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...expert on African development, Dike has served as professor of History and vice-chancellor of the University of Fbadan in Nigeria...
...government grants were tied up in three five-year programs-Harvard Project Physics, Project Nigeria, and a Research and Development Center-which ended this year. Due to cut-backs in government spending, no new programs have been established...
...Milton Yellin's letter [Feb. 9] would seem to blame Christianity for what he calls "the holocaust in Nigeria with its 2,000,000 dead." Many millions of sensitive Christians are more moral and Christian than the governments under which they live. Governments act on the basis of expedience and are therefore amoral, while the true Christian's view of responsibility is vastly superior in a humanitarian sense to that of his government. Reinhold Niebuhr's phrase, "Moral Man in an Immoral Society," suggests a vital distinction between a Christian and the society in which he lives...
...Secretary of State William Rogers, it was the touchiest stopover of his 15-day, ten-country African journey. Nigeria's leaders, angered by Washington's clumsily expressed concern over possible genocide in defeated Biafra early last week, were reported close to breaking off relations with the U.S. Their hostility was underscored by an editorial in the Lagos Daily Express: "We offer no greetings to William Rogers as he steps on Nigerian soil today. For whatever bright promises and goody-goody talks he may utter, we still consider him persona non grata . . . the enemy of this country...
Once talks got under way with General Yakubu Gowon. Nigeria's chief of state, tensions began to ease. Gowon greeted Rogers warmly, and their discussions lasted half an hour longer than originally scheduled. Before the meeting, Rogers had made it clear that the U.S. wanted to cooperate "to the fullest possible extent to help in the problems that result from the war." That hope, as it turned out, was forlorn. Though a Nigerian spokesman later said the talks were "very cordial," Rogers received no requests for help. Overall, however, U.S.-Nigeria relations seemed definitely improved...