Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wide basin of the mighty Niger River, Nigeria's 56 million people had built a sturdy economy and installed an active parliamentary government. Because British colonial law had largely prevented white men from owning land, the enterprise of black traders and businessmen flourished, based on exports of palm oil and cocoa. Four years before independence, drillers discovered deep pools of oil in the Niger Delta?a strike that within ten years made Nigeria the world's 13th largest oil producer. Nature itself, it seemed, was favoring self-rule...
...only a personal slap in the face but also a serious blunder on Nixon's part. Agnew, he felt, was simply not up to the job. "It's Nixon's idea of how to solve the nation's problems," said a Rockefeller aide, "mix oil and water. People are throwing up all along Collins Avenue...
...Atlanta Steel Band, made up of a dozen Negro and white teenagers, pounds its converted oil drums in racially troubled neighborhoods. Formed two months ago by a suburban white businessman and trained by a steel-band leader from the Virgin Islands, the group is one of the most successful enterprises of Atlanta's Youth Opportunity Program, which is supported by city, federal and private money...
...origin is simple, he feels: "the Ibos were right to secede. They're smart, the smartest in Africa, they have all the doctors and lawyers." Though the origin of the war is tribal, its continuation may be due to intervention, he says, noting that "there's a lot of oil under Biafra," and that the oil might have something to do with English support for the Nigerians, and the French money and mercenaries aiding Biafra...
...after a few beers, tells with relish a story of how he convinced a Chinese chieftain in a Viet-Minh controlled village to sell 1200 pigs to the French army. The chief, he concludes, wanted to keep things quiet, and a few extra silver bars--"oil money" he says, rubbing his fingers--"didn't hurt either...