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Oil fueled the Nigerian civil war. The major fields were in what was Biafra, and on them rested the region's hopes of sustaining an independent economy. When the oilmen refused to pay revenues to the breakaway state, Biafran planes bombed rigs and installations. Biafran troops sabotaged pipelines and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nigeria: Rush for Oil | 2/9/1970 | See Source »

A well-rested Harvard wrestling team travels to Blacksburg, Virginia this Saturday for a quadrangular meet with Indiana, Georgia Tech, and Virginia Tech.

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: Wrestlers Resume Action Saturday In Quadrangler at Virginia Tech | 1/26/1970 | See Source »

In his left Hand was a Crocodile-bound Edition of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations. Dropping from his Right was a golden Sling, in whose Pouch rested a Bronze-studded, Morocco-bound Copy of Samuelson's Economics. Gazing down with Compassion at the charging, wildly braying, thundering Hordes, a...

Author: By Algernon Mews, | Title: A Tale of Dissent | 1/23/1970 | See Source »

"Henderson put the blaster in his lap and faced the door, listening for the ?oo?steps of Ygstifhe and his martian bully boys. How naive they had been, the politicians of the twenty-first century, how naive and how greedy! After the defeat of the Asian Hegemony in the Fourth...

Author: By Garrett Epps, | Title: Sci-fiLight Years Away | 12/15/1969 | See Source »

A rise in nickel prices had been expected, but the increase from $1.03 per Ib. to $1.28 was the largest in this century. Inco rested its case for the steep rise as much on its plan to spend $600 million for expansion by 1973 as it did on the wage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prices: Still Betting on the Spiral | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

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