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...Since 1967, landlocked Biafra has received guns, food and medicine by air chiefly through a section of highway at Uli that has been converted into a landing strip. Except for spasmodic harassment, Nigeria did little to stem the nightly flow of planes. As Biafra's General Odumegwu Ojukwu, 35, continued to hold out and at times take the offensive, Gowon and his aides became convinced that the Red Cross and church relief groups were supplying guns to him as well as proteins.* When Sweden's Count Carl von Rosen last month introduced his six-plane instant Biafran...
...Biafra's General Ojukwu While we do not take the Ibos as enemies, we are enemies of evil. Anybody who is the embodiment of evil, of course, will be an enemy. This man [Ojukwu], fighting total war with Nigeria, is a typical Hitler, and he will fight with everything he has in hand. He does not mind killing, eliminating, destroying anything to achieve...
Whatever happened, Biafrans resent the foreigners for working in Nigeria for ENl's marketing arm, AGIP. Ojukwu is convinced that without the oil royalties Nigeria receives from continuing drilling operations, his cash-short enemy would soon be brought to the negotiating table. "Oilmen are more dangerous than mercenaries," Biafran Information Minister Ifegwu Eke said last week. "These are the people responsible for our suffering...
...Facto Recognition. Ojukwu treated the men correctly however. Three lawyers defended them at their trial, they received food forwarded by the Vatican and were visited by the Rt. Rev. Godfrey Okoye, Roman Catholic bishop of Port Harcourt. Ojukwu, however, refused to discuss their plight with ENI but insisted that the Italian government -which does not recognize Biafra -speak in their behalf. He got his way when Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs Mario Pedini flew into Owerri to negotiate, thus giving Biafra at least temporary de facto recognition that irritated opposing Nigeria...
Last week, giving in to the storm of clemency petitions, Ojukwu announced that the sentences of the 18 "nonindigenous collaborators" were being commuted and they were allowed to leave the country. Ojukwu, a Catholic himself, had been moved by Pope Paul's pleas for mercy, according to the Biafran government. But what obviously moved Biafra's leader most of all was the fact that three of the most earnest pleaders-Gabon, the Ivory Coast and Portugal-provide the staging areas from which arms or food supplies reach Biafra...