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...meet the invading Biafrans. For transport they commandeered everything available; groundnut wagons rolled toward the front behind big red-and-silver municipal passenger buses. But hard as the federal troops hit back, the rebels continued to hold Ore. And since the rebel forces of Oxford-educated Lieut. Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu are largely Ibo tribesmen, Nigerians behind the front in Lagos retaliated by beating and killing any Ibos who were still living in their capital. "The short, surgical police action" with which Gowon promised to put down the revolt, said Nigeria's leading playwright, Wole Soyinka, "is being conducted with...
...With Ojukwu's men still clobbering his best troops at Ore, Gowon needs more reliable help than Colonel Julian, who, for all his flamboyance, has never provided much aid to anyone...
...Northern soldiers set one foot in side Biafran soil, not a single inch of Nigerian territory will be safe from our attack." That was the vow of Biafra Secessionist Leader Odumegwu Ojukwu just before Nigeria's federal troops, led by Major General Yakubu Gowon, invaded Ojukwu's Eastern Region six weeks ago. Ojukwu was slow to make good his threat. But last week, having fought his attackers to a standstill, he was ready to take the offensive. In a swift twelve-hour drive, he captured the federal government's oil-rich Midwestern State...
...federal capital of Lagos; next morning, the plane hit the Nigerian air force base at the Northern administrative capital of Kaduna. In between times, it dropped thousands of leaflets on federal territory, warning of "the terrible consequences of continued collaboration" with Gowon. "Now that we are on the offensive," Ojukwu announced over Radio Biafra, "we shall not relent until every single enemy soldier on Biafran soil is destroyed, more territories of Nigeria liberated, and the enemy vanquished...
...said, "the forces of the federal military government will reply with heavier blows to every act committed by the rebels and will pursue them in an all-out drive until the rebellion is completely stamped out." So far, Gowon's 15,000 troops-double those of Ojukwu-have barely won a foothold in Biafra. But Ojukwu's forces are spread thin, and the more territory they invade the more vulnerable their lives will become. It is still anybody...