Word: nigeria
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Dick Tiger, 42, the Ibo tribesman who punched his way to the world middleweight and light heavyweight boxing titles; of cancer of the liver; in Aba, Nigeria. Tiger, whose real name was Dick Ihetu, was taught to box by British army officers in Nigeria before he migrated to New York City in 1959. Three years later he knocked out Middleweight Champion Gene Fullmer. By 1966 he had moved up a class and took the light heavyweight title from José Torres. After losing the title in 1968 Tiger periodically visited his home to train soldiers for the rebel Biafran...
Coping with a single chief of state is enough to make protocol officials nervous. Thus there was more than a little Israeli concern last week when four self-styled "Messengers of Peace"-Senegal's Poet-President Léopold Senghor, Cameroun's President Ahmadou Ahidjo, Nigeria's Chief of State Yakubu Gowon, and the Zaire Republic's President Joseph Mobutu-flew almost simultaneously into Lod International Airport outside Tel Aviv. They had been dispatched by the Organization of African Unity to help bring peace between Arabs and Israelis "by means of a dialogue," as Senghor...
...grossed $115 million last year and should do at least 10% better this year. Last month Jahn opened new outposts in Vienna and Nuremberg; he plans others in Scandinavia, Britain and South Africa. "I wouldn't be surprised," he says, "if one day there is a Wienerwald in Nigeria or Kenya...
...When I was playing in Nigeria. I was always conscious of the particular pattern of moves I was making. I had three or four completely different styles of play, and I used the one which was most effective against the type of team I was playing against. Now I do whatever comes into my head first. So far this season I have for the most part relied on only one or two tricks," Adedeji said...
Adedeji has been pleasantly surprised at how well this limited arsenal has been working. "These backs get involved with the slightest fake, and I have to smile when I think what would happen if I tried the same things back in Nigeria," he said...