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...incorrupt in asserting that the Affiliated Hospitals Center (AHC) would be a University-owned facility. The AHC is a collective enterprise of tee's decisions. But the committee was given no definitive powers, and Ebert ruled at the outset that it could not place under reconsideration the projected location of the AHC itself...
...Schenectady, N.Y., a city of 71,000 where G.E. maintains its biggest plant complex, the strike from its outset was a kind of holy war. Many of the Italian-Polish-and German-descent members of International Union of Electrical Workers' Local 301 are second-or third-generation laborers in the heavy-equipment plants. They speak a language of "them" and "us" that has vanished from worker terminology in many other industrial towns...
...conflict that ended with such stunning swiftness was the first big modern war waged in Black Africa since the continent's colonies began receiving their independence. It was also one of the most devastating civil wars in modern history. At the outset, Biafra's people numbered 12 million-about two-thirds of them Ibo, the rest belonging to minority tribes (as does Effiong, who is an Ibibio). The secessionist territory covered nearly 30,000 sq. mi. and included some of Nigeria's richest land. At the close of the war, 3,500,000 people were squeezed into...
...outset, Biafra fared well militarily. Ibos had been the backbone of the Nigerian army; their departure for home after the 1967 pogrom deprived Gowon of half his officer corps and three-quarters of the army's administrative force. Gowon had to replace the secessionists while building his army from a peacetime force of only 7,000 to an eventual total of 180,000. Five weeks passed before Gowon proceeded cautiously to battle by dispatching eight battalions against Biafra. The results were discouraging. Nigerian soldiers refused to fight at night because they were afraid of juju (evil spirits). Regardless...
...later investigation. The camera also shrewdly caricatures the individuals in the film. The generals and officials with their squinted eyes and tinted glasses bear an unmistakable resemblance to the current leaders in Greece-Papadopoulos and Pattakos-and vindicate the declaration by the Greek-born director Costa-Gavras at the outset of the film that "any resemblance of the characters in this film to actual person or persons is not coincidental-it is intentional...