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...Nigeria, Muhammad Ali finally caught up with Joe Frazier-verbally, at least. "In our last fight," he told cheering Nigerian fans during his second tour of the country, "I gave Joe Frazier such a beating, he was in the hospital for four weeks." It was the referee, he complained, who had robbed him of the heavyweight championship. "I would prefer only international officials from France, the United Kingdom and Nigeria to handle a rematch." Presumably the fight would be held in the auditorium of the United Nations General Assembly...
Other possible future varsity stars which Getchell is raising include New Jerseyan Danny Potts, LeRoy Thompson from Baltimore, Frank Gerold, Pelham, N.Y., and Christian Adibe from Nigeria...
When Whitney M. Young Jr. died in Lagos, Nigeria, last March, the already depleted ranks of national civil rights leaders suffered a seemingly irreparable blow. Militant young blacks, scornful of older, more established organizations like Young's Urban League, have not produced a man with his skill as a persuasive negotiator and as a goad to whites who wield economic power. Last week the National Urban League announced the selection of a successor to Young who may well prove to be the bridge between black leaders of the past and black demands of the future. Vernon E. Jordan...
Canadian by birth, Irish by temperament, Correspondent James Wilde, who has covered wars for TIME from Asia to Nigeria, visited Ulster recently. His report...
...false teeth (after the U.S.). It has no currency of its own, nor does it have soldiers, unemployment, slums or airports. Last week's vote left Liechtenstein another distinction: it is the only European country without female suffrage, leaving it in the same category as Jordan, Kuwait, Northern Nigeria, Yemen and Saudi Arabia (where men cannot vote either). Some Liechtensteiners saw the outcome less as a rejection of women than as a gesture of independence from Switzerland, which granted suffrage to women by a 2-to-l majority only last month...