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After a recent unsuccessful effort to launch a relief ship to Biafra, "BROTHER"--a Cambridge-based group of students--is now supporting relief flights to the secessionist African nation...
BROTHER is using money primarily to support one of the 56 flights made every week by the Church World Service (CWS) to bring food, medicine, and other relief supplies into Biafra. Each flight costs about $2000, with the money needed in order to secure a charter and to pay the pilot and navigator...
BROTHER sent $100 yesterday to the Biafran Association, an organization which aids in the rehabilitation of Biafrans in refugee camps. Whitten's group also has sent $1600 to Abie Nathan, Israeli peace pilot to help finance his missions to Biafra. BROTHER has channeled about $3000 in personal contributions to CWS and to the Catholic Relief Service (Caritas...
...Committee for Nigerian-Biafra Relief, an organization which Whitten founded along with BROTHER, has screened over 600 people to do relief work in Biafra, Whitten said. Ten of them have been accepted by such organizations as UNICEF, the American Friends, and the Lutheran World Service, he added...
...relief situation in Biafra, Whitten stated, has become "much worse." Carbohydrate malnutrition has aggravated protein malnutrition, and over 1.1 million died of starvation already, he said...