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...violence of the 1960s was most often a response to both civil discrimination and poverty in the black community, the panelists said. According to Walter C. Carrington ’52, the first student member on the board of directors of the NAACP and a former U.S. ambassador to Nigeria, “the film showed what the Civil Rights Movement did not have time to accomplish—solving economic problems in the black community, especially poverty.” Similarly, Lawrence Hamm, leader of the Newark-based People’s Organization for Progress and a speaker...
...choke points such as Asia's Strait of Malacca and the Gulf of Aden, which links the Red and Arabian seas. Buoyed by fast boats, fearsome weaponry and high-tech communications gear, pirates carried off 263 reported heists in 2007 - 28% of which occurred in the treacherous waters off Nigeria and Somalia, where vast coastlines and feckless transitional governments make for easy marks for plundering pirates. Despite a June U.N. resolution that lets naval allies surveil those waters, ships are warned to stay 250 nautical miles from land...
Senator McCain's choice of a woman as his running mate for the presidency will bring new flavor and new dimension to his candidacy. McCain is nobody's fool. Cosmas Uzoma Odoemena, LAGOS, NIGERIA...
...with the newer, more effective artemisinin-based combination drug therapy; and spraying homes with insecticide. In these countries, there is little doubt that interventions are working, but the impact doesn't translate to a measurable reduction in global figures because the populations involved are relatively small. Larger countries like Nigeria have been slower to implement prevention and treatment programs...
...Senator John McCain's choice of a woman as his running mate for the presidency will bring new flavor and new dimension to his candidacy. McCain is nobody's fool. Cosmas Uzomo Odoemena, Lagos, Nigeria...