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...voice of General Odumegwu Ojukwu, carried by Radio Biafra, vibrated between impassioned outrage and constrained eloquence. The 18 men that Biafra's boss referred to-14 Italians, three West Germans and a Lebanese -were employees of the Italian government's oil combine, ENI. They were captured last month by Biafran troops in the Okpai oilfields near Port Harcourt in an encounter in which eleven other oil workers (ten Italians and a Jordanian) were killed. Later a five-man Biafran tribunal that sits for security cases condemned the 18 prisoners to death by firing squad for helping Nigeria wage...
...Biafran government put up $60,000 for the purchase of five secondhand MFl-9Bs in a third-party transaction handled through a Zurich bank. Biafran Leader Odumegwu Ojukwu appointed Von Rosen an air force colonel and approved an additional $140,000 for refitting the planes in friendly Gabon and for the pilots' salaries. Finally Von Rosen told his wife Gunvor of his plans-up to a point. "He told me he was going to Biafra," Countess von Rosen said last week, "but he didn't say he would be bombing MIGs...
...Still, Ojukwu, who last week took personal command of Biafran forces attempting to blunt the Nigerian attack, realizes that if the stalemate materializes, only outside intervention of some sort will end the war now. In an interview at Umuahia, he suggested that the feasible way to bring Nigeria to the bargaining table was "a diplomatic victory whereby Nigeria would be faced with the spectre of isolation." Was Wilson the man to bring off such a diplomatic victory? Replied Ojukwu: "I do sincerely hope that this trip is no gimmick and that he is genuinely out for peace. It is true...
Where to Meet? Ojukwu's government announced that the "people of Biafra look forward with interest to a visit by the British Prime Minister." Yet a meeting between the two leaders is complicated. Wilson can scarcely visit Ojukwu in Biafra and thereby award tacit British recognition to the rebel government. Ojukwu is unlikely to accept alternative talks aboard a British warship such as Wilson and Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith held last year...
Wilson is scheduled this week to fly on to Addis Ababa for discussions on the war with Emperor Haile Selassie; so a third suggestion was that Ojukwu join him there. But the bearded emperor has twice persuaded Ojukwu to take part in talks with the Nigerians that turned out to be futile. As a result, Ojukwu mistrusts the Lion of Judah, and would probably not come to Addis Ababa. Under such circumstances, peace negotiations appear to be as close to stalemate...