Word: nigerians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That certain Nigerian factions do not like either the United States or the Peace Corps has never been a secret, nor was it any surprise that a few student leaders at Ibadan shared their resentment...
Monro also pointed out that the summer training session here for the Nigerian Peace Corps delegation had covered all possible phases of the cultural and sociological differences between Nigeria and the United States...
Miss Michelmore's status, however, is still "very much in doubt," according to the Office. Whether she remains in the Corps will depend on the wishes of the Nigerian government. The Office said the situation at Ibadan was "calm," adding that the total number of demonstrators had never exceeded 150--barely a tenth of the early estimates...
Into the neon-lighted Cottage Inn restaurant-motel on teeming U.S. Highway 40 north of Baltimore last week walked Pedro Sanjuan, 31, assistant chief of protocol of the U.S. State Department, on a troubled mission. The day before, the inn had refused to seat and serve a Nigerian diplomat, and Nigeria had lodged a formal complaint with the U.S. Government. Sanjuan had come to ask the Cottage Inn to reconsider its segregation policy-and he was loudly rebuffed. "The hell with the United Nations and the hell with your colored diplomats!" shouted beefy, red-faced Proprietor Clarence Rosier. "I built...
...kind of Kingston Quintet, doing a spread of folk songs. American and foreign. All five play the guitar, and beyond that they diversify into a variety of instruments that includes five-string banjo, recorder, autoharp, maracas, a ten-string South American charango made from an armadillo shell, and a Nigerian talking drum. Their style is controlled and relaxed, with faultless rhythm, but minus Michael and United Artists, they could be any good college group...