Word: nigerian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grisly drama of the war -- the atrocities, the starving masses, the jungle fighting -- rational thinking is overwhelmed by emotionalism. In the Western world cries of outraged morality for the arsenal of the press and public. The crisis in Nigerian seems a clear-cut case of the good guys versus the bad guys. The massacres in the North justify the Ibo cause and condemn the Lagos government. With self-righteous verbal overkill, defenders of Biafra cry that Lagos is waging a war of genocide...
...Committee for Nigerian-Biafra Relief, an organization which Whitten founded along with BROTHER, has screened over 600 people to do relief work in Biafra, Whitten said. Ten of them have been accepted by such organizations as UNICEF, the American Friends, and the Lutheran World Service, he added...
...months of often brutal fighting, Nigerian federal troops have whittled Biafra down to one-tenth of its original area. They are now closing in on Umuahia, the secessionist state's last major town and the current seat of Lieut. Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu's movable government. Umuahia would have long since fallen had it not been for the exploits of the best unit in Ojukwu's small army, Biafra's Fourth Commando Brigade. Commanded by nine white mercenaries, the Fourth spent the first three months of the year operating behind Nigerian lines. Later, it held sectors...
PHOTOGRAPHER Priya Ramrakha, whose pictures have illustrated many of TIME's stories- most recently those about the Nigerian civil war and the occupation of Czechoslovakia- was anxious to get out of Africa. He was a British citizen born of Indian parents, and he no longer felt wholly welcome in his native Kenya, which lately has turned against people of Asian origin. More important, he was determined to demonstrate that his camera could capture subjects more subtle than the violence he had been covering. But before he moved on, he wanted to finish one more assignment for TIME: another look...
...decrepit DC-4 that took him to Port Harcourt. Along with CBS correspondent Morley Safer and 20 federal troops, Priya went looking for action. On a road outside Owerri, Biafran soldiers opened up from ambush, and Priya was hit in the arm and back. Safer and some of the Nigerian troopers carried him to an aid station, but he died an hour later...