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Grave Mistakes. Ojukwu insisted that Biafra would not surrender its independence to Federal Nigeria. The Nigerian federal government, represented by Chief Anthony Enahoro, demanded exactly that. Enahoro's tone was, however, more conciliatory than before: "It may be that history will decide that there are no angels on any side in the recent history of Nigeria. We have all made mistakes, grave mistakes." Still, there was no mistaking his point that Nigeria would not agree to secession. "I cannot conceive," he said, "of any mutually acceptable proposal that does not envisage the unity and territorial integrity of Nigeria." There...
...tons of food and medicines for Biafra were also stalled on the Spanish island of Fernando Po off the Nigerian coast and at mainland relief centers in Lagos and Enugu, the former Biafran capital now held by federal troops. Top United Nations and Red Cross mediators were in Nigeria last week trying to obtain entry into starving Biafra for the supplies, so far without success. Meanwhile, the fighting continued, as the Nigerians sought to shrink still further the territory defended by the surrounded Biafrans...
...black Africa is to make its own way economically, it will have to develop far greater numbers of native-born businessmen. Ghana and Nigeria have both made headway in that direction, but neither is moving any faster than Kenya, which won its independence from Britain less than five years ago. More and more of Kenya's blacks, who make up 97% of the country's population of 10 million, have been going into enterprises that once were the preserve of whites and Asians...
...offing when the maintenance on a plane is finished and night approaches. Once the crews in their respective bars are alerted and "poured out into the planes," they take off on their flights for Biafra, juggling flight plans so as to fly always at night, when the Egyptians piloting Nigeria's MIG's refuse...
...landing on Malta (when its flight plan said it was going to New York). A third crashed in the jungle killing all aboard, and a fourth was blown up in Bisau, reportedly by a South African who is now in his native country enjoying a $100,000 peward from Nigeria...