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With the federal capture of Owerri two weeks ago, Nigeria's civil war entered a new and perhaps final phase. Secessionist Biafra, now less than one-tenth its original size, holds but one important town: Umuahia. Should it fall, Lieut. Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu would lose his last physical claim on breakaway statehood and be forced, if he is still able, to carry on his fight for Biafra's Ibo people from the jungle. As it advanced slowly but steadily on Umuahia last week, TIME Correspondent Edward Hughes joined Nigeria's 3rd Marine Commando division. His report...
Lucky Devil. By all meteorological reckoning, the worst rainy season in years should have tapered off by now, permitting the sun to steam dry the tangled greenery that stands high and thick over Nigeria's equatorial south. But on the narrow dirt roads leading to Umuahia, the deluge stopped as if to tease, then resumed this week in full force...
...even powerless to intervene in Biafra, since the Organization of African Unity has declared Nigeria's war to be a regional preserve. That leaves only one trouble spot-the Middle East-where U.N. intervention is possible, if unpromising. After ten months of mediation by Special Representative Gunnar Jarring, another arms buildup threatens the area. In fact, the Russians have signed an agreement with Cairo providing for massive new military aid beyond replacement of Arab losses during last year's Six-Day War. Shipments are now leaving Russia carrying the first installments of a promised 500 tanks...
...affairs of state, the Trudeau style is something else again. Last week he won high marks from Canadians for his handling of Canada's only international dispute: General de Gaulle's persistent encouragement of Quebec separatists. When De Gaulle at his press conference brusquely lumped Canada with Nigeria and Malaysia as federations in trouble, Trudeau shot back that the general was "not overly impressed with reality." Nor, apparently, with diplomatic good manners. Trudeau at the same time blistered the French government for sending a cultural emissary to French Canadians in Manitoba in an "underhanded and surreptitious" manner without...
...federal Nigerian army. Only three cities remain in Biafran control: Umuahia, Owerri and Aba. Of these three, by far the most vital to Ojukwu is Aba, a trade and rail center of 100,000 before the war and Biafra's provisional capital. It was at Aba that Nigeria's 3rd Division, moving steadily north from Port Harcourt, aimed its assault...