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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...
...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...
...parade of athletes at Saturday's opening ceremonies moved in a hastily assembled new order as country after country-Algeria, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda-kept their flags furled and their representatives in the Olympic Village. This shortened the parade, which may have somewhat comforted Queen Elizabeth, who stood for an hour and 15 minutes as the banners passed in review. But the athletes involved were furious, driven to tears and even threats that they would renounce their citizenship; years of training had availed them little more than an unpack-pack-up look at the Olympic Village. There, late Saturday...
When we boarded a spanking new Garuda Indonesian Airways jet, the diplomats were uncomfortably outnumbered by some 40 newsmen. Only India and Iran sent their ambassadors; Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, New Zealand and Nigeria sent lower-level dignitaries. The U.S. and the Soviet Union declined, as did the Common Market countries, Australia, and even such close