Word: nigerias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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James Chucks Ezimoh Lagos, Nigeria...
Dajeen Ashamu notched her first shutout as she turned away all of the only four shots which came her way. Ashamu, a freshman from Nigeria who went to school in England where she garnered All-England goalie laurels, is highly touted for the future...
...details of the "safety net" that is supposed to reassure white Rhodesians that majority rule will not lead them to economic ruin. Perhaps the man who had the finest feel for Africa was John Reinhardt, the Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs and a former U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria. Reinhardt is black, and while some cynics suspected that this was the reason he had been taken along, his advice proved to be invaluable...
...hers introduced the $60,000-a-year accountant to Jean Kay, a flamboyant adventurer best known for his aborted 1971 hijacking of a Pakistan Airlines plane supposedly for the purpose of sending food to Bangladesh. He is also a mercenary who has fought in Biafra, Yemen, Angola and Nigeria...
AFRICA has been struck by localized droughts in Tanzania, Kenya and in the northern parts of heavily populated Nigeria and Ghana. Near normal rains in the Sahel-the southern edge of the Sahara, where as many as half a million died in the great 1972-74 drought-have brought adequate harvests, but the moisture may prove to be a mixed blessing. The rainfall spawned an almost biblical plague of rats, locusts and caterpillars in Mali, Senegal, Mauritania and Upper Volta. Millions of gerbils, which U.S. children often keep as pets, are loose on the land in Niger, devouring everything...