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Mayer described himself as "trying to do something about Biafra" for a long time. "UNICEF asked me to go twice before but difficulties with the mission forced a postponement each time," he said...
...professor in the School of Public Health is flying to Nigeria tomorrow with a non-political, fact-finding United States mission which will assess the food and medical needs of both Nigeria and Biafra...
...group will spend two days in Nigeria and at least one week in Biafra. "We will also try to find out about Ibo areas which are occupied by Nigerians, although we don't know if we'll be able to enter those areas," Mayer said...
After Nigeria the mission will fly to Biafra from the Portuguese island of San Tome. "We'll fly at night because the Nigerians, who have a lot of Russian planes, usually bomb the Biafran airport by day," Mayer said. "I'm quite aware of the danger of this mission--going in and out of a war is very dangerous," he added...
...adding vitamin D to milk. Though milk shipped abroad in U.S. food programs has long been required to have vitamin D additions, until last fall milk supplied in domestic welfare programs needed no such supplements. ¶ KWASHIORKOR, a drastic protein deficiency that has killed untold thousands of children in Biafra and scarred others with the hideous trademarks of hunger-large eyes and bloated bellies. Schaefer found seven U.S. cases. ¶ NIGHT BLINDNESS, a retinal malfunction caused by lack of vitamin A. Nearly a third of the children six or under suffered from the disease, while total blindness was considered...