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Rush to Rally. But the rout soon stopped. Major Chukwama Nzeogwu, 30, a hero of the 1966 coup that toppled Nigeria's civilian government and briefly installed Ibos in power (before a second revolt by Gowon's supporters that fueled the slaughter of Ibos), rushed to the front. "This is a war we must fight to win," he told the Biafran soldiers. "Anyone who runs away will be shot. You are better than the Northerners, all of you." To aid the Ibo regulars, more than 50,000 of the civil defense volunteers poured in from all over Biafra...
Harvard divided the other field events with the Crusaders. Jay Mahoney won a poor pole vault contest followed by the Crimson's George Winter. Hobie Armstrong and Chukwama Asikiwe took the hop-step-and-jump. But Holy Cross took both places in the high jump and their only triple winner, Dick Malberger, won the broad jump. In the absence of Aggrey Awori, Malberger also won both sprints, though sophomore John Parker took seconds...
...step, and jump event was added to the Army meet for the first time this year enabling another Crimson field victory. Chukwama Azikiwe took first on a 46 ft. 11 in. effort...
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