Word: reliefer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...least 78 people died, and further disaster struck searchers for the 100 or more still missing when a sudden sheet of flame engulfed a carload of rescuers, incinerating all ten occupants. Nearby Nicaragua, Salvador and Mexico offered aid, and U.S. C-130 transports mounted a shuttle service of relief supplies for 5,000 evacuees from the devastated area. Helicopters were offered for rescue work but could not get close enough to the fire-belching mountain because the clouds of ash were too thick...
...somehow the Biafrans continued to hold on against superior forces and firepower, training with sticks, fighting back with the motley array of weapons they have managed to pick up from European arms markets in recent months. They fared less well on another front: there was still no agreement on relief measures for starving Biafrans. As a result, hundreds, perhaps thousands died every day, and their plight reached even into the U.S. presidential campaign. Senator Eugene McCarthy charged that the Administration had contented itself with "vain and futile gestures" in the Nigerian crisis and called on President Johnson...
...sentence or two to a page and calls them "instant posters." Thus the 34 pages consist mostly of white space. The purpose of this, states the preface, is to keep the words from "bumping into, and obscuring each other. To monumentalize them-make them stand out in three-dimensional relief-allow them to be felt, touched, tasted, chewed over...
Children's War. The real enemy, however, is the protein shortage that afflicts blockaded Biafra, and grows worse with each day. Attempts to alleviate it through large-scale relief measures have so far foundered on either Nigerian or Biafran intransigence. Kwashiorkor, a deadly protein deficiency, is killing scores of Ojukwu's people daily. Estimates of the extent of the suffering are at best approximate, but from 1,500 to 40,000 Biafrans are dying of starvation each week. The grisly figures are expected to mount dramatically if the war does not end soon. "There is so little food...
Kerosene-Lit Airstrip. Relief officials estimate that Biafra needs daily food imports of at least 200 tons, a target that a fly-by-night air lift of chartered old Constellations has not been able to meet. A bare trickle of supplies has been flown in, some by the Vatican. The flight into Biafra is a dangerous trip through radar-guided Nigerian antiaircraft fire to a secret, kerosene-lit airstrip that one pilot describes as "little wider than a bicycle path." A medicine-laden aircraft crashed last month, killing its American pilot and two other Americans...