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...civil war assembled in Addis Ababa last week to talk peace once again. Three previous meetings, the most recent three months ago in Kampala, had come to nothing. This time Ethiopia's venerable Lion of Judah told his guests, who represented the federal government in Lagos and the Biafra secessionists: "You cannot afford to fail. You must succeed. There is no alternative." Then he added: "We would like to appeal to you earnestly to refrain from polemics." Both appeals went unheeded...
...first of the Boston volunteers for relief work in Nigeria and Biafra--159 of them--have begun the screening process, Phillip Whitten, chairman of the Cambridge-based Committee for Nigerian-Biafran Relief said yesterday...
Whitten, a student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, said that so far 291 Boston-area residents have volunteered to fly to Biafra to help distribute food and medical care to the thousands of children suffering from protein starvation there. He estimated that 125 of the volunteers are students at Harvard--undergraduates, graduate students, and Cliffies...
Last week Whitten was in New York speaking with members of the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF). He hoped UNICEF would take over full sponsorship of the volunteers for Nigeria-Biafra program...
UNICEF's principal role in the current crisis, Mrs. Williams said, has been gathering and shipping food. The freighter Orient Express, hired by UNICEF left Houston for Nigeria last week, loaded with the first large shipment of food for Nigeria-Biafra--5000 tons--she said...