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Thomas and Kydes have the experience needed to pick a defense apart, and they should have no trouble in setting up the two wings. And Adedeji presents the opposition with an unknown factor. As a top scorer on the 1968 Nigerian Olympic team at the age of 16, Adedeji should feel very much at home under the pressure of a national championship match...
...Nigeria, Muhammad Ali finally caught up with Joe Frazier-verbally, at least. "In our last fight," he told cheering Nigerian fans during his second tour of the country, "I gave Joe Frazier such a beating, he was in the hospital for four weeks." It was the referee, he complained, who had robbed him of the heavyweight championship. "I would prefer only international officials from France, the United Kingdom and Nigeria to handle a rematch." Presumably the fight would be held in the auditorium of the United Nations General Assembly...
...long and bloody. The Bengalis, armed with a few looted guns, spears and often just bamboo staves, were ill-trained for a guerrilla war. But a resistance movement, once organized, might eventually force the West Pakistanis to depart. In a way, the struggle evoked haunting memories of the Nigerian civil war of 1967-70, when the federal regime sought justification in the name of national unity and the Biafrans in the name of self-determination...
...other speakers at the forum-the third in a series of six being sponsored by the Harvard International Law Club-were Olu Adenji, a member of the Nigerian delegation to the U.N., J.F. Engers, a staff member of the U.N. secretariat, and Edward Bustin, professor of Political Science at Boston University, who also served as moderator of the discussion...
...Notre Dame was Senator Edward Kennedy, who remembered De Gaulle's immediate decision to attend the presidential funeral of his brother John in 1963. In the north transept, easily recognizable despite dark glasses and a dark kerchief, was Marlene Dietrich. Notable absentees: any high-level members of the Nigerian government, which is still bitter over De Gaulle's support of the breakaway state of Biafra; and Canadian Prime Minster Pierre Elliott Trudeau. It was impossible to know whether Trudeau, a staunch Canadian federalist, stayed away because he was still furious over De Gaulle's famous cry "Vive...