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...revenge. Backed by two jeeps mounted with machine guns, the guerrillas systematically destroyed buildings and shot and bludgeoned Muslims, killing somewhere between 67 (the police estimate) and 630 (the Red Cross figure). "If you hear the sound of their guns you will think the heavens want to fall," says Mallam Mohamed Ahmed, 33, who fled on his motorbike. With the violence spreading to other states last week, President Olusegun Obasanjo declared a state of emergency in Plateau, suspended the elected governor and appointed a retired army general in his place. These steps, which were later ratified by the National Assembly...
...price is based. The Saudis used to insist that the "differential" should be $3, but more recently have reportedly been willing to accept $1.50. Even at that, the official OPEC price would have to fall to $28.50 to make it competitive with $30 Nigerian oil. In Lagos last week, Mallam Yahaya Dikko, Nigeria's top petroleum official, stood behind his nation's pledge to match any further reduction in the price of North...
...condemned men are all in mufti," a Lagos radio correspondent announced crisply, giving a running account of the executions on Bar Beach. "Most of them look sober. Some manage to smile at newsmen." Religious confessions, Christian and Moslem, were received by two priests and a mallam (a Moslem religious leader). While the throng looked on, the 15-man firing squad opened up. The shooting lasted ten minutes, as one by one the coup plotters slumped to the blood-soaked sand...
...First Year Law smoker committee has been appointed, as follows: Archibald MacLeish, of Glencoe, Ill. chairman: Walker Mallam Ellis, of New Orleans, La.; Walcott Brown Hastings, of Holyoke; Malcolm Justin Logan '15, of South Boston; and Fletcher Rockwood, of Minneapolis, Minn. The first smoker will be held in the Union on April 7, and tickets may be purchased from members of the committee in the near future...
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