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...lead to the elimination of most Southern busing plans to achieve racial balance in schools. When asked how the blacks on Nixon's staff would react to that kind of a civil rights retreat, Dent joked, "Oh, we got a boat for them that's leaving for Nigeria...
...Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Libya, Algeria, Nigeria, Venezuela and Indonesia...
Return of Dash. What's wrong? Bureaucratic bottlenecks account for some of the trouble; officials of Nigeria's twelve states claim they have yet to see development money supposedly appropriated by the federal government. Another factor is massive corruption-known as "dash"-which once again is a fact of Nigerian life. "When we ask what's happened to our money," says one state development official, "Lagos tells us it's on the way-that it's been put into the 'development pipeline.' But it never comes out. Either the pipeline is blocked...
...contrast to the rest of Nigeria, the war-damaged East Central state is healing at an extraordinary pace. Thanks largely to postwar medical attention and food supplies, a majority of Biafra's starving children have miraculously survived; the state has 1,100,000 children in school-more than it had before the war. New buildings are sprouting amid the wreckage, and the great market at Aba is booming again...
Last on the List. The recovery was made possible by Gowon's insistence that the Ibos, the most energetic and aggressive of Nigeria's 15 major tribes, should not be persecuted in defeat. Some 65 rebel officers have been allowed to rejoin the federal army. The state government is entirely in the hands of Ibos; the state administrator, Ukpabi Asika, was a federal loyalist during the war, but several of his commissioners and fully 99% of his civil servants fought on the Biafran side. Like many other influential Ibos who were closely involved with the Biafran regime, Novelists...