Word: rosener
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...planes. As Biafra's General Odumegwu Ojukwu, 35, continued to hold out and at times take the offensive, Gowon and his aides became convinced that the Red Cross and church relief groups were supplying guns to him as well as proteins.* When Sweden's Count Carl von Rosen last month introduced his six-plane instant Biafran air force and at tacked Nigerian fighters on the ground, Nigeria finally reacted. A Swedish relief DC-7 flying for the Red Cross to Uli was shot down by a federal MIG, and its crew of four was killed...
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...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...
Without Permission. Von Rosen, in addition to idealism, is guided by a shrewd sense of publicity. This time his exploits have been photographed and tape-recorded from the start. They were being played back at home last week by the Stockholm newspaper Expressen. The report of sneak transactions and flamboyant attacks embarrassed the neutral Swedish government, which set lawyers digging for statutes under which Von Rosen could be prosecuted...
...count's employer at first treated his exploits with extraordinary cool: Von Rosen was not due on the job until next week, said a Transair Sweden spokesman, and what he did on his own time was not the company's business. Eventually, afraid that some African states who side with Nigeria might revoke the firm's air privileges, Transair reversed that position. Von Rosen was being grounded, the firm said, because he had violated a company rule. The rule specifies that vacationing employees cannot fly planes without permission from Transair. In any case, it looked...