this week, the Ibos appear well on the way to reviving. "They have not been conquered," said the Yoruba. "They have merely cleared the decks to build anew...
Vacuum Cleaners. After Biafra fell, there were fears that many of the surviving 4,000,000 Ibos there would be slaughtered or starved. But there were no sweeping reprisals, and certainly no genocide. When the federal 3rd Marine Commando Division followed the armistice with an outburst of rape and pillage, Major General Yakubu Gowon, leader of Nigeria's government, swiftly replaced the unit. Though Major General Philip Effiong, who surrendered to Gowon, is still in custody, along with a score of other ranking Biafran officials, all other prisoners of war have been sent home. The East Central State, where...
...Libya is threatening to issue a decree raising royalties. The Shah of Iran is fencing with foreign oilmen in an attempt to increase his government's take. Bolivian development stopped with the nationalization last October of Gulf Oil Corp. Nigerian production suffered during the long war over secessionist Biafra. By comparison, Indonesia seems relatively calm...
...Kenneth Onwuka Dike, a former ambassador-at-large for Biafra, has been named a tenured professor of History at Harvard. His appointment begins next Fall...