Word: secessionism
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The truth seemed to be that the fighting had moved some 15 or 20 miles beyond Nsukka deeper into Biafra, and that the federal troops had simply moved through the city without bothering at first to garrison it. It was probably largely deserted anyway, since thousands of Nsukkans had fled...
By opting for secession,' Ojukwu directly challenged a onetime pal, Yakubu Gowon, 32, the military head of the Nigerian government based in Lagos. Gowon, who last week raised his own rank from lieutenant colonel to major general, denounced the secession of the 12 million Easterners as "an act of...
The Union side is perhaps more unattractively vivid. Fort Pillow's second-ranking officer is Major Will Bradford, who before the war was a Northern sympathizer in plantation climes. A sleazy, ambitious, jake-leg lawyer, he had run unsuccessfully for the state legislature and vainly courted Good Old Southern...
Last week, after months of public sniping over the giant labor federation's course, the strained relationship approached the breaking point when Reuther, boss of the United Auto Workers, resigned from the A.F.L.-C.l.O.'s policy-making executive council, along with three other U.A.W. officials. Reuther stays on...
But there was one conspicuous omission in the communique issued after the Accra negotiations. The five men avoided Nigerial's most pressing difficulty, the future form of the central government. With this issue unresolved, no one can be certain of Nigeria's fate. The negotiated agreements have deterred the East...