Word: nigerian
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...believe many Nigerians and Americans should and would congratulate Margery for her concern for the Nigerian people and for her attempt to inform her American friends with the purpose of securing help for less privileged people of Nigeria...
...deliver an ill-tempered rebuke to a 23-year-old girl. Ike was exercised about Peace Corps Member Margery Michelmore, who had committed the sin of writing accurately about the primitive conditions that she had seen in Nigeria and having her postcard fall into the hands of leftist Nigerian students.* There was, cried Eisenhower, "postcard evidence" that Peace Corpsmen "did not even know what an undeveloped country...
However sympathetic one may feel towards the emerging nations of Africa, it is almost impossible to avoid indignation at the Nigerian students' treatment of Marjorie Michelmore's now-celebrated post card home...
...understandable that Nigerians should feel sensitive about Western criticism of their economic problems. And one might grant part of Nigerian Foreign Minister Wachuku's contention that Miss Michelmore's hurried jotting of her subjective reactions was not precisely a model of scholarly accuracy. If, indeed, Miss Michelmore had shown such bad manners as to publicize her views during her stay, no one could seriously blame the students at Ibadan for demanding her departure...
...first few games of the season, when Ohiri was healthy, the team concentrated on setting him up for shots at the goal. This strategy gave the Nigerian Olympian 14 goals in his first three games...