Word: biafras
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...Once again the world has failed. More genocide has been committed. Only this time it wasn't in the death camps of Hitler, it was in Biafra [Jan. 26]. Again we have forgotten everything, our morals, promises and the holocaust. I wonder how many more millions must perish unnecessarily because of our fallibility. It seems we have short memories...
...primary reasons for the formation of Biafra was the fact that scores of thousands of Ibos had been killed in pogroms by other Nigerians. Now, 2,000,000 Ibos have starved to death and untold tens of thousands have been killed along the battle lines. The end of the anti-Ibo carnage that had been hoped for metamorphosed into an intensification of the bloodshed. How many more innocent millions must be sacrificed upon the altar of barbarism before such bestiality is finally halted...
Hardly had the fighting ended in Biafra when the world's oilmen hustled in, checking damage to refineries, oil tanks and pipelines and preparing to tap wells that had been blocked off for 30 months. By early next month, drillers expect production to reach 780,000 bbl. a day. That would be enough to 1) supply all the needs of an industrial country the size of The Netherlands and the Union of South Africa combined, and 2) put Nigeria among the world's top ten oil producers...
...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...
After Robert Lowell. Ralph Waldo Emerson Lecturer on English Literature, spoke on television to raise money for Biafran relief. Freeman and Mrs. Sexton, who had already discussed a reunion reading, decided to present one as a benefit for Biafra...