Word: unloads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...runway lights and some of the runway itself had been knocked out by Nigerian guns. The control tower began to wave off flights; they dropped from 17 a day to three, and soon were discontinued. The last pilots to get in with dried fish and other food had to unload their own planes because workers had fled. Often food moved from Uli was brought back because distribution centers had been overrun. The last telex message from Biafra to Markpress, a Geneva public relations firm that has handled the Biafra account with skill, said tersely: "Despite widespread rumors to the contrary...
...case can be made that the U.S. plan is indeed evenhanded. It offers Israel a way to unload the West Bank, which it cannot keep without making a fourth of its population Arab. It also provides what may well be the only moral (if not necessarily realistic) solution to the tragic dilemma of the displaced Palestinians by allowing them to choose between compensation or repatriation. Yet the plan appeared to irritate almost everyone concerned. Moscow dismissed it as an attempt "to disunite the Arab countries." Egypt's President Nasser said that no matter what the plan proposed, "American imperialistic...