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...magazine), and she would have been an astute adviser on cinema to the National Council of Arts. (Few people know about it, but Miss Rogers has had quite an unsung acting career, culminating with her starring role in Bringing Home the Bacon, an experimental film financed by the Oscar Mayer hot-dog people...
...Mayer described himself as "trying to do something about Biafra" for a long time. "UNICEF asked me to go twice before but difficulties with the mission forced a postponement each time," he said...
...group will spend two days in Nigeria and at least one week in Biafra. "We will also try to find out about Ibo areas which are occupied by Nigerians, although we don't know if we'll be able to enter those areas," Mayer said...
After Nigeria the mission will fly to Biafra from the Portuguese island of San Tome. "We'll fly at night because the Nigerians, who have a lot of Russian planes, usually bomb the Biafran airport by day," Mayer said. "I'm quite aware of the danger of this mission--going in and out of a war is very dangerous," he added...
...Mayer stated that the mission doesn't mean that the U.S., which has not officially recognized Biafra, plans to change its mind on that issue. He said that the mission will investigate impartially the needs of both areas...