Word: nigerian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Washington's clumsily expressed concern over possible genocide in defeated Biafra early last week, were reported close to breaking off relations with the U.S. Their hostility was underscored by an editorial in the Lagos Daily Express: "We offer no greetings to William Rogers as he steps on Nigerian soil today. For whatever bright promises and goody-goody talks he may utter, we still consider him persona non grata . . . the enemy of this country...
...their discussions lasted half an hour longer than originally scheduled. Before the meeting, Rogers had made it clear that the U.S. wanted to cooperate "to the fullest possible extent to help in the problems that result from the war." That hope, as it turned out, was forlorn. Though a Nigerian spokesman later said the talks were "very cordial," Rogers received no requests for help. Overall, however, U.S.-Nigeria relations seemed definitely improved...
...Nigeria wants unity, for which she claims to have fought this war, she must make every one of her citizens, including the former Easterners, welcome in the whole of the country. If the quotation is a true description of the situation in January 1970, the Nigerian tragedy has not yet finished...
...sign of intellectual naivete to argue that the political acts of a pederast will automatically be evil and the political acts of a heterosexual will automatically be good? With similar unsophistication, he argues that only whites hurt blacks. Presumably, after almost 21 years of the Nigerian civil war, even his eyes should be a little wider open than that. One insufferable assumption of the play is that anything the U.S. does in the world is unvaryingly venal. Now to err is human, and since Americans are human, they err. But to imply that all their motives in world affairs...
...particularly in demand for several reasons. It is low in pollution-producing sulfur, some 6,000 miles closer to Europe than Middle Eastern wells, and controlled by a stable government. Oilmen are confident that production will reach 2,000,000 bbl. a day by 1975, enough to give the Nigerian government annual revenues of $1 billion, twice its present budget...