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Grave Mistakes. Ojukwu insisted that Biafra would not surrender its independence to Federal Nigeria. The Nigerian federal government, represented by Chief Anthony Enahoro, demanded exactly that. Enahoro's tone was, however, more conciliatory than before: "It may be that history will decide that there are no angels on any side in the recent history of Nigeria. We have all made mistakes, grave mistakes." Still, there was no mistaking his point that Nigeria would not agree to secession. "I cannot conceive," he said, "of any mutually acceptable proposal that does not envisage the unity and territorial integrity of Nigeria." There...
More than 3,000 tons of food and medicines for Biafra were also stalled on the Spanish island of Fernando Po off the Nigerian coast and at mainland relief centers in Lagos and Enugu, the former Biafran capital now held by federal troops. Top United Nations and Red Cross mediators were in Nigeria last week trying to obtain entry into starving Biafra for the supplies, so far without success. Meanwhile, the fighting continued, as the Nigerians sought to shrink still further the territory defended by the surrounded Biafrans...
...beer in a Long Island bar on a hot afternoon last week. Like them, he was relaxing from work, but his line of business was perhaps slightly more demanding than theirs. McGuire had just returned from two months of flying arms and food into the beleaguered African state of Biafra...
...company which flies food into Biafra under contract to the Red Cross, and guns in under contract to the Biafran government (cash in advance), is called North American airlines, and is run by an American named Hank Wharton: nicknamed "Hanky-Panky, cause that's the only kind of business he'd want," McGuire says. Unoffical headquarters of the outfit is the Hotel Tivoli in Lisbon, where "Hanky-Panky" lives in Room 228--a room registered in the name of 'a little mini-skirt with red hair"--and his chief assistant resides...
...take off, McGuire notes, though the air-crews often suspect a flight is in the offing when the maintenance on a plane is finished and night approaches. Once the crews in their respective bars are alerted and "poured out into the planes," they take off on their flights for Biafra, juggling flight plans so as to fly always at night, when the Egyptians piloting Nigeria's MIG's refuse...