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Only pseudo liberals and enemies of Africa can seriously advocate organized trips into Biafra with the avowed purpose of forcing American intervention in favour of secession. For quite apart from the risk of creating another Vietnam, such action can only condemn Africa to permanent underdevelopment. An Africa based on tribal units has no chance. Only our enemies can knowingly encourage African fragmentation while they themselves enjoy the fruits of unity in their own countries. Omafume Onoge Teaching Fellow Social Relations Dept...
...January to compel the University Road Real Estate Trust to honor a 1956 option agreement to sell the building, located at 122 Mt. Auburn St. Earlier this week, Middlesex Superior Court Judge Edward F. Hennessy told the lawyers for both parties that he would shortly issue a ruling in favour of Harvard...
Twenty-five years later however, he was less tolerant of such ardor and was deeply concerned by a young Braintree lawyer's attachment to his 17-year-old daughter Abigail. "I ask not Fortune nor Favour," Adams wrote his wife from France, "but Prudence, Talents and Labor. She may go with Consent where ever she can find enough of these...
...Houses voted more than 2-1 in favour of the referendum with a total tally of 987-441, but the freshmen narrowed the margin with a 291-336 vote against the plan. The Yardlings were credited with the defeat of a similar proposal in January when they cast a lopsided 90-431 vote against the HCUA split...
...pious little lads get into the big money by "a gigantic inheritance, left to his hero by some previously unknown relative, or a gift from a multimillionaire who felt the virtuous boy to be worthy of a reward. Thrift and diligence were adequate instruments for winning the favour of rich relatives or bosses or millionaires' daughters, but not for achieving wealth singlehanded...