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...main cover story was the work of Associate Editor Russ Hoyle, who has written often on African affairs. Senior Writer Bill Smith, who wrote the accompanying story on the Nigerian coup, was Nairobi bureau chief from 1962 to 1964 and again in 1969. In 1972 Random House published his biography of Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere, We Must Run While They Walk...
...announcement last Saturday over Nigeria's Radio Lagos was brief and enigmatic. Claiming to speak on behalf of the country's armed forces, Brigadier General Sana Abacha of the Nigerian army declared that he and his colleagues had "decided to effect a change in the leadership of the government" of President Shehu Shagari, 58. "This task," said Abacha, "has just been completed." The general then announced that all political parties were being banned and communications with the outside world suspended, and that a dusk-to-dawn curfew was being imposed. Only four months after Nigeria...
...been chairman of the organizing committee for the International Congress of Africanists, founder and first director of the Nigerian National Archives, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the author of the 1956 book "Trade and Politics in the Niger Delta...
...Ohiri '64, who led the Harvard soccer teams of the early '60s. Ohiri still holds several Crimson scoring records, including most goals in a single game (five), most goals in one season (17), and most consecutive games in which a goal was scored (13). A member of the 1960 Nigerian Olympic soccer team Ohiri owns several Ivy soccer records, including career goals with 29 Athletic Director John P. Reardon Jr. '60 made the presentation at a ceremony before the Dartmouth game attended by a representative from Gov Michael S. Dukakis's office and Nigerian Ambassador to the United States...
...exercise began with a simulated telegram sent by the IEA secretariat in Paris announcing that 8 million bbl. daily had vanished from world pipelines. Reason: a hypothetical blockage of the Strait of Hormuz (not too farfetched in light of the three-year-old Iran-Iraq war) and sabotage of Nigerian oil facilities...