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...Miracles. Reports of the commandos' behavior flashed worldwide through dispatches from 80 correspondents who flew into the area on an inspection trip (see following story). Their stories so angered Nigerian officials that the newsmen were detained at Port Harcourt for two days until diplomatic protests freed them. Later, at a press conference, Gowon defended his troops: "We don't expect miracles. Is anyone willing to say there is not misbehavior in their own armies...
...Boiling out of their enclave, they captured Benin, capital of the neighboring Midwest. By early 1968, however, the difference in troop strength began to be felt. Federal forces won one of the most important battles of the war by taking the key shipping center of Calabar and Port Harcourt, with its airport, harbor and oil installations. For the remainder of the fight, Biafra was a landlocked island. Apart from radios, its sole contact with the world was a 75-ft.-wide strip of highway at Uli that had been converted into an airstrip with the code name Annabelle...
...UNEXPECTED UNIVERSE by Loren Eiseley. 239 pages. Harcourt, Brace & World...
POWER by Adolf A. Berle. 603 pages. Harcourt, Brace & World...
...WILLIAM HAMILTON by Brian Fothergill. 459 pages. Harcourt, Brace & World. $10. The man cuckolded by Nelson turns out to have been a man of many parts -diplomat, art collector and scientist...