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Last on the List. The recovery was made possible by Gowon's insistence that the Ibos, the most energetic and aggressive of Nigeria's 15 major tribes, should not be persecuted in defeat. Some 65 rebel officers have been allowed to rejoin the federal army. The state government is entirely in the hands of Ibos; the state administrator, Ukpabi Asika, was a federal loyalist during the war, but several of his commissioners and fully 99% of his civil servants fought on the Biafran side. Like many other influential Ibos who were closely involved with the Biafran regime, Novelists...
Esther Gesicki, now 20, had been placed in a foster home after her mother entered a state mental institution. When her mother was released, Esther wanted to rejoin her, but a social worker forbade it. Esther ran away and was later locked...
...Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home began the debate by urging that Britain rejoin Europe (after 413 years, since the English quit Calais), Laborites shouted "No! No! No!" and stabbed their fingers in his direction. To pro-Marketeers, the main point was that, as the London Economist put it, "Europe cannot be fashioned against British interests once Britain is in." The antiMarket speakers said that the cost of joining was too high-in sovereignty yielded to bureaucrats in Brussels, in a threat to the British way of life, and in jobs lost to cheaper continental labor...
...that the astronauts are ready to go for their Ph.D.s. Even the third member of the all-Air Force crew, Alfred M. Worden, 39, who also will be making his first space venture, has been given an extra dose of scientific indoctrination. While waiting for his buddies to rejoin him aboard the orbiting command ship Endeavour, he will conduct a host of experiments, including closeup photography of the moon with a specially designed stereo camera. He will also take a daring space walk on the trip home...
...candidacy of George McGovern. Among them was Robert Kennedy's press secretary, Frank Mankiewicz, whose face became known nationally when he announced Kennedy's death in Los Angeles. Mankiewicz later collaborated on a syndicated insiders' political column. Now, at the end of the month, he will rejoin McGovern as a top adviser. McGovern will get one of the most astute aides of any Democratic candidate...