Word: nigerias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year it voted for only a few resolutions, including one to reduce its own budget contribution from 31% to 25% of the total. By comparison, such African states as Zambia and Burundi voted with the majority 92% of the time, according to the World Association of World Federalists, while Nigeria and Yugoslavia scored 85% and the Soviet Union 60%. The U.S. withheld support from 15 out of 20 key resolutions. It refused to support a proposal that the Indian Ocean be declared off limits to foreign navies, and it came out against a resolution once more ordering Israel...
Crude oil may be a very important source of revenue to other countries such as Nigeria, Algeria, and Iraq, where its share of the total exports varies from 60 per cent to 95 per cent. It certainly is not so in Angola, where the exports are diversified into a large number of products sold all over the world. Sincerely yours, Reque Felix Dias Press Attache Portuguese Embassy, Washington...
...BROTHERS'WAR Biafra and Nigeria...
...trouble with Nigeria," Sir Alec Douglas-Home once observed, "is that it is so complicated." Certainly this was true of the Nigerian civil war (1967-70), which was perceived by many foreigners as a brushfire rebellion in a barbarian land where thousands of children were being allowed to starve to death. In truth, of course, it was a modern war that very nearly destroyed Africa's most populous and in many ways most promising nation. In this first complete account of that war, London Observer Correspondent John de St. Jorre is painstakingly evenhanded in his treatment...
...military coups had ravaged Nigeria in 1966. The first, led mostly by Ibos, aroused anti-Ibo feeling that ended in the massacre of some 10,000 Ibos throughout the country. The second brought Gowon, a 32-year-old northerner, to power. As military governor of the Eastern Region, the Oxford-educated Ojukwu was too proud and too ambitious to recognize Gowon as head of state. Instead, following the massacres, he began to arm the East-and proceeded to use the Ibos' fear of genocide to stir up the phenomenal Biafran war effort. Gowon warned him sadly, "If circumstances compel...